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LXer: The Btrfs file system

LXer — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:00:11 GMT

Published at LXer:

Btrfs, the designated "next generation file system" for Linux, offers a range of features that are not available in other Linux file systems � and it's nearly ready for production use.

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Virus scanner for windows using Linux Live CD?

bowbalitic — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:59:08 GMT

Is there a Live CD or flash drive mountable Linux distribution that will search Windows files for potential viruses or malware? I find that many Windows virus scanners are ineffective at removing some of the more sophisticated virus, malware, ect. I was hoping that there was a Linux distribution that keeps up to date with its virus library. I would perfer that it works with Windows xp and vista, but xp would be enough. Thank you for your help.

Panasonic Toughbook (laptop) has SD card reader no distro seems to work with.

brjoon1021 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:57:32 GMT

Hi,

I have a panasonci CF-73 toughbook. There is an integrated SD card reader that has not worked with any Linux distro that I have tried. It will read SD cards but not SDHC with windows XP and the driver from the Panasonic site.

Can you get me pointed in the right direction to find out what exactly the make and model of the reader is and if there might be a solution?

Thanks,
B

DVD mounts to write, but not to read. Bad superblock

moxieman99 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:49:22 GMT

DVD mounts to write, but not to read

Running Fedora 10, and decided to rearrange my cables so that 2 hard drives are primary master and slave, CD drive is secondary master and writable DVD drive is secondary slave.

If I put a blank dvd in the DVD drive, it will mount and I can record to it. I cannot verify the data however, and I cannot play a dvd, because a recorded DVD mounts read-only (as /dev/sr1) and comes back with a bad superblock error. Another error I get is a timeout because of a Dbus non-response.

Everything used to mount fine, automatically.

whadido?

Thanks,

Moxieman

Just bought a Dell Mini 10 with Ubuntu

trekgirl — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:48:55 GMT

I've been using v.9 of Ubuntu at home. My desktop is set to dual boot with it and Vista. For school I wanted a more mobile option. I tried going the cehaper route and installing v9 on my old Toshiba but there is a driver issue that I just can't knock out. So I am always a geek when it comes to new 'puter stuff so I finally bought a little netbook. The Dell Mini 10 to be specific. I upgraded it to the 1.6 GHz processor. It comes with 1 GB of ram and a 160 GB hard drive. Its also got a webcam. It comes with Ubuntu 8. I hope it gets here soon. It will make doing my schoolwork much easier. Take that Mafiasoft!! :)

update-grub question

geno1234 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:46:40 GMT

How do I get update-grub to scan an entire drive to look for changes (rather than just scanntng the partition in which its distro is located)?

geno

How to install Envyng in UBUNTU 9.04?

alamgir — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:46:11 GMT

I am using ubuntu 9.04 on ATI Radon HD 2400 Pro card. To install correct driver for this card I am looking for Envyng by using Synaptic Package Manager but without success.

I also downloaded the .deb files (3 files) from sofpedia.com but "install the package" icon is inactive. So I did not install it.

Is there any other way to install or get ENVYNG? :confused:

Sharing multiple zfs file systems

ADxD_7 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:39:03 GMT

This is on Solaris 10 5/09 on a X4540 storage server.

Ok so the issue is I have multiple zfs datasets - i.e.

zraid/DATA
zraid/DATA/dir1
zraid/DATA/dir2
zraid/DATA/dir2/dir

I cannot seem to get it to share the way I want it to, I want it to share zraid/DATA and all the datasets below it - but when I " zfs set sharenfs=rw,anon=0 zraid/DATA " then mount it on a client, only things directly below /DATA show up ( so dir1 and dir2 will show) and none of the data is inside them (also /dir2/dir is not there).

I am thinking it might be impossible to do what I want to do, do you have to share and mount every dataset? The reason we are trying to do it this way is we want to be able to compress /DATA/dir2/dir but do not care about any other directory's in /DATA/dir2 - but I guess I am expecting it to treat the datasets like directory's - I am new to zfs so sorry if this is a stupid question.

Thanks,

ADxD

new to forum

wildchief — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:30:31 GMT

hello i am new to this forum. i am a solaris person but am getting mor einto linux especially for web hosting and network services.

