Stroller wrote:
The only thing that springs to mind is that /mnt was originally used by
system administrators to temporarily mount removable media. I think the
FHS comes into it. But right now this isn't terribly convincing,
particularly as I currently expect to be using one BIG volume, so
Stroller wrote:
Hi there,
I'm in the process of commissioning a box which has a large hard drive
on which videos, mp3s stuff will be stored.
On all my other machines, such drives are mounted at /mnt/space (and a
second drive at /mnt/morespace)
I have a notion to move to a hierarchy under
felix at crowfix.com writes:
There used to be a package
This may ease your pain:
http://packages.gentoo.org/
hth,
James
Is there a tool that will tell me which files are being written to on
my system at any given time?
lsof shows files that are open for any reason
systemtap supposed can show everything happening (never tried it):
http://sourceware.org/systemtap/
Also this post on Ububtu forum has a more
Here is some info on zflashpoint:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549
It is supposed to be an SSD performance accelerator.
Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of
Windows writes are small, so that introduces overall system lag.
zflashpoint uses a 32MB
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Grantemailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
Here is some info on zflashpoint:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549
It is supposed to be an SSD performance accelerator.
Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of
Windows writes are
Alan McKinnon wrote:
What kind of card?
It's likely formatted with FAT, there's hundreds of tools for Windows that
can
undelete files on FAT. I recall using such stuff written by a certain Mr
Peter
Norton when I was still but a little lad...
I think they have a compact flash
Mick wrote:
It goes without saying that you should create an image of the card on your
machine using e.g. dd, mount it using -o loop and then perform any recovery
with testdisk or what not on that image.
I pointed them to the testdisk package and the instructions.
On 08/04/2009 06:47 AM, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
walt wrote:
Do you have the Windows vbox guest additions installed in the Windows
guests? If so, you should be able to resize the guest window just like
any other X window...
That wasn't very clear. I was thinking that resizing the guest window
Here is some info on zflashpoint:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549
It is supposed to be an SSD performance accelerator.
Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of
Windows writes are small, so that introduces overall system lag.
zflashpoint uses
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Grantemailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
Here is some info on zflashpoint:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549
It is supposed to be an SSD performance accelerator.
Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of
Windows writes
Here is some info on zflashpoint:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549
It is supposed to be an SSD performance accelerator.
Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of
Windows writes are small, so that introduces overall system lag.
zflashpoint uses
Is anybody fixing Gentoo forum?
When trying to access it I get:
phpBB : Critical Error
Could not connect to the database
--
Joseph
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 07:42:24 -0700
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
It never
made a sound before, but now there's a rhythmic grinding sound when
miro is running, maybe because the HD is more full now.
In my experience, the rate of change of hard drive access volume is
inversely
On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:01:08 -0500
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Stroller wrote:
I considered suggesting contacting the owners of the site
explaining how stupid it is to piss your customers off without
benefit, but if they're dumb enough to have implemented this in the
first place
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Josephsyscon...@gmail.com wrote:
Is anybody fixing Gentoo forum?
When trying to access it I get:
phpBB : Critical Error
Could not connect to the database
I get it often when I'm at work, and have forever, but I've never
once gotten that error from home. I
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:50:24 -0700 (PDT)
Kevin Haddock kevinhadd...@yahoo.com wrote:
I changed the permissions on my machine. On the remote machine, it
shouldn't need root permissions just to compile programs, right?
No, I don't think so.
You know, the remote admin might rather open up
On 6 Aug 2009, at 19:20, Dan Farrell wrote:
Stroller wrote:
I considered suggesting contacting the owners of the site
explaining how stupid it is to piss your customers off without
benefit, but if they're dumb enough to have implemented this in the
first place then there's probably no
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:32:18 -0600
Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote:
Is anybody fixing Gentoo forum?
When trying to access it I get:
phpBB : Critical Error
Could not connect to the database
I hope so : )
It went down some time after 6 this morning (CST - noon UTC).
I sent an email to
On Aug 6, 2009, at 4:49 AM, Dale wrote:
Stroller wrote:
Can anyone persuade me or provide other reasons for using /media?
I'm running 3 systems that have media drives for my home theater.
