On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 04:14, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote:
Basically, the system tries to find a place big enough to hold the entire
file instead of putting the first chunk into the first place it finds.
Please confirm if I understood this right, as I¨m not familiar with
the low-level APIs
moar moar MOAR! \o/
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.comwrote:
Gee I have not rebooted since installing the LAST kernel update!
Well here we go again
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On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 06:17 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
I do know that for instance some bittorrent clients (Vuze -formerly
azureus comes to mind) allocate the full size of the file being
retrieved, then starts populating (writing) segments as those are
downloaded, but I never knew if the
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 2:19 PM, William Case billli...@rogers.com wrote:
I think I remember reading a suggestion here about how to get a list of
the main or core programs on my machine. It was -- I think -- an rpm or
yum list command of some kind + grep. I don't want every plugin or
update
On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 21:15 -0800, sourcerer_...@riseup.net wrote:
Actually, the fact that Linux drives don't need regular defragging has
nothing to do with the file system.
It should still be possible to fragment a large file if, for example, you
opened a file that covered more than 3
On 12/18/2011 07:24 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
typo on my part ... I meant to say that they won't get email
(Thunderbird) unless reason is given why
-=-
ok.
You are doing a good job of making me paranoid (smile)
-=-
thank you. i take pride in what i do. LOL
Brain is fried
-=-
i use
If you happen to catch it, you'd know that my F15 system crashed and
burned due to a disk gone bad.
So, I installed a fresh F16 system and fully updated it while preserving
/home. Everything seems back to normal...still have some applications
that need installing...but I have one problem.
I use
hi, all
Here is my execution result of the 'type -t' command:
% type -t poweroff
zsh: bad option: -t
% bash
$ type -t poweroff
file
$ zsh --version
zsh 4.3.11 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
zsh warns 'bad option -t', but bash works fine
I test it on Ubuntu 11.10 Fedora 15, but no change.
Any help or
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Zind wzmind...@gmail.com wrote:
hi, all
Here is my execution result of the 'type -t' command:
% type -t poweroff
zsh: bad option: -t
% bash
$ type -t poweroff
file
$ zsh --version
zsh 4.3.11 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
zsh warns 'bad option -t', but bash works
Apper is the GUI for PackageKit. After updating my system, it does some
housekeeping and finally says something like:
Your system is up to date. Verified 1 day and 3.5 hours ago.
To which my reaction is but you only *just* verified it, idiot!.
Am I missing something here?
poc
i am running at F15 and not sure if this bugreport from F16 is relevant
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748945
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openvasmd --rebuild
+++ killed by SIGABRT +++
[root@openvas:/var/log/openvas]$ cat openvasmd.log
md main:WARNING:2011-12-18 14h21.48
Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote:
Apper is the GUI for PackageKit. After updating my system, it does some
housekeeping and finally says something like:
Your system is up to date. Verified 1 day and 3.5 hours ago.
To which my reaction is but you only *just*
Thanks a trillion. :-)
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 9:58 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth
tchollingswo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Zind wzmind...@gmail.com wrote:
hi, all
Here is my execution result of the 'type -t' command:
% type -t poweroff
zsh: bad option: -t
% bash
the low-level APIs involved with file creation. Is there a way to tell
the file system that you´re creating a file with total size x before
any such data is written to it, I mean, as part of the file creation
call?.
Yes.
I mean, it is one thing to create a file with size 0, then start
Actually, the fact that Linux drives don't need regular defragging has
nothing to do with the file system.
Actually the fact that linux drives don't get defragged is more
because there are no defragging tools than because there wouldn't
be a performance benefit to having the sectors in
2011-12-17 19:58, Jon Ingason skrev:
Hi,
I just moved from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16. Since I had decided to
excahnge my 500 GB hard disk with to 1 TB disks I did a clean install of
Fedora 16. I have a HP Photosmart Prem c310 AllInOne. It is connected to
my computer via USB. In Fedora 14 I
So how does one get a list of all installed packages - i.e. all groups
and all packages not already installed as part of any installed group?
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On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:41:10 -0500,
Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote:
So how does one get a list of all installed packages - i.e. all groups
and all packages not already installed as part of any installed group?
