HD copying in FreeBSD
Hi people. My problem is not directly related to Linux, but to BSD instead. I need to copy all the contents of a hard-drive which contains root partition onto another one as is, preserving all the file structure and links. I need to do it ASAP, so I'm terrible sorry, but I have no time to look for documentation (only man on machine itself will be available), and I don't have any experience with FreeBSD. I need just a command line which does it and if there are possible problems. Any help will be greately appreciated. Thnx Max. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing the x/g/k-term contents
Hi On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Ishai Parasol wrote: Is there a way to print the contents of the xterm (and its similair terminas), including the command lines, the prompts, the commands / file names and ofcourse the output ? I can't think of a better way than marking the text you want to print, pasting it in a text editor, and printing it from there. the only terminal emulation I can think of at the moment that supports printing of the terminal content itself is (gnu/x)emacs's terminal emulation. Since the terminal is an emacs buffer, you can also print it. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HD copying in FreeBSD
Hi, There's a nice manual about that at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html. it's a linux manual, but it should work on freebsd as well. (except the mount devices, etc). anyway - you'll have to setup the freebsd bootloader as well. I'm not sure how to do it, I suggest you to check the freebsd handbook. --Sagi. On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Maxim Kryachko wrote: Hi people. My problem is not directly related to Linux, but to BSD instead. I need to copy all the contents of a hard-drive which contains root partition onto another one as is, preserving all the file structure and links. I need to do it ASAP, so I'm terrible sorry, but I have no time to look for documentation (only man on machine itself will be available), and I don't have any experience with FreeBSD. I need just a command line which does it and if there are possible problems. Any help will be greately appreciated. Thnx Max. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ ___ __ _ __ _(_) Sagi Bashari (_-/ _` / _` | |- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /__/\__,_\__, |_| |___/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HD copying in FreeBSD
The 'dd' command? On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Maxim Kryachko wrote: Hi people. My problem is not directly related to Linux, but to BSD instead. I need to copy all the contents of a hard-drive which contains root partition onto another one as is, preserving all the file structure and links. I need to do it ASAP, so I'm terrible sorry, but I have no time to look for documentation (only man on machine itself will be available), and I don't have any experience with FreeBSD. I need just a command line which does it and if there are possible problems. Any help will be greately appreciated. Thnx Max. --- Omer There is no IGLU cabal. All cabal members were transported to an alternate universe due to careless usage of the trans-universe 'dd' command. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HD copying in FreeBSD
Maxim Kryachko wrote: Hi people. My problem is not directly related to Linux, but to BSD instead. I need to copy all the contents of a hard-drive which contains root partition onto another one as is, preserving all the file structure and links. I need to do it ASAP, so I'm terrible sorry, but I have no time to look for documentation (only man on machine itself will be available), and I don't have any experience with FreeBSD. I need just a command line which does it and if there are possible problems. Any help will be greately appreciated. Those examples use bourne shell: Assuming you have gnu tar: mount /dev/whatever_you_call_it_under_bsd /target_partition (cd / tar --exclude target_partition cf - . ) | (cd /target_partition tar xf - ) Assuming you have bsd dump/restore and made new partitons on new hard drive echo \ /dev/old_partition_1 /dev/new_partition_1\ /dev/old_partition_2 /dev/new_partition_2 \ (etc) \ | while read oldp newp ; do dump $oldp -f - | ( newfs $newp mount $newp /tmp/newp cd /tmp/newp restore rf -) done Some flags may be nessesarry on BSD. tar method is prefferred, IMHO. Thnx Max. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: number of CPUs