What I did was to mount the local volume on /var/media. Then used
autofs to mount the nfs shared
Am Dienstag 04 August 2009 11:21:49 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_System
was first and did it.
Yeah, I liked the database characteristics of Old BFS, but unfortunately its
performance was suboptimal, even on the faster BeBoxen.
Bye...
Dirk
Am Montag 03 August 2009 22:51:58 schrieb Thierry de Coulon:
Anyway, I would not use such a full partition for / or /home. When it
happend I moved /usr to another partition.
Hmm, I simply extend the logical volume.
Bye...
Dirk
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Dan Farrell wrote:
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:32:18 -0600
Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote:
Is anybody fixing Gentoo forum?
When trying to access it I get:
phpBB : Critical Error
Could not connect to the database
I hope so : )
It went down some time after 6 this morning (CST -
Grant schrieb:
Here is some info on zflashpoint:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549
It is supposed to be an SSD performance accelerator.
Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of
Windows writes are small, so that introduces overall system lag.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Dan Farrell wrote:
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:32:18 -0600
Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote:
Is anybody fixing Gentoo forum?
When trying to access it I get:
phpBB : Critical Error
Could not connect to the database
I hope so :
On Donnerstag 06 August 2009, Joseph wrote:
Is anybody fixing Gentoo forum?
When trying to access it I get:
phpBB : Critical Error
Could not connect to the database
it's gone for ca 8h now. We will see. But IMHO it is time somebody updates
www.gentoo.org with some information.
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Dan Farrell wrote:
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:32:18 -0600
Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote:
Is anybody fixing Gentoo forum?
When trying to access it I get:
phpBB : Critical Error
Could not
On Donnerstag 06 August 2009, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Dan Farrell wrote:
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:32:18 -0600
Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote:
Is anybody fixing Gentoo forum?
When trying to access it I get:
phpBB : Critical
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 21:34:17 +0200
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
On gentoo-dev there was a post a few days ago about the forums being
moved to a new server cluster. Perhaps something's not well with the
new setup.
the move was some days ago.
And supposedly
Dale wrote:
They may have cheap prices but their website sucks. May be cheap to get
customers to put up with their crappy site. LOL Get a better website,
may get customers and make more cash. :/
This type of nonsense is pretty standard with industrial non techy or
general consumer sites.
kashani wrote:
Dale wrote:
They may have cheap prices but their website sucks. May be cheap to get
customers to put up with their crappy site. LOL Get a better website,
may get customers and make more cash. :/
This type of nonsense is pretty standard with industrial non techy
or
On Donnerstag 06 August 2009, Dan Farrell wrote:
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 21:34:17 +0200
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
On gentoo-dev there was a post a few days ago about the forums being
moved to a new server cluster. Perhaps something's not well with the
new setup.
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 06:27, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Renat Golubchyk wrote:
Hi!
Am Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:27:11 -0500
schrieb Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com:
Hi folks,
I have this website that I purchase products off of and this is
getting on my nerves. I'm accustomed to right
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 22:56:01 +0200
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
back then, yes. Maybe one of the new boxes suddenly combusted ;)
yes, well, I sure hope it takes more than one. they must have some
sort of replication thing going right? I mean, if _i_ were hosting
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks,
I have this website that I purchase products off of and this is getting
on my nerves. I'm accustomed to right clicking and opening in new tabs
and such, especially when searching for products. Is their some way I
can
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Donnerstag 06 August 2009, Dan Farrell wrote:
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 21:34:17 +0200
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
On gentoo-dev there was a post a few days ago about the forums being
moved to a new server cluster. Perhaps
On Thursday 06 August 2009, Dale wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Donnerstag 06 August 2009, Dan Farrell wrote:
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 21:34:17 +0200
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
On gentoo-dev there was a post a few days ago about the forums being
moved to a
On Donnerstag 06 August 2009, Dan Farrell wrote:
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 22:56:01 +0200
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
back then, yes. Maybe one of the new boxes suddenly combusted ;)
yes, well, I sure hope it takes more than one. they must have some
sort of replication
On Thursday 06 August 2009 23:19:49 Dan Farrell wrote:
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 22:56:01 +0200
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
back then, yes. Maybe one of the new boxes suddenly combusted ;)
yes, well, I sure hope it takes more than one. they must have some
sort of
pk writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
Oh, I just see that on my desktop machine xorg-server already got re-
compiled without fglrx. I see no adverse effects yet, but then OpenGL
never worked really well here.
