Mounting a DVD or CD image (ISO file) virtually is trivial in linux. To do this you’ll need to have superuser permissions, in the example below I’m using the sudo command: cfaber@sputnik:/dump$ mkdir ISO cfaber@sputnik:/dump$ sudo mount -o loop DVD-IMAGE.ISO … Continue reading
One of the commands that I find my self using almost everyday is rsync: a fast and extraordinarily versatile file copying tool. It can copy locally, to/from another host over any remote shell, or to/from a remote rsync daemon. It … Continue reading
So your file system has crashed… Upon running e2fsck against it you’re now seeing error such as: Pass 1B: Rescanning for multiply-claimed blocks Multiply-claimed block(s) in inode 4195619: 167904376 167904377 167904378 167904379 167904380 167904381 167904382 167904383 167904384 167904385 167904386 167949296 … Continue reading
So yesterday the wife was complaining to me that her Adobe Lightroom installation was not working correctly. The problem she was having had to do with importing files into Lightroom. Basically what was going on was she would open Lightroom … Continue reading
Dell has released A06 BIOS version for the XPS 13 (9333) model. The release notes (available here) are extremely light on detail, however I can tell you it does seem to resolve (at least so far for me, and … Continue reading
So over the last few weeks I’ve been trying to sort out the final problems with my XPS 13. The last, and most annoying problem I’ve seen is the frequent and seemingly random lockups on suspend. This bothers me a … Continue reading
Well, another year has gone by and another Super computing conference. This years SC14 conference was held in New Orleans. The notable things I found this year, at least things I found interesting where the 8TB archival drive from Seagate, … Continue reading
So many of us that have purchased the Dell XPS 13 (9333) with Haswell core i7 processors have noticed a rather annoying and near constant electrical noise. If you have an earlier generation of this laptop (early 2014 model year) … Continue reading
ZPcheck 1.5 is now available. It contains a few minor bug fixes and changes. These include: Increased smart log capture time from 1 hour to 24 hours Improve error reporting so as to report correctly on errors when all devices … Continue reading
Just a quick note about figuring out existing internal journal sizes for EXT3 / EXT4 and LDISKFS file systems: First thing to do is determine the current inode block, this is usually inode 8, however this may change depending on … Continue reading