Re: [SLUG] recovering removed files

2009-05-14 Thread Owen Townend
2009/5/14 Barrie Hall bar...@mypond.net: [snip] I've recovered source code by dd'ing the volume to a file and then fishing for blocks of text. A JPEG would present more of a challenge but if it is contagious on the disk you might get lucky. I almost forgot, there's also a jpeg specific

Re: [SLUG] FINALISED - HD ( 1920 x 1080) monitor and Linux - advice pls.]

2009-05-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=bill Came home and plugged it in to my KVM switch via VGA and both PCs ( Kubuntu 8.10 and Xbuntu 7.10) found it immediately at the correct resolution of 1920 x 1200 - plus he Monitor is 16:9 and 1080p. So, if the correct resolution is 1920x1200 then the monitor is not 16:9 and

Re: [SLUG] cannot boot Ubuntu with bios raid setting

2009-05-14 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Ken, after you set the raid setting, don't you have to then configure a logical drive? what sort of machine is it? server? HP? also usually when you set it to raid it does not matter what the SCSI drive ID is as the raid controller handles this. however i'm not sure of this on all

Re: [SLUG] FINALISED - HD ( 1920 x 1080) monitor and Linux - advice pls.]

2009-05-14 Thread Dion
bill wrote: This AM drove to Alexandria and visited Allans Music ( waste of time) and had intended to visit Harris Technology (gone) which used to be next door. On way home I spied a small computer shop (also in Alexandria) which happened to have a BenQ E2400WD in stock, unopened. Pric

Re: [SLUG] recovering removed files

2009-05-14 Thread Jonathan
Hi David, I dablled in this once before. I would recomend you go for a Live CD, although you don't need (as the disk isn't monted for system use. I think you'll find that as they tend to prepackaged for this kind of thing, they might just be easier to use. Also saves stuffing around with

Re: [SLUG] recovering removed files

2009-05-14 Thread david
Thanks for the suggestion for photorec, which in Ubuntu at least is part of the testdisk package. It worked a treat and recovered some very interesting pics and other files. Hmm. A cautionary tale. I couldn't find the all important missing photo, but that led me to the discovery that each

Re: [SLUG] FINALISED - HD ( 1920 x 1080) monitor and Linux - advice pls.]

2009-05-14 Thread Kevin Shackleton
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 18:36 +0800, Dion wrote: Actually its a 16:10 ratio. Terminology is curious. Did anyone do the arithmetic? 1920/1080 = 1.8 = 16/9 However, that doesn't say anything about if items in a scene look blocky or skinny - that depends on the ratio of the length and width of

Re: [SLUG] FINALISED - HD ( 1920 x 1080) monitor and Linux - advice pls.]

2009-05-14 Thread Owen Townend
2009/5/15 Kevin Shackleton kev...@reachnet.com.au: On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 18:36 +0800, Dion wrote: Actually its a 16:10 ratio. Terminology is curious. Did anyone do the arithmetic?  1920/1080 = 1.8 = 16/9 However, that doesn't say anything about if items in a scene look blocky or

Re: [SLUG] cannot boot Ubuntu with bios raid setting

2009-05-14 Thread foskey
Quoting Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au: Hi Ken, after you set the raid setting, don't you have to then configure a logical drive? what sort of machine is it? server? HP? also usually when you set it to raid it does not matter what the SCSI drive ID is as the raid controller

Re: [SLUG] recovering xfs

2009-05-14 Thread foskey
Quoting Adrian Chadd adr...@creative.net.au: On Thu, May 14, 2009, fos...@tpg.com.au wrote: Still working on this, the whole thing appeared to lock up and we have rebooted.We have now replaced a drive in the raid and hopefully this will work better. Of course this is going to take

Re: [SLUG] recovering xfs

2009-05-14 Thread Daniel Bush
2009/5/15 fos...@tpg.com.au Quoting Adrian Chadd adr...@creative.net.au: On Thu, May 14, 2009, fos...@tpg.com.au wrote: ... Lessons learnt: - a journalling file system is bigger than what you see, 3Tb is really 3.3Tb when doing a direct copy. - Get lots of harddisk in the

[SLUG] LVM

2009-05-14 Thread foskey
Quoting Daniel Bush dlb.id...@gmail.com: 2009/5/15 fos...@tpg.com.au - LVM is really cool and well worth the time to rad up on it. I am now going to LVM my home system. I'm planning to do this as well. I was thinking back to Mary's backup post last year and thinking if I could do