[SLUG] Why would nautilus be using 50%
My system has begun pausing badly today and Nautilus is running 4 Gig virtual and 1 gig real, this would seem to be part of the problem. There is nothing really obvious on top. Any suggestions? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] How to get files off hard drive?
Computer A, an old computer, was running Fedora 9. It had two hard drives. Unawares, when I installed Fedora 9, I set things up using Logical Volume Management. Computer A will no longer boot up. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that the fan over the CPU doesn't run. I got computer B, another old computer, going, running Ubuntu 8.10. It has a single hard drive and no facility to add a second. I hoped to be able to get data off the two old hard drives, in particular, photographs. I got a gadget that allowed me to plug an IDE drive into a USB port. I removed one of the old drives from computer A and attached it to computer B via the gadget. When I run fdisk -l on computer B, I'm told that the attached drive is sdb1. However, I can't mount sdb1. When I try, I get the message unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'. Does that mean that there's no way for me to get the data from computer A's drives to computer B? Thanks for reading this. Leslie -- To see papers I've written on, among other things, literary allusions in Australian reasons for judgment, start here: http://ssrn.com/author=1164057 To see photos I've taken of, among other things, Sydney, then and now, start here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23623...@n03/sets/72157604225021655/ -- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Why would nautilus be using 50%
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 14:17 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: My system has begun pausing badly today and Nautilus is running 4 Gig virtual and 1 gig real, this would seem to be part of the problem. There is nothing really obvious on top. Any suggestions? I ended up rebooting and everything is back to normal. Is it possible that Nautilus is holding four copies on the background images? 1 for each desktop (two of them, and I had the images scaled) and it changes on startup, automatically by a script, to one of the other backgrounds. hence 2 desktops, X 2 copies all scaled and therefore stored in Nautilus. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] How to get files off hard drive?
Leslie Katz wrote: Computer A, an old computer, was running Fedora 9. It had two hard drives. Unawares, when I installed Fedora 9, I set things up using Logical Volume Management. Computer A will no longer boot up. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that the fan over the CPU doesn't run. I got computer B, another old computer, going, running Ubuntu 8.10. It has a single hard drive and no facility to add a second. I hoped to be able to get data off the two old hard drives, in particular, photographs. I got a gadget that allowed me to plug an IDE drive into a USB port. I removed one of the old drives from computer A and attached it to computer B via the gadget. When I run fdisk -l on computer B, I'm told that the attached drive is sdb1. However, I can't mount sdb1. When I try, I get the message unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'. Does that mean that there's no way for me to get the data from computer A's drives to computer B? Thanks for reading this. Leslie You need to install the stuff to handle LVM in ubuntu, as i recall it doesn't come with it by default. if you spanned the LVM over both disks you will probably need to have both of them connected to use the volume effectively. If you can get the fan spinning again it'd probably be enough to get the other one to boot. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] How to get files off hard drive?
Thanks for replying so quickly, Jake. After posting, I kept looking. I found a document on the web called Accessing a Fedora Logical Volume from Ubuntu. You were right about the need to install software. I did. The document next told me to load the dm-mod module. I did. It next told me to run vgscan. I did. I was told that all physical volumes for the volume group VolGroup00 couldn't be found. That confirms your point about needing both disks connected. I think I might get a second gadget and see what happens when both physical volumes comprising the logical volume group are connected. I think that's my best shot, because I haven't got a clue about how I might get the CPU fan on computer A going again. If I knew that, I would also have known enough not to accept the default installation in Fedora 9, in so far as it used LVM!! Thanks again, Leslie Jake Anderson wrote: Leslie Katz wrote: Computer A, an old computer, was running Fedora 9. It had two hard drives. Unawares, when I installed Fedora 9, I set things up using Logical Volume Management. Computer A will no longer boot up. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that the fan over the CPU doesn't run. I got computer B, another old computer, going, running Ubuntu 8.10. It has a single hard drive and no facility to add a second. I hoped to be able to get data off the two old hard drives, in particular, photographs. I got a gadget that allowed me to plug an IDE drive into a USB port. I removed one of the old drives from computer A and attached it to computer B via the gadget. When I run fdisk -l on computer B, I'm told that the attached drive is sdb1. However, I can't mount sdb1. When I try, I get the message unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'. Does that mean that there's no way for me to get the data from computer A's drives to computer B? Thanks for reading this. Leslie You need to install the stuff to handle LVM in ubuntu, as i recall it doesn't come with it by default. if you spanned the LVM over both disks you will probably need to have both of them connected to use the volume effectively. If you can get the fan spinning again it'd probably be enough to get the other one to boot. -- To see papers I've written on, among other things, literary allusions in Australian reasons for judgment, start here: http://ssrn.com/author=1164057 To see photos I've taken of, among other things, Sydney, then and now, start here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23623...@n03/sets/72157604225021655/ -- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] hdparm dma and Kino
intrepid, and I'm trying to run Kino. I'm getting a lot of flickering (dropped frames?) and the Kino site suggests setting dma mode to 1 using this command: # hdparm -d1 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Does anyone have any suggestions either: how to set dma, or if it's a good idea? how to stop Kino capture from flickering? thanks David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
