I'm writing a script that among other things partitions and formats disks using SW RAID and LVM. I've read somewhere that for older versions of Linux it was a good idea to use the dd command to zero the first couple of blocks od a device before partitioning it (or formatting it?) Is this practice still recommended? To what end?
View 1 RepliesIt frozen up occasionally, when that happens, usually the harddisk light lights up continuously. So I suspect some process is writing to the disk, which prevent other process to go on. how do I find out who's using a lot of IO?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've just completed a fresh install on natty, and I'm seeing constant disk writes of around 1Mb every couple of seconds.
I looked at iotop to find the culprit, and it seems to be the journalling manager for the ext4 filesystems:
Code:
215 be/3 root 0.00 B/s 19.23 K/s 0.00 % 5.89 % [jbd2/sda1-8]
Is there something I can do to adjust this behaviour somehow? I'm a bit concerned about wearing the disk out before its time...
This is a curiosity of mine, and I expect a technical answer, if someone knows it. Why the systems become so irresponsive when doing hard-disk input and output? This happens even if writing is done to a secondary disk where neither the system or the swap are stored.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI've got a few linux boxes (fedora 13 and 11) with a common disk mounted. I'm trying to get them all to write files to that disk, however it seems that only the first to connect actually has permission to write.
I'm very new to this networking stuff and this is a bit of a hack. Is there anyway to give all computers write access to a disk (it's actually a managed back up disk, primarily for windows users but is the only shared disk in the building), or is this likely to be very very complicated?
I've got a Centos 5 machine running with a raid 1 SSD hard drive combo, as I don't know how or even if it's possible yet to wipe the free disk space clean I need to be careful to not fill all the free disk space. As I don't want to fill the free disk space too quickly and was wandering if it is possible to pipe the result of a mysqldump to a FTP client only writing it to the ram and not writing it to this disk.
I've done a bit of research on the subject and have found the two following commands:
Code: mysqldump < mysqldump options> | gzip > outputfile.sql.gz
Code: tar cf - / | ncftpput -c sonic.sega.co.jp /usr/local/backup.tar
I would like to combine the two to make something like this:
Code: mysqldump mysqldump_options > | ncftpput ncftpput_options -c SERVER_IP backup.sql
I haven't actually tried my code as it seems too easy and I'm sure I've got something wrong! If this command is even correct will it prevent the sql file from being written to the hard drive to my local machine?
K3b provides a comfortable user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks. While the experienced user can take influence in all steps of the burning process the beginner may find comfort in the automatic settings and the reasonable K3b defaults which allow a quick start. If you want to install K3b goto ubuntu software center and type K3b in such box and press install button After installation is over open K3b when you open for first time you will see a box called "Did you know...? read that and press Next button. After reading all close that box and use K3b for CD/DVD burning tasks. You want to Add-ons for K3b select six add-ons and press Apply Changes button that all you can use it now. If you want to install K3b through Terminal window follow the this commands To install K3b
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install k3b Preview audio tracks withing the playlist editor is one of the features in K3b, you need to install and start arts sound server for this sudo apt-get install arts artsd & you may need to install mp3 plugin for built-in decoding software. sudo apt-get install libk3b2-mp3 Enjoy now.
Whenever I am busy reading or writing large files, or large sum of files, my computer is unresponsive. Screens are getting greyed-out and I just can sit there and wait until the reading/writing is done.
This is not caused by the CPU which is overstressed because it is not. Look at the attachments and you will see the CPU is used for about 20%. When these pictures were captured the computer was using hellanzb to unrar a long list of rar-files.
When you look at my signature you see the computer is not bad at all, just disk-access is slow. I can transfer files with a maximum speed of 30MB/s. Is that normal or is it very slow? I don't know the numbers. I have 2 SATA disks.
O.S. is Mint 9-Isadora, based on Ubuntu 10.04 and I use the 64-bits version.
