I have just got an SSD (Kingston SSDNow 100v 64Gib)It supports TRIM, and is definitely one of the better ones available.I am asserting here that the "limited number of writes" problem is a myth, so I'm not looking for an answer to that.My question is, what filesystem will help me get the best performance out of my SSD? Bear in mind SSDs excel at random access time, but sequential file performance is meh
I thought this might interest someone out there:[URL].. I used SD cards with MBR formatted as ext2 for backup. After I read these articles, I reformatted my cards with GUID Partition Table and ext4 format. Now I make my backup in half the time!
I am very new to linux, and I have a question regarding the filesystem check (fsck). The power recently went out and when I tried to restart linux the following error appears:
*/dev/sda1 contains file system w/errors, check forced it then goes on to say..
*An error occured during the file system check. Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue) I wasn't sure what to do, but checked some other online forums and they suggested running fsck manually - so I typed in the root password - and used the command, "fsck -A -V ; echo == $? ==" it then gave the following message
*WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage *Would you like to continue (y/n)
Again, I wasn't sure what to do so i just checked no. I then manually turned off the computer and was prompted at the beginning to press Alt-3. I was brought to another screen and it informed me one of the drives was degraded and suggested rebuilding the array. I tried doing this, but it still brings me back to the original error of, "/dev/sda1 contains file system w/errors, check forced," and the process continues.
Also, when I tried to rebuild the array, I didn't backup any of the data on our home directory before doing this (which was probably a big mistake). After being prompted to type the root password, I was able to give the ls command and look at all the directories...the home directory where our data was stored was empty and I am afraid I may have lost some information. Is there a possibility that data was lost when I was trying to rebuild using the old drives?
About finding the fastest booting operating system is out there.
I'm especially interested in Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Intel Moblin, and when my internet comes back tomorrow, xPud. I'm kinda freaked at Moblin though because there isn't an option to split the hard drive to account for its space, and even if there were, I'm freaked that a GRUB won't show up Ubuntu or even Windows 7
My requirements:
1. Boots up in 5-15 seconds on 1.3GHz processor/4GB RAM or within 10 seconds on a netbook which has 1.6GHz Atom and 1GB RAM
2. Has to have a good-looking window manager (so a customised Linux distro with something like Fluxbox/Blackbox is out). Something like what's in netbook designed OS's are good
3. Has to actually be able to run good on laptops that aren't netbooks, for I'm hoping to run the OS on proper laptops too
4. Can be propiertary, though open-source and free is good too and preferable
5. Has to have a GRUB so I can switch between Ubuntu/Windows 7/whatever fast-booting OS it might be or at least an easy way to switch between the 3. More preferable is that it comes as an .exe that can be installed inside Windows, like xPud
The graphical package management tools like Synaptic have a nice feature where you can scan for and connect to the fastest server. I'm writing a setup script for minimal installs and would like to offer the option to scan for a fast server, does anybody know how to achieve this through the command line?
UI figured this would be the place to ask this question. I would like to download all the repositories to my PC for those crazy times when I don't have internet and need to install a program. I guess I would be making my PC a LAN Repository. What is the easiest/fastest way to get all the packages?
In the past I've install OS on CompactFlash and USB stick.CF was pretty quick almost as good as HD while USB was much slower.However my new box can boot a 6 in 1 card reader which uses MMC/SD/SDHC/MS/MS Pro/xD can anyone with experience of these formats advise what is the fastest to use for an OS?
Is there a faster way to search for a file containing a given string than using grep -re "string" /
This takes a long time to search through the entire system, so I was wondering if there is a faster way. I don't know the name of the file, just that it will contain a given string.
I've already googled and I found how to find the fastest repo counterpart. The problem is all tips I found, talk about main repo. However I am interested in finding all counterparts (for each entry)[URL]he first line originally contained the main Debian repo, but since netselect-apt found the fastest counterpart, I changed this line to mirror.But -- what about the rest? How to find the fastest counterpart repo (mirror) for each line?
I just receive a very thin laptop but pretty old, it has 2 hard drives or kind of hard drives... of 16 GB each, I don't know about the RAM, probably 512 Mb, maybe 1 Gb (I don't remember how to see that on windows) and an intel core duo.It's currently running a legal windows xp (I specify legal cause it's pretty rare), it's not "slow" but it could be a lot faster, it still takes a few seconds to load IE and stuffs.
