Re: [ubuntu-uk] fsck
Chris Bannister wrote: > On 29/01/08 19:53, London School of Puppetry wrote: > >> Can someone tell me the code for doing a manual fsck check? > > Unless you need it to do something specific you just need to run > > fsck /dev/device_name > > as root or via sudo (replacing /dev/device_name with the real device of > course) fsck will complain if the device is mounted. It will continue if you let it but it warns that it may cause severe file system damage. I suggest you boot from a live CD and then run fsck from there. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OpenSSI on Ubuntu (with LTSP thrown in for goodmeasure)
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 20:59 +, Ian Pascoe wrote: > Hi Rob > > I have desperately been trying to find an article I read last month that > would seem to fit your ideal nicely Rob and also keep the geek in you > interested. > > The project was based on LTSP and worked in a kinda clustering sort of way. > If memory serves each client on the network as it had spare CPU capacity > would allow some of this capacity to be used to bolster up the main > servers - obviously the clients being proper PCs together with a high > bandwidth interconnect. > > It may well have been as a result of a posting here as I have a nagging > suspision that it was detailed somewhere on schoolforge.net, or similar. > > I'll have some lubrication later on tonight and see if the grey cells can be > bullied into working. > > E Thanks Ian, this sounds a bit like what I was told about. If you can find the information I'd love to know. Ta, Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OpenSSI on Ubuntu (with LTSP thrown in for goodmeasure)
Hi Rob I have desperately been trying to find an article I read last month that would seem to fit your ideal nicely Rob and also keep the geek in you interested. The project was based on LTSP and worked in a kinda clustering sort of way. If memory serves each client on the network as it had spare CPU capacity would allow some of this capacity to be used to bolster up the main servers - obviously the clients being proper PCs together with a high bandwidth interconnect. It may well have been as a result of a posting here as I have a nagging suspision that it was detailed somewhere on schoolforge.net, or similar. I'll have some lubrication later on tonight and see if the grey cells can be bullied into working. E -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony Travis Sent: 29 January 2008 17:12 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OpenSSI on Ubuntu (with LTSP thrown in for goodmeasure) Rob Beard wrote: > [...] > I've found details on OpenSSI which appears to support LTSP on Fedora > Core 3 although the details are a bit lacking. I was wondering if > anyone had had a play around with OpenSSI on Ubuntu, and even better > OpenSSI and LTSP on the same installation of Ubuntu? Hello, Rob. OpenSSI is intended to make a group of systems look like one system (SSI means Single System Image). The idea is that the group is managed and used as one system. I use openMosix for a similar purpose on a 92-node Beowulf cluster under Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS. However, this is a 2.4 kernel, with no SATA support. The deb's are available here if you're interested: http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk/openmosix I'm evaluating alternatives to openMosix at present, because there has been an end-of-life announcement for openMosix. Moshe Bar, the founder of the openMosix project, has decided to end the project because he believes that large SMP machines eliminate the need for SSI clusters. Not everyone agrees with him about that... I'm particularly interested in Kerrighed as an alternative: http://www.kerrighed.org I think you might find that a DNS 'round-robin' and a server farm fits your requirements better than SSI. The problem with SSI is the process migration overhead on a single 'login' server. You also have to bear in mind that not all processes can be migrated. Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rowett Research Institute, |http://www.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, | phone:+44 (0)1224 712751 Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK.| fax:+44 (0)1224 716687 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.
