**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Fri Oct 24 02:59:57 2008 Oct 24 04:28:11 hi Oct 24 04:28:34 im having a problem of coping files from one hd to another Oct 24 04:29:12 I have slugos.bin on sdb1 how do I move it to sda1? Oct 24 04:29:31 well it not just slugos.bin Oct 24 04:30:32 I tride cp /media/sdb1/slugos.bin /media/sda1/ Oct 24 04:32:48 it just gives me the file name and ": omitting directory" with no"" Oct 24 04:34:08 can you cd into /media/sda1 Oct 24 04:34:08 ? Oct 24 04:35:33 on sec let me try that Oct 24 04:35:59 no Oct 24 04:36:05 that's your reason then Oct 24 04:36:39 ok, let me try somewhere else Oct 24 04:38:27 heh Oct 24 04:39:43 ok, now if I try to copy testfolder from /root/ on sda1 to sdb1 it does not go Oct 24 04:40:00 cp: /root/testfolder: omitting directory Oct 24 04:40:11 arthur92710, you really need to just format your windows box and put linux Oct 24 04:40:11 jump in, the water's fine Oct 24 04:40:14 when i do "cp /root/testfolder /media/sdb1/" Oct 24 04:40:16 show your actual command Oct 24 04:40:20 not what you think you're doing Oct 24 04:40:46 cp /root/testfolder /media/sdb1/ is the command Oct 24 04:41:08 and what happens Oct 24 04:41:18 cp: /root/testfolder: omitting directory Oct 24 04:41:22 :( Oct 24 04:42:10 I can cd into /media/sdb1/ and see the files with ls Oct 24 04:42:12 arthur92710, maybe you need some basic *NIX skills to do this Oct 24 04:42:25 maybe Oct 24 04:42:59 I know a few commands but not much skill with them Oct 24 04:43:43 im having a problem of coping files from one hd to another Oct 24 04:43:53 that's pretty basic Oct 24 04:44:06 to do or the problem? Oct 24 04:44:30 both Oct 24 04:44:38 it's nothing to do with nslu2 Oct 24 04:44:47 ok Oct 24 04:44:52 is it m fault? Oct 24 04:44:57 my* Oct 24 04:45:07 arthur92710 Oct 24 04:45:14 yes Oct 24 04:45:15 you just need to add the -R Oct 24 04:45:27 at the end? Oct 24 04:45:30 cp -R /root/testfolder /media/sdb1/ Oct 24 04:45:34 oh Oct 24 04:45:49 or maybe learn to use man page Oct 24 04:46:41 that worked Oct 24 04:46:49 man page? Oct 24 04:46:52 cp (by itself) only copies files, not folders Oct 24 04:47:01 http://www.ss64.com/bash/cp.html? Oct 24 04:47:10 cp man page? Oct 24 04:47:10 you can copy an entire folder with .../foldername/* Oct 24 04:47:15 man cp Oct 24 04:47:36 if you want to copy the actual folder (creating the folder in the directory you are copying to) Oct 24 04:47:39 then you need -R Oct 24 04:48:06 ok cool, learned something new today! Oct 24 04:48:16 you could also do: cp --help Oct 24 04:48:21 to get the same help info Oct 24 04:48:29 man cp Oct 24 04:49:47 you could also use maybe mc Oct 24 04:50:14 maybe that's not available on slugos though Oct 24 04:50:44 its not Oct 24 04:51:31 a good reason not to use slugos then Oct 24 04:51:33 heh Oct 24 04:51:40 lol Oct 24 04:52:32 scratch that Oct 24 04:52:35 you can download Oct 24 04:52:36 it Oct 24 04:52:43 ha ha! Oct 24 04:52:56 +1 for slugos! Oct 24 04:54:39 Does anyone know why phpsysinfo wont open in a iframe in firefox? but will in IE? Oct 24 04:54:56 iframes ... yuck Oct 24 04:55:17 yes Oct 24 04:55:30 you might want to make shares for your windows/linux PC though arthur92710 Oct 24 04:55:37 so you can more easily move and copy stuff if you want Oct 24 04:55:46 or you could use mc like dogboy suggested Oct 24 04:55:49 opt install mc Oct 24 04:55:54 then just use the command: mc to start it Oct 24 04:56:00 ok Oct 24 04:56:28 then learn how to use mc Oct 24 04:56:38 ok Oct 24 04:56:43 XD Oct 24 04:56:44 eh Oct 24 04:56:49 mc is pretty straight forward Oct 24 04:57:21 actually, I