[eug-lug]Zero Wiping, partition table resurrection

2003-12-29 Thread Larry Price
This is kind of a borderline question; A disk was intentionally zero'd out using dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda however the DOS fdisk utility couldn't rebuild the partition table afterwards. Is it possible that the rather radical data-ectomy performed might have damaged the low-level formatting

[eug-lug]QMail Folders

2003-12-29 Thread Bob Crandell
Hi, How do I have QMail create folders in addition to cur, new and tmp in Maildir? Thanks -- Assured Computing When you need to be sure. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.assuredcomp.com Voice - 541-868-0331 FAX - 541-463-1627 Eugene, Oregon ___ EuG-LUG mailing

Re: [eug-lug]Zero Wiping, partition table resurrection

2003-12-29 Thread Bob Miller
Larry Price wrote: This is kind of a borderline question; A disk was intentionally zero'd out using dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda however the DOS fdisk utility couldn't rebuild the partition table afterwards. Is it possible that the rather radical data-ectomy performed might have

Re: [eug-lug]QMail Folders

2003-12-29 Thread T. Joseph Carter
On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 05:01:56PM +, Bob Crandell wrote: How do I have QMail create folders in addition to cur, new and tmp in Maildir? I generally use procmail for the purpose.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Library/Mail/Folders$ ls Inbox/ List:Twilight/ Sent List:Neither/ List:eug-lug/

Re: [eug-lug]Zero Wiping, partition table resurrection

2003-12-29 Thread Mr O
A few options: fdisk /mbr may be needed to initialize the disk for DOS if it's not seeing anything. Then fdisk should see the disk. Jumper settings? Did you move the drive? What does cfdisk see? As a last resort, download the manufacturers disk utility and zero the drive out. Takes a while but

Re: [eug-lug]Zero Wiping, partition table resurrection

2003-12-29 Thread Linux Rocks !
On Monday 29 December 2003 09:13 am, T. Joseph Carter wrote: : On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:47:31PM -0800, Larry Price wrote: : This is kind of a borderline question; : : A disk was intentionally zero'd out using : : dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda well... this writes 0's to every bit on the disk

Re: [eug-lug]QMail Folders

2003-12-29 Thread Bob Crandell
T. Joseph Carter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 05:01:56PM +, Bob Crandell wrote: How do I have QMail create folders in addition to cur, new and tmp in Maildir? I generally use procmail for the purpose.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Library/Mail/Folders$ ls Inbox/

[eug-lug]ALSA question

2003-12-29 Thread nyal
Hey all, I got the following error when trying to start ALSAMixerGui in KDE (Mandrake 9.1) alsamixer:function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory My question is where should this file or directory be and how can I get it back? I also tried starting ALSAMixer as root

[eug-lug]getting dumped

2003-12-29 Thread beaker
Up until now I've been using 'tar' to archive/backup select user files plus certain system and program files. I would like however to start doing full system dumps as an extra bit of insurance. I've surfed around some but some of the info seems contradictive so I'd like to know what others are

Re: [eug-lug]getting dumped

2003-12-29 Thread Patrick R. Wade
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:04:18PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Up until now I've been using 'tar' to archive/backup select user files plus certain system and program files. I would like however to start doing full system dumps as an extra bit of insurance. I've surfed around some but some of

Re: [eug-lug]getting dumped

2003-12-29 Thread Hal Pomeranz
Up until now I've been using 'tar' to archive/backup select user files plus certain system and program files. I would like however to start doing full system dumps as an extra bit of insurance. I've surfed around some but some of the info seems contradictive so I'd like to know what others

Re: [eug-lug]Zero Wiping, partition table resurrection

2003-12-29 Thread T. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:56:56AM -0500, Linux Rocks! wrote: : A poorly kept secret is that HDs have things like bad sectors all the time : and that the drives themselves have known for ages how to recognize : sectors that are going bad before they do. When this happens, they : silently

Re: [eug-lug]QMail Folders

2003-12-29 Thread T. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:00:38PM +, Bob Crandell wrote: ...but I don't generally like it. I don't remember the .qmail filtering syntax, but I remember that it wasn't as good as exim's and nowhere near as good as procmail or similar. If your qmail setup doesn't already use procmail if

Re: [eug-lug]Zero Wiping, partition table resurrection

2003-12-29 Thread Jason Dommasch
At 07:26 AM 12/29/03, Bob Miller wrote: Larry Price wrote: This is kind of a borderline question; A disk was intentionally zero'd out using dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda however the DOS fdisk utility couldn't rebuild the partition table afterwards. Is it possible that the rather radical