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Transfering entire system and files to new HDD

nelz — Sat May 18, 2013 8:37 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 8:37 am

You shouldn't need /usr, unless you have manually installed software into /usr/local, the rest is system files (some systems run with /usr mounted read only so you couldn't store configs in there). However you may need some parts of /var.

By the time you've worked out what to backup and then decided what you need to restore, you really will have spent days on it, Clonezilla will take a tenth of the time.

USB to go on Nexus 7

nelz — Fri May 17, 2013 10:47 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 10:47 pm

You're joking. Download a shell script, plug in the tablet, run the script. It really is that simple. I root all Android devices as a matter of course now, if only because it lets me run the excellent Titanium Backup. The was a godsend earlier this year when my S3 died overnight, but not before Titanium Backup had saved everything to the SD card.

I did post the URL to Stickmount, so you know it's free.

New NAS - Cant mount/see HDD drives

nelz — Thu May 16, 2013 10:37 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 10:37 pm

If you haven't tried SSH, how did you run exportfs? Or did you run it on the client? I meant to run it on the NAS, it shows how its NFS shares are set up.

Can you mount the shares as root? Only root can mount devices not in /etc/fstab, so you need to add them there and put "users,noauto" in the list of options to allow any user to mount a share on demand. Or leave those options out and let the shares mount when you boot - depending on whether the NAS is always available.

error: out of disk.

Bazza — Wed May 15, 2013 6:39 pm

Author: Bazza

Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 6:39 pm

Now that you have found a solution repost a full description of your solution to the "Hints and Tips" forum...

TIA...

File indexer suggestion

mm2ps — Wed May 15, 2013 8:18 am

Author: mm2ps

Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 8:18 am

I am looking for a program that will provide a list of my files and I can add comments to. An index list (maybe data base) of my files that I can add things like authors, description etc.

When the indexer is run it would try to match the previous comments with the correct file, even if it has moved.

I would not mind having to guarantee a degree of unique file naming.

Please, do you have any application suggestions?

All the best,

Douglas

Cron configuration file Readynas

pk_fox — Mon May 13, 2013 1:44 pm

Author: pk_fox

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 1:44 pm

Ok, so if I edit the crontab with crontab -e and enter what you suggest I'll be good to go ? Thanks for your help

nelz wrote:

There are plenty of site that put man pages online, such as http://linux.die.net/man/5/crontab

Cron sends an email of the job's output automatically, as long as you tell it where to send it by setting MAILTO=you@your.email at the top of the crontab. If the job gives no output on successful completion, which is usually desirable, you only want to know when something is wrong, you can call the command from a script

Code:

#!/bin/sh
yourcommand
echo "Command finished"

and have cron run that script.

Serial connection 128000 Baud

ferrari — Mon May 13, 2013 5:33 am

Author: ferrari

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 5:33 am

I guess the need for it is minimal... most equipment default to standard baud rates. (I've never encountered the situation you describe).

BT Sport - Silverlight and Android

Ram — Mon May 13, 2013 2:13 am

Author: Ram

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 2:13 am

Marrea wrote:

No more MotoGP, no more Jules, Toby and Spalding. How long before no more WSBK either.

Eurosport have it for 2015.

ODF on Android

guy — Wed May 08, 2013 10:26 am

Author: guy

Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 10:26 am

Thanks all, I look forward to the LibreOffice port in due course.

Minor incompatibilities between ODF and legacy MS Office formats mean that converting to and fro is a pain - things like maths equations or footnote styling. Having firmly made the move to ODF some time ago, I now have far too many files to ever go back.

At present I can at least convert specific files to legacy Office formats for working on-the-go, that will have to do for the time being. FYI I use Kingston Office on my Nexus, being an Android app - and free at that - it is somewhat cut-down, but even so I am very impressed with it.

Nepomuk

catgate — Mon May 06, 2013 10:22 pm

Author: catgate

Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 10:22 pm

nelz wrote:

It's dead easy, the name starts with K

Ah! I see!

No wonder Nepomuc had me Kompletely Konfused.

Same question put differenly

T@M — Mon May 06, 2013 9:24 pm

Author: T@M

Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 9:24 pm

Thanks, but I found the alternate version and have got Lubuntu up and running, this reply is from machine.
My problem now is finding the mail which has been saved somewhere when I installed evolution and set it up from a backup tar.gz

Zip files, then delete them.

thusgaard — Thu May 02, 2013 3:11 pm

Author: thusgaard

Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 3:11 pm

nelz wrote:

It might be a good idea to make sure the archive is valid before throwing away the original files

Code:

FILES=$(ls -1 *.jpg)
tar cf somearchive.tar $FILES
tar tf somearchive.tar && rm -f $FILES

Works like a charm.
Beauitiful.

Thanks.

Form Filling Software for Ubuntu

Narendra — Wed May 01, 2013 9:32 am

Author: Narendra

Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 9:32 am

Thank you very much for your replies.

I did not know that Scibus can do that.
And I am learning Okular!

eee pc 701 software and sounds

T@M — Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:25 pm

Author: T@M

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:25 pm

I have just aquired an eee pc 701 running 1.01 software, which is not much use and the sound has disappeared. which is still the case when I boot from a USB stick holding Mint 11, this works reasonably well, if a little slowly.
The 701 only has a 3.6Gb drive and 512 Mb RAM, am I best sticking with this combination or can I safely reinstall some flavour of linux like Ubuntu netbook remix from a USB?

Using an old laptop...

nelz — Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:22 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:22 pm

mjpg-streamer does exactly what you want, although it's also possible with ffmpeg, vlc, motion and probably mplayer.

Motion has the advantage of motion detection, so it only records when they are messing about, and can alert you too, but it may be a bit demanding for an EeePC.