On 9 Jan 2010, at 22:33, Peter Humphrey wrote:
...
However you might use this as a backup image of your starting
point, to
give you multiple chances at repairing the fs using different
approaches.
Now I'm running out of space to store the data in.
Invest in storage. Doing so will make yo
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Stroller wrote:
[snip]
> in the GNU manual page [1]. I believe that GNU ddrescue is the better
> version - it was inspired by garloff's original work, and makes
> improvements, but it operates differently.
>
Comment. Another reason I moved away from dd (apart f
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
[snip]
>
> All I know is that at one time, the external drive was recognized
> on /dev/sda and at that time I formatted the drive for swap space and
> ran swapon /dev/sda1 Now for some reason it doesn't work. I want it to
> work.
>
> Could
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Stroller wrote:
>
> On 9 Jan 2010, at 09:23, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 07:20:18 +, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
>>
>> Sometimes the "current rate" reads 0 B/s for a long time... and "time
>>> from last successful read" can be 8m.
>>>
>>> Would a
On Saturday 09 January 2010 19:57:15 walt wrote:
> On 01/09/2010 03:48 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > Someone not far from here has yanked his USB disk out of his computer
> > once too often, without unmounting it, and now the whole disk is shown as
> > off-line and inaccessible
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 05:25:51PM -0500, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked:
> On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 01:25:42PM -0800, Penguin Lover walt squawked:
> > On 01/09/2010 10:39 AM, Willie Wong wrote:
> >> Hi list:
> >>
> >> I found the following problem when trying to set-up X on my Gigabyte
> >> Net
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:39:58 -0600, Dale wrote:
No, it was the decision Red Hat made before they sold distros with X
year support contracts, to provide a guaranteed level of support to
their customers. Someone mentioned that 62% of KDE devs are unpaid,
who do you think p
On Saturday 09 January 2010 19:47:33 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> The MP3 files probably have ID3 tags containing artist, album and title
> information, so it should be possible to use a script to rename them
> (Goggle will most likely turn up a few options).
That's a good idea - thanks.
On Saturday 09 January 2010 19:27:37 Stroller wrote:
> I _believe_ that if you leave the USB drive, with the corrupt
> filesystem, plugged in when the laptop boots, then during the boot
> process the `chkdsk` will be performed.
Unfortunately not. I was hoping so too, but when I tried it I got the
On Saturday 09 January 2010 19:57:15 walt wrote:
> USB sticks are normally formatted with a FAT filesystem. Are you sure his
> is NTFS instead?
It isn't a stick, it's an external hard drive of something like 220GB
capacity.
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 01:25:42PM -0800, Penguin Lover walt squawked:
> On 01/09/2010 10:39 AM, Willie Wong wrote:
>> Hi list:
>>
>> I found the following problem when trying to set-up X on my Gigabyte
>> Netbook, model T1028M. Firstly, about the hardware
>>
>> lspci shows
>> 00:02.0 VGA compati
On 01/09/2010 10:39 AM, Willie Wong wrote:
Hi list:
I found the following problem when trying to set-up X on my Gigabyte
Netbook, model T1028M. Firstly, about the hardware
lspci shows
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME
Express Integrated Graphics Controller (
On 01/09/2010 03:48 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Hello list,
Someone not far from here has yanked his USB disk out of his computer once
too often, without unmounting it, and now the whole disk is shown as off-line
and inaccessible by his WinXP system. I'm trying to recover his data for
him, which i
On 01/09/2010 07:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 8 Jan, walt wrote:
On 01/08/2010 04:18 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin-3.5.6) doesn't see my CUPS printers
anymore.
It just shows "Any Printer" and lateron "Print to LPR"
My cups printers are specified in /et
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 16:49:50 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Other than that I think we're into a file recovery mode involving
> > tools like photorec and dd_rescue.
>
> Photorec is what I've used to extract a few thousand files - the ones I
> mentioned with the unhelpful names.
The MP3 files
On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:39:58 -0600, Dale wrote:
> > No, it was the decision Red Hat made before they sold distros with X
> > year support contracts, to provide a guaranteed level of support to
> > their customers. Someone mentioned that 62% of KDE devs are unpaid,
> > who do you think pays the oth
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 13:13:06 -0200, Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas wrote:
> But, I'm thinking that the problem is with KNotify, because I use
> org.kde.VisualNotifications DBUS service to display notifications at
> KDE system tray. This service wasn't found on your system. I'm not
> sure, but I think
On 9 Jan 2010, at 16:49, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Saturday 09 January 2010 12:34:26 Mick wrote:
...
