* [Waldemar Kornewald]
Isn't a hardware defect the main reason a file system can be corrupted
without a crash? There can be serious FS bugs, but aren't those very
rare, anyway? What else could lead to FS corruption?
SMART only catches hard drive defects. Some other things that (I think
more
* [Jan Claeys]
The Gtk1 XMMS has been ported to Gtk2 under the name beep-media-player.
Some time ago the beep-media-player people started a new project (BMPx),
but the classic BMP was forked to become the Audacious project, which is
essentially the latest version of XMMS now. (XMMS en
* [Florian Zeitz]
Linux has been able to do this for ages, but it has been considered a
bad idea, because it wears the memory sticks flash.
In theory all it takes is:
1. # mkswap /dev/sdX (where sdX is your memory stick)
2. Edit your fstab to say:
/dev/sdX none swap sw,pri=2 0 0
* [Sven]
Iam allready averted from the request of setting it by default. My
proposal is:
Making grub password an optional but easy to configure feature. The
setup of the grub password should assist people, inform them about the
additional step of bios-boot configuration, inform them about
