| 13:01.20 | stickster_work | quigleymd: Thanks for the information re: dynamic forwarding in OpenSSH |
| 13:01.24 | stickster_work | Totally wicked! |
| 13:01.33 | *** join/#fredlug jsmith (n=jsmith@000-143-916.area3.spcsdns.net) |
| 13:01.53 | stickster_work | Heavens to mergatroid! it's jsmith! |
| 13:02.15 | jsmith | stickster_work: Yeah, I know... I'm back from my vacation, and back online |
| 13:02.35 | jsmith | stickster_work: (And great minds think alike... I went to the Air and Space musuem with my kids too!) |
| 13:03.14 | stickster_work | jsmith: Awesome, isn't it? |
| 13:03.30 | jsmith | Yeah, it's awesome. |
| 13:03.39 | jsmith | I was surprised at how excited my kids were though... |
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| 19:19.01 | *** join/#fredlug |Carrera (n=nonadmin@c-71-62-208-209.hsd1.va.comcast.net) |
| 19:19.13 | |Carrera | hello |
| 19:19.43 | jsmith | Howdy! |
| 19:19.46 | jsmith | (and welcome!) |
| 19:19.58 | |Carrera | thank you, how is it going? |
| 19:20.28 | jsmith | Not bad at all... |
| 19:20.44 | jsmith | About a thousand things on my plate, but that's par for the course |
| 19:20.47 | jsmith | And you? |
| 19:21.01 | |Carrera | just killing time before class. |
| 19:21.08 | jsmith | What class? |
| 19:21.11 | jsmith | Anything fun? |
| 19:21.44 | |Carrera | Survey of American literature, and Chemistry. |
| 19:21.55 | |Carrera | ZZZzzzz |
| 19:22.43 | |Carrera | Are you a Linux guru? |
| 19:23.16 | jsmith | Yeah, you could call me that. |
| 19:23.31 | jsmith | I've been using it since 1996 |
| 19:23.39 | |Carrera | Great! Maybe you can help me. |
| 19:23.41 | jsmith | I don't know as much as stickster_work |
| 19:23.48 | jsmith | But I'd be happy to help you out |
| 19:24.21 | |Carrera | My USB drive (NTFS) is comming up as read only, how do I make it rw? |
| 19:30.20 | jsmith | OK, first a (short) history lesson |
| 19:31.04 | jsmith | Many of the early attempts by Linux hackers at writing to NTFS partitions were notoriously buggy, so much so that most of the NTFS drivers are read-only, so that Linux doesn't accidentally screw up your NTFS filesystem |
| 19:31.28 | jsmith | There are some newer projects that claim to support full write access to NTFS partitions, but I'm guessing you're using one of the read-only ones. |
| 19:31.32 | jsmith | Which Linux distro? |
| 19:31.46 | |Carrera | Ubuntu |
| 19:32.25 | |Carrera | I am dual booting XP and Ubuntu. I have no problems writing to my NTFS partition. |
| 19:32.55 | |Carrera | I had to modify the fstab.conf for that though. |
| 19:33.11 | jsmith | Oh, yeah... |
| 19:33.50 | jsmith | In that case, you should be able to do something like "mount -o remount,rw /mount-point" |
| 19:33.59 | jsmith | To tell it to remount it as r/w |
| 19:34.19 | |Carrera | let me try that |
| 19:44.12 | |Carrera | no luck |
| 19:44.56 | |Carrera | according to my mtab they are rw, but for some reason I cant write on them |
| 19:44.57 | jsmith | Hmmmn... |
| 19:49.13 | stickster_work | If I might butt in for a moment? |
| 19:49.55 | jsmith | Sure! |
| 19:50.09 | jsmith | Like I said, I don't know nearly as much as stickster_work |
| 19:50.13 | stickster_work | Sorry I don't know Ubuntu very well... but I bet their kernel is using the old style driver which IIRC is not upstream in the kernel itself |
| 19:50.36 | stickster_work | You might want to look for the "ntfs-3g" software, which, along with FUSE, allows you to R/W your NTFS partitions and devices |
| 19:50.46 | stickster_work | I'm pretty sure Ubuntu has that available as well |
| 19:51.06 | stickster_work | That's the "3rd generation" (thus the name) NTFS driver |
| 19:52.12 | jsmith | stickster_work: Other *half*? Gee... that's being optimistic! |
| 19:52.14 | |Carrera | i do have the ntfs-3g software installed |
| 19:52.48 | |Carrera | is there a way to just format those NTFS's goodbye? |
| 19:54.04 | stickster_work | |Carrera: Depending on the size, you can use "mkdosfs -F 32" to make it FAT-32 instead |
| 19:54.17 | stickster_work | You should probably run "fdisk" first on it, and change the partition type to FAT32 LBA. |
| 19:54.32 | stickster_work | I think that's type C (0x0C)... |
| 19:54.46 | stickster_work | Obviously this is a destructive operation :-) |
| 19:55.05 | stickster_work | so, "fdisk /dev/sdc" (or whatever device it is) |
| 19:55.11 | |Carrera | hehe i dont have anything i need on it |
| 19:55.26 | stickster_work | then, "mkdosfs -F 32 -n 'YourName' /dev/sdc1" |
| 19:56.02 | stickster_work | I can't remember if there's an upper FAT-32 limit for partition size |
| 19:56.52 | stickster_work | I usually use ext3 everywhere, but I used to use "EXT2IFS" for Windows to access those partitions |
| 19:57.19 | |Carrera | i am trying to go away from windows |
| 19:57.46 | |Carrera | how do i make them ext3? |
| 19:58.17 | stickster_work | Well, run fdisk as before, make the partition type 0x83 instead (Linux ext2/ext3), then "mke2fs -j /dev/sdc1" |
| 19:58.35 | stickster_work | (The -j makes a journal, which is the feature that sets ext3 apart from ext2) |
| 19:59.07 | |Carrera | great! I will go ahead and do that. |
| 19:59.09 | |Carrera | Thanks! |
| 19:59.21 | stickster_work | Keep in mind that USB disk will now only work with Linux and Windows machines where you install a driver like EXT2IFS |
| 19:59.36 | stickster_work | If that makes you happy, super! |
| 19:59.42 | stickster_work | Good luck and have fun |
| 20:00.02 | jsmith | quigleymd: Ping! |
| 21:33.13 | jsmith | stickster: Quick question for you... a friend is trying to upgrade from FC5 to F7... anaconda in F7 isn't seeing his LVM partitions, even though he can mount them manually from the liveCD |
| 21:41.09 | stickster | Hm |
| 21:42.01 | stickster | I'm not sure why they wouldn't be *recognized*.. |
| 21:43.01 | jsmith | Yeah... |
| 21:43.09 | jsmith | I'm clueless, so I figured I'd ask you |
| 21:43.41 | stickster | Is it possible that he's using dmraid and the whole disk is going unrecognized? |
| 21:43.54 | jsmith | Nope... no raid |
| 21:44.28 | stickster | Are _any_ partitions being recognized? |
| 21:47.39 | stickster | jsmith-away: Do you think there might be an issue with the libata switchover (IDE disks now using /dev/sd*) |
| 21:47.43 | stickster | ? |