I'm a mac user, I'm only using debian server version for web servers and databases so I don't know how it works with a user interface.I've heard about Archlinux, it says it's pretty fast but do you know which one is the fastest one ?
I'll be using the laptop for taking notes only, probably on google docs but it'd be cool if I could store some images and stuff without waiting 10 secs to open a new window.By the way, if you could quickly explain me how do I install the GUI and which one is fastest cause when I've installed Ubuntu, Gnome was already installed by default.Finally, there is no way to insert DVD / CDs, it's like the Mac Book Air, so I haven't installed any linux distro from a USB stick either.
Moderator: If this post doesnt belong here, please move it to where it belongs. I like the KDE environment but there are so many menu items that I am not interested in or do not use. For example, I use LibreOffice, not Koffice; I use only Firefox & Chrome; I dont use a PIM.There seems to be a lot of duplication to satisfy different preferences.Further, there are a bunch of environments (flukebox etc) that I am not interested in. I thought that if I removed all the stuff that is of no interest to me, that I could have a personalized, uncluttered Slackware 13.37 system that would occupy less disk space and take less time to back up.
I know that you can remove menu items without removing the underlying programs but, if I can get rid of the programs without trashing my system, that is what I would like to do. (I am assuming that I can reinstall some or all later.)
If I were a Slackware guru, I would probably install some sort of Slackware Minimal but then I would probably drive you all crazy with endless posts to this forum.So, the question is: If I use pkgtool to remove the stuff that I do not want, will I end up in Dependency issue Hell
Does anyone know of a tool to find the fastest mirrors for the repos? I know some distros have something called "fastest mirrors" or something equivalent. The fastest I can get updates is around 238 kB/s and normally, on other distros I get 10 times that speed.btw, like all the other distros, speedtest.net gives me an avg download speed of 43Mbs
I have an ext2 formatted disk (linux) and I need to reformat it to NTFS (windows). Problem is, I have to retain the 750 GB of data that's on the disk. What's the quickest (least number of steps) way to accomplish this? I do have a spare 1TB disk now to help with the transfer.
Background.I've been using XBMC Live for a couple of years, but with all the problems I've been having lately, I'm moving over to the Windows version. Unfortunately all of my media is stored on an ext2 formatted disk (not the same disk as the OS disk).I was thinking of loading up an Ubuntu live disk, and installing ntfs-config. Mount my secondary disk (already formatted NTFS), transfer the files, reformat the original drive, load windows and transfer the files back.
I have a following problem: Recently my drive with Ubuntu 9.4 has mysteriously stopped working, i.e. when I switch the computer on it informs me that GRUB didn't find the filesystem. Well, I suppose it happens.
First, I though it was due to the drive dying, but I popped it in an external enclosure and HDTune told me the drive was fine. Wanting to recover the files on the drive before reinstalling I first tried to mount it in said external enclosure under Windows (I have Win Ext2 driver installed which used to work just fine). This time, however, drive gets assigned a letter but upon opening it Windows popped up an error saying that the drive was not formatted and whether I would like to format it then.
Unfazed by this streak of failures I tried to mount it under Linux but, alas, to no avail. I might have tried every single -t operator under mount command but it still won't budge and let me mount.
When I try to boot to OpenSUSE I get the following error during boot-up: unknown filesystem type 'reiserfs' could not mount root filesystem - exiting to /bin/sh$
This only started happening quite recently - before this I could boot to Linux quite happily.
