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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2060

Today's Topics: 

  Re: Unable to handle Kernel paging r  [ Douglas Allan Tutty  ]
  Re: Unable to handle Kernel paging r  [ "Brad B"  ]
  new Etch install fails to boot        [ Steve Kleene  ]
  Re: poll: use of kernel schedulers?   [ Hugo Vanwoerkom  ]
  Re: Lost /home partition              [ "Dotan Cohen"  ]
  Re: Lost /home partition              [ Jeff D  ]
  Re: Lost /home partition              [ Jeff D  ]
  Re: how to set network io priority f  [ Douglas Allan Tutty  ]
  Re: Lost /home partition              [ "Dotan Cohen" 

Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:18:59 -0400


From: Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: Unable to handle Kernel paging request

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On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:56:26PM -0500, Brad B wrote:

> I recently did the network installation of Debian to a spare HD, and tried
> running it by itself in my PC, which usually runs windows. It boots into
> grub, but I get serveral different error messages at different times. I'm
> never able to load the kernel, I believe. Here're the most common errors:
> Unable to handle kernal paging request
> Kernal Panic -- Not Syncing

Are you saying that you installed with the drive in one computer but are
trying to boot it in another computer?  My guess is that the two
different computers would need different initramfs.



Since I've never run into this, I've never had to fitz with initramfs;
just a pointer.


Do you need help?X

Doug.



Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:22:24 -0700


From: Alan Ianson <agianson@gmail.com>


To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....
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On Sun July 29 2007 13:14, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:32:18PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote:
> > > The next version of Evince, due this fall, will also support form
> > > filling.
> >
> > That is such good news.. exactly what I have been hoping to read.. I've
> > been looking for a way to fill in pdf forms for an amd64 box I have
> > here.
>
> I have been under the impression that evince and kpdf use xpdf behind
> the scenes.  Does this mean that xpdf will be able to do this too, or 
> are evince (and perhaps kpdf) more functional than xpdf?

I'm not certain, I don't use pdf's often. I need to fill in forms in pdf files 
and print them at work quite regularly but aside from that I never use/see 
them.



Once one of them can do it I'm sure the code will make the rounds (in a gpl 
compliant way, of course) and it won't be long until the others can do it to.



I recently installed debian at work and struggled to get the printer and these 
pdf issues working so that is why I'm so glad to see we will have an easy way 
to edit forms in pdf's. :)


Do you need more help?X

Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:29:46 -0500


From: "Brad B" <jealousagain38@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: Unable to handle Kernel paging request
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Hey,


thanks for the reply.


I have two harddrives; one is never in the computer, and was blank. I bought
it awhile ago and meant to put debian on it then, but never did. The other
one has Windows XP on it, and it isn't in the computer right now.



So put simply, I only have one computer, and the only HD in it right now is
a linux hard drive.


--Brad




On 7/29/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:

>
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:56:26PM -0500, Brad B wrote:
> > I recently did the network installation of Debian to a spare HD, and
> tried
> > running it by itself in my PC, which usually runs windows. It boots into
> > grub, but I get serveral different error messages at different times.
> I'm
> > never able to load the kernel, I believe. Here're the most common
> errors:
> > Unable to handle kernal paging request
> > Kernal Panic -- Not Syncing
>
> Are you saying that you installed with the drive in one computer but are
> trying to boot it in another computer?  My guess is that the two
> different computers would need different initramfs.
>
> Since I've never run into this, I've never had to fitz with initramfs;
> just a pointer.
>
> Doug.
>
>
> --
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Hey,


Can we help you?X


thanks for the reply.


I have two harddrives; one is never in the computer, and was blank. I bought it awhile ago and meant to put debian on it then, but never did. The other one has Windows XP on it, and it isn't in the computer right now.




So put simply, I only have one computer, and the only HD in it right now is a linux hard drive.


