Das Werkstatt

[GOAL] To find a good set of test tools to run different benchmarks for the purpose of testing new motherboards and their components to get plausible and as exact as possible results, in combination with the ability to compare settings to information uploaded by other users to verify integrity and ...

Use badblocks to do a full disk check (each sector): Non-destructive method: # badblocks -vs /dev/hda Checking for bad blocks in read-only mode Arguments: -v: verbose -s: show progress in rough percentage DESTRUCTIVE METHOD: # badblocks -ws /dev/hda Tests each block by first writing in, than reading...

Trying a translation:

"Theres lots of batch scripts, when the lack of bash hits!"

That kinda should sum it up.

[Problem] We got our power bill - woe is us! So much money for electricity. Well, it was time to have a look on green mode for our servers anyway. Primarily by having the clients shut down or go to sleep when no one is using them (as a lazy bastard, i've let my box basically up all year without eve...

I just read that, it is also that expensive because it automatically subscribes you to a 'concierge service'. Basically that means you can press a button and get someone (many languages supported) to order a pizza for you, no matter where you are or if you speak the local language. And of course, it...

Hehe

"Haven't i seen you on GoogleMaps?"

[Problem] An older or onboard ATI gfx card will not work with the X-server on startup, even tho the driver is set to 'radeon' in the Xconfig. [Solution] Change the driver from 'radeon' to 'ati'. Yes, its two different drivers, and this worked for me with an ATI R200 on-board graphics adapter on an ...

[Problem] After configuring /etc/X11/xorg.conf and trying X --configure, the X server still won't come up. The error message is AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 - which would point out to a wrong driver or the likes. [Solution] After i tried pretty much everything else and even wrote an xor...

5. Always shut down computers if you plan to do someting in the house electrics. Yes, even if you are sure they are on a different curcuit.

Sounds even more interesting! Good that you did not choose the easy way (reinstall), but rather do it the hard way, and thus, give us a lot of information on topics we did not touch yet

Good luck, keep us up2date!

Very interesting! I personally do not have any experience with tools like that. Then again, we learned very early how to 'manually' move a installation

Of course its better if theres a good tool for that, now.

When using mkfs, it per default reserves 5% of the total blocknumber of the mass storage device for root. Sometimes you dont want it to do that, and reading the manpage (... RTFM ...) the solution was quite simple: mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdx1 -m0 Where the -m flag lets you set the percentage to reserve - in...

Sorry, can't help you there. If i'd use .rar files, ^rooker would hit me with the open source hammer.

tar.gz
tar.bz2

Could you provide a little more detail?

My first thought is, that your repository does not include what you are looking for.

Well, okay, i tried to have a look at it without bitching at it. I really tried. Really. But it ends up in the bitching thread anyway. So, here we go: Installation The installation went smooth, no problems here. The only weird thing is that its released 2 days ago, and already had a dozen security p...