It resets the ntfs journal and when the drive is booted into
MSWindows
it'll run a chkdsk - make sure you do not interrupt this!
The disk in question is an external USB disk.
In your friend
Hi list:
I found the following problem when trying to set-up X on my Gigabyte
Netbook, model T1028M. Firstly, about the hardware
lspci shows
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME
Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
So I tried the i915 kernel driver with
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 08:36:15PM -0800, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> No, that just might explain it. I'll reboot tomorrow under 2.6.31
That was it -- 2.6.32 does the right thing, but I was too used to the
wrong thing. 2.6.31 with "shortname=mixed" duplicates 2.6.32 default
behavior, and 2.6.32 w
On Saturday 09 January 2010 12:34:26 Mick wrote:
> I have tried ntfsfix.
That's a new one to me - thanks.
> It resets the ntfs journal and when the drive is booted into MSWindows
> it'll run a chkdsk - make sure you do not interrupt this!
The disk in question is an external USB disk.
> In your
>>> I'm extremely sceptical of these cheap external aerials. If it were an
>>> expensive one from a specialist supplier then I might have higher
>>> expectations, but I'm pretty sure a customer of mine used one similar to
>>> yours, and they used to use a book to balance it at an angle to try & get
On 8 Jan, Stroller wrote:
>
> On 8 Jan 2010, at 20:10, Michael Higgins wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:18:38 +0100 (CET)
>> Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin-3.5.6) doesn't see my CUPS printers
>>> anymore.
>>> It just shows "Any Printer" and lateron
On 8 Jan, Michael Higgins wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:18:38 +0100 (CET)
> Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin-3.5.6) doesn't see my CUPS printers
>> anymore.
>> It just shows "Any Printer" and lateron "Print to LPR"
>>
>> What am I missing?
>
> WAG: Sta
On 8 Jan, walt wrote:
> On 01/08/2010 04:18 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin-3.5.6) doesn't see my CUPS printers
>> anymore.
>> It just shows "Any Printer" and lateron "Print to LPR"
>
> My cups printers are specified in /etc/cups/printers.conf. Does that
On 2010-01-09, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 07:20:18 +, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
>
>> Sometimes the "current rate" reads 0 B/s for a long time... and "time
>> from last successful read" can be 8m.
>>
>> Would any one know whether this is normal?
>
> Doesn't ddrescue retry on bloc
Any idea how I could enable the Region 2 shown below?
Region 0: Memory at 4800 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Region 1: I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
Region 2: Memory at 4020 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 4022 [disab
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:16:05 -0600, Dale wrote:
So, as I have been saying all along, repeatedly, Gentoo did not drop
the ball here, KDE did.
It's their ball, they can do whatever they like with it. It doesn't
matter how much you complain, if unpaid, volun
On Saturday 09 January 2010 11:48:35 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Does anyone here know of a tool that can rebuild an NTFS directory
> structure? I've tried several tools I found with Google, but the only one
> that had any success has extracted hundreds of small text files and lots of
> mp3 and other
Hello
I would like to share my experience with ram issue on gentoo (1.12.13)
I am running 64bit xen fedora kernel 2.6.31-6
(http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps)
Why? - because previous 2.6.31-r7 from
http://code.google.com/p/gentoo-xen-kernel/downloads/list was unstable and
also only 3
Hello list,
Someone not far from here has yanked his USB disk out of his computer once
too often, without unmounting it, and now the whole disk is shown as off-line
and inaccessible by his WinXP system. I'm trying to recover his data for
him, which is mostly music files.
Does anyone here know
On 9 Jan 2010, at 09:23, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 07:20:18 +, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
Sometimes the "current rate" reads 0 B/s for a long time... and "time
from last successful read" can be 8m.
Would any one know whether this is normal?
Doesn't ddrescue retry on blocks i
On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 January 2010 12:35:36 Francesco Talamona wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Xi Shen wrote:
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > when i replace the kde windows manager with compiz, all windows
> > > lost their window border, and i cannot mo
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 07:20:18 +, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> Sometimes the "current rate" reads 0 B/s for a long time... and "time
> from last successful read" can be 8m.
>
> Would any one know whether this is normal?
Doesn't ddrescue retry on blocks it cannot read? That would explain the
varia
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:16:05 -0600, Dale wrote:
> >> So, as I have been saying all along, repeatedly, Gentoo did not drop
> >> the ball here, KDE did.
> >>
> >
> > It's their ball, they can do whatever they like with it. It doesn't
> > matter how much you complain, if unpaid, volunteer devel
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