--Brad

 


On 7/29/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:56:26PM -0500, Brad B wrote:
> I recently did the network installation of Debian to a spare HD, and tried

> running it by itself in my PC, which usually runs windows. It boots into
> grub, but I get serveral different error messages at different times. I'm
> never able to load the kernel, I believe. Here're the most common errors:


<br>&gt; Unable to handle kernal paging request<br>&gt; Kernal Panic -- Not Syncing<br><br>Are you saying that you installed with the drive in one computer but are<br>trying to boot it in another computer?&nbsp;&nbsp;My guess is that the two
<br>different computers would need different initramfs.<br><br>Since I&#39;ve never run into this, I&#39;ve never had to fitz with initramfs;<br>just a pointer.<br><br>Doug.<br><br><br>--<br>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to <a href="mailto:debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org">
debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org</a><br>with a subject of &quot;unsubscribe&quot;. Trouble? Contact <a href="mailto:listmaster@lists.debian.org">listmaster@lists.debian.org</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br>



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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:43:26 -0400


From: Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: new Etch install fails to boot


Message-Id: <200707292143.RAA29641@syrano.acb.uc.edu>



I just made a fresh Etch Netinst CD and successfully completed an install on
a PC that I bought six years ago.  When I try to boot, this is as far as it
gets:



  Verifying DMI Pool Data ..........


  GRUB Loading stage1.5.


  Read



It may or may not be relevant to mention an issue I had in the past with this
box.  I used to run Red Hat on it but with a Windows partition at the start
of the disk.  During the Red Hat installation, I had to select "Force LBA32"
or it wouldn't find the Linux boot partition.



Now, though, I have given the whole disk to Etch, so I'd be surprised if this
is the issue.  There are just two partitions:



  IDE5 master (hde) - 41.2 GB IC35L040AVER07-0

        #1 primary   39.9 GB B f ext3       /
        #5 logical    1.5 GB   f swap       swap


The BIOS (AWARD 1998 / PCI/PNP 686 / 276079428) shows:
  IDE Primary Master Auto (other choices are None, Manual)
  Access Mode Auto (other choices are Normal, LBA, Large)


Don't know where to look next?X

I've tried various combinations, including LBA, to no avail.  The hard drives
are IBM Deskstar 40-GB IDE hard drives, model IC35L040AVER07-0.



Any ideas how to fix this?  Thanks.



Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:52:39 +0000 (UTC)
From: - Tong - <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject:  Re: RAD tool for debian?

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On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:50:45 -0500, will trillich wrote:


> RAD/rapid-application-development tool sought... (web page forms
> interface to a database we define)

"RAD tool for debian"?=20



I think the subject needs to be fixed, 'cause when talking about RAD tool=
,


you would definitely want that it is not limited within Debian.=20


Confused? Frustrated?X

Nahh, just kidding...


> i've got a friend who's trying to get a license-free solution that'll
> provide an html/web front-end to a database... similar to ms access,
> but we're seeking 1) no licensing fees 2) an html interface, not a
> proprietary interface. we're NOT looking for a cms like joomla, but
> rather an engine for presenting forms to interact with a back-end
> database.

IMHO, for such requirement, no tools fit better than symfony.=20
http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/language/php/symfony/sf01-SymfonyGene=
ral/ar01s02.html#_What_is_symfony_



Extract:



It is based on the following concepts:



  •   compatible with as many environments as possible
  
  •   easy to install and configure
  
  •   simple to learn
  
  •   enterprise ready
  
  •   convention rather than configuration, supporting fallback calls
  
  •   simple in most cases, but still flexible enough to adapt to complex=
 cases
  
  •   most common web features included
  
  •   compliant with most of the web "best practices" and web "design pat=
terns"
  
  •   very readable code with easy maintenance
  
  •   open source=20




FYI, Symfony uses some code fragments of other open source projects:



  •   Creole, for the database abstraction layer
  
  •   Propel, for the object-relational mapping layer
  
  •   Mojavi, for the Model-View-Controller model layer=20




On seeing that, I told myself, "boy! That's it, That's what I want!"
And it turned out that I made the right choice -- all you need to do
is to describe your database schema in .xml file, or better a more
human-readable, more easy .yml format. That's it!