As I understand it the VIDEO_CARDS parameters (fglrx, radeon, etc.) only
controls
On 08/05/2009 05:12 PM, Stroller wrote:
Hi there,
I'm in the process of commissioning a box which has a large hard drive
on which videos, mp3s stuff will be stored.
On all my other machines, such drives are mounted at /mnt/space (and a
second drive at /mnt/morespace)
I have a notion to move
On 7 Aug 2009, at 00:01, walt wrote:
...
Gnome, for example, automatically mounts removable media on /media.
I don't know if that default can even be changed, and I never bothered
to find out.
...
If you plan to mount your data partition (or whatever) so that it will
always be in exactly the
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 22:54:54 +0100
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
I noticed that (re)loading www.gentoo.org now takes around 10 seconds
from the UK. This is a significant delay compared to usual
performance. Not sure if people are loading this up to see what
happened with the forums
Alex Schuster wrote:
I have a Radeon HD 3200 and I am using ati-drivers-8.552-r2. Higher versions
did not compile. My kernel is 2.6.28-tuxonice-r3, and with newer kernels I
was not able to build any ati-drivers at all. That was a while ago. I tried
ati-drivers-9.6 a month ago when that came
After a year or so away from Gentoo I'm looking at setting up a server
machine at home with Gentoo on it.
I now see that there are more regularly released CD images to install from.
I take it that the 'old' install documentation covered in the Handbook at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Jamie Dobbsjamie.gen...@gmail.com wrote:
After a year or so away from Gentoo I'm looking at setting up a server
machine at home with Gentoo on it.
I now see that there are more regularly released CD images to install from.
I take it that the 'old' install
Thanks! Just want to make sure I start off right :-)
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [09-08-03 23:09]:
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Grantemailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've
also read that it can happen eventually. I'm on ext3. I've read that
ext4 will have a
Hi,
is there a tool available via Gentoo portage/emerge, whith which
I can concatenate/join mp3-files without decoding them completely
before or by only decoding the miliseconds before and after the
joining point ?
Thank you very much for any help in advance!
Kind regards,
Meino Cramer
On 08/07/2009 05:53 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
is there a tool available via Gentoo portage/emerge, whith which
I can concatenate/join mp3-files without decoding them completely
before or by only decoding the miliseconds before and after the
joining point ?
You can simply cat
On 08/07/2009 06:02 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
[...]
cat 1.mp3 2.mp3 joined.mp3
This will result in joined.mp3 being a bit-perfect concatenation of
1.mp3 and 2.mp3.
I forgot to mention that you should strip the id3 tags from the files
first (or else there might be some noise at the spot
Hi Nikos !
...thanks a lot for you help ! :)
This was my first attempt also...but what happens to the
ID3tags? Doesn't the resulting file looks like this afterwards
id3tagmp3dataid3tagmp3data
?
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de [09-08-07 05:05]:
On 08/07/2009 05:53 AM,
On 7 Mar 2009, at 12:42, Stroller wrote:
I was looking for a Knoppix DVD today, and came across any anomaly
whereby locate doesn't show it. It lists the CD iso in the same
directory, but not the DVD right next to it, and both files seem to
be read by the database when I run updatedb
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 11:26:26 -0700
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, that's when I'm hearing the HD access I didn't hear before.
I run miro and it's downloading several torrents all the time.
It never made a sound before, but now there's a rhythmic grinding
sound when miro is
On 7 Aug 2009, at 04:56, Mike Kazantsev wrote:
...
Note that this problem can also be (easily?) solved on software
level by
pre-allocating files (like dd if=/dev/zero of=file).
Sure, that won't make writes sequential, but that should guarantee
that
resulting file would be as
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:53 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
is there a tool available via Gentoo portage/emerge, whith which
I can concatenate/join mp3-files without decoding them completely
before or by only decoding the miliseconds before and after the
joining point ?
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