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000, Adi Stav wrote about "Re: number of CPUs": ... But why is it so crucial not to parse a file? I can't imagine anyone checking for the number of CPUs in the inner loop of their programs :) system( "exit `grep ^processor /proc/cpuinfo | tail -1 | cut -d : -f 2`" ) Would probably work (I don't have SMP machine to check it). This will obviously not work - unless your intention was to print the number of processors on the standard output, rather than actually using it in your program :) The one-namespace idea of /proc was very good (probably taken from plan 9), but in my opinion it wasn't done too well. We should have had a number of different files for the different informations, e.g, /proc/cpuinfo/ncpus /proc/cpuinfo/1/model ... and things like that. (just like you have for processes on /proc). Alternatively, we should have a libary (say, liblinux.so) that has functions that use the /proc interface to get this information. But I don't believe such a library exists. -- Nadav Har'El|Thursday, Nov 9 2000, 11 Heshvan 5761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Promises are like babies: fun to make, http://nadav.harel.org.il |but hell to deliver. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: number of CPUs
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000, To [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: number of CPUs": On Wed, Nov 08, 2000, Adi Stav wrote about "Re: number of CPUs": ... But why is it so crucial not to parse a file? I can't imagine anyone checking for the number of CPUs in the inner loop of their programs :) system( "exit `grep ^processor /proc/cpuinfo | tail -1 | cut -d : -f 2`" ) Would probably work (I don't have SMP machine to check it). This will obviously not work - unless your intention was to print the number of processors on the standard output, rather than actually using it in your program :) Sorry - I was too quick on my reply. What you wrote should in fact work - I didn't notice the "exit" part. This is not to say that it's a very efficient method of doing it... And it will not work on machines with over 126 CPUs :) -- Nadav Har'El|Thursday, Nov 9 2000, 11 Heshvan 5761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Someone offered you a cute little quote http://nadav.harel.org.il |for your signature? JUST SAY NO! = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: number of CPUs
Hi Nadav Har'El wrote: [snip] Alternatively, we should have a libary (say, liblinux.so) that has functions that use the /proc interface to get this information. But I don't believe such a library exists. Actually, Debian has a package libproc, that exports a variable named 'smp_num_cpus'. I never used it, so I don't know how good or portable between kernel versions it is, but it seems worth a try. didi -- Nadav Har'El|Thursday, Nov 9 2000, 11 Heshvan 5761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Promises are like babies: fun to make, http://nadav.harel.org.il |but hell to deliver. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: HD copying in FreeBSD
(Please don't flame me about this) What about Norton Ghost? -Original Message- From: Sagi Bashari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 6:01 AM To: Omer Zak Cc: Linux-IL mailing list Subject: Re: HD copying in FreeBSD On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Omer Zak wrote: The 'dd' command? I think that you can you 'dd' only if the HDD's are exactly the same size, etc. otherwise it wont work.. _ ___ __ _ __ _(_) Sagi Bashari (_-/ _` / _` | |- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /__/\__,_\__, |_| |___/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing the x/g/k-term contents
Can the script command be of any use? It does have its drawbacks: One has to run and exit it before he can have the logs, get all the escape characters with their attached actions. Hi Is there a way to print the contents of the xterm (and its similair terminas), including the command lines, the prompts, the commands / file names and ofcourse the output ? TIA, Ishai. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hebrew chars on konsole/kde2
Hi I have not yet managed to get konsole to display Hebrew (iso-8859-8) chars. When I set the font, through options-font-custom , to an iso8859-8 font, I see question marks instead o Hebrew chars. Any way around this? I figure that this is a more general problem of qt2 and different encodings. I still have not managed to get licq/qt-gui to use any encoding other than iso8859-1 or iso10646-1 . Haven't dug much there, though. Speaking of licq: someone decided to add "logical hebrew" support to licq: http://www.iglu.org.il/faq/cache/120.html . I haven't examined it much yet. enjoy -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: HD copying in FreeBSD
it's a program which copies your HD binary to an image or another disk... You don't get into trouble because of open operating system files and etc. -Original Message- From: Sagi Bashari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 8:09 AM To: Ishay Sommer Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: HD copying in FreeBSD On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Ishay Sommer wrote: (Please don't flame me about this) What about Norton Ghost? Whats norton ghost? Its probably a windows program.. why use it when you can do it easily on linux. _ ___ __ _ __ _(_) Sagi Bashari (_-/ _` / _` | |- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /__/\__,_\__, |_| |___/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
