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Question on shredding a terebyte drive
by Dean S. Messing 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

I have a terebyte sata drive that I need to securely wipe clean. It originally had 2 partitions. I deleted them using `fdisk', rebooted, and then as root ran shred -vz /dev/sdd The drive is capable of about 60MB/sec, but shred is only "shredding" about 25MB every 5 seconds according to its output. Since the default number of passes is 25, this works out to about 5 days. The `shred' process is running at 100% CPU, presumably computing the special random patterns for erasure. Since I have 4 CPUs would creating 4 unformatted partions on the drive and then running something like: shred -vz /dev/sdd1 shred -vz /dev/sdd2 shred -vz /dev/sdd3 shred -vz /dev/sdd4 in parallel cut my time? Would be just as secure? Thanks Dean

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Alpine will not show attachments
by Tom Diehl 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

Hi, I am running alpine-2.00-1.fc10.x86_64 on an F10 box. If I get a message with an html or file attachment and I try to open it, I get an error that "Firefox can't find the file at /tmp/img--46112.htm" The correct program opens up but I always get the can't find file errors. If the message contains a URL then it comes up and displays properly. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this problem? Regards, -- Tom Diehl tdiehl(a)rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123(a)rogueind.com

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Can't dual-boot Fedora 14 on new MacBook Pro?
by Charles Ulrich 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

Hello, I'm trying to install Fedora (dual-boot) on a brand-new MacBook Pro. The live/installer CD runs flawlessly on the machine, which was a nice surprise. But after the install is completed, I cannot actually boot into Fedora. Here is what I did: 1. OS X by default ships with an EFI partition (/dev/sda1) and an HFS+ partition (/dev/sda2). I used Boot Camp in OS X to resize the existing OS X partition and reboot to the live CD. 2. Once the Fedora live CD is booted, I used the disk utility to delete the "Windows" partition (/dev/sda3) that Boot Camp created. This leaves the original EFI and OS X partitions plus a chunk (40G) of empty space at the end of the disk. 3. Run the Fedora Installer, telling it to automatically partition and install using the free space on the disk. It creates a 500M boot partition (/dev/sda3) and an LVM partition (/dev/sda4). 4. When the installer gets to the part about the boot loader, I go with the defaults, which is to install GRUB to the boot sector of the Fedora boot partition (/dev/sda3). After the install is complete, I would expect to be able to hold down the Mac's "Option" key to choose which OS to boot since /dev/sda3 has a boot sector, but only the OS X disk shows up. (What does Boot Camp do, then, besides resizing the disk?) I read somewhere that a boot loader called rEFIt would help, so I tried that. I installed it using the instructions on the project's website and rebooted. An option to boot Linux shows up in the rEFIt boot screen, but when selecting it, I get a black screen with an error message along the lines of "no operating system found." Further research suggested that rEFIt had to "resync" in order to find GRUB, even though I installed rEFIt after Fedora. I did that by going into the rEFIt "menu" and answering in the affirmative when it told me that a resync was necessary. Now, when I select Linux in the rEFIt boot menu, it only shows a gray-out penguin and nothing else happens. The lack of output makes the problem difficult to troubleshoot exactly what's going wrong. Maybe if I knew more about EFI, I could play around in the EFI shell provided by rEFIt. Anyway, has anyone here had success dual-booting Fedora 14 on a newer Mac, and if so, what procedure did you use? I'd like to install Fedora to the whole disk, but I'm reluctant to try that until I can get a dual-boot scenario to work. I you could, please CC my email address in any responses since I'm subscribed to the digest version of the list. Thanks for your time. Charles -- http://bityard.net

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native texlive and yum
by Walter Cazzola 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

Dear Fedora Experts, bored of the several problems of the texlive 2010 distribution for fedora (see my previous message about the missed hyphenation and the 1-month old broken dependency on the latex binary) I have decides to remove it and reinstall it through tlmgr. That has been a great idea except for a couple of issues on some *nonrelated" packages. To remove texlive yum forced the remotion of a2ps and R-core (and few other but these are the most important for me) and I can't reinstall them without reinstalling texlive (at least in part). Now I've already installed texlive but not through yum and I'm wondering why the rpm for these packages not really related to LaTeX and in any case working also without LaTeX can't check for the bins instead of the whole package. Is there a way for forcing their installation without installing texlive? Thanks all for the help Walter -- Walter Cazzola, PhD - Associate Professor, DICo, University of Milano E-mail: cazzola(a)dico.unimi.it Ph.: +39 02 503 16300 Fax: +39 02 503 16253 · · · ---------------------------- · · · ---------------------------- · · · ... recursive: adjective, see recursive ... · · · ---------------------------- · · · ---------------------------- · · ·

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Which Linux to use with a Mac?
by James McKenzie 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

All: I am looking at installing Linux on a very old piece of hardware. I've tried FC12/13/14 but the screen is 'messed up' and it only has 384MB of RAM. Also, I now have a brand new, shiny MacBookPro. Any ideas on what to install on it as far as Linux. I'm trying to stay away from the Linux distribution that starts and ends with U as my first experience was not pleasant. I would like to stay with the RH family, if possible. James McKenzie

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Kororaa 14 Beta2 released
by Chris Smart 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

