Re: Bug#849338: ITP: hxtools -- Collection of tools and scripts

2017-01-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sunday 2016-12-25 23:59, Guus Sliepen wrote: >> * tailhex(1) - hex dumper with tail-following support > >od -x | tail? Do we really need a tool for this? tail is not the same as tail -f, and /usr/bin/od (and /usr/bin/hexdump) end execution when they reach the end of a regular file, such tha

Re: gtkpod and Filesystem

2005-12-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
le system which sound perfectly reasonable to me. Writing to >a corrupted fs could cause anything to it, depending on the corruption, so >better act safe than sorry... The interesting part comes when the filesystem corrupts itself (= the code corrupts the on-disk data), and/plus it does not no

Re: gtkpod and Filesystem

2005-12-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> I have Debian Sid with 2.6.15-rc5, I wonder if this could be either with a >> bug in gtkpod or the kernel (FS Panic). > >Maybe an FS error on your iPod? Did you try to reformat or dosfsck it? Even then, the filesystem code should handle corrupt filesystems more gracefully