[SLUG] Bad sector's
Can Linux have trouble booting if there is bad sectors on the disk. Lately Linux is being having trouble loading taking a long time to load up. Even when in the / dir it was problems. sda1= 150 bad sectors sdb1= 392 bad sectors sdc1= 238 bad sectors -- Ask a question and be dumb for 2 minutes... ... Never ask a question and be dumb for life -- 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] Bad sector's
Josh Smith said: Can Linux have trouble booting if there is bad sectors on the disk. Definitely. No operating system in the world has mental telepathy. Every OS boots based on the data the disk gives it, and if the disk doesn’t give the right data, no amount of Open Source Magic™ or Reality Distortion Fields™ are going to make it boot. Lately Linux is being having trouble loading taking a long time to load up. Even when in the / dir it was problems. sda1= 150 bad sectors sdb1= 392 bad sectors sdc1= 238 bad sectors Weird that you have bad sectors on each drive. Unless all three drives are really old and decrepit. What did you use to generate that data? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- 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] Experience with Tweak?
wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au said: I was looking for a program that would clean up the hard drive, ie.,find any scraps unconnected to anything and delete them. Sounds like a solution looking for a problem. Have you any evidence that is taking place at all? (P.S. All versions of fsck since forever will delete orphaned inodes, which is one possibility of what you were referring to.) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- 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] Escaping illegal characters in filenames - how?
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Chris Donovan alienreside...@gmail.com wrote: So the command could be mv ./-.mxf newname.mxf. Another way that you may find handy in the future when using system utilities is the -- argument eg: rm -- -filname. The example removes the file -filename. The argument -- often signifies end of arguments, and anything after that is translated as non-arguments to the command. It's used quite a bit in GNU tools, and I'd guess maybe more tools. Thanks to those who replied so promptly. Clue has been restored to mental processes, and perhaps most importantly, (l)user has been attacked with seriously large clue stick and told to not do it again! DaZZa -- 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] Bad sector's
Jeremy Visser wrote: Josh Smith said: sda1= 150 bad sectors sdb1= 392 bad sectors sdc1= 238 bad sectors Weird that you have bad sectors on each drive. Unless all three drives are really old and decrepit. Faulty cabling or disk controller could explain why all three disks are reporting problems. Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] Escaping illegal characters in filenames - how?
On Friday 08 October 2010 08:03:32 DaZZa wrote: perhaps most importantly, (l)user has been attacked with seriously large clue stick and told to not do it again! Why? The only illegal characters in file names on a UNIX or Linux file system (including ext2 and ext3) are the forward slash (because it is the path separator) and NUL (because it is the string terminator). Everything else is perfectly legitimate to use (including having a file named -rf *, which would only catch a very careless remover of the file) -- Regards, Troy Rollo Solicitor Parry Carroll Commercial Lawyers Direct: (02) 8257 3177 Fax: (02) 9221 1375 Switch: (02) 9221 3899 E-mail: t...@parrycarroll.com.au Web: www.parrycarroll.com.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation This message and any attachments are confidential to Parry Carroll. If you have received it my mistake, please let us know by reply and then delete it from your system. You must not copy the message, alter it or disclose its contents to anyone. Thank you. -- 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] Escaping illegal characters in filenames - how?
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Troy Rollo t...@parrycarroll.com.au wrote: On Friday 08 October 2010 08:03:32 DaZZa wrote: perhaps most importantly, (l)user has been attacked with seriously large clue stick and told to not do it again! Why? The only illegal characters in file names on a UNIX or Linux file system (including ext2 and ext3) are the forward slash (because it is the path separator) and NUL (because it is the string terminator). Everything else is perfectly legitimate to use (including having a file named -rf *, which would only catch a very careless remover of the file) Because the over-lying system which interacts with the Unix filesystem doesn't deal with filenames which begin with a -. it breaks essential functionality when manipulating the files from the higher layer program. DaZZa -- 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] Escaping illegal characters in filenames - how?