I've had a look at some similar threads but as I'm very new to linux they're already a bit technical for me. Sorry, this calls for someone with patience. I gather from other threads that disconnecting an external drive without unmounting is a no-no, and this seems to be the likely cause. Now the disk is read only and I'm unable to change any settings through the usual control panel on ubuntu. I'm just not familiar with the terminal instructions. I tried to cut and past a few command lines from other threads but I got some warnings that proceding could damage data. Like this one: WARNING! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage.
i have an old laptop (compaq armada m700... a piii with 576mb ram!!!) which i seldomly use. i have always "wished" i could use this old (and slow and crippled) laptop to do something basic, very basic: to connect to the internet, browse my email, maybe download and read a pdf, watch some stupid videos videos (-not in hd, of course i know!)... and that's about it (no gaming, no office, no photoshoping, no anything else!). but i wanted to do that in style: fast and without hazzle -as 'in having to navigate thru somehow obscure prompt commands or similar!'.
i've tried installing a bare tinyxp... but yet it takes forever to start up, load... and be ready to navigate. i've also looked at the linux world -albeit i am clueless on this os- and i tried installing different flavours of ubuntu and others. unfortunately results weren't much better than with tinyxp -in regards of starting up and responding to user interaction in a reasonably and timely manner. lately i've hear about the (in)famous chrome or chromium or whatever... but it seems it's not going to be ready for a while just yet and it won't necessarely work on such old laptops like mine
Here as I sit, happily with my Ubuntu and GNOME. I really like the GNOME in many ways. Alas, I admit that the desktop UI initializes in a meager .5 second really gets me. So why am I looking at KDE if I'm happy with this GNOME? Read on...Cause I'm not. I confess the GNOME isn't as pretty as KDE. Then I read a Slackware users' love of KDE (looking at you, ~sHyLoCk~), then I go on and read Linuz Torvalds criticism of GNOME. I see KDEs apps constantly being referred to as elite. And eyecandy? Well, GNOME has zip (not .zip ).Then I want to change something somewhere in the UI in gnome and I have to open a dreaded Registry Editor. I have had enough torture with that, with you-know-who, Mr. Gates! (Ok, ok, its Gconf. Whatever. Still has hives and strange string data, hiding away things...making things harder and more complicated).
So now I'm all for KDE right? Maybe. Every distro I have tried with KDE, Slackware (God of the Linux), Gentoo (Sabayon) [supposedly optimized for hardware for speed....hrmph...), Kubuntu (1:27 sec boot time), Fedora with KDE (Pathetic), BackTrack 4 (System_not_responsive) and a few others I probably have forgotten. Guess what?ower than molasses in January. Boot times 1 minute +... 10 seconds plus for an app to load up...Even the mouse gets choppy. GNOME distros? Fast. (well, a few of them are, anyway...)I've read distrowatch like an Almanac, scoured polishlinux.org...Haven't seen nothing.So I guess I'm going to ask you KDE fans, is there some obscure optimization thats needed?
I currently dual boot one of my systems with Windows XP and fedora 12After having problems with fedora 12 where the wireless wouldn't work yet again when I upgraded, I just want to wipe it completely and replace it with Ubuntu.
After I have doing some reading I noticed that Ubuntu doesn't use the RAW filesystem format and EXT4 filesystem is new so as I manually need to format my disk for Ubuntu I have one question. As the other has been answered.Do I need reformat my GRUB partition as well. If, so what format should that be in?
I was happily browsing my new Linux Ubuntu Distribution, and a warning message popped up stating that there's about 145 megs in FIle System. how to solve this problem other than removing files?
Well I did something really stupid:sudo chmod 700 -R /Why? because it's late and I'm tired and somehow thought it was only on my current dir...Is this somehow fixable? I don't get my usual loginscreen so I guess through an tty?
I have a collection of ELF executables that I am trying to run from a FAT filesystem. How can I do this without modifying the OS?p.s. I am running 11.04
I'm having some trouble with my Ubuntu 10.04. It had been working normally, and now my startup isn't occurring normally. The bootloader shows my Windows install and two different revisions of Ubuntu. Upon letting it load Ubuntu, however, it goes to BusyBox v1.13.3 and says "built in shell (ash)" and presents me with a functioning command line.
I'm comfortable with working on the command line, but does anyone know where to start with this?
Something very strange happened. Firefox was acting a little strange, so I decided to restart my system. When ubuntu started to boot it showed an error that said filesystem failed to mount. It gave me an "emergency" command line and told me ctrl-D would retry the mount. Why would this happen? I haven't modified any system files for a very long time. It told me to run fsck (I think thats what it was) and that seemed to fix the problem. Just curious as to what could have happened. Anyone else have this problem? Anything I should try to fix so this won't happen in the future?