order of IDE drives in lenny
I needed to re-install my Debian system due to a disk failure. (Used to be etch, now lenny.) I have a new primary IDE master to which I installed, and I also have an IT8212 IDE card in the machine. For some reason when booting, the IT8212 gets assigned the /dev/hda-hdd, while the onboard controller is assigned /dev/hde-hdh. During installation the onboard controler was / dev/hda-hdd, and therefore the root file system is not at its right place when booting, so the system does not start. How can I tell the kernel the order of loading the controllers? I temporarily removed the IT card, but I will need it and the drive attached to it. Now, however, the onboard IDE is /dev/hda-hdd, and the system is running.
order of IDE drives in lenny ..
I needed to re-install my Debian system due to a disk failure. (Used to be etch, now lenny.) I have a new primary IDE master to which I installed, and I also have an IT8212 IDE card in the machine. For some reason when booting, the IT8212 gets assigned the /dev/hda-hdd, while the onboard controller is assigned /dev/hde-hdh. During installation the onboard controler was / dev/hda-hdd, and therefore the root file system is not at its right place when booting, so the system does not start. How can I tell the kernel the order of loading the controllers? I temporarily removed the IT card, but I will need it and the drive attached to it. Now, however, the onboard IDE is /dev/hda-hdd, and the system is running. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: order of IDE drives in lenny ..
In the meantime I actually found a reference to this problem in the release notes for etch. I haven't tried yet, but it should fix the problem. Here: http://www.us.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#s-device-reorder I've been using etch for some time, I wonder why the problem did not occur earlier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ivtv-fb not found in Debian
I'm running a Debian lenny box. I would like to set up a Hauppauge PVR-350's video out as an X server, however, I can't seem to find the ivti-fb module in Debian. (the card is otherwise working nicely with the ivtv module). Has someone had some luck with this? Tc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDM XDMCP error
I have two lenny boxes, and I want to login to an X session on one of them from the other using XDMCP. If I run KDM on the remote machine and try to log in, KDM just restarts. If I run XDM on the same machine, I can login in through XDMCP. I can also log in with KDM locally on the remote machine. Where should I start tracing the problem? Thanks: tc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDM XDMCP error
On márc. 27, 13:50, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two lenny boxes, and I want to login to an X session on one of them from the other usingXDMCP. If I runKDMon the remote machine and try to log in,KDMjust restarts. If I run XDM on the same machine, I can login in throughXDMCP. I can also log in withKDM locally on the remote machine. Where should I start tracing the problem? Thanks: tc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] One thing to add: xdmcp seems to work OK, as I can see the login window of KDM remotely. It only restarts when I press login. Also, KDM in itself seems to be OK, as I can login locally. The combination of the two seems not to work. Anyone seen this error or have a hint? Thanks: tc.
ppdev0: registered pardevice
I am using lenny, and did an upgrade lately. Since that I am getting a message repeatedly both on console and in /var/log/messages: ppdev0: registered pardevice What happened? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
iceweasel / firefox segfault after lenny upgrade
As just said in a previous post, I am using lenny and lately upgraded it. Firefox/Iceweasel fails to start since then: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ firefox /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin: Symbol `SSL_ImplementedCiphers' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking (gecko:14849): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Serif 12.798828125' Segmentation fault [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel / firefox segfault after lenny upgrade
On dec. 31, 00:30, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 03:46:02 -0800, Towncat wrote: As just said in a previous post, I am using lenny and lately upgraded it. Firefox/Iceweasel fails to start since then: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ firefox /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin: Symbol `SSL_ImplementedCiphers' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking I see this message as well (Sid, iceweasel 2.0.0.11-1), but my iceweasel seems to run normally otherwise. This is probably harmless. (gecko:14849): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Serif 12.798828125' Segmentation fault Try this: $ export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=true $ iceweasel -safe-mode If it still does not work try the same from a pristine user account. -- Regards,|http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, it did help. Actually, I didn't even need the -safe-mode switch. So what does (or does not, as the case is) pango do? Tc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel / firefox segfault after lenny upgrade
On dec. 31, 02:10, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On dec. 31, 00:30, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 03:46:02 -0800, Towncat wrote: As just said in a previous post, I am using lenny and lately upgraded it. Firefox/Iceweasel fails to start since then: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ firefox /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin: Symbol `SSL_ImplementedCiphers' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking I see this message as well (Sid, iceweasel 2.0.0.11-1), but my iceweasel seems to run normally otherwise. This is probably harmless. (gecko:14849): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Serif 12.798828125' Segmentation fault Try this: $ export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=true $ iceweasel -safe-mode If it still does not work try the same from a pristine user account. -- Regards,|http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, it did help. Actually, I didn't even need the -safe-mode switch. So what does (or does not, as the case is) pango do? Tc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, now iceweasel runs, but I realised that there is more to it, something to do with fonts and pango. When I start non-kde applications under kde, I get little squares instead of fonts. The output is like this (for xsane, here): xsane:9842): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Sans 10' (xsane:9842): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Sans 12.5' (xsane:9842): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='DejaVu Sans 12.5', text='French (Français)' (xsane:9842): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_glyph_extents called with null font argument, expect ugly output (xsane:9842): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='DejaVu Sans 10', text='XSane változat: 0.995' Ideas, anyone?
