I use this tool on windows [URL] for low level formatting hard drives. I have been looking for a tool like this for ubuntu but having now luck. I read on another thread that I can use this command - sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx. Will that work aswell? if so is there a front-end available for it?
View 6 RepliesI am in 9.10 LiveCD , low-level formatting an HD from another computer, but when i did# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 dd does something , but at 413 MB stops
root@ubuntu:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1
dd: writing to `/dev/sda1': Input/output error
806433+0 records in
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A few months ago I found a program / tool that essentially used a scripting language to specify diagrams, but I can't find it anymore and cannot remember for the life of me what it is. It's not the python interface to dia. This program did not have any gui.
View 2 Replies View Relatedim looking to erase all data on my toshiba equium a100-338 and install F14 Xfce but i want to remove the hidden vista partition on it first as it takes up around 7 Gb, i have tried to remove it with windows but it does not want to go! any ideas about a low level format tool or how i can remove this within fedora itself?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am looking for a tool that will tell me, in less than half a second, if the microphone is picking up any sound above a certain threshold. (I plan to then mute the Master channel with another command line tool, like amixer.)
View 1 Replies View RelatedIf I have three (3) servers that are suppoed to be configured exactly alike, is there a tool or set of scripts that I can use to capture the information and do a system level comparison?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHow can I adjust the levels at which the battery is considered to be critically low?ight now it seems this is set at 5 or 10%. I want to make it 20 or 25%This is for Gnome. I am using Lucid x86
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've been able to kludge a kill script which finds the correct pid for the kdeserver (or gnome server) after my system comes up in run level 5 so I can drop back to run level 3 mode. Lots of experimentation showed me that using telinit 3 and telinit 5 would occasionally leave the video memory in a mess and I would have the black screen of death.
I set the security parameter setting to autologin for me since I am the only user of my machine, but I still have to kludge the default setting under sysconfig (the DEFAULT_WM) under Window Manager to pick a certain window manager, so it takes time to manually switch the desktop.
Right now I can leave the gui and drop back to cli, but painful experimenting showed me that killing the X server is a no no. Right now I kill the kde server, which sends the SIGTERM to the X windows manager, which then figures out that it has to shut down.
Questions: Is there a better way of doing this? Apparently openSUSE figures that we have multiple users logging into the gui desktop, so the gui is always kept running and a login window with the desktop manager option forces the user to login in. With autologin, this never happens, but no choice of desktop is possible on the fly.
Can some type of script be set up to painlessly enable this to happen? And what is the best way of bringing either the Gnome or KDE desktop manager down gracefully? I do get lots of error messages as the system attempts to recover and X shuts down. It appears that apparently the single user with autologin is left out in the cold.
I want to install a software called TinyOS which is an operating system designed for wireless sensor embedded networks in my account. The problem is it has instructions to install the software as an administrator since i'm not an admin of the department network i can not able to install. Is there any method to install this software as an user level rather than admin level.
View 3 Replies View Relatedhello everyone, im having a problem when my computer enters in the run level 4 as the default when i start slackware. The strange thing is that it not seems that is a X window problem, it looks like more like a configuration problem in some part of the kde script to initialize the log in, because if i manually start the X service it works fine, i dont know what is the source. Thank you in advance for the help.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to know what are the advantages and disadvantages for accessing spi(serial peripheral inerface )from kernel level and user level. like methods of doing it, speed ,memeory utilization etc
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you can find a cutout of an output generated by "iwlist s" command for a cell. Does anybody know what Quality, Signal level and Noise level mean? What is the definition of them? I searched for it and could not find good information on it. What do these Extra:*** fields for? What does it show in the example above? How were those values computed?
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Hi Guys,
here is my scenario:
I am running F10 x86_64 with Nvidia Quadro FX 3400.
I installed the drivers and it worked just fine. No errors generated according to Nvidia log files.
However, while in run level 5 when I try to switch to run level 3 by typing "telinit 3" or "init 3" the X server goes down and I get a blank screen. Same thing happens when I try to switch to a different tty session by <ctrl>+<alt>+F2 (or any F key for that matter).
I also noticed that when I shut down my system I can't see any more the screen where services are shutting down and their status ([OK] or [failed]).
Would appreciate your help on solving this issue.
Hey Guys, I'am new here and request your help on this:
After installing emacs and a few dependencies on my RHEL 5, on restarting the system, the keyboard was not able to work. I restarted several times in vein.
However, when I start in single mode, it works perfectly. I have tried looking for a solution from google, but in vein.
Kindly help...