Joshua Scotton wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 02:01 +, Tom Bamford wrote: > >> Andrew Jenkins wrote: >> >>> Daniel Davies wrote: >>> >>> Andrew Jenkins wrote: > I've > recently been playing with a NAS drive. To set > it up I had it connected as an external USB drive. > All was going well, fdisk, mkfs, etc. and I moved a > couple of Gb of files to it. > > After I disconnected it and plugged it back into my > machine it suddenly decided to be a read-only file > system. I remember a pen-drive of mine doing the > same thing and I ended up having to redo the mkfs to > cure it. This isn't a problem with a 512Mb pen > drive but with a 500Gb drive with over 100Gb of files > already on there it's not really an option. > > Any other answers? I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 (Gnome). > > Andy Jenkins. > > > > > > This could be to do with unmounting. Did you unmount the drives properly before disconnecting them? Right click; Unmount device or Eject. Daniel Davies >>> I'm pretty certain I did but then we all make mistakes. If that's what >>> caused it how >>> do I put it right (without a reformat that is)? >>> >>> Andy. >>> >>> >>> >> What type of filesystem is on the disk? Running an fsck on the >> filesystem may cure the problem (an ext3 or reiser filesystem may have >> a corrupt/unclean journal which can be fixed at the possible cost of >> the last few files written to it). Moreso with larger drives, I've >> found that unmounting takes a long time when there are lots of >> unwritten data pending, if you don't allow it to complete the effects >> can be devastating. >> >> Regards, >> Tom >> >> > Hear, hear... > I find that when my usb drives go read-only, it's either nautilus > playing up or a small corruption on the drive. > In the first case I do `killall nautilus`, in the second I unmount the > drive and then do `fsck /dev/sdb1 -a` where sdb1 points to the read-only > partition > > Regards, > > Josh > > Cheers Guys, Fsck cured it, and you're probably right about the unmount thing. I had moved a lot of data and probably pulled the plug before everything had chance to 'finalise', I did the same thing with my IPod once. I've set it up as Vfat by the way (for those who asked). My wife uses Vista on her laptop and there's little point having a network drive that can only be used by half the network! Now all I need to do is get this thing working as network drive, it's proving problematic at the moment, but that's one for the future. Andy Jenkins. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unresponsive 'windows' and icons
Michael Holloway wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 14:39 +, reyasuk wrote: Hello, I've been using Ubuntu for a few months now and I love it. I started with Feisty and upgraded to Gutsy when it became available. When I've had problems I'm usually able to solve them myself by searching the internet and putting all the pieces together. But this time I'm stumped and two weeks is long enough in the wilderness! Firstly, the notification area is not working properly, and most of the time the icons there do not respond. Sometimes the first one will work with a right click but any additions don't work, although yesterday they were all working again and I have no idea why. Today none of them are working. Next on the list is aMSN, which I have uninstall and reinstalled more times than I care to remember, using every method I've come across. Then todiscgui, which is part of the tovid suite, and I have used this many times in the past with no problems (tovidgui works ok). Both of these were working fine but now I cannot use the mouse within either of these programs. I can click on the menu bar and the menus drop down but clicking within the drop down menu just closes it, and nothing within the window reacts to the mouse at all. It is possible to navigate with the keyboard though, and the mouse functions properly in everything else I use. >From everything that I have been reading, I believe that it may be to do with the 'window' that the programs run in. I have discovered that aMSN uses 'wish' but I have no idea whether this is where the problem lies. In the course of my research I've also been introduced to tcl and tk but all that sort of scripting stuff is beyond my comprehension at the moment. I also believe that python gets thrown into the mix somewhere as well. The only other problem that has happened recently is having to reinstall the nvidia drivers a couple of weeks ago when there was an update for xorg that seemed to cause problems for many others as well. But I can't say for certain if this is when the other problems started. Any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated. It's so hard to explain a problem when you haven't got a clue what you're talking about, and it's even harder to search for! Many thanks, Jen Hi Jen Sounds like your having a fun time time there... :) My first suggestion is to try disable the Advanced Desktop Effects (compiz) is System->Preferences->Appearance, in the Visual Effects Tab. If that fixes it then at least we have an idea where the problem is coming from... My second suggestion is to try reconfigure xorg by typing sudo "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" in a terminal. There is also a command something like "nvidia-xgl-config" or something that configures for nvidia cards, but i cant remember exactly what is is... Hope something here helps! Cheers, Michael Hi Michael Thanks for your response, and I think you got it. I turned off compiz and lo and behold the light shone down on me! The notification area started working, todiscgui worked and so did amsn. So then I turned compiz back on with all the plugins disabled, and then gradually turned them on one at a time while starting and stopping the two programs. I discovered that enabling Freely Transformable Windows was the cause of the problem with todiscgui. amsn is proving a little more difficult as sometimes it works properly and then it will sulk, so I'll have to keep working on that one. Is this something I should report to someone somewhere? Many thanks, Jen -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] fsck