Re: iceweasel / firefox segfault after lenny upgrade
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 02:31:47 -0800, Towncat wrote:
[...]
OK, now iceweasel runs, but I realised that there is more to it,
something to do with fonts and pango. When I start non-kde
applications under kde, I get little squares instead of fonts.
The output is like this (for xsane, here):
xsane:9842): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font,
expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Sans 10'
(xsane:9842): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font,
expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Sans 12.5'
(xsane:9842): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output.
shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='DejaVu Sans 12.5', text='French
(Fran�ais)'
(xsane:9842): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_glyph_extents called
with null font argument, expect ugly output
(xsane:9842): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output.
shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='DejaVu Sans 10', text='XSane
v�ltozat: 0.995'
Ideas, anyone?
Try to run (as root) fc-cache -fs followed by update-pangox-aliases.
Do you get error messages? Does this improve the situation?
If the above does not help, post the output of these three commands:
ls -l /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
dpkg -l lib{pango,cairo}\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
awk '/^Name:.*pango/,/^$/' /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
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Florian |
It did not help, I'm afraid. Here are the outputs (the last had none):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/
DejaVuSans.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 581400 Oct 28 16:22 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/
ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l lib{pango,cairo}\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print
$1,$2,$3}'
un libcairo none
ii libcairo-perl 1.043-1
un libcairo0.5.1 none
un libcairo0.6.0 none
un libcairo0.9.0 none
un libcairo1 none
ii libcairo2 1.4.10-1+lenny2
un libcairomm-1.0-0 none
ii libcairomm-1.0-1 1.4.2-1
un libpango-common none
un libpango0 none
ii libpango1.0-0 1.18.3-1
ii libpango1.0-common 1.18.3-1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ awk '/^Name:.*pango/,/^$/' /var/cache/debconf/
config.dat
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
Re: iceweasel / firefox segfault after lenny upgrade
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 02:31:47 -0800, Towncat wrote:
[...]
OK, now iceweasel runs, but I realised that there is more to it,
something to do with fonts and pango. When I start non-kde
applications under kde, I get little squares instead of fonts.
The output is like this (for xsane, here):
xsane:9842): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font,
expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Sans 10'
(xsane:9842): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font,
expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Sans 12.5'
(xsane:9842): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output.
shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='DejaVu Sans 12.5', text='French
(Fran�ais)'
(xsane:9842): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_glyph_extents called
with null font argument, expect ugly output
(xsane:9842): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output.
shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='DejaVu Sans 10', text='XSane
v�ltozat: 0.995'
Ideas, anyone?
Try to run (as root) fc-cache -fs followed by update-pangox-aliases.
Do you get error messages? Does this improve the situation?
If the above does not help, post the output of these three commands:
ls -l /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
dpkg -l lib{pango,cairo}\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
awk '/^Name:.*pango/,/^$/' /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
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Florian |
Based on the outputs I did a
dpkg-reconfigure libcairo2 libpango1.0-common
and an
fc-cache -fs
update-pangox-aliases
which seems to have helped.