Put it this way, you only need to focus on the logical of your database
design, ie, the schema, and describe it in a format much obvious and more
human-readable than .xml, then Symfony takes care of the rest!!!


Call Pantek today for Open Source Technical Support at 1-877-546-8934 - 24/7/365X

"for presenting forms to interact with a back-end database" I bet I could
finish all your preliminary requirements and give you such presenting
forms within a day or even half a day!=20



And definitely, Symfony does not simply ends there. Need to build a blog?
Want AJAX support? How about drag and drop (shopping cart)? ... Your limi=
t


is only your imagination. Check it out:


http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/language/php/symfony/
http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/language/php/symfony/sf01-SymfonyGene=
ral/index.html#_symfony




--=20


Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)


  http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/

  http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

Date:  Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:19:57 -0500


From: Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject:  Re: poll: use of kernel schedulers?

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Andrei Popescu wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 08:18:57AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>>
>>> I am currently running Debian's:
>>> hugo@debian:~$ uname -a
>>> Linux debian 2.6.22-1-k7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 29 07:39:18 CDT 2007 i686 
>> 								  ^^^^^^^
>> Is this because of the -ck patch?
> 
> I mean the 'PREEMPT' (if there are troubles with the alignement).
> 

I follow the Debian guide to recompiling its 2.6.22-1-k7 completely, 
except, I apply 2.6.22-ck1, apply debian-logo patch and change these 
configs:


Do you need help?X

Preemption Model (Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop))
[*]   Debian GNU/Linux Open Use logo


[*] Show timing information on printks



Hugo



Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:05:38 +0300


From: "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Lost /home partition

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In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home
partition, which resides on sda4 of my Dell Inspiron laptop. Not
knowing what to do, and with no way to boot and google the situation,
I played Y, Y, Y to all fsck's questions. Now, /home is empty. I do
have a backup from 4 weeks ago, as I backup the first of every month,
but I have done quite a bit of work this past month. I'm very
interested in recovering the data.



More info: This is a Dell Inspiron machine, 2.0GHz dual-core Intel
processor, 2GB RAM, 80GB 7000RPM hard drive, ATI X1400 video. The disk
is partitioned with sda1: 15GB /; sda2: 15 GB blank (Fedora was to go
here) ; sda3: 3GB swap ; sda4: ~47 GB /home. I set these partitions a
few months ago when I last installed Ubuntu. I had begun install of
Fedora 7 when the machine crashed- I didn't get to the real install
part. Upon rebooting (into Ubuntu), it complained something about
inodes. I gave it the root paassword (yes, I had previously set a root
password) and ran fsck (or something else resembling a rather
unacceptable work, appropriate name by the way). A few Y, Y, Y's later
I could boot the system. However, as soon as I logged into KDE I was
returned to the login screen. I CTRL-ALT-F4ed into a terminal and
logged in as root. I then cd'ed into /home, and ls showed that there
was nothing there. I immediatly ran shutdown -h and now that I'm home
I'm writing from the wife's desktop.



Any help in recovering the /home/user directory, or even specific
files therein, whould be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance.



Dotan Cohen


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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:19:06 -0400


From: Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: Lost /home partition

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Can we help you?X



On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:05:38AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home
> partition, which resides on sda4 of my Dell Inspiron laptop. Not
> knowing what to do, and with no way to boot and google the situation,
> I played Y, Y, Y to all fsck's questions. Now, /home is empty. I do
> have a backup from 4 weeks ago, as I backup the first of every month,
> but I have done quite a bit of work this past month. I'm very
> interested in recovering the data.

A corrupted /home should not keep you from booting.  You may need to go
single-user or init=/bin/sh but it should boot.



Probably should have backed up more recently.  It sounds like you made
things worse with the YYY.



Good luck.



Doug.


Can't find what you're looking for?X

Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:45:28 +0000


From: Andy Smith <andy@lug.org.uk>


To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: Lost /home partition


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On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:34:55AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> Maybe something additional was corrupted, bu I only remember seeing
> references to sda4, which is /home. Any idea how to get the data back?

