Re: Linking two files together

2010-05-26 Thread NiftyFedora Mitch
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Rector, David wrote: > Hello, > > I have studied various filesystems, and am fairly familiar with how they are > structured. However, I am currently stuck on trying to do what seems like a > simple thing. > > I would like to join two files together without havin

Re: Linking two files together

2010-05-26 Thread NiftyFedora Mitch
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Rector, David wrote: > > I have seen 'mmv' and 'lxsplit' and they all seem to do the same thing, > namely they want to physically copy the bytes in order to join two files > together. > > Is there any such utility in linux to perform such a hard link to join or

Re: encrypted disk/partition

2010-05-31 Thread NiftyFedora Mitch
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:11 AM, fred smith wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 01:29:10PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> fred smith wrote: >> > in F13, Anaconda seems to allow encrypted partitions ONLY if you use LVM. >> > If I set up the disk as simple partitions with no lvm/VG/raid, how can >> >

Re: Calculating the target of a symlink

2010-06-19 Thread NiftyFedora Mitch
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > A script I'm writing needs to work out the target of a symbolic link, > i.e. given: > > $ touch foo > $ ln -s foo bar > > the function should print bar when given foo as a parameter. The manual > says "ls -L" should do this, but it does

Re: Converting ext4 to xfs

2010-10-01 Thread NiftyFedora Mitch
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:27 AM, JD wrote: > > > On 10/01/2010 11:00 AM, Kwan Lowe wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Suvayu Ali   >> wrote: >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I was wondering if there was any way I could convert an ext4 partition >>> into an xfs partition without copying around files

Re: NFS Buffering

2010-10-01 Thread NiftyFedora Mitch
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Ian Chapman wrote: > On 29/09/10 22:51, Simon Andrews wrote: > >> That sounds like it might be an answer.  It's a shame there's no way to >> specify this per-process, but this machine does have quite a bit of RAM >> in it, so having this specified as a percentage o

Re: NFS Buffering

2010-10-01 Thread NiftyFedora Mitch
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Simon Andrews wrote: > On 29/09/2010 20:09, JB wrote: >>> Thanks. >>> Could you please give us (on Fedora 13) an unedited output of: >> # cat /etc/mtab >> # cat /proc/mounts > > remote.server.name:/vol/ftp/ftp-1 /mnt/remote nfs > rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=65536,wsiz