Ubuntu Multimedia :: Can't Use Fatsort If Not A Fat Filesystem?
May 8, 2011
I've been experimenting with an older Iriver music player - what it lacks in memory capacity, it makes up for in great sound quality, and I like thatit understands OGG.Problem is, copying files to it through Nautilus, the song order is arbitrary.is is a deal breaker especially for audio books, which I sometimes want to listen to this way. On my previous MP3 player I could use fatsort to fix file order, but the Iriver player doesn't use a vfat filesystem. When it's connected via Nautilus, "mount" shows it as "binfmt_misc" type.Does nautilus have the ability to sort files (internally, not just for display) on binfmt_misc mounts? Or is there some other way to do it?
I really need to be able to sort the directories on some of my disks - not just sort the display of them, but actually sort the contents. I remember the old Norton DS.EXE that did it back in FAT16 days before long filenames, and after some googling, I found fatsort is in the repositories, but that doesn't do NTFS or ext4...
Ubuntu preferable (obviously, since I would really like to sort some things in my ext4 partitions), but if anyone knows a Windoze program that can at least do the NTFS partitions, that will be a start... Of course, I could get a new HDD, manually create all the folders in order, and copy the files one-by-one in order, but I don't have that level of patience!
I have an audio recorder that doubles as a music player. It can play WAV files. So I put in some WAV files and they are out of order, even if they are named numerically. Read somewhere about a little CLI software called fatsort so I installed. The device is located at /dev/sdc. So naturally I write fatsort /dev/sdc, it says something about permission. So sudo fatsort /dev/sdc. Thing is, it says:
Code: sort_fs: Device or resource busy! If I "eject" it (unmount) then it says something about cannot read boot sector or headers. On Windows there is FAT Sorter. It does not work in WINE. So every time I put something in, I have to get to a Windows computer to sort it. It seems like fatsort is the only program that sorts FAT systems in Ubuntu/Linux.
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?
When i connect my mp3 player to my computer it creates a "drive/folder" for it on my desktop and places it in my Place menu.. but i can't find the mp3 player in the /media folder. Does anyone know why this is? or where i could access the mp3 like a normal folder?
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 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 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 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?
I was trying to backup everything, format/overwrite an partition to start with a fresh start after some annoying issues with my previous installation.
I had a perfectly fine working partition table and i chose to format partition #1 (Ext4) partition (~50gb) from the installation tool from the ubuntu live cd. I had more partitions #2 was ~5gbits swap #3 was some unencrypted data(~20gb) (I think it was Ext3) #4 was encrypted data (~150gb) (Ext4) #5 unpartitioned data (~100gb)
So while doing this the installation failed somehow during the format of the disks, I tried testdisk but it couldn't locate the HDD nor any other program. When I look at my /dev it says this (from live cd): root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# fdisk -l root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu#
Mount says: root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# mount aufs on / type aufs (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) /dev/sr0 on /cdrom type iso9660 (rw) .....
/dev/sdxx doesn't even exist and this also doesn't seem to work: root@ubuntu:/dev# ls -al | grep h drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3240 2010-01-12 00:16 char crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 228 2010-01-12 00:14 hpet crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 56 2010-01-12 00:14 network_throughput drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 140 2010-01-12 00:32 shm crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 231 2010-01-12 00:14 snapshot
I nearly have the idea there is no hdd in my pc while I am very sure it was here some hours ago. I didn't made it fall on something hard while running or something so all inside of the box should be just fine. I can't reach my keepassx file (stored inside the encrypted part) so I also can't log onto my workspace or anything, it is quite crippling currently.
I am having trouble with beagle. I havent used it for a while (probably since the upgrade to karmic). I have found now that it does not provide any results for any of my files, specifically my pdf files (I am doing a PhD and it is easier to search for journal articles by the author/title than it is to find them on the file system with 100s of files all over the place, I wish I was more organised!).
Do I need to install a sepparate backend to index pdfs?