Regards, Andrew
I have a directory that has a another directory inside it. The top directory is rather redundant since it only contains the one other one. Is there a way to delete the top level directory and have the contents simply "move up a level"?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI just upgraded to the 10.04 and everything works just fine as before (except for skype but that really doesn't matters as it has already been 3 years I'm using ubuntu and I managed to get it to work only once, for miracle I believe ^^). The only real issue I have is this: when I start up my laptop, after the log-in, no sound will be heared as the "speaker" volume level in alsamixer is set to 0; if I raise it from the terminal running alsamixer (as I don't know any other alternative) everything plays just fine, but the next time I boot I do have to do it all over again... So, how can I change the default startup level of the "speaker" in alsamixer?
PS: by the way I do have the very same issue with the screen luminosity but the other way round as is always starts at maximum brightness and I can't manage to get it to start at the minimum, as it did before. At least reducing the backlight if far more quick but a couple of times I forget it and the battery lasted something like half an hour
Is there any way to partition off say 40GB of a 250GB drive (only 5GB used) into an NTFS partition to install windows Vista SP1?? I have tried the System -> administration -> disk utility, but I can not figure out how to partition in it.
View 7 Replies View RelatedIve got two partitions of xubuntu installed and I only want one. Is there I way I can just delete the one i dont want and use that extra space for the other?
also, how would i know which is which when deleting?
A week ago I started a thread on Hardware & Laptops asking for help in formatting a USB stick.
Here is the thread:
[URL]
Before I toss away the 2GB stick, maybe somebody has some thoughts .
If Open Office had any problems saving in different file formats than the open format (which I know it doesn't have problems with) and rtf (which I know it does). I have to use it for school and I do not want to lose things like bullets, numbering and especially not information when saving in Microsoft Word formats.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI've run into something odd:
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jdougher jdougher> cd
jdougher jdougher> echo $PS1
u W>
jdougher jdougher>
For some reason, rather than replacing $HOME with "~", my prompt just displays the name of my home directory.
I'm having problem in formatting the newly added hard drive to my Ubuntu 64 bit server, is there any explanation why I got stuck to this error ?
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root@isuzu:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 21.5 GB, 21474836480 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2610 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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Lucid on a T101MT ASUS tablet netbook.Open Office 3.2For whatever reason standard xp/2000 format word doc's and even odt files often loose bits of formatting when I open them. I'm referring specifically to documents I've downloaded; this phenomenon doesn't apply to documents I've produced. What's going on, how do I fix this?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am simply fed up of using OpenOffice word processor. It's formatting and bullets and numbering system is a total chaos. Even when manually typing the numbers the OpenOffice word processor tries to be clever and "detects" that I'm trying to bullet my points and then mangle all the formatting again.Microsoft word was much better, I've been using it for many years and never faced such a silly problem. I think I'll switch back to windows just because of MS Word -- it had more features, looked better and nesting paragraphs is easy.
View 1 Replies View RelatedCan i dual-boot OS without formatting:
1. Install a trial windows server 2008 standard
2. Next install Ubuntu 11.04
After my trial windows server expired, will use Ubuntu 11.04 as main OS without formatting my entire hard disk. Will this work as i have only 1 sata hard disk?
I'm seeing sustained disk writes of about 2 MB/s in the indicator-multiload indicator in Unity. I determined that it is writes on my 500GB HDD on /dev/sdb. This behaviour started after I used Gparted to create a single 500GB ext4 partition and also selected that it should be formatted to ext4 in Gparted.
Is this usual? It also survived a reboot.. I assume that it is the full formatting taking place in the background?
I saw no activity using pidstat or iotop. Only using vmstat -d revealed the writes.
I have an external USB drive that I want to format but I can't find a Linux utility to do this. I would also like to quickly and easily format USB zip drives too. The ability to format in FAT, NTFS or EXT? would be good as well. GParted seems like overkill.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow do I, in Ubuntu, determine what the formatting (e.g FAT etc.) of an SD card is?
View 2 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know of a application that will use plain text, but allows the customizatino of width and lenth of the number of characters?
Looking to set my footprint to be 78 characters wide (by) 59 characters high.
I have a 250GB external hard drive that I want to format to ext4. It will be used to store back ups of my documents, music and pictures. I tried booting the Ubuntu 9.10 Live CD (amd64) and using gparted to delete the partitions that where on the hard drive leaving only unallocated space, then creating one new partition that was ext4. I clicked apply and after a short time it said all operations completed successfully.
Now the problem is it won't let me transfer any documents onto the hard drive, or even create a folder or file. If I go into the properties of the hard drive, under the permissions tab it says I am not the owner...?