failure booting lvm volume group over encrypted disk
I'm trying to make a bootable backup disk based on a href=http:// linuxgazette.net/140/kapil.htmlthis howto/a. The backup is on an external usb-sata drive. There is an sdc1 partition that is not used, a small sdc2 for boot, unencrypted, and an sdc3 encrypted. On this there is a volume group, with two lv-s, one for root and one for swap. When booting the original system, I can open the encrypted disk, but I need to restart lvm for the system to find the volume group on it. I can also mount the lv-s. When I try to boot the backup system, it loads the initramfs, and I get this message: /dev/mapper/vg_externalsata_2-root does not exist. Looking at /proc/modules shows that the dm_crypt module is not loaded (although it seems to be included in the initramfs), which I think might be the problem. Any ideas? Did someone use the same howto with success? Tc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: failure booting lvm volume group over encrypted disk
On Jan 1, 11:00 pm, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to make a bootable backup disk based on a href=http:// linuxgazette.net/140/kapil.htmlthis howto/a. The backup is on an external usb-sata drive. There is an sdc1 partition that is not used, a small sdc2 for boot, unencrypted, and an sdc3 encrypted. On this there is a volume group, with two lv-s, one for root and one for swap. When booting the original system, I can open the encrypted disk, but I need to restart lvm for the system to find the volume group on it. I can also mount the lv-s. When I try to boot the backup system, it loads the initramfs, and I get this message: /dev/mapper/vg_externalsata_2-root does not exist. Looking at /proc/modules shows that the dm_crypt module is not loaded (although it seems to be included in the initramfs), which I think might be the problem. Any ideas? Did someone use the same howto with success? Tc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone have a hint maybe? I don't even have a clue where to look for the error... Tc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: failure booting lvm volume group over encrypted disk
On Jan 2, 6:50 pm, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:29:30AM -0800, Towncat wrote: On Jan 1, 11:00 pm, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to make a bootable backup disk based on a href=http:// linuxgazette.net/140/kapil.htmlthis howto/a. The backup is on an external usb-sata drive. There is an sdc1 partition that is not used, a small sdc2 for boot, unencrypted, and an sdc3 encrypted. On this there is a volume group, with two lv-s, one for root and one for swap. When booting the original system, I can open the encrypted disk, but I need to restart lvm for the system to find the volume group on it. I can also mount the lv-s. When I try to boot the backup system, it loads the initramfs, and I get this message: /dev/mapper/vg_externalsata_2-root does not exist. Looking at /proc/modules shows that the dm_crypt module is not loaded (although it seems to be included in the initramfs), which I think might be the problem. Any ideas? Did someone use the same howto with success? Anyone have a hint maybe? I don't even have a clue where to look for the error... What is it you hope this backup disk to do? Why can't you use the debian-install CD in rescue mode to boot up the system in the event of a boot failure? Why do backups need to be bootable? Personally, I put my backups in a tarball (spit to fit on each piece of media) and pipe it through openssl to encrypt it. The point is not the backup, but the encrypted system. The howto http://linuxgazette.net/140/kapil.html proceeds by first making an encrypted clone of your system (which is, as a byproduct, also a bootable backup), and then transfers that backup to the original but by then encrypted system disk. However, if I cannot make the encrypted backup bootable, then I won't be able to do the same with the original system on the original disk. Actually, I tried the lenny installer (netinst) to produce an encrypted root system, but I ran into the same problem, that's why I started over by hand. As I said, the problem seems to be that the initramfs does not load the crypt modules and does not do the unencyrpt procedure (even though the modules are included in the initramfs). Thanks, Tc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: failure booting lvm volume group over encrypted disk
On Jan 2, 8:30 pm, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 2, 6:50 pm, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:29:30AM -0800, Towncat wrote: On Jan 1, 11:00 pm, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to make a bootable backup disk based on a href=http:// linuxgazette.net/140/kapil.htmlthis howto/a. The backup is on an external usb-sata drive. There is an sdc1 partition that is not used, a small sdc2 for boot, unencrypted, and an sdc3 encrypted. On this there is a volume group, with two lv-s, one for root and one for swap. When booting the original system, I can open the encrypted disk, but I need to restart lvm for the system to find the volume group on it. I can also mount the lv-s. When I try to boot the backup system, it loads the initramfs, and I get this message: /dev/mapper/vg_externalsata_2-root does not exist. Looking at /proc/modules shows that the dm_crypt module is not loaded (although it seems to be included in the initramfs), which I think might be the problem. Any ideas? Did someone use the same howto with success? Anyone have a hint maybe? I don't even have a clue where to look for the error... What is it you hope this backup disk to do? Why can't you use the debian-install CD in rescue mode to boot up the system in the event of a boot failure? Why do backups need to be bootable? Personally, I put my backups in a tarball (spit to fit on each piece of media) and pipe it through openssl to encrypt it. The point is not the backup, but the encrypted system. The howtohttp://linuxgazette.net/140/kapil.html proceeds by first making an encrypted clone of your system (which is, as a byproduct, also a bootable backup), and then transfers that backup to the original but by then encrypted system disk. However, if I cannot make the encrypted backup bootable, then I won't be able to do the same with the original system on the original disk. Actually, I tried the lenny installer (netinst) to produce an encrypted root system, but I ran into the same problem, that's why I started over by hand. As I said, the problem seems to be that the initramfs does not load the crypt modules and does not do the unencyrpt procedure (even though the modules are included in the initramfs). Thanks, Tc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] FYI all, I figured out the problem, it was my mistake, because the initramfs was actually OK, but I had too boot partitions (one for the original system, one for the backup), and I was updating the wrong one (and booting from the other...) Once I figured out, it did work -- now I have another issue. Tc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vg_md0-swap: not deactivating: busy
