Re: Question on shredding a terebyte drive

2009-09-02 Thread Jeff Voskamp
On 09/02/2009 04:32 PM, Dean S. Messing wrote: I have a terebyte sata drive that I need to securely wipe clean. It originally had 2 partitions. I deleted them using `fdisk', rebooted, and then as root ran shred -vz /dev/sdd The drive is capable of about 60MB/sec, but shred is only

Re: Application For Backing Up Blackberry Data To

2009-04-30 Thread Jeff Voskamp
Robert L Cochran wrote: Are there any Fedora-based software applications that will notice my Blackberry 8830 when I plug in its USB cable on a Fedora system? Or better yet, when I pair its Bluetooth to the laptop? I'd dearly love to be able to back it up to my laptop, and I use Fedora just

Re: size from df -kh vs size from fdisk -l

2009-04-21 Thread Jeff Voskamp
Andrew Parker wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:37 AM, jackson byers byers...@gmail.com wrote: # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 36.7 GB, 36703934464 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4462 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks

Re: Fresh install Fedora 10 X86_64 problems

2009-04-01 Thread Jeff Voskamp
Jim wrote: Jeff Voskamp wrote: Jim wrote: Jeff Voskamp wrote: cd /home for x in *; do chown -R $x:$x $x done That doesn't seem to work for what I'm doing. What I'm trying to do is change all directories/files in a /home/user, from one owner/group to another owner/group. When I

Re: Fresh install Fedora 10 X86_64 problems

2009-03-31 Thread Jeff Voskamp
Jim wrote: m wrote: Jim wrote: Freash install of Fedora 10 X86_64 / KDE4 I kept /home directories intact with users from Fedora 8 install. I use the exact names and passwords from old Fedora 8 install. I'm getting error message when I try to log into All, Users home directories; Could

Re: Fresh install Fedora 10 X86_64 problems

2009-03-31 Thread Jeff Voskamp
Jim wrote: Jeff Voskamp wrote: cd /home for x in *; do chown -R $x:$x $x done That doesn't seem to work for what I'm doing. What I'm trying to do is change all directories/files in a /home/user, from one owner/group to another owner/group. When I installed FC10, fresh install and format

Re: F10: can't get dual-head working

2009-02-13 Thread Jeff Voskamp
Dave Mitchell wrote: Ah thanks. For the record, my problem was due to insufficient virtual screen size. I created a minimal /etc/X11/xorg.conf to set a virtual screen big enough for two 1440x900 displays stacked vertically: Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device

Re: RAM question for everyone!

2009-01-23 Thread Jeff Voskamp
all the copying and the memory is now committed to I/O buffering rather than programs or data. Jeff Voskamp Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong (and I know you will). -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines

Re: Intel 915GM dual screen (1280x1024 and 1024x768)

2008-11-07 Thread Jeff Voskamp
Valent Turkovic wrote: On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Jeff Voskamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Langfelder wrote: Valent, according to what I read, e.g., here http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2#Notes_from_xserver-xorg-video-intel.readme, the Intel GM cards before 965 only

Re: Intel 915GM dual screen (1280x1024 and 1024x768)

2008-11-06 Thread Jeff Voskamp
made a stupid design decision. Peter Under Fedora 9 I had a perfectly happy 1680x1050+1600x1200 (3280total) on two monitors. Still have the xorg.conf file for it. Jeff Voskamp -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: build initrd for qla2xxx firmware

2008-05-23 Thread Jeff Voskamp
to determine what modules need what firmware so mkinitrd can't copy over the firmware. Have you tried repacking the initrd to include /lib/firmware/* as necessary? Modules in the initrd get loaded before you have any real file systems. Jeff Voskamp -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com