think you said you installed ftp the other day arthur92710 Oct 24 04:57:27 so that's another option for dealing with files also Oct 24 04:57:29 well installing ntfs-3g was also stright forward, but with my luck... Oct 24 04:58:14 I did try to copy the files with ftp, it gave me a 550 error can not rename Oct 24 04:58:40 it's always something Oct 24 04:59:03 [R] 550 Rename failed. Oct 24 04:59:13 flashfxp Oct 24 04:59:14 that's because you probably did not have enough rights Oct 24 04:59:50 I loged in as root Oct 24 05:00:18 its possible to not have enough rights as root Oct 24 05:00:27 you can, of course, give yourself rights though Oct 24 05:00:39 should I be superadmin? Oct 24 05:05:05 wow its late! Good night all! Oct 24 06:32:45 can someone tell me a newbie friendly way to mount a disk from my unslung slug on a ubuntu box? Oct 24 09:41:27 why lan of nslu2 is very very slow ? 3MB/ s Oct 24 10:21:58 if someone has esplications of this tell me plz!!! Oct 24 10:25:29 very very slow transmission:( Oct 24 11:22:55 m8: i get about 6 MB/s iirc, when the cpu is not used by any other programs, so don't expect too much Oct 24 11:28:06 Nightwolf why i have only 3,2 mbs ? Oct 24 11:28:12 the half of you! Oct 24 11:28:33 did you check your cpu? Oct 24 11:28:38 whit top ? Oct 24 11:28:46 for examples Oct 24 11:29:05 top - 13:28:59 up 1:21, 1 user, load average: 1.79, 1.70, 1.67 Oct 24 11:29:30 Cpu(s): 1.6%us, 36.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 4.9%id, 34.9%wa, 0.7%hi, 21.7%si, 0.0%st Oct 24 11:29:52 it's stressed ? Oct 24 11:30:01 (i'm using samba...) Oct 24 11:30:43 i'm transferring on the port 2 of nslu2 Oct 24 11:30:45 disk2 Oct 24 11:31:13 cpu 97% Oct 24 11:31:58 but??? Oct 24 11:33:15 a lot is on I/O wait though, ie. it's waiting for the harddrive to return data Oct 24 11:33:28 really ? Oct 24 11:33:34 yea Oct 24 11:33:38 34.9%wa Oct 24 11:33:42 Frigolit there are any chanches to speed up ? Oct 24 11:33:52 rest is on system (36.2%) and si which i dunno what it is Oct 24 11:33:53 i'm using debian Oct 24 11:34:12 same here, and first you gotta make sure no other stuff is running which might use up a lot of CPU Oct 24 11:34:17 for example torrents Oct 24 11:34:56 Frigolit there is anything, it's the problem:((( Oct 24 11:35:04 hm~ Oct 24 11:35:05 how i can check? Oct 24 11:35:13 i use "htop" Oct 24 11:35:17 if you haven't installed anything like that there shouldn't be anything Oct 24 11:35:32 iv'e put a screenshoot online Oct 24 11:35:35 on the other hand, your slug could be underclocked Oct 24 11:35:35 wait a minute Oct 24 11:36:10 i get around 5-6 MB/s on a 266MHz slug Oct 24 11:36:51 cat /proc/cpuinfo Oct 24 11:37:08 BogoMIPS : 266.24 Oct 24 11:37:09 :| Oct 24 11:37:13 same as mine Oct 24 11:37:13 i've overclocked Oct 24 11:37:18 but only Oct 24 11:37:20 3.2 mb Oct 24 11:38:04 then i think the harddrive itself could be the performance issue Oct 24 11:38:07 http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/6457/shootwz6.jpg this is HTOP Oct 24 11:38:25 Frigolit the 1tb hardrive is bad ?:((( Oct 24 11:38:47 nah, might just be slow Oct 24 11:38:53 but shouldn't be if it's a new one Oct 24 11:39:15 actually... it shouldn't be slow enough to cause that now that i think about it :/ Oct 24 11:39:26 Frigolit do you look anythingh on the shoot ? Oct 24 11:39:39 yea, no weird procs running Oct 24 11:39:42 it's just samba Oct 24 11:39:46 :((( Oct 24 11:39:51 but what is slow:(??? Oct 24 11:39:55 very very slow :| Oct 24 11:39:59 i dunno really Oct 24 11:40:03 what TB drive is it btw? Oct 24 11:40:05 what i can check ? Oct 24 11:40:07 btw??? Oct 24 