Re: creating and mounting ufs Creating and mounting ufs filesystem on a loopback device on linux - a problem?

2006-09-26 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:02:44PM +0300, Rami Rosen wrote: > Hi Muli, > > >I doubt it (did you try it?). > > Now I tried it, on Fedora Core 4 (on x86). > > It works like a charm! feel free to try it ... I did, on Suse 9 SP2 (x86-64) with a 2.6.18 kernel with both -O1 and -O2 and neither worked

Re: creating and mounting ufs Creating and mounting ufs filesystem on a loopback device on linux - a problem?

2006-09-26 Thread Rami Rosen
Hi Muli, I doubt it (did you try it?). Now I tried it, on Fedora Core 4 (on x86). It works like a charm! feel free to try it ... Aftrer applying the patch and "modprbe ufs" I ran that series of commands, but mkfus like this : /mkufs -O 1 /test/disk-image Rhere was no error in mount , and run

RE: What's a decent encryption tool for encrypting files?

2006-09-26 Thread michael
That's exactly what I'm looking for. Thank! This is amusing: $ gpg -c foo.txt $ file foo.txt.gpg foo.txt.gpg: MS-DOS executable (COM) Michael On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Rony Shapiro wrote: Hi Michael, gpg can also be used for "conventionally" encrypting/decrypting a file based on a pass

Re: creating and mounting ufs Creating and mounting ufs filesystem on a loopback device on linux - a problem?

2006-09-26 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 03:47:28PM +0300, Dan Shimshoni wrote: > Did anyone had success with this ? Ok, I took a quick look at it. It appears that mkufs and fs/ufs/ do not agree about the superblock location and/or the magic number: UFSD (/home/muli/w/iommu/calgary/linux/fs/ufs/super.c, 612): u

Re: creating and mounting ufs Creating and mounting ufs filesystem on a loopback device on linux - a problem?

2006-09-26 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 04:32:08PM +0300, Rami Rosen wrote: > Hi, > > Try ./mkufs -O 1 /test/disk-image instead of > /mkufs /test/disk-image > > there are 2 > file system formats for mkufs : 1 => UFS1, 2 => UFS2 > > see also : mkufs -help. > > This should work. I doubt it (did you try it?).

Re: creating and mounting ufs Creating and mounting ufs filesystem on a loopback device on linux - a problem?

2006-09-26 Thread Rami Rosen
Hi, Try ./mkufs -O 1 /test/disk-image instead of /mkufs /test/disk-image there are 2 file system formats for mkufs : 1 => UFS1, 2 => UFS2 see also : mkufs -help. This should work. Regards, Rami Rosen On 9/26/06, Dan Shimshoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello linux-il, First, running th

Re: creating and mounting ufs Creating and mounting ufs filesystem on a loopback device on linux - a problem?

2006-09-26 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 02:56:10PM +0300, Dan Shimshoni wrote: > mount -o loop -t ufs /test/disk-image /loopDir > > I get: > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1, > or too many mounted file systems > (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use >

RE: What's a decent encryption tool for encrypting files?

2006-09-26 Thread Rony Shapiro
Hi Michael, gpg can also be used for "conventionally" encrypting/decrypting a file based on a password/passphrase, e.g.: $ gpg -c foo.txt Enter passphrase: Repeat passphrase: $ ls foo* foo.txt foo.txt.gpg [...] $ gpg foo.txt.gpg gpg: CAST5 encrypted data Enter passphrase: gpg: encrypted with 1 p

Re: creating and mounting ufs Creating and mounting ufs filesystem on a loopback device on linux - a problem?

2006-09-26 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Yedidyah,> Doesn't the kernel ('dmesg | tail') say anything?Yes , it does.running: mount -r -o loop,ufstype=old -t ufs /test/disk-image /loopDir the kernel logs emits: ufs_read_super: bad magic numberperhaps is this mkufs problem (or because of running it in conjunction with loop device, which is l

Re: creating and mounting ufs Creating and mounting ufs filesystem on a loopback device on linux - a problem?

2006-09-26 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Helllo,from man mount : Mount options for ufs   ufstype=value...old    Old  format  of  ufs,  this  is  the default, read only. (Don't forget to give the -r option.) the other options (like 44bsd,sun,sunx86 ) seems unrelevant since this ufs was created on linux.Anyhow I

Re: creating and mounting ufs Creating and mounting ufs filesystem on a loopback device on linux - a problem?

2006-09-26 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 04:12:55PM +0300, Dan Shimshoni wrote: > perhaps is this mkufs problem (or because > of running it in conjunction with loop device, which is less > likely). It's not the loop device, I get the same thing with a raw partition. Cheers, Muli

creating and mounting ufs Creating and mounting ufs filesystem on a loopback device on linux - a problem?

2006-09-26 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello linux-il,First, running this series of actions (as many know) creates and mountsan ext3 filesystem on my linux machine:dd if=/dev/zero of=/test/disk-image count=10240mkfs -t ext3 /test/disk-image mount -o loop -t ext3  /test/disk-image /loopDirls /loopDir  => gives lost+foundNow I tried the s

Re: creating and mounting ufs Creating and mounting ufs filesystem on a loopback device on linux - a problem?

2006-09-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 03:47:28PM +0300, Dan Shimshoni wrote: > Helllo, > > from man mount : > > Mount options for ufs > ufstype=value > .. > oldOld format of ufs, this is the default, read only. > (Don't forget to give the -r option.) > > ... > the other opt

Insert Linux - Disk on key installation

2006-09-26 Thread Gal Gur-Arie
Hi, I'm trying to install Insert Linux on 2GB disk on key. Insert has a built-in support for this using a shell script the have created. The requirements for the installation are:  - The 1st partition must be at least 64MB.  - The partition should be formatted as ext2 I've installed it s

Recommended Blogger client?

2006-09-26 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Can anyone recommend a convenient(!) linux client for posting entries to blogs on blogger.com? The ones I found packaged for Debian (blogtk and gnome-blog) were sub-par in terms of formatting and support for communications with the Blogger.com site. Using Blogger.com's web interface is b