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disk bad block checking post-install / ext2

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 05:55 AM PST


Jules wrote: 
time 
is 
first... 
filesystem 

As others noted, $ man badblocks -- _very_ carefully.

Also, check if you have smartmontools on your distro. $ man smartd

Check if you can get a disk diagnostic/repair utility from the maker:
http://www.duxcw.com/faq/hd/diag.htm
 
the 
anyway?

As noted, you only have so much spare disk space for remapping. And
the re-mapping is only available on first write -- it the hd can't
_read_ the block with data it will _not_ re-map.
 
ASAP 
(Keep them very handy!)

Badblocks is best run at fs creation time, but is handy afterwards
also. But to use it you must _know_ what you're doing _and_ generate a
table that the fs can read/use to avoid badblock marked blocks.

The hd badblock re-mapping _should_ be transparent, but if the hd can't
_read_ a block, it won't re-map it unless you force it (and likely lose
data).

For smartmontools visit:
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

The more you use the flakey disks, the more likely you will lose data.
good luck,
prg
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Fedora Core 3 and Mandrake 10.1 install trashes MBR

Posted: 10 Jan 2005 01:51 PM PST

> Like the subject says, when I installed FC 3 and Mandrake 10.1 on my 

How do these installs trash your MBR? They do give an option to boot
already installed OSs during installation, or not?
 
screen followed by some garbage characters and then nothing.
Everything stops.
 

Why not? Any error messages?
 
installation. 
a 

What do you want to achieve? Is it:

a) Repair your MBR, install a bootloader that boots all installed
systems.
b) Keep the MBR as is, with Windows bootloader to boot just Windows.
Create bootdisks for Linux systems to boot them off floppy only?

If the latter: Why? 
mess with any of my partitions. Clearly my computer does not want its
mbr messed with. Neither mandrake or FC 3 could properly change my
MBR. So yes why can't I do what I have always done which is to create
a boot floppy for linux?
 
installation?

Does it matter? It's EOL. 
 
boot 

You don't really need that since you can boot into rescue mode or
Knoppix (or any other Live CD), chroot into your Linux installation and
create the bootdisks from there. 
 
ravi

maximum number of nics

Posted: 10 Jan 2005 07:08 AM PST

chabral wrote:
 


.... why not go with a four-port NICs ?
--
<< http://michaeljtobler.homelinux.com/ >>
Loud burping while walking around the airport is prohibited in Halstead, Kansas.

md5sum ok, but bad burn?

Posted: 10 Jan 2005 02:25 AM PST

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 01:58:54 -0800, com wrote:
 

You could also try the CD "rawread" script to get an md5sum for the
contents of the disk. Google for "coasterless CD burning".

--
Mark South: World Citizen, Net Denizen

Uninstalling a software I can't find

Posted: 10 Jan 2005 02:23 AM PST

Lawrence D¹Oliveiro <gen.new_zealand> writes:
 
 
 
 
 
 

And rpm -e <package name>
will remove it.

Or if you know one of the files (eg firefox-- do whereis firefox or locate
firefox or
find / -name firefox
to find it (that will take a while), and then do
rpm -qf firefox
will tell you the package name.

 

Remove GNOME apps only?

Posted: 09 Jan 2005 03:43 PM PST

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 07:17:49 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
 

I didn't want to go into specific packages or programs, but you are right,
and Nautilus is the main reason why I am using KDE on my desktop box.
Having said that, Nautilus only becomes the memory hog if you load it into
RAM, ie. run it. It's on my disk, I don't run it, hence it doesn't
influence my computer's performance.

When speed is an issue and RAM and CPU upgrade not possible (like on my
Laptop), don't run a desktop environment.

Debian on sata drive

Posted: 09 Jan 2005 12:11 PM PST

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:02:28 +1300, Lawrence D¹Oliveiro wrote:
 
Thanks for the help
Fred

cdrecord: Bad Option: -iso

Posted: 09 Jan 2005 06:51 AM PST


"mjt" <ru> wrote in message
news:net... 

You left out ' -V "useful-name" '

CD drive isn't detected on Debian-testing with kernel 2.6

Posted: 08 Jan 2005 04:14 PM PST

> $ cat 0 

Obviously I screwed up the pasting process here, and pasted that catting
twice, and didn't paste the part where I CDed to the ata_piix directory.

grub.conf question

Posted: 08 Jan 2005 10:09 AM PST

Problem solved!

I was told that I had to leave /boot from the kernel and image paths
since it is on a seperate partition.

#boot=/dev/hda
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
default=0
#fallback=1
timeout=10
title Fedora Core 2 (2.6.5-1.358)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
Thank you all for your time and advices.

"make all" and "make install" for smake

Posted: 07 Jan 2005 06:26 PM PST

I'll take another look, thanks. I didn't know the Makefile was to be
read, nor did I know to set the path first :(

thanks,

Thufir