11:40:12 btw = by the way Oct 24 11:40:32 fujitsu siemens whit a GP western digital green power Oct 24 11:40:47 mkay Oct 24 11:40:47 but 3.2 mbs is too slow for any drive! Oct 24 11:40:51 yea Oct 24 11:40:53 couldn't be that Oct 24 11:41:12 i dunno really what it could be :/ Oct 24 11:41:16 argh! Oct 24 11:41:23 what fs is on the drive? Oct 24 11:41:27 ext3 Oct 24 11:41:35 should be okay Oct 24 11:41:39 yea Oct 24 11:41:52 what exactly are you doing towards the disk? just uploading/downloading? or are you streaming a movie or something Oct 24 11:42:02 i have uploading some avi's Oct 24 11:42:26 hm, the CPU is peaking anyway, so it wouldn't matter Oct 24 11:42:45 whit any matter ? Oct 24 11:43:26 well, the slow transfer speed sure is due to the CPU peaking, but why it does that, i dunno Oct 24 11:43:51 argh Oct 24 11:43:59 the problem is cpu argh Oct 24 11:44:03 but i do think the I/O wait is a bit too high, i don't have my slug with me but i don't remember it being so high on mine Oct 24 11:44:18 if anyone else could try transferring a file and see what I/O wait they get it would help Oct 24 11:44:55 :( Oct 24 11:45:33 it's a bit hard to test hardware related stuff on an embedded device too :p Oct 24 11:45:38 yes :( Oct 24 11:45:50 the problem mtu? Oct 24 11:45:52 1500' Oct 24 11:45:52 ? Oct 24 11:46:07 it's probabily ??? Oct 24 11:46:25 that's on the network interface isn't it? Oct 24 11:47:08 i don't think that's the issue though, i have 1500 on my laptop and probably on my slug too Oct 24 11:47:12 argh:( Oct 24 11:48:25 ah well, i'm out of ideas :\ Oct 24 11:48:52 the only things i can come up with is either the harddriv or the overclocking gone wrong Oct 24 11:48:55 harddrive* Oct 24 11:49:09 I'm about to apt-get dist-upgrade from Debian Etch to Debian Lenny on my NSLU2. will this be ok with the Intel drivers? Oct 24 11:49:53 i have no idea Oct 24 11:50:08 as long as you get a nslu2-kernel it should be okay i guess Oct 24 11:50:27 Frigolit do you have debian on it ? Oct 24 11:50:33 yep Oct 24 11:51:21 argh Oct 24 11:51:33 the hd o which port? Oct 24 11:51:37 port 1 or port 2 ? Oct 24 11:51:39 1 Oct 24 11:51:41 should be ok. the intel microcode is in the Lenny repos Oct 24 11:51:43 good Oct 24 11:51:54 i think is this the issue! Oct 24 11:51:59 port 2 is slow! Oct 24 11:52:06 only usb1.1 Oct 24 11:52:14 or not?:( Oct 24 11:52:37 doesn't sound very likely to be honest Oct 24 11:52:53 but you could try switching ports just to be sure Oct 24 11:53:28 yes Oct 24 11:53:32 i have 2 harddrive Oct 24 11:53:33 :D Oct 24 11:53:42 i test immediatly Oct 24 11:53:46 oh Oct 24 11:54:04 if you swap harddrive you'd get problems most likely Oct 24 11:54:18 no on two hds Oct 24 11:54:22 unless your /etc/fstab points to UUIDs and not device nodes Oct 24 11:54:22 the same 3.2 speed! Oct 24 11:54:23 argh! Oct 24 11:54:33 Frigolit? Oct 24 11:55:41 i have paste Oct 24 11:55:43 fstab Oct 24 11:55:45 on nopaste Oct 24 11:56:05 http://rafb.net/p/8ZIXQH89.html this is my ect fstab! Oct 24 11:57:12 there is problems ? Oct 24 11:57:20 hm Oct 24 11:57:25 it's pointing at device nodes Oct 24 11:57:28 ie. sda, sdb, etc Oct 24 11:57:40 it's a problem? Oct 24 11:57:57 if you swap drives on the USB ports, the device nodes won't Oct 24 11:58:13 so sda would be port 1 regardless Oct 24 11:58:43 yes sda1 port 1 swap drive is on there! Oct 24 11:58:48 *is there Oct 24 11:58:49 yep Oct 24 11:58:53 and if you swap drives Oct 24 11:59:00 sda1 would point to the wrong drive Oct 24 11:59:01 but TB drive is sdb1! Oct 24 11:59:36 mm Oct 24 11:59:36 yep, but if you change ports, sda1 would be the TB drive