On 29/01/08 19:53, London School of Puppetry wrote: > Can someone tell me the code for doing a manual fsck check? Unless you need it to do something specific you just need to run fsck /dev/device_name as root or via sudo (replacing /dev/device_name with the real device of course) -- Chris Bannister email/msn/jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/moodog blog: http://blog.suddenmoves.org.uk/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] fsck
Can someone tell me the code for doing a manual fsck check? Caroline -- --- London School of Puppetry www.londonschoolofpuppetry.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Making a DVD
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:44:36AM +, Javad Ayaz wrote: > Can someone advise as to how i can put this back on a dvd. i.e so that the > menus become clickable.? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DVDAuthoring Robert Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED]www.ormiret.com Politics: From the words 'poly' meaning 'many' and 'ticks' as in 'small, blood-sucking parasites'. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OpenSSI on Ubuntu (with LTSP thrown in for good measure)
Rob Beard wrote: > [...] > I've found details on OpenSSI which appears to support LTSP on Fedora > Core 3 although the details are a bit lacking. I was wondering if > anyone had had a play around with OpenSSI on Ubuntu, and even better > OpenSSI and LTSP on the same installation of Ubuntu? Hello, Rob. OpenSSI is intended to make a group of systems look like one system (SSI means Single System Image). The idea is that the group is managed and used as one system. I use openMosix for a similar purpose on a 92-node Beowulf cluster under Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS. However, this is a 2.4 kernel, with no SATA support. The deb's are available here if you're interested: http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk/openmosix I'm evaluating alternatives to openMosix at present, because there has been an end-of-life announcement for openMosix. Moshe Bar, the founder of the openMosix project, has decided to end the project because he believes that large SMP machines eliminate the need for SSI clusters. Not everyone agrees with him about that... I'm particularly interested in Kerrighed as an alternative: http://www.kerrighed.org I think you might find that a DNS 'round-robin' and a server farm fits your requirements better than SSI. The problem with SSI is the process migration overhead on a single 'login' server. You also have to bear in mind that not all processes can be migrated. Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rowett Research Institute, |http://www.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, | phone:+44 (0)1224 712751 Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK.| fax:+44 (0)1224 716687 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OpenSSI on Ubuntu (with LTSP thrown in for good measure)
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 16:17 +, Alistair Crust wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 15:41 +, Rob Beard wrote: > ... > > Anyway, one of the guy's who is involved with the project mentioned > > about setting up some sort of clustering so that the burden of running > > multiple clients can be spread over two or more machines. > > > > I've found details on OpenSSI which appears to support LTSP on Fedora > > Core 3 although the details are a bit lacking. I was wondering if > > anyone had had a play around with OpenSSI on Ubuntu, and even better > > OpenSSI and LTSP on the same installation of Ubuntu? > > > > Rob > > Never tried it, but if you are running two machines then you can use > dhcpd load balancing and fail-over (check the man pages for dhcpd). > > Or (and a way that works well for us with 150+ thin clients and 3 > servers) dynamical assigned static ip's (ip's allocated dynamicaly based > on the mac address of the requesting client). Regardless of which server > responds the client always gets the same ip, so you won't end up with a > mess of ip's allocated to two different machines and the client will use > the responding server to boot from. > > A variation from the above is allocating a set block of ips from the > subnet to each of the dhcpd servers. But potentially you could end up > with a client having multiple ip's (better than an ip having multiple > clients though!) and could lead to you running out of leases. > > With both the above the idea is that the server with the least load will > reply quickest to a dhcpd request and thus the client will use that > server to boot from, rather than a loaded one. > > I have also heard that the latest edubuntu/ltsp packages have load > balancing support, so a trip to the edubuntu mailing lists could be > good. They are a friendly bunch and most of the people responsible for > the ltsp bits hang out there. > > If you end up trying it I would be interested to know how or if you get > local devices/sound to work. > Great thanks, I'll have a look. I dare say the one server which we're going to use (Core2Quad 2.4GHz with 4GB memory) will be over kill for the 6 clients we're going to have attached, but the geek in me would also like to play with clustering. I'm hoping that if the community centre project all works out we'll be able to do more installations in the local area. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OpenSSI on Ubuntu (with LTSP thrown in for good measure)