Determining cpu temperature

Aztral — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:27:53 GMT

I'm writing a program that will determine my current cpu temperature. As I understand it, in order to do this I need to know the chip and sensor on my motherboard. I believe I have determined this through sensor-detect; I have an 'Intel Core family thermal sensor' chip. So basically my question is now what? I'm not sure how I would go about using this information in c or c++ using Kubuntu linux.

Thanks a lot for any info.

Trouble getting trackball on keyboard to work

jsteel — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:25:13 GMT

I have a Compaq MX 11800 keyboard with a trackball. The mouse buttons work but the trackball doesn't.

Here's a picture of the thing if you're interested.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_p4PkoeXYyO...8/s400/das.jpg

I saw someone having a similar problem here.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=763228
They say in Ubuntu 7.10 (old version) it works fine. I'm using Debian Lenny.

Any ideas would be helpful.

Thanks!

HOWTO Peel an Avocado?

jhwilliams — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:22:56 GMT

I recently graduated college, got a job in software, and moved out on my own. With respect to Avocados, two major things have happened:
* I can now afford to buy them regularly.
* I don't have anyone around to help prepare them.

Do you have to use one of those carrot peeler tools? Or what do you do? So far, I've been carving out chunks with a butter knife, and it's pretty ghetto.

Apache 2 does not mix php with html on openSUSE 10,3

manti111 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:09:53 GMT

Currently we are working from moving our website from a shared server host to our dedicated box. The website which is basicly webspell with some modifications to make it fit our needs.
It is made up out of part php (.php files) and html (.html files). Now the index.php file loads as it supposed to, but it does not account for the html files. That means that anything that relies on php works like it should, but the html files included that is a no go.
I cannot see what we are doing wrong. I do have the header of an html file, maybe it will help.
// -- SET HTTP ENCODING -- //

header('content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

Thunderbird profile in Windows.

johnsfine — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:05:34 GMT

Can anyone tell me where Thunderbird on Windows stores the information about the email account?

Today I installed a Windows update (in XP64). Usually, I select custom and look through the incomprehensible descriptions of what it intends to do. But today, I'm so swamped with work, I just clicked express and let it do whatever the default was, which apparently is pretty horribly trashing my computer.

One program completely trashed is Mozilla Thunderbird. When I started Thunderbird after the reboot, it thought it was starting for the first time and wanted me to create an account.

In C:\Documents and Settings\fine\Application Data\Thunderbird I still have the original profiles.ini and registry.dat files from when I first installed Thunderbird on this computer. I don't know what's in registry.dat (it is binary) but profiles.ini still correctly points to the original Profiles subdirectory and Thunderbird still uses that subdirectory.

The files in that profiles subdirectory mostly have modified dates saying they were changed when the Windows update was installed. Mostly the contents are not human readable.

There is a mail subdirectory of that subdirectory that includes what seems to be the original "incoming-verizon.net" and "Local Folders" sub directories of my email account, but I can't see any way to get Thunderbird to use those. Instead it insists on creating a new folder "Local Folders-1" and when I say to use incomming.verizon.net it creates a new "incoming-verizon-1.net" folder.

Is there any way to get Thunderbird to use the mail folders that it was using before this Windows update?

Many other programs, including Windows Explorer itself have various GUI preferences trashed (location and size of the task bar, default locations where various windows open etc.). I will go through lots of annoyance getting everything back the way it was, and maybe there is some further major disaster hiding in some application I haven't used since the update. But so far the only one trashed beyond an annoyance level is Thunderbird.

There is also the possibility of coincidence (regarding the Windows update). Thunderbird and the other programs with lessor damage were all running for many days before I installed that update. Anywhere in that period things might have been corrupted on disk but still healthy in the running copy in ram, so all symptoms might be just from rebooting. But regardless of cause, I could use some help getting Thunderbird reconnected.

Itunes ubuntu???

Syrioth — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:04:49 GMT

Hi i have just installed ubuntu and i was wondering whether there is a itunes for linux that can be used to interface with the iPod touch??
anything regarding this would be very helpfull thanks
also any other hep would be great thnx