I had a look in the log files and for all my pdfs (and some others) I get something like this:
Code: 20100202 11:10:42.8736 15579 Beagle DEBUG: Delaying add of file:///home/philip/Desktop/PBR Stuff/Lee 1986.pdf until FSQ comes across it
I recently bought a Western Digital 640GB external USB hard drive. It was ****-house, had all these extra security features and windows programs hard coded onto a non-writable flash chip that can't be deleted. So I returned the WD and got a Seagate 500GB external hard-drive. Perfect. I was then faced with the perennial problem of choosing a filesystem. Preferably one that works well in Linux, but still portable. FAT32 isn't much good for anything these days, with size limits and all. NTFS is proprietary and unreadable on Mac OSX. Compatibility problems exist for most other proprietary filesystems, and a whole bunch of the free ones as well.
In the end I chose ext3. "ext3?" I hear you say - you might be surprised. Here are my reasons: For a start, ext3 is certainly the most well supported filesystem in Linux. That goes without saying. Secondly, and not everyone knows this: there exists open source ext2/3 drivers for both Windows and Mac. Ext3 is, in fact, just as portable as NTFS - and it is open source (read: free from bull-shite). My setup is as follows:One 499GB partition formatted as EXT3 One 1GB partition formatted as FAT32, containing drivers:MacFUSE + fuse-ext2 for Mac OSX, and Ex2Fsd for Windows.
I have a custom Ubuntu distro that run both from a CD and PXE boot. The problem I have is that I need to boot in an environment that has to be routed through a router that can't forward NFS (the protocol doesn't use a standard port) I found that the Ubuntu based Clonezilla Live CD has a option like "fetch tftp://server/folder/filesystem.squashfs" I can borrow the kernel and initrd and it works, but how do I add this feature myself? Is there a package I need to install or a initrd option I need to add?
I am currently running Kubuntu 9.1, quite happily (triple booting macbook with snow leopard and Windows 7). I would like to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04, but I have a few questions first. Correct me if I am wrong, but Kubuntu is just Ubuntu with the K Desktop Environment, no? So if I were to wipe my partition and install Ubuntu 10.04, I could then install the K Desktop Environment and have Kubuntu 10.04? (sudo apt-get install)
I have been trying to find a way to "see" my kubuntu partition while booted into either mac osx or windows. My kubuntu is currently using the ext4 filesystem though, and there are no drivers to make this work... Is it possible to install Kubuntu onto a filesystem other than ext2/3/4? Ideally I would like to install it onto NTFS, but i know in previous distros (6.1, 7.1) this was not possible. FAT 32 would work for me too,as my partition is only 15gb. Or does anyone know of any drivers for ext4 for mac and windows?
My ubuntu server has 4 2TB disks attached im using udev on boot to mount the disks suddenly one partition of such a hd cant be mounted it seems that udev isnt recognizing the filesystem anymore, all other partitions work as expected using blkid i get a list excluding the failed partition the mount command either doesnt recognize the filesystem but if i mount using -t ext3 i can use it without problems fsck.ext3 doesnt find any errors.
So my question: what i could try to get it up and running again? not sure if the problems began since a power outage.
Lately however my root filesystem is getting filled up every night-- I come in in the morning and have notices that I have 0 bytes remaining. There's tons of room on the disk, but the root is full. Here's what it looks like with a df -h:
when I try to boot into Ubuntu 9.10 the first thing that happens is this:
Filesystem checks are in progress
I have seen this on a few occasions and thought nothing of it, I have let them complete in the past and was able to boot no problem, but recently that has changed, whether or not I let the checks complete I get the following error:
Mount of filesystem failed.43708f-0498-4699-9fd5-1f52df0bc181 A maintenance shell will now be started.
Any thoughts on recovering this partition or at least gaining enough access to it to backup some data?
I have a shared network folder on my server called torrents. It is a folder that I drop .torrent files into to start automatic downloading. When I navigated there from my Ubuntu PC (10.4) I was provided a nice shortcut on my desktop. I have no idea when the problem started but after I rebooted and logged in I noticed a "thing" on my desktop.
torrents on peter.volume <- peter is my server name. Places -> x-nautilus-desktop:///torrents on peter.volume <-also showing up.
I cannot delete I get The file is an unkown type.
Now if I navigate Places -> Network -> Peter (server) I can see the folder "torrents" If I click the folder to open I get a never ending number of "starting file manager" windows.
The other folders work just fine, its just this one.