If anyone's interested, Beta2 has been released (https://kororaa.org/download). This release includes several fixes, updates, as well as the following major changes: * GNOME version – that’s right, now Kororaa comes with GNOME too! * GNOME Shell – experience the future of the GNOME desktop (turn on manually, or pass “gnome-shell” to kernel) * Elementary icon set and GTK theme for GNOME * KDE updated to 4.5.5 * LibreOffice replaces OpenOffice.org * KSplice support – stay secure with rebootless kernel updates! * Lennart Poettering’s “200 line patch” bash version included * Updated extras installer now supports AMD/ATI video drivers (as well as Flash and NVIDIA) Let me know what you think. Thanks, Chris

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Installation Impressions
by Nikolaus Rath 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Hello, I'm a long term Debian and Ubuntu user and just tried to install Fedora 14. I want to share a couple of impressions: I don't have a CD writer at hand, so I downloaded the netinstall image. Following the instructions in the installation guide, I copied vmlinuz and initrd.img from the .iso and bootet into it using my existing grub2 setup. The first surprise came when the installer asked me where to install from. I downloaded the network image, so I thought it'd be obvious that I wanted to install from the network. Lacking any URL or NFS server address, I figured that maybe the installer is asking for the netinstall image itself? That'd be weird, but seemed the most reasonable explanation. Unfortunately, I am not able to use the downloaded disk image because at this point the installer doesn't have LVM support. Brr. Rebooted, copied the network image into NFS share, booted into the installer again. Now the installer reports that it can't mount the share. This is obviously wrong, because if I try to specify the filename of the netimage rather than just the directory, the installer complains that this isn't the right file. Grmbl. Reboot, read the documentation again. Ok, apparently I should be able to manually enter the URL of a Fedora mirror. So I grab I piece of paper and write down http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/x86_86/os/ Reboot, back into the installer. I am wondering why the hell I have to enter this. The installer knows what I'm trying to install, and it should be able to figure out where the closest mirror is. Crash. I forgot that I downloaded the netboot image for i386. Why isn't the installer warning me that install.img that it downloaded doesn't work with the booted kernel? Reboot, typed the correct address. Now I'm in a graphical mode that knows LVM. I'm warned about the installer not being able to update my existing installation, but there is no existing Fedora installation. Well, whatever. Now the installer asks for the password of my LUKS encrypted swap partition. Unfortunately the password is chosen at random on every boot. It gives a really scary error message that it will not be able to use this storage device which doesn't seem appropriate to me. I chose manual partitioning. The installer asks me for the LUKS password again and gives a scary error again. Now I'm trying to use the swap partition for Fedora as well. I double click on it, and select "format as swap", "encrypted". Doesn't seem to have any effect, there is no indication that Fedora will actually use the device, and when I'm reopening the dialog then my settings are gone. Alright, so I'll do without swap for now. Next thing the installer complains that I cannot put my root partition into LVM2. This works just fine with Grub2, and isn't Fedora supposed to be cutting edge? Anyway, so I try to create a primary /boot partition instead. There is 128 MB of free space. I tell the installer to use all the space that's available. It claims that there is not enough space left. At this point I just got too annoyed. Am I just extremely unlucky or is a Fedora installation always that painful? Best, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C

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Sorting by date
by erikmccaskey64 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

Original: Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.avi Jan 29 2011 09:17 SOMETHING 2011.01.27.avi Feb 11 2011 20:06 SOMETHING 2011.02.10.avi Feb 27 2011 23:05 SOMETHING 2011.02.24.avi Output: Feb 27 2011 23:05 SOMETHING 2011.02.24.avi Feb 11 2011 20:06 SOMETHING 2011.02.10.avi Jan 29 2011 09:17 SOMETHING 2011.01.27.avi Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.avi Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi How could I get the output where the newest file is at the top?

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External microphone Fedora 14.
by Alessio Giovanni Baroni 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

Hi to all! I have a problem with my Sony Vaio VPCF12M1E: the internal microphone and the external via jack doesn't work. The volume manager, PulseAudio Contrl Panel, arecord -l .... all view the device, but it don't work. Must I to wait Fedora 15 with kernel 2.6.36? Thanks to all!

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Qn about rsnapshot/rsync directory filter rules
by Suvayu Ali 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

Hi everyone, I am trying to setup my backups using rsnapshot. I have a rather large and frequently changing /home/<user>/ that I want to backup. I don't want to backup the frequently changing directories (e.g. my downalods directory or temporary work directory). In other words I wanted to rsnapshot to backup _only_ the directories/files explicitly specified and skip everythign else. So I created a file ~/.rsync-filter with include rules like these, include_/.config/** include_/dir1/** include_/.gitconfig include_/.gitignore include_/.gitk include_/dir2/** Now say I have other files and direcotries like, ~/.oldconfig/ ~/dir2_i_dont_want/ ~/dir3_i_dont_want/ Calling rsync with -F works but it also backs up the other unwanted directory and files. How do I exclude them? The problem is I can't write explicit exclude rules as that would need to be updated every time something new is created (as I want rsnapshot to _not_ backup anything by default). I tried exclude_/* at the end of the filter rules, that made rsnapshot skip the explicitly mentioned includes like, include_/dir1/** include_/dir2/** The hidden files were backed up just fine though. Any ways of doing what I want? -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

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