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Feb
27
comment parted not recognizing my current partition on external disk. How to fix without losing data?
@mag, no, it will just remove the mac partition table leaving the dos one intact.
Feb
27
comment Creating a ram disk on Linux
@goldilocks, hrm.. nevermind... I could have sworn it used to grow automatically if you tried to write past the end, but it doesn't seem to now.
Feb
27
comment Creating a ram disk on Linux
@goldilocks, actually you can make it bigger that way.
Feb
27
answered newgrp asks for password
Feb
27
comment newgrp asks for password
No, newgrp does not alter any files.
Feb
27
answered parted not recognizing my current partition on external disk. How to fix without losing data?
Feb
27
comment Fresh installation of debian and raid10 array with SSD and HDD
@user62025, it means put the root directory on the ssd?
Feb
25
answered When mounting, when should I use a loop device?
Feb
25
answered Fresh installation of debian and raid10 array with SSD and HDD
Feb
25
comment Is there any performance penalty to having multiple segments for one volume in LVM?
@jhfrontz, that is what it means to be on the same cylinder, just a different head.
Feb
25
comment Does the sudo user need a home directory?
@goldilocks, well, you can login without a home directory, but you get a very broken session. Not having a home directory on your account would be stupid and pointless and points to a fundamental misunderstanding of what's going on.
Feb
25
comment Recovering an ext4 filesystem with corrupt journal
Did you try to fsck the filesystem?
Feb
25
answered Only two 2GB memory available on 64-bit Linux kernel
Feb
25
comment How can I dump the full system memory?
So you are going to dig through gigabytes of data looking for a few kb of text that may not even be there? Needle, meet haystack. In the time you spent on this you could have just retyped the text. If there was that much in the first place, then you should make sure your text editor is configured to periodically save a backup so you don't lose much if it crashes.
Feb
25
comment Does the sudo user need a home directory?
Of course the user has to have a home directory, or you couldn't log in as this user in the first place, so you couldn't run sudo. Also you know when you have the power to break the box not because of who you are logged in as, but because you ran sudo to obain that power.
Feb
24
comment How does kernel swapping / INT 13h interrupts work?
int 13h is just the bios disk read service.
Feb
24
comment How to turn off DELL BIOS beeping through Ubuntu?
Not if it is being produced by the bios. That module lets the kernel make beeps.
Feb
23
comment Is there any performance penalty to having multiple segments for one volume in LVM?
@jhfrontz, that could happen if the gap is small enough, but in practice, it is going to be many mb, which will be far enough that it won't be on the same cylinder.
Feb
22
answered zmodem not working without minicom
Feb
22
comment How does mdraid resync work?
+1 for figuring out why the drive was dropped.