For internal security reasons I need to prevent ourmcat logs from writing to the webserver local disk. We set up a separate logging server with rsyslog and need to pipe the log data to it.I am trying to work out how to configure tomcat to send all log data to the logging server via the rsyslog client (running locally) via a named pipe. We are on CentOS 5.6, Tomcat 6 and rsyslog 5.8.1. I need to know: 1) do we use the default logging library or log4j2) where is this configured in the tomcat config3) is there any code that would need to be written to achieve this
View 1 Replies View RelatedTo create a weblink I needed to pad zeroes to an IP Because I couldn't find any examples I created my own.I invite anyone to improve on it and hopefully I'll see many alternatives.I'm using 'grep -o' to break down the 4 segments....
Code:
# IP=127.0.0.1
# PADIP=`echo "${IP}" | grep -o -E '([0-9]*.|[0-9]*)' | awk '{printf( "%03d
", $1)}' | tr '
' '.' | sed 's/.$//'`
# echo ${PADIP}
127.000.000.001
I found a script that counts down to a date and time and after modifying my .conkyrc file I want things to line up nicely, so, now I need leading zeroes on the output, like one timer I have says "4m +2w 5d 20:0:0" and I want it to say "04m 02w 05d 20:00:00" and on a slightly separate issue, it doesn't seem to be counting the minutes and seconds correctly, but that can be dealt with later, the current script is
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
#Script Name: howLong.pl
#Author: Nathan Handler <nhandler @ubuntu.com>
[code]...
I have an external 500GB USB drive that I want to sell. I've copied some stuff to it and practiced partitioning and formatting with it, but I want to use something to erase it completely. Is this possible if the USB is connected to a ThinkCentre 8187-EJU with an Ubuntu 10.04 OS? I've used Dban to erase regular hard disks but don't any software that could be installed on my computer that would erase a USB drive.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI want to view a hard drive and see if it has all zeroes, how would I do this? I want to view a hard drive and see if it has all random data, or random data mixed with zeroes. How can I do this? I prefer to do all this in linux if possible without a gui...so looking for any cli tools to view with.
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy VPN is behaving funny sometimes, and I have to restart it often.I wanted to write a script which does that for me.It doesn't have to be anything fancy, just a shortcut for the commands I have to type into the terminal. More specifically: it will look at the running processes.If it finds a running vpnc process, it will kill it. Then it will start vpnc.I've written bash scripts of similar complexity,but now I don't have a bash,only an ash. Until now, the only difference I noticed is that there are much less commands available, but then, I don't use it very often.So I have some questions.
Is writing ash scripts different than writing bash scripts?
Is there something specific to consider when doing it?
When the script is ready, how can I deploy it? For bash, I just put the executable file under /usr/lib and run it by typing the file name into the command line, will this work with ash?
Are there any special pitfalls to watch out for in the script I want to write? I think that the killing process part may get hairy, if I write something that kills the wrong process, but even then running the script shouldn't break anything permanently, right?
i am having a the following line in a file
<property name="connection.password"></property>
i have to give password in this line, like this
<property name="connection.password">XXXXXX</property>
Is this possible to acheive this using sed command
Beause i have to do this for n number files. so if i have option in sed for this the i will be doing this using script.
user@user-laptop:~$ sudo dd if=sd_backup of=/dev/sdd bs=4M conv=noerror,sync
205520896 bytes (206 MB) copied, 28.564 s, 7.2 MB/s
247463936 bytes (247 MB) copied, 57.1285 s, 4.3 MB/s
260046848 bytes (260 MB) copied, 73.2388 s, 3.6 MB/s
289406976 bytes (289 MB) copied, 104.121 s, 2.8 MB/s
[Code]....
How come dd gets slower after copying this 8GB file? What can I do about it?
When you are performing time consuming operations in bash like installing new software, is it possible to write text that will appear at the prompt when the operation has finished.
E.g
Imagine running:
apt-get install eclipse-platform
Then it will use quite a while to finish while you see the installation log, meanwhile I want to create new folders (workspaces) which Eclipse later will use.
