Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 12:08:50AM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Mon, 29 Nov: I have a bzImage. It was built with 2.6.* kernel. I do not know the configuarion ( More rpecisely :I'm not sure I have the .config file it was built with ).

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread Dan Kaspi
Hello, Thanks for your answer and the link; it was really a very interesting lesson. First , there is also a non-compressed image file on the 2.6.* kernel I use. It resides, natuarally (?!) , in the compressed folder. (/arch/i386/boot/compressed) It is called vmlinux. Running nm -a vmlinux | egrep

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread Dan Kaspi
Hello, Maybe it is more accurate to term the problem not so common instead of theoretical. Second, you suggested Look at /proc/filesystems. Do this right after boot ... Well , this as you said, shows filesystems supported at the moment, regardless of whether they are builtin or loaded as

Re: faster du?

2004-11-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 09:26:45AM +0200, Offer Kaye wrote: Hi, Is there any way to get a breakdown of disk usage which is faster than du? I run here a cron job that runs du regularly on the entire disk(s), so I can simply grep/awk the output. -- Didi

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:19:43AM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Last note - I really do not understand this trend of compiling the kernel with a modular ext3, while defaulting / to be ext3, therefore forcing you to have an initrd, started by RH7.2. Of course some hardware will require it

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:36:47AM +0200, Dan Kaspi wrote: Hello, Maybe it is more accurate to term the problem not so common instead of theoretical. Second, you suggested Look at /proc/filesystems. Do this right after boot Well , this as you said, shows filesystems supported at

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Mon, 29 Nov: I have a bzImage. It was built with 2.6.* kernel. I do not know the configuarion ( More rpecisely :I'm not sure I have the .config file it was built with ). 2.6 added the option to include this file in the

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:46:20AM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: I think you're thinking about it the wrong way. RH kernels require you to have an initrd if you want to use the default root=LABEL=XXX syntax in lilo/grub, since the work of identifying the root partition is done in in the

Re: faster du?

2004-11-30 Thread Oded Arbel
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 10:39, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 09:26:45AM +0200, Offer Kaye wrote: Hi, Is there any way to get a breakdown of disk usage which is faster than du? I run here a cron job that runs du regularly on the entire disk(s), so I can simply

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Tue, 30 Nov: Last note - I really do not understand this trend of compiling the kernel with a modular ext3, while defaulting / to be ext3, therefore forcing you to have an initrd, started by RH7.2. Of course some hardware will require it anyway,

Re: faster du?

2004-11-30 Thread Offer Kaye
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:49:11 +0100, Cyril Scetbon wrote: Hi, Is there any way to get a breakdown of disk usage which is faster than du? df -h Sorry for the typo, I should have written *directory* usage. Since df only reports on disk usage, it doen't help me. Thank anyway! -- Offer Kaye

Re: faster du?

2004-11-30 Thread Offer Kaye
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:39:36 +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: I run here a cron job that runs du regularly on the entire disk(s), so I can simply grep/awk the output. -- Didi I need a solution that I can run live, not overnight. That's why I want it to be faster than plain old du. Thanks

Re: faster du?

2004-11-30 Thread Offer Kaye
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:07:23 +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: It would be very nice to run KDE FS view (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/shift/KDE3.2/fsview.png) through cron and have the output available for live drill down. That looks very nice. Do you know: 1. How fast is it compared to du? 2. Where can I

Re: faster du?

2004-11-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:26:10PM +0200, Offer Kaye wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:39:36 +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: I run here a cron job that runs du regularly on the entire disk(s), so I can simply grep/awk the output. -- Didi I need a solution that I can run live, not

Hashavshevet

2004-11-30 Thread Amir Hardon
Hi all! My father office is based on a Linux server and Windows 98 workstations. We have not upgraded to win XP until now because the DOS version of Hashavshevet couldn't work on it. Today they told my father that it can work on XP machines but it requires a new protection plug, they offered to

Hebrew web page development

2004-11-30 Thread Ilan Finci
Hi, I'm looking for a tool to develop Hebrew web pages. Since neither the actual writer of the pages and neither I are strong in HTML, we look for a tool like Quanta+ that let us do thing the easy way (i.e, let us press a button to make something bold). I used Quanta+ in the past, for English

Re: faster du?

2004-11-30 Thread Offer Kaye
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:53:14 +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: I did not look at du's sources, but I do not think there is a lot of place for optimizations. Did you try different filesystems? -- Didi Not an option, but thanks for the suggestion. Regards, -- Offer Kaye

Israel.pm December 2004 Meeting Announcement

2004-11-30 Thread Offer Kaye
On Thursday, December 2nd, the Israeli Perl Mongers will hold their regular monthly meeting. The program: * 19:00-19:30 -- Offer Kaye will lecture about Syntax Highlighting for Fun and Profit - How to add colored code to your presentations and live through the ordeal (hint - it's easy :-))

Re: Getting a PowerMust 600 UPS to work with Linux using the USB Connection

2004-11-30 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:24:08PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: 1. A connector to be attached to the main power supply. That's what it's connected to and which I disconnected to generate the event. 2. A connector to be attached to the load which is usually a PC. That's what

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Dan Kaspi wrote: Hello, Thanks for your answer and the link; it was really a very interesting lesson. [.. snip ..] So I ran dd like thus (I am not sure that I used the dd correctly as I don't use it frequently): First,I used skip=11 for 1 sector of boot sector and

Re: Hebrew web page development

2004-11-30 Thread Lior Kaplan
Nvu should support some level of Bidi (the last time I checked). Ilan Finci wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a tool to develop Hebrew web pages. Since neither the actual writer of the pages and neither I are strong in HTML, we look for a tool like Quanta+ that let us do thing the easy way (i.e, let us