Re: Partition naming, fstab, and geli

2009-11-17 Thread tk
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 02:45:15PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:01:26 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > As for 'd' vs 'e', sometime a long time and many generations ago there > > was a convention of reserving 'd' for something. I don't remember what > > it was. It was pre

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-01-05 Thread tk
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 03:31:46PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Hi, > It copies a disk sector by sector to a file (kind of dd), but ignores > errors, it just skips sectors it couldn't read (after a couple > of retries). The result was, that one had a - albeit - worm-eaten - I think you mea

Re: 'at' command syntax

2010-04-30 Thread tk
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 09:52:26AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Hi Drew, at reads its job from standard input, so basically you have to $ echo '$yourcommand' | at noon An alternative is to save you command in a small text file, and either $ cat $file | at noon or $ at -f $file noon Hope th