Is this possible without opening a new terminal (or tab)?
When I login I always do:
ssh myuser@111.111.111.111
Is it possible to do something like:
ssh myuser@server1
I would like to use a name, not an IP address, is it possible?
Basically I have a USB flash drive currently formatted under vfat. I can log in as root and the system automatically picks it up and automounts the drive successfully. What needs to happen is that a non-root user needs to be able write to this device while root has mounted this device. Due to other program constraints, I can not mount the device using another user so I have to do it with root.
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy video card writes the CRT in one of two "modes". High intensity ("bright chars") and low intensity ("dim chars"). How do I set vim in order for him to use only low intensity?
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen i Write commands in terminal it does nothing
View 1 Replies View RelatedHow can we write arrayValues in file? Lets say arrayName=(1 2 3 4 5) Now if i want to write these arrayValues into file
In first line in file :1
In second line in file :2
In third line in file :3
In fourth line in file :4
In fifth line in file :5
I need to write an else-if condition in a makefile, and though the format is posted on several websites, nothing seem to be working, andI get an error everytime. Could anybody please write a small example with an else-if conditional in a maekefile?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am using Grass GIS
I have written a script which outputs a list of numbers to a file
code snippet:
r.stats -1 fs=, input=Bones_AVE > /home/gary/AVE_monte_carlo/rstats_AVE$i.csv
so this makes acsv file with one column. I want to run it again but rather than outputing to a new csv i want to add it to this one as the next column. For this example there will be 100 rows per column.
the 1st one will make the file
[grassGIS code]> /home/gary/AVE_monte_carlo/rstats_AVE.csv
add ',' after each value
the next one
[grassGIS code] open file /home/gary/AVE_monte_carlo/rstats_AVE.csv
[Code]....
I am trying to write input to a shell and get the shell to parse the input that I am writing to it as if a user was typing in commands.
Thus far I have tried echoing some text into the shell's FD for STDIN in /proc/<pid>/fd Whilst this displays the text that I echo, the shell that I am writing to never tries to execute the command that I pass to STDIN. What is the difference between a shell taking STDIN from the user and data written to STDIN by another process e.g. echo ? It appears I am missing something fundamental.
I've seen the trackpad tool to write chinese characters on macs, is there any such linux clone? Or are there any projects that anyone knows of which are trying to create that for linux?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to write ksh script in the spec file? The target is after I perform
rpm -i my_rpm.rpm
According to the spec file, ksh script will do some installation & configuration. For example run other script and edit some files.
I have custom software that writes to a sensitive large file when the user does something. I would like to make backup copies of The file that gets written to, but if I make a gzip of the file at the same time someone is changing something, it will corrupt the backup because some of the data will be missing, as its backed up during being written to.
a) Is there a way to detect if a file is currently being accessed/written to?
That way if its currently being accessed, I can just make the script wait until its done and then finally back it up.
b) Instead of backing up the large file while it has potential to get written to, would it be better to make a copy of the file first, then gzip the copy? This idea comes from the fact that gzipping the original takes 5-10 seconds, whereas making a copy only takes 1-2 seconds. The less time, the less chance of corruption.
c) Is there anyway to freeze a program or a file to stop it from being written to for an amount of time?
With a, b, and c together. The best solution I have to my problem would be a script that first detects rather the file is being accessed. If not, it would then freeze the file/program and then make a quick copy of it. Once the copy is created, it will unfreeze the original file/program and then go about gzipping the copy.
I tried writing zreos to my HD but it denied permission. How do I get around that ?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've used ext2ifs drivers to mount my ext3 partition in winxp, but I don't have write acces, it's mounted in a read-only mode, and i didn't check the rad-only box during the installation of the drivers.I've used help from the official site http://www.fs-driver.org/and this tutorial http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/l...s-windows.html
It's a straithfoward proces so I dont understand what I did wrong.I'm using fresh xp install with (more or less) all the updates and ubuntu 10.04Also the partition is mounted at /home, so I dont know if that makes any diferance.