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 15:41 +, Rob Beard wrote: ... > Anyway, one of the guy's who is involved with the project mentioned > about setting up some sort of clustering so that the burden of running > multiple clients can be spread over two or more machines. > > I've found details on OpenSSI which appears to support LTSP on Fedora > Core 3 although the details are a bit lacking. I was wondering if > anyone had had a play around with OpenSSI on Ubuntu, and even better > OpenSSI and LTSP on the same installation of Ubuntu? > > Rob Never tried it, but if you are running two machines then you can use dhcpd load balancing and fail-over (check the man pages for dhcpd). Or (and a way that works well for us with 150+ thin clients and 3 servers) dynamical assigned static ip's (ip's allocated dynamicaly based on the mac address of the requesting client). Regardless of which server responds the client always gets the same ip, so you won't end up with a mess of ip's allocated to two different machines and the client will use the responding server to boot from. A variation from the above is allocating a set block of ips from the subnet to each of the dhcpd servers. But potentially you could end up with a client having multiple ip's (better than an ip having multiple clients though!) and could lead to you running out of leases. With both the above the idea is that the server with the least load will reply quickest to a dhcpd request and thus the client will use that server to boot from, rather than a loaded one. I have also heard that the latest edubuntu/ltsp packages have load balancing support, so a trip to the edubuntu mailing lists could be good. They are a friendly bunch and most of the people responsible for the ltsp bits hang out there. If you end up trying it I would be interested to know how or if you get local devices/sound to work. Kind regards -- Alistair Crust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Skegness Grammar School Vernon Road Skegness Lincs PE252QS Tel: 0175461 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] OpenSSI on Ubuntu (with LTSP thrown in for good measure)
Hi folks, I'm involved with a project to get an LTSP installation in a local community centre (I think I may have posted something about it last year). Anyway, one of the guy's who is involved with the project mentioned about setting up some sort of clustering so that the burden of running multiple clients can be spread over two or more machines. I've found details on OpenSSI which appears to support LTSP on Fedora Core 3 although the details are a bit lacking. I was wondering if anyone had had a play around with OpenSSI on Ubuntu, and even better OpenSSI and LTSP on the same installation of Ubuntu? Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unresponsive 'windows' and icons
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 14:39 +, reyasuk wrote: > Hello, > I've been using Ubuntu for a few months now and I love it. I started > with Feisty and upgraded to Gutsy when it became available. When I've > had problems I'm usually able to solve them myself by searching the > internet and putting all the pieces together. But this time I'm > stumped and two weeks is long enough in the wilderness! > > Firstly, the notification area is not working properly, and most of > the time the icons there do not respond. Sometimes the first one will > work with a right click but any additions don't work, although > yesterday they were all working again and I have no idea why. Today > none of them are working. Next on the list is aMSN, which I have > uninstall and reinstalled more times than I care to remember, using > every method I've come across. Then todiscgui, which is part of the > tovid suite, and I have used this many times in the past with no > problems (tovidgui works ok). Both of these were working fine but now > I cannot use the mouse within either of these programs. I can click > on the menu bar and the menus drop down but clicking within the drop > down menu just closes it, and nothing within the window reacts to the > mouse at all. It is possible to navigate with the keyboard though, > and the mouse functions properly in everything else I use. > > >From everything that I have been reading, I believe that it may be to > do with the 'window' that the programs run in. I have discovered that > aMSN uses 'wish' but I have no idea whether this is where the problem > lies. In the course of my research I've also been introduced to tcl > and tk but all that sort of scripting stuff is beyond my comprehension > at the moment. I also believe that python gets thrown into the mix > somewhere as well. > > The only other problem that has happened recently is having to > reinstall the nvidia drivers a couple of weeks ago when there was an > update for xorg that seemed to cause problems for many others as well. > But I can't say for certain if this is when the other problems > started. > > Any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated. It's > so hard to explain a problem when you haven't got a clue what you're > talking about, and it's even harder to search for! > Many thanks, Jen Hi Jen Sounds like your having a fun time time there... :) My first suggestion is to try disable the Advanced Desktop Effects (compiz) is System->Preferences->Appearance, in the Visual Effects Tab. If that fixes it then at least we have an idea where the problem is coming from... My second suggestion is to try reconfigure xorg by typing sudo "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" in a terminal. There is also a command something like "nvidia-xgl-config" or something that configures for nvidia cards, but i cant remember exactly what is is... Hope something here helps! Cheers, Michael -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Unresponsive 'windows' and icons