On Friday 08 October 2010 10:41:40 DaZZa wrote: Because the over-lying system which interacts with the Unix filesystem doesn't deal with filenames which begin with a -. it breaks essential functionality when manipulating the files from the higher layer program. What program is that? I don't recall any serious program that could not deal rationally with such file names. -- Regards, Troy Rollo Solicitor Parry Carroll Commercial Lawyers Direct: (02) 8257 3177 Fax: (02) 9221 1375 Switch: (02) 9221 3899 E-mail: t...@parrycarroll.com.au Web: www.parrycarroll.com.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation This message and any attachments are confidential to Parry Carroll. If you have received it my mistake, please let us know by reply and then delete it from your system. You must not copy the message, alter it or disclose its contents to anyone. Thank you. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] change to linux and google chrome
I am new to slug, can you do the following, I have a note book with XP, can I remove microsoft and change to linux and use google chrome as the browser, if so, how would I get information to do so. -- Kind regards Bob Peterson 0428 27 07 42 -- 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] Experience with Tweak?
On Friday 08 October 2010 05:03:38 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: Has anybody had any experience with Tweak? It was recommended by a friend, but I can't seem to find any information on it. I was looking for a program that would clean up the hard drive, ie.,find any scraps unconnected to anything and delete them.The recommendation was Tweak. As politely and gently as I can, krap! There is no need to clean up a working drive and FSCK will clean a broken one mostly by disgarding the incondistent bits (or if you're lucky putting them in LostandFound) James -- 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] Escaping illegal characters in filenames - how?
On Friday 08 October 2010 09:00:03 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: perhaps most importantly, (l)user has been attacked with seriously large clue stick and told to not do it again! Why? The only illegal characters in file names on a UNIX or Linux file system (including ext2 and ext3) are the forward slash (because it is the path separator) and NUL (because it is the string terminator). Everything else is perfectly legitimate to use (including having a file named -rf *, which would only catch a very careless remover of the file) The nice thing with vi is that it is predictable and consistant ie you want the date in a document and have never done that before so yo do :r !date (read the output of the command 'date', and you can predict that) Likewise -- as an argument says no further options so mv -- -fr zot renames the file '-fr' to zot cp -- zot -fr copies zot to -fr rm -- -fr zot removes file '-fr' and file 'zot' rm -fr zot will recursivly remove directory zot even if the files in it are read only! so do beware James -- 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] change to linux and google chrome
G'day Bob, On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 11:10:06AM +1100, Bob Peterson wrote: I am new to slug, can you do the following, I have a note book with XP, can I remove microsoft and change to linux and use google chrome as the browser, if so, how would I get information to do so. First you should obtain a distro (e.g. Ubuntu, Fedora) on a device (e.g. CD or USB drive). Boot from the device and follow its installation process to wipe out XP and install itself on your disk drive. Once you have linux installed and connected to the Net you can download Chrome browser and install it. Nick. -- PGP Key ID = 0x418487E7 http://www.nick-andrew.net/ PGP Key fingerprint = B3ED 6894 8E49 1770 C24A 67E3 6266 6EB9 4184 87E7 -- 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] change to linux and google chrome
From: Bob Peterson bbbpeter...@gmail.com To: s...@slug.org.au Subject: [SLUG] change to linux and google chrome I am new to slug, can you do the following, I have a note book with XP, can I remove microsoft and change to linux and use google chrome as the browser, if so, how would I get information to do so. http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download -- 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] change to linux and google chrome
On Fri, Oct 8th, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Bob Peterson bbbpeter...@gmail.com wrote: I am new to slug, can you do the following, I have a note book with XP, can I remove microsoft and change to linux and use google chrome as the browser, if so, how would I get information to do so. You do not have to make that choice. Firstly you can try the whole thing out with a live CD.Download an image and burn a CD, boot off the CD (Assuming that you can do this, there are other options as mentioned USB keys). See ubuntu.com for links to various downloads, there are a lot of options here. Depending on what exactly you want to do another distribution may be a better fit. All distributions come with openoffice.org that works well with microsoft office. Regarding Chrome, yes you can install this however most Distributions use firefox. I have both installed but there are other choices as well. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ In order to get things working really well you may have to enable flash and other features. Because there are licensing issues you may have to install this yourself. See https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/internet/C/web-browsing.html Hope this helps, Thanks Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