Installed groups aren't really tracked. You can get a list of
Hi All,
Does anyone know how to use Fedora's stateless linux feature set? I can
PXE boot a client with a read only file system, but I haven't figured
out how to write data that should survive reboots.
Documentation on this is really bad, and I can barely find anything on
the Internet. I don't
2011-12-18 16:49, Bruno Wolff III skrev:
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:41:10 -0500,
Genes MailListsli...@sapience.com wrote:
So how does one get a list of all installed packages - i.e. all groups
and all packages not already installed as part of any installed group?
Installed groups
It finally happened I had a disk failure in my RAID-1 system, I got a
message from SMART telling me that I had a drive failing and and
checked the mdstat and sure enough /dev/sda was missing/failed.
Ok, drive has been replaced and I did the following:
1) recreated the partition table with
Jeffrey Ross writes:
It finally happened I had a disk failure in my RAID-1 system, I got a
message from SMART telling me that I had a drive failing and and checked
the mdstat and sure enough /dev/sda was missing/failed.
Ok, drive has been replaced and I did the following:
1) recreated
I guess groups are a purely an initial install convenience and offer
no advantages beyond that - in which case if one wants to ensure that an
install has all packages of a previous install - then simply ignoring
groups and doing
yum list installed | (clever script or human) fixinstall.sh
Am 18.12.2011 18:51, schrieb Sam Varshavchik:
Carefully review the existing partition layout on what I presume is your good
disk, /dev/sdb, and compare it with
your recreated partition table on /dev/sda.
Hopefully, on /dev/sdb, your first partition starts on sector 2048, and not
sector
On 12/18/2011 12:51 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Jeffrey Ross writes:
It finally happened I had a disk failure in my RAID-1 system, I got a
message from SMART telling me that I had a drive failing and and
checked the mdstat and sure enough /dev/sda was missing/failed.
Ok, drive has been
On 12/18/2011 01:17 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
Is that what you are saying?.
Did you follow the link I gave? It's what the explanation there
implies. However, I'm guessing that the system only knows how big your
first write is, not how big the file's going to get, partially because
the
On 18.12.2011, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
This looks like a regression. Under F15 when I wrote large files to a
pendrive, the system would become a little sluggish. Now it essentially
freezes until the write terminates. What I mean is that the UI is almost
completely unresponsive; even
On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 13:01 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote:
I guess groups are a purely an initial install convenience and offer
no advantages beyond that - in which case if one wants to ensure that an
install has all packages of a previous install - then simply ignoring
groups and doing
Way back in my Ubuntu days, after a gruelling window's winter in hell,
there was a Linux program that would show you the junk that's on the
hd...
After the lengthy scan, one can click-open several found stale deleted
files... If you can open it in bits, you can probably copy it...
From what
Jeffrey Ross writes:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 63 787184 393561 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb2 787185 16418429 7815622+ fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb3 16418430 24418799 4000185 fd
On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 10:45 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/18/2011 01:17 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
Is that what you are saying?.
Did you follow the link I gave? It's what the explanation there
implies. However, I'm guessing that the system only knows how big your
first write is, not how
On 12/18/2011 11:54 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I taught Unix filesystem fundamentals for years and I have no idea what
you're getting at. Just saying. If you want to be more specific perhaps
we can talk.
The link I gave has a rather simplistic explanation. I used to have a
link to a more
On 12/18/2011 11:56 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Nevertheless it happens and appears to affect other people as well.
Which makes it a subtle bug to find, unfortunately.
The OP should open a BZ report, with as much hardware detail as possible
and post a link here. Then, you can add a
On 12/18/2011 12:14 PM, Linda McLeod wrote:
Recite a hard-drive repair-prayer to one of your pretend gods..?
Or, for that matter, a prayer to a real god might work. Unless, of
course, you pick one who doesn't do major favors for J. Random Believer
because he/she/it expects you to solve your
On 12/19/2011 04:14 AM, Linda McLeod wrote:
If hd is toast.. it can't hurt to tap it hard a few times, in the right
ways...
You can lightly tap it while it's trying to boot..?
Off the top.. Why not install the hd upside-down, and try it..?