It may have been placed in /home/lost+found named after its inode
number, i.e. filenames that are all numbers.  Failing that, no,
probably not.



If they are text files you may be able to unmount the device and
grep the raw device file for known text in the files, e.g.



# less /dev/sda4


Don't know where to look next?X

'/' to search for text



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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:34:55 +0300


From: "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: Lost /home partition

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On 30/07/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:05:38AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home
> > partition, which resides on sda4 of my Dell Inspiron laptop. Not
> > knowing what to do, and with no way to boot and google the situation,
> > I played Y, Y, Y to all fsck's questions. Now, /home is empty. I do
> > have a backup from 4 weeks ago, as I backup the first of every month,
> > but I have done quite a bit of work this past month. I'm very
> > interested in recovering the data.
>
> A corrupted /home should not keep you from booting.  You may need to go
> single-user or init=/bin/sh but it should boot.
>
> Probably should have backed up more recently.  It sounds like you made
> things worse with the YYY.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Doug.
>
Confused? Frustrated?X

Maybe something additional was corrupted, bu I only remember seeing
references to sda4, which is /home. Any idea how to get the data back?



Dotan Cohen


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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:57:41 -0400


From: Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: Lost /home partition

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On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:34:55AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> On 30/07/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:05:38AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home
> > > partition, which resides on sda4 of my Dell Inspiron laptop. Not
> > > knowing what to do, and with no way to boot and google the situation,
> > > I played Y, Y, Y to all fsck's questions. Now, /home is empty. I do
> > > have a backup from 4 weeks ago, as I backup the first of every month,
> > > but I have done quite a bit of work this past month. I'm very
> > > interested in recovering the data.
> >
> > A corrupted /home should not keep you from booting.  You may need to go
> > single-user or init=/bin/sh but it should boot.
> Maybe something additional was corrupted, bu I only remember seeing
> references to sda4, which is /home. Any idea how to get the data back?
> 

Undeletion in *NIX is either very difficult, expensive, or impossible.
Unless you got lucky and they ended up in lost+found only slightly
mangled.


Call Pantek today for Open Source Technical Support at 1-877-546-8934 - 24/7/365X

If you want to try recovery, unmount sda4 and remove it from fstab.
With it mounted, things change.  Then aptitude search ~drecover and look
at some tools.  Try something like foremost or magicrescue.  Read the
documentation, follow the instructions, and only mount the partition
again if it says to.  Often such tools work by reading the block device
itself, bypassing the filesystem.



Doug.



Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:46:16 -0500


From: John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>


To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: Lost /home partition


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Dotan Cohen wrote:

> Now, /home is empty.

Look in /home/lost+found.

-- 
John Hasler


Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:03:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com>
To: debian user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Lost /home partition
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:


> In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home
> partition, which resides on sda4 of my Dell Inspiron laptop. Not
> knowing what to do, and with no way to boot and google the situation,
> I played Y, Y, Y to all fsck's questions. Now, /home is empty. I do
> have a backup from 4 weeks ago, as I backup the first of every month,
> but I have done quite a bit of work this past month. I'm very
> interested in recovering the data.
>
> More info: This is a Dell Inspiron machine, 2.0GHz dual-core Intel
> processor, 2GB RAM, 80GB 7000RPM hard drive, ATI X1400 video. The disk
> is partitioned with sda1: 15GB /; sda2: 15 GB blank (Fedora was to go
> here) ; sda3: 3GB swap ; sda4: ~47 GB /home. I set these partitions a
> few months ago when I last installed Ubuntu. I had begun install of
> Fedora 7 when the machine crashed- I didn't get to the real install
> part. Upon rebooting (into Ubuntu), it complained something about
> inodes. I gave it the root paassword (yes, I had previously set a root
> password) and ran fsck (or something else resembling a rather
> unacceptable work, appropriate name by the way). A few Y, Y, Y's later
> I could boot the system. However, as soon as I logged into KDE I was
> returned to the login screen. I CTRL-ALT-F4ed into a terminal and
> logged in as root. I then cd'ed into /home, and ls showed that there
> was nothing there. I immediatly ran shutdown -h and now that I'm home
> I'm writing from the wife's desktop.
>
> Any help in recovering the /home/user directory, or even specific
> files therein, whould be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
> http://lyricslist.com/
> http://what-is-what.com/
>


