Re: seeking help
On Sun, 22 May 2011, n...@li.nux.ro wrote: jonathan writes: On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 13:20 +0100, Ritesh Sugandhi wrote: I am new to Scientific linux. I installed Scientific linux-6 ( 64 bit version) on my laptop . It created two logical volume and mounted them on /root and /home . I wanted to resize the volume and free some space. Alternatively i would think you would be able to use the GUI tool System Administration Logical Volume Management. (system-config-lvm). The only problem i would think is that the drives need to be unmounted, so might need to use a live CD. jon Why unmount the drives? I just did a lvextend and resize4fs live a couple of days ago, no problems, no downtime. Did I mention I love lvm and ext4? :) You can make a live volume larger, but Ritesh appears to want to make at least one volume smaller. At least on SL5 and ext3 that cannot be done with a live volume. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge a.c.aitchi...@dpmms.cam.ac.uk http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
Re: seeking help
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Zack Yovel yovel.z...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm also new to SL, have it on my laptop and intend to install it on my desktop for virtualization. I'm a little confused by GParted not being talked about here. It installed with the live cd image on my laptop, and I'm used to resizing partitions with that, wouldn't it work on SL? Gparted is a reasonable *first attempt* at providing a usable GUI for partition management. Under the hood, it's all parted and other command line tools. It provides no useful features not available from the command line, and in fact lacks some critical ones. (Specific block allocation size of 64 for the DOS combatility space at the start of a disk, for example, prevents 4096 byte block alignment for virtualized guest images. This *matters* for NetApp or other 4096 byte block servers for virtualized guests, which have no way to directliy detect the alignment and take an amazing performance hit.) If possible, it's worth learning the basic tools. parted is really cool, and learning some of the options and settings of the fsck variants for ext2, ext3, and ext4 can help tune things for performance. For example, most people don't need atime and get a nice performance benefit from turning it the heck off. And frankly, most peopple don't need LVM at all. Modern Linuxes do quite well booting directly from the primary partition, and since swap space is so rarely used, swap can gracefully be a file *on* the main filesystem. And backup systems are no longer disk based (such as the old and deprecated dump tool) but are active fileystem based (such as rsync, or star to include SELinux metadata). So unless you have performance tuning or overflow protection you need, most desktop and server environments do very well with a sinigle, large partition occupying the whole drive. This bamkes space allocation and backup a lot easier unless you want to, say, limit /home to only 800 Gig out of a 1000 Gig drive to protect your base operating system from family members who download too much.
Re: is there a javaws in java-1.6.0-openjdk?
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote: Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on 05/21/2011 12:15 AM: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Troy Dawsondaw...@fnal.gov wrote: With RHEL 6.1 there is a package called icedtea-web This not only have javaws, but it has IcedTeaPlugin, which I am assuming is equal to openjdk's plugin. So, right now, no there isn't a java plugin in SL6. But it should be in there soon. Troy One might also recompile and thest the SRPM. The EL6.1 SRPM builds and installs on SL6, but hangs Firefox on an attempt to verify the plugin. http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Workstation/en/os/SRPMS/icedtea-web-1.0.2-3.el6.src.rpm Are you using the EL6.1 rebuilt Firefox?
ntfs read/write on SL 6
hi, I'm new to SL, and I want to add ntfs support. I have SL 6 installed on my laptop, and I intend to install it on my desktop also. so: 1. What is the best way to add ntfs support to my running SL laptop? 2. Is there a way to add ntfs support to the desktop as part of the installation proccess? Thanks in advance, Zack
Re: ntfs read/write on SL 6
On 5/22/2011 22:38, Zack Yovel wrote: hi, I'm new to SL, and I want to add ntfs support. I have SL 6 installed on my laptop, and I intend to install it on my desktop also. so: 1. What is the best way to add ntfs support to my running SL laptop? 2. Is there a way to add ntfs support to the desktop as part of the installation proccess? 1. Install ntfs-3g from EPEL. 2. If your goal is to install to a NTFS disk, no. Otherwise you might be able to add the EPEL repository as part of the installation process and select it that way. -- Garrett Holmstrom