Or freeze it with freeze spray, but not so much so
On 12/19/2011 03:33 AM, Linda McLeod wrote:
From what I've experienced, I figure the only way to properly prep a hd
for a new install, is to DBAN Autonuke the hd.. (Caution to not leave
any game or flash drives in the box)... Then unplug the tower and
net-cable, and pull the battery for
On 12/18/2011 12:37 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
As for singing frarajoka backwards, our ceremony usually included
swinging a dead chicken.
People wonder why we wave dead chickens over equipment when it doesn't
work. My explanation is that we do it because once in a great while, it
works, and it
CS DBA wrote:
Hi all;
I get this error every time I login, Fedora 15 x86_64, using KDE kdm.
process /usr/bin/virtuoso-t killed by signal 11
Your nepomuk database is likely corrupted somehow.
If you have no essential nepomuk metadata (if you don't know, then the
answer is no. :) ), then
On 18Dec2011 22:51, Zind wzmind...@gmail.com wrote:
| Thanks a trillion. :-)
Did you consult the manual? man zshbuiltins says:
type [ -wfpams ] name ...
Equivalent to whence -v.
whence [ -vcwfpams ] name ...
For each name, indicate how it would be
On 12/18/2011 01:02 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/18/2011 12:37 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
As for singing frarajoka backwards, our ceremony usually included
swinging a dead chicken.
People wonder why we wave dead chickens over equipment when it doesn't
work. My explanation is that we do it because
On 08Dec2011 12:01, Vishnupradeep intermedia.vis...@gmail.com wrote:
| Installed gnome-terminal.x86_64 0:3.2.1-2.fc16 in fedora 16. But i can't
| start it. An error occurs or nothing happens when opened. I am unable to
| send the error details now, because nothing happens now when i tried to
|
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:45:18 -0800
Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
The key here is, dead chickens/popes cannot breathe
life into the drive because it (chicken/pope) is dead,
but don't take my word for it, do your own homework
and at your own risk.
Actually, I've seen a desperation move work: Put
On 12/18/2011 01:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
If you happen to catch it, you'd know that my F15 system crashed and
burned due to a disk gone bad.
-=-
sure did. :-(
glad to see you are back up. :-)
So, I installed a fresh F16 system and fully updated it while preserving
/home. Everything seems
I've cleaned up all of the problems reported by package-cleanup.
Checking for dupes reported over 1400 duplicate packages; but telling it
to clean them hung the program. I've spent the last several days
hacking away at this, little by little until I got down to about 1025 or
so, and tried
On 12/19/2011 11:54 AM, g wrote:
Anyone have an idea as to how to troubleshoot this?
-=-
swag...
you do not have icon defined for application in f16 that you had defined
in f15, therefore no icon is displayed.
to remedy, define an available icon for application.
I never had to define
On 12/19/2011 03:54 AM, g wrote:
On 12/18/2011 01:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
Anyone have an idea as to how to troubleshoot this?
-=-
swag...
you do not have icon defined for application in f16 that you had defined
in f15, therefore no icon is displayed.
to remedy, define an available
I did consult the manual of zsh and bash.
But I didn't realize that command 'type' is implemented within the shell.
I thought maybe something is missing in the zsh manual of command 'type'.
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au wrote:
On 18Dec2011 22:51, Zind
On 12/19/2011 12:17 PM, g wrote:
On 12/19/2011 03:54 AM, g wrote:
On 12/18/2011 01:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
Anyone have an idea as to how to troubleshoot this?
-=-
swag...
you do not have icon defined for application in f16 that you had defined
in f15, therefore no icon is displayed.
On 12/19/2011 04:58 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
I think maybe I didn't make it clear in the original post. The IBus
Panel *is* in the systray. It even shows in the System Tray Settings
under Entries. I even marked it Always Visible. I can click in the
area occupied by the IBus Panel and change
On Sunday 18 December 2011 20:00:25 Joe Zeff wrote:
I've cleaned up all of the problems reported by package-cleanup.
Checking for dupes reported over 1400 duplicate packages; but telling it
to clean them hung the program. I've spent the last several days
hacking away at this, little by little
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