I'm trying to deactivate a logical volume and the volume group it is inside, but I get this error message (not exactly, I'm writing this from memory). The point is, that the system thinks the swap partition is in use. However, this is not the swap the system is using (that's on another partition), and I turned even that off (swapoff). /proc/ swaps, swapon -s, ps xaf, lsof do not give a hint (to me) -- what could be holding that logical volume? (The other lv on that vg can be deactivated without a problem, that's root, also unused). Thanks, tc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vg_md0-swap: not deactivating: busy
On Jan 7, 10:00 am, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to deactivate a logical volume and the volume group it is inside, but I get this error message (not exactly, I'm writing this from memory). The point is, that the system thinks the swap partition is in use. However, this is not the swap the system is using (that's on another partition), and I turned even that off (swapoff). /proc/ swaps, swapon -s, ps xaf, lsof do not give a hint (to me) -- what could be holding that logical volume? (The other lv on that vg can be deactivated without a problem, that's root, also unused). Thanks, tc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried several ways, formatted the lv with mke2fs, switched to single user, rebooted, and there is just no way to get this particular logical volume inactive. The strange thing is, there is no problem with the other lv on the same vg, that can be activated right away. But this one: # lvchange -an /dev/vg_md0/swap LV vg_md0/swap in use: not deactivating What uses is? It is no longer swap, I even changed my fstab from LABELs to drives. So what now? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vg_md0-swap: not deactivating: busy
On jan. 7, 17:20, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 7, 10:00 am, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to deactivate a logical volume and the volume group it is inside, but I get this error message (not exactly, I'm writing this from memory). The point is, that the system thinks the swap partition is in use. However, this is not the swap the system is using (that's on another partition), and I turned even that off (swapoff). /proc/ swaps, swapon -s, ps xaf, lsof do not give a hint (to me) -- what could be holding that logical volume? (The other lv on that vg can be deactivated without a problem, that's root, also unused). Thanks, tc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried several ways, formatted the lv with mke2fs, switched to single user, rebooted, and there is just no way to get this particular logical volume inactive. The strange thing is, there is no problem with the other lv on the same vg, that can be activated right away. But this one: # lvchange -an /dev/vg_md0/swap LV vg_md0/swap in use: not deactivating What uses is? It is no longer swap, I even changed my fstab from LABELs to drives. So what now? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I do not seem to have received a hint... I worked around the problem, booted from a rescue CD and removed the lv from there. It seems the rescue CD does not activate the swap and the logical volume can thus be deleted. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
badblocks -- how much time does it take?
Hi, I did a /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for approx 18 hours and is just over three thirds. Is this really supposed to be so slow, or is there something wrong? The machine is a Core Duo 1,6, 2GB memory. Tc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?
On jan. 12, 19:20, Michael Shuler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/12/2008 11:40 AM, Towncat wrote: /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for approx 18 hours and is just over three thirds. Is this really supposed to be so slow, or is there something wrong? The machine is a Core Duo 1,6, 2GB memory. Yes, and no. badblocks -w is a full write-mode check - you could do a default read-only check, which would certainly be faster, but it all depends on how thorough you would like to be - you chose the most thorough check, so it will take a while, yeah. Just over 3/3's (= 1/1 = done)? ;) Í Sorry, three quarters... :) I thought I'd be thorough, since I can only do this now when it's still empty. Thanks, I'll just wait then :-)
Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?
On jan. 12, 22:20, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/12/08 11:40, Towncat wrote: Hi, I did a /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 Why? Don't you trust brand new disk drives? Well, you do have a point... But then, this is the only time I can do this safely. When there's data on it, it's not that obvious. Maybe I was a little paranoid. And of course, I was curious. Thank you all. I needed patience:) where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for approx 18 hours and is just over three thirds. Is this really supposed to be so slow, Yes. or is there something wrong? The machine is a Core Duo 1,6, 2GB memory. CPU speed helps, I guess, but always the important factor in disk activity is the disk itself. A 10K or 15K RPM FC drive connected to a 4GBps HBA will do the bad block scan *much* faster than an IDE or SATA drive. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate vegetables! unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?
On jan. 18, 21:40, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On jan. 12, 22:20, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/12/08 11:40, Towncat wrote: Hi, I did a /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 Why? Don't you trust brand new disk drives? Well, you do have a point... But then, this is the only time I can do this safely. When there's data on it, it's not that obvious. Maybe I was a little paranoid. And of course, I was curious. Thank you all. I needed patience:) where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for approx 18 hours and is just over three thirds. Is this really supposed to be so slow, Yes. or is there something wrong? The machine is a Core Duo 1,6, 2GB memory. CPU speed helps, I guess, but always the important factor in disk activity is the disk itself. A 10K or 15K RPM FC drive connected to a 4GBps HBA will do the bad block scan *much* faster than an IDE or SATA drive. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate vegetables! unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now, it turns out I made a mistake here. I have SATA drives, but because of listing ide_generic in the modules file for initramfs, the drives ran as /dev/hd* instead of /dev/sd*, with the wrong driver. I realised this when I saw how slow RAID 1 resyncing was, too. So actually the process did take unnaturally long (however paranoid and thorough the method was). I hope this will help someone:) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