Hello, I've been using Ubuntu for a few months now and I love it. I started with Feisty and upgraded to Gutsy when it became available. When I've had problems I'm usually able to solve them myself by searching the internet and putting all the pieces together. But this time I'm stumped and two weeks is long enough in the wilderness! Firstly, the notification area is not working properly, and most of the time the icons there do not respond. Sometimes the first one will work with a right click but any additions don't work, although yesterday they were all working again and I have no idea why. Today none of them are working. Next on the list is aMSN, which I have uninstall and reinstalled more times than I care to remember, using every method I've come across. Then todiscgui, which is part of the tovid suite, and I have used this many times in the past with no problems (tovidgui works ok). Both of these were working fine but now I cannot use the mouse within either of these programs. I can click on the menu bar and the menus drop down but clicking within the drop down menu just closes it, and nothing within the window reacts to the mouse at all. It is possible to navigate with the keyboard though, and the mouse functions properly in everything else I use. >From everything that I have been reading, I believe that it may be to do with the 'window' that the programs run in. I have discovered that aMSN uses 'wish' but I have no idea whether this is where the problem lies. In the course of my research I've also been introduced to tcl and tk but all that sort of scripting stuff is beyond my comprehension at the moment. I also believe that python gets thrown into the mix somewhere as well. The only other problem that has happened recently is having to reinstall the nvidia drivers a couple of weeks ago when there was an update for xorg that seemed to cause problems for many others as well. But I can't say for certain if this is when the other problems started. Any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated. It's so hard to explain a problem when you haven't got a clue what you're talking about, and it's even harder to search for! Many thanks, Jen -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Making a DVD
Hi i had an original DVD complete with menus and everything. I had to edit a bit which i managed successfully. Can someone advise as to how i can put this back on a dvd. i.e so that the menus become clickable.? Hope this makes sense. All my files are in vob format!! Regards Javad -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 02:01 +, Tom Bamford wrote: > Andrew Jenkins wrote: > > Daniel Davies wrote: > > > > > Andrew Jenkins wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I've > > > > recently been playing with a NAS drive. To set > > > > it up I had it connected as an external USB drive. > > > > All was going well, fdisk, mkfs, etc. and I moved a > > > > couple of Gb of files to it. > > > > > > > > After I disconnected it and plugged it back into my > > > > machine it suddenly decided to be a read-only file > > > > system. I remember a pen-drive of mine doing the > > > > same thing and I ended up having to redo the mkfs to > > > > cure it. This isn't a problem with a 512Mb pen > > > > drive but with a 500Gb drive with over 100Gb of files > > > > already on there it's not really an option. > > > > > > > > Any other answers? I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 (Gnome). > > > > > > > > Andy Jenkins. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This could be to do with unmounting. Did you unmount the drives properly > > > before disconnecting them? > > > Right click; Unmount device or Eject. > > > Daniel Davies > > > > > > > > > > > I'm pretty certain I did but then we all make mistakes. If that's what > > caused it how > > do I put it right (without a reformat that is)? > > > > Andy. > > > > > > What type of filesystem is on the disk? Running an fsck on the > filesystem may cure the problem (an ext3 or reiser filesystem may have > a corrupt/unclean journal which can be fixed at the possible cost of > the last few files written to it). Moreso with larger drives, I've > found that unmounting takes a long time when there are lots of > unwritten data pending, if you don't allow it to complete the effects > can be devastating. > > Regards, > Tom > Hear, hear... I find that when my usb drives go read-only, it's either nautilus playing up or a small corruption on the drive. In the first case I do `killall nautilus`, in the second I unmount the drive and then do `fsck /dev/sdb1 -a` where sdb1 points to the read-only partition Regards, Josh -- My PGP public key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x3E4E0E21 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] IBM backs Ubuntu
On 1/29/08, Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ubuntu 7.0, lol! > > That, presumably, must have been the "on the stroke of Midnight" version > 13 or so months ago? ;-) > > Does it play "Auld Lang Syne" as its startup music? > > Sean > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > > Haha XD -- Mr JE Grabham -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.
> Obviously, change to your username, and to the > directory at which the drive is automounted. E.g. my command was > actually "sudo chown neil:\ /media/FREECOM". What's the :\ all about after the username? I've not seen that syntax before... Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.
On 28/01/2008, Andrew Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've recently been playing with a NAS drive. To set > it up I had it connected as an external USB drive. > All was going well, fdisk, mkfs, etc. and I moved a > couple of Gb of files to it. > > After I disconnected it and plugged it back into my > machine it suddenly decided to be a read-only file > system. I remember a pen-drive of mine doing the > same thing and I ended up having to redo the mkfs to > cure it. This isn't a problem with a 512Mb pen > drive but with a 500Gb drive with over 100Gb of files > already on there it's not really an option. > > Any other answers? I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 (Gnome). > > Andy Jenkins. Hi Andy, I have the same problem with my drive. I unmounted it properly, and still had the problem. I haven't found a solution yet, but I did find a work-around. Run "sudo chown :\ /media/" in a terminal, and you're able to write to the drive again. Obviously, change to your username, and to the directory at which the drive is automounted. E.g. my command was actually "sudo chown neil:\ /media/FREECOM". HTH. I'm interested in any long-term solution too. Hwyl, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] IBM backs Ubuntu
Ubuntu 7.0, lol! That, presumably, must have been the "on the stroke of Midnight" version 13 or so months ago? ;-) Does it play "Auld Lang Syne" as its startup music? Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
