[gentoo-user] Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-05 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, this night dd copies the contents of my first 1TB disk to my second 1TB disk (same Model). (dd if=/devsda of=/dev/sdb bs=4096) I want to verify, that the copy is identical. I tried (or: I am still trying) to checksum the first disk with whirlpooldeep /dev/sda whch seems to work

[gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/05/2010 09:39 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this night dd copies the contents of my first 1TB disk to my second 1TB disk (same Model). (dd if=/devsda of=/dev/sdb bs=4096) I want to verify, that the copy is identical. I tried (or: I am still trying) to checksum the

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-05 Thread Andrea Conti
Is there any faster and reliable way to checksum whole paritions (not on per file base)??? It depends on where your bottleneck is... If you're cpu-bound you can try with a faster hash: md5sum or even md4sum would be a good choice (collision resistance is irrelevant in this application). On

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT sphinx] Any users of sphinx here

2010-06-05 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:52:05 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Googling lead to a tool called Sphinx that apparently is coupled with a data base tool like mysql. It is advertised as the kind of search tool I'm after and has a perl front-end also available in portage (dev-perl/Sphinx-Search). The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-05 Thread Dan Cowsill
You could still be looking at a hardware failure situation here. I have seen hard drives with absolutely perfect SMART attributes pass all the tests but still show the classic signs of a hard drive beginning to fail. A significant slowdown is one of those signs. What I would suggest is that you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-05 Thread Dale
Dan Cowsill wrote: You could still be looking at a hardware failure situation here. I have seen hard drives with absolutely perfect SMART attributes pass all the tests but still show the classic signs of a hard drive beginning to fail. A significant slowdown is one of those signs. What I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problems with rsync (emerge --sync)

2010-06-05 Thread Mick
On Friday 04 June 2010 08:37:00 Mick wrote: On Thursday 03 June 2010 19:55:29 walt wrote: On 06/03/2010 05:43 AM, Rod wrote: Hi, has anyone had this problem with trying to update the database for portage? It was doing this a while ago, then it stopped (I don't know why) now its

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-05 Thread Robert Bridge
Hi Dale, On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Here is that info.  I included all the IDE drives.  Sort of see if there is something different about them. smoker-new ~ # smartctl -A /dev/hda  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   253   253   063    Pre-fail  Always  

[gentoo-user] Re: A very strange problem with rc-update

2010-06-05 Thread walt
On 06/04/2010 10:11 AM, Chen Huan wrote: Hi,everybody, I got a very very strange problems. I have install gnome, and when I try to add hal to default runlevel, use command rc-update add hald default, it is normal and output of rc-update show is right but when I restart computer, the hald

[gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-05 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
On 06/05/10 02:39, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: [] Is there any faster and reliable way to checksum whole paritions (not on per file base)??? FWIW, portage has a tool called dcfldd that works well for me. It is dd with the addition of: * Hashing on-the-fly - dcfldd can hash the input

[gentoo-user] Re: Blurred bold characters in urxvt

2010-06-05 Thread Mick
On Saturday 05 June 2010 19:13:24 Mick wrote: Hi All, I emerged rxvt-unicode because aterm which I have been using faithfully for years does not do UTF8, but as you can see in the attachment all bold characters look distorted. In xterm and aterm they look nice and clear when bold. How

Re: [gentoo-user] Fatal problem: Pyton-updater kills PC

2010-06-05 Thread Manuel Klemenz
Heyho, *.la files are ok? # lafilefixer --justfixit dependencies ok? # revdep-rebuild -- -av -- Cheers, Manuel Klemenz signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Pasting jacked up for mnths now... like a bugger

2010-06-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Does anyone else notice a serious mess when copy/pasting to firefox. Some other places too. I'll mouse scrape something from and go to paste it into google, and get some older paste plus the new one intermixed as a result. Its been going on for a good while and finally reached the point where

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-05 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: The powered on hours is most likely about right.  I rarely turn my machine off.  That drive is about that old too.  I don't always have it mounted but it is a pain to remove so I just left it in there in case I needed it. Is it a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT sphinx] Any users of sphinx here

2010-06-05 Thread Brandon Vargo
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 17:52 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: I've been looking for a perl based search tool that uses some kind of indexing to index and render searchable my home library of software manual and the like. Quite a few html pages involved, maybe 15-16,000. Webglimpse is something