[ubuntu-us-in] Ubuntu-us-in Digest, Vol 15, Issue 6

justin sullivan j.p.sullivan at hotmail.com
Sat May 3 20:38:23 BST 2008 

hey guys good looking out finding the correct links. i was using g2p.org to find the book. the book is good, however it is pretty basic. if anyone can find something that is a little more involved please let me know. 

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>    1. Re:  hard drive tools* ssh ftp suggestions ( Sim?n Ruiz )
>    2. Re:  hard drive tools* ssh ftp suggestions ( Sim?n Ruiz )
>    3. Re:  ubuntu desktop-course-book ( Sim?n Ruiz )
>    4. Re:  ubuntu desktop-course-book (Ben Crowe)
>    5. Re:  ubuntu desktop-course-book ( Sim?n Ruiz )
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 08:19:39 -0400
> From: " Sim?n Ruiz " <simon.a.ruiz at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-in] hard drive tools* ssh ftp suggestions
> To: "Ubuntu's Indiana Local Community Team"
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> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Rob Ludwick <rob at rcludw.no-ip.org> wrote:
> >  DD is, I believe un buffered reads, but sequentially.  So if it fails on
> >  one sector, it will fail on all sectors.
> 
> True, so I ran it until it crashed then I took the size of the created
> file, added 4096 bytes to it, and fed dd the right skip parameter to
> pick up right after that dead sector in a new file I creatively called
> dev.sda.2ndrun. I also ran a "dd if=/dev/zero of=dev.sda.1stpatch" to
> create a properly sized file full of zeros to replace the damaged
> sector. When this process is done (still less than halfway done and
> going on 48 hours...), assuming the disk doesn't die beforehand, I'll
> concatenate the first file, the 4096 zeros, and the second file in
> order to have an image of that disk with the dead sector zeroed out.
> 
> >  Normally in order to get any kind of performance through dd, one would
> >  adjust the bs parameter.  which in this case you can't because the way
> >  you're reading it.
> 
> So, ummm, how does the bs parameter affect performance?
> 
> >  The alternative would be to write some C code that would be able to read
> >  a particular number of sectors, say ~1MB from each disk and the
> >  correlate the data onto another disk somewhere (or say file) that can be
> >  loop back mounted.  At 1MB you get enough throughput from the disk to
> >  make it fairly fast.  And if you get an error, you can just set the
> >  block with a bunch of zeros.
> 
> Yeah, I did that part manually.
> 
> There's also ddrescue as the best code is the code you don't have to
> write yourself. I didn't find out about it until this process was
> already underway.
> 
> >  --R
> 
> --S
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 08:21:41 -0400
> From: " Sim?n Ruiz " <simon.a.ruiz at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-in] hard drive tools* ssh ftp suggestions
> To: "Ubuntu's Indiana Local Community Team"
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> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Sim?n Ruiz <simon.a.ruiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  I also ran a "dd if=/dev/zero of=dev.sda.1stpatch" to
> >  create a properly sized file full of zeros to replace the damaged
> >  sector.
> 
> Erm, I meant "dd if=/dev/zero of=dev.sda.1stpatch bs=4096 count=1".
> 
> Otherwise it'd just fill every unwritten sector on the target disk
> with zeroes, and you'd end up with a huge, empty file.
> 
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 08:50:09 -0400
> From: " Sim?n Ruiz " <simon.a.ruiz at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-in] ubuntu desktop-course-book
> To: "Ubuntu's Indiana Local Community Team"
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> A better link at that site is probably
> <http://home.danielnylander.se/translations/ubuntu-desktop-course/>.
> 
> It looks like, according to the Introduction, that all the course
> materials can be installed via the normal Ubuntu package management
> tools from Canonical Training's PPA repository.
> 
> Further instructions about this at
> https://launchpad.net/~canonical-training/+archive
> 
> Incidentally, these materials ARE Creative Commons licensed only for
> Non-Commercial use. This means you can do anything with them,
> basically, except use them in a for-profit business, or create
> derivative works that aren't licensed in the same manner.
> 
> Sim?n
> 
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:19 PM, justin sullivan
> <j.p.sullivan at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  hey everyone i just just came across some really good material for new and
> > experienced users. its the ubuntu desktop-course-book which covers:
> 
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 10:35:58 -0400
> From: "Ben Crowe" <ben.crowe at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-in] ubuntu desktop-course-book
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> I found this area to be most useful..
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training
> 
> It's the official wiki for Ubuntu Training courses with downloads for
> student/ instructor manuals as well as links to the course packages.
> Gonna start my training this weekend!
> 
> Ben
> 
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Sim?n Ruiz <simon.a.ruiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > A better link at that site is probably
> > <http://home.danielnylander.se/translations/ubuntu-desktop-course/>.
> >
> > It looks like, according to the Introduction, that all the course
> > materials can be installed via the normal Ubuntu package management
> > tools from Canonical Training's PPA repository.
> >
> > Further instructions about this at
> > https://launchpad.net/~canonical-training/+archive
> >
> > Incidentally, these materials ARE Creative Commons licensed only for
> > Non-Commercial use. This means you can do anything with them,
> > basically, except use them in a for-profit business, or create
> > derivative works that aren't licensed in the same manner.
> >
> > Sim?n
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:19 PM, justin sullivan
> > <j.p.sullivan at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >  hey everyone i just just came across some really good material for new
> > and
> > > experienced users. its the ubuntu desktop-course-book which covers:
> >
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 10:38:59 -0400
> From: " Sim?n Ruiz " <simon.a.ruiz at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-in] ubuntu desktop-course-book
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> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Ben Crowe <ben.crowe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I found this area to be most useful..
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training
> >
> > It's the official wiki for Ubuntu Training courses with downloads for
> > student/ instructor manuals as well as links to the course packages.
> > Gonna start my training this weekend!
> 
> Cool! Who you training? Just yourself?
> 
> > Ben
> 
> Sim?n
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> P.S. I just wanna reiterate how cool it was to have you and your
> family at our picnic: It was very cool to have you and your family at
> our picnic. ;-)
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