Hi Dotan,

So, when you boot up and get a prompt, I take it that /home is indeed 
being mounted?  If so, one thing you might want to do, is look in 
/home/lost+found , in there you might be able to find your files, but they 
won't be named the same though.  If they are there, they will be named 
numerically..


-+-
8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Techno.



Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:11:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com>
To: debian user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Lost /home partition
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:


> On 30/07/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:05:38AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home
>>> partition, which resides on sda4 of my Dell Inspiron laptop. Not
>>> knowing what to do, and with no way to boot and google the situation,
>>> I played Y, Y, Y to all fsck's questions. Now, /home is empty. I do
>>> have a backup from 4 weeks ago, as I backup the first of every month,
>>> but I have done quite a bit of work this past month. I'm very
>>> interested in recovering the data.
>>
>> A corrupted /home should not keep you from booting.  You may need to go
>> single-user or init=/bin/sh but it should boot.
>>
>> Probably should have backed up more recently.  It sounds like you made
>> things worse with the YYY.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> Doug.
>>
>
> Maybe something additional was corrupted, bu I only remember seeing
> references to sda4, which is /home. Any idea how to get the data back?
>
> Dotan Cohen
>


Hi Dotan,

So, when you boot up and get a prompt, I take it that /home is indeed
being mounted?  If so, one thing you might want to do, is look in
/home/lost+found , in there you might be able to find your files, but they
won't be named the same though.  If they are there, they will be named
numerically..


-+-
8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Techno.


Do you need help?X

Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:11:43 -0400
From: Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: how to set network io priority for a process?
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On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:32:44PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
 

> I have issues similar to Doug's, and I have also wondered whether
> kernel based traffic shaping is what I need.  Since we both use
> shorewall, which has an interface to the kernel's shaping capabilities,
> I suppose we ought to read shorewall-doc/html/traffic_shaping.htm
> 


As expected, shorewall can't help in this regard.

Doug.



Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:28:46 +0000 (UTC)
From: - Tong - <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: [solved] Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS
 Windows
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On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:19:17 +1000, Andy Goss wrote:


> Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:
>=20
>>> If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problem=

s: in

>>> fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux i=

s not

>>> correctly read: the line ends are not recognised.=20

>>> Can anybody suggest some solution to this problem?


Use MS-DOS-file format, if you want to share text files between Linux and
Windoze.=20

As most have pointed out, most Linux text editors can recognize and use
the MS-DOS-file format files. I'll add emacs to the list.


>>> The remedy is to cut the text
>>> and paste it into an MS Word file, then cut it again and re-paste it =

into the

>>> text file, which is not so good because this way I need rebooting eve=

ry time

>>> into the Windows partition.


That's too much troublesome. Use=20
unix2dos (/usr/bin/unix2dos) and dos2unix (/usr/local/bin/dos2unix)
to convert file formats between Unix & Dos.=20

The unix2dos & dos2unix is from the tofrodos package.

HTH

--=20
Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)
  http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/
  http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:04:29 +0300
From: "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@gmail.com>
To: "Jeff D" <fixedored@gmail.com>
Cc: "debian user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Lost /home partition
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The disk simply was not mounted! I've now mounted it, and I'm backing
it up. Reading up on rsync, as well. Sorry for the false alarm...

Dotan Cohen

http://lyricslist.com/
http://what-is-what.com/

Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:18:26 -0400
From: Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Lost /home partition
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 04:04:29AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> The disk simply was not mounted! I've now mounted it, and I'm backing
> it up. Reading up on rsync, as well. Sorry for the false alarm...
> 


df is your friend.

Once you have it backed up, compare it with your previous backup.  It is
possible that some files may be missing.

Doug.

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