Thanks for the reminder to delete my original message. But did not include in the message about the exact things you mention:
"Also you might look into using Clonezilla to make bare metal backups for yourself. Saved my bottom many times working with a new SSD (many years ago) which had a bad habit of loosing it's directory structure about every 6 weeks to three months - apparently a video vs disk hardware bus conflict. Went away with a bios upgrade. " Which was part of the message you mention. thanks - and take care On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 24 August 2014, Tod Merley sent several major > syntax errors: > > tail dmesg #prints the last ten lines of dmesg > > You mean: > > dmesg|tail > > You have to pipe the output of dmesg through the tail command, to do > what you want to do. > > > less dmesg #prints several lines of dmesg with response to up/down > > arrow to see the whole file - q to end > > Likewise, you really mean: > > dmesg|less > > To pipe the output of the dmesg command through the less command, to > allow paging through it. > > > cat dmesg #prints the whole dmesg file to the screen all at once > > Also, wrong, and another completely unnecessary use of a cat. Just use > the dmesg command, by itself, and you'll see the whole output dumped to > screen. > > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp > Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 > > All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point > trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the > public lists. > > George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not > a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. > > ZNQR LBH YBBX > > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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