Oct 24 11:59:41 sda* Oct 24 11:59:42 yes Oct 24 11:59:55 but the problem is no swap drive:| Oct 24 12:00:05 sda2 = swap Oct 24 12:00:09 yep Oct 24 12:00:33 uh Oct 24 12:00:46 what's up with the /media/usb* mounts? :P Oct 24 12:00:56 °_° Oct 24 12:01:02 those probably shouldn't be there Oct 24 12:01:25 yes Oct 24 12:01:31 there is usb1 usb2 usb3 Oct 24 12:01:32 °_° Oct 24 12:01:34 yea Oct 24 12:01:49 remove those, cause those are pointing to the partitions on sda Oct 24 12:02:03 i have to remove this directories ? Oct 24 12:02:09 hm no Oct 24 12:02:12 remove the lines in fstab Oct 24 12:02:28 then do umount /media/usb* Oct 24 12:02:42 argh Oct 24 12:02:47 the devices are double mounted ? Oct 24 12:02:51 yep Oct 24 12:03:14 umount: /media/usb: not mounted Oct 24 12:03:14 umount: /media/usb0: not mounted Oct 24 12:03:14 umount: /media/usb1: not mounted Oct 24 12:03:14 umount: /media/usb2: not mounted Oct 24 12:03:15 °_° Oct 24 12:05:14 okay good, they never got mounted then Oct 24 12:05:25 as they were already mounted Oct 24 12:05:33 °_° Oct 24 12:05:43 on /, /mnt/hd1 and swap Oct 24 12:05:51 a partition can't be double mounted :P Oct 24 12:05:59 yes.. Oct 24 12:05:59 :| Oct 24 12:06:16 the speed is the same :( Oct 24 12:06:25 yea i didn't really expect any change from that Oct 24 12:06:31 argh Oct 24 12:06:40 how big is your swap btw? Oct 24 12:06:44 512mb Oct 24 12:06:48 but isn't used! Oct 24 12:06:54 mkay Oct 24 12:07:01 i have 1 mb of free ram! Oct 24 12:07:22 or not Oct 24 12:07:22 °_° Oct 24 12:07:23 no Oct 24 12:07:25 9mb Oct 24 12:07:29 i have that problem too, i constantly run out of RAM when transferring files Oct 24 12:07:40 cpu while not trasfering 2,2% Oct 24 12:08:27 gonna go make me some lunch now Oct 24 12:08:28 bbl Oct 24 12:08:35 ok thanks :(((( Oct 24 12:08:50 np, good luck with it Oct 24 12:10:29 thanks Oct 24 12:16:28 I had a problem with running out of memory while even though my 512MB of swap wasn't being used Oct 24 12:20:05 I solved it by setting /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory to 1 Oct 24 12:20:29 which means that malloc() requests are never denied, and therefore forcing the swap to be used Oct 24 12:23:45 <`m8`> Frigolit i've restarted windows Oct 24 12:23:47 <`m8`> now 4mbs :D Oct 24 12:23:53 <`m8`> the problem is my pc! windows! Oct 24 18:00:32 hi Oct 24 18:00:43 hi Oct 24 18:01:49 uh, I was tring to change my dowload dir from disk sda1 to sdb1 Oct 24 18:02:23 but so I found the pid of transmission and killed it Oct 24 18:03:03 then I ran /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -w media/sdb1/downloads/ Oct 24 18:03:46 then I started my torrent KNOPPIX_V5.3.1DVD-2008-03-26-EN Oct 24 18:04:05 Its starts to download but then locks up Oct 24 18:05:09 if I try to kill transmission it does not die, like a monster in a movie Oct 24 18:08:26 hum now it gave me a "UNSPECIFIED I/O error Oct 24 18:08:28 " Oct 24 18:09:03 after downloading 64kb Oct 24 18:20:29 are you sure it's downloading to the right place? Did you perhaps miss the leading "/" in the pathname you gave it? Oct 24 18:26:27 ill try that Oct 24 18:29:52 no it does not help Oct 24 18:30:03 The file does showup in ftp Oct 24 18:34:51 HI, How i can resolve the problem of the problem of free disk space on samba? Oct 24 18:37:45 arthur92710: what fs is on sdb1 and does dmesg say anything interesting? Oct 24 18:40:46 dmesg looks good Oct 24 18:41:19 I can read and write to the disk Oct 24 18:43:47 uh actualy dmesg says <3>FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! Oct 24 18:43:54 it's okay Oct 24 18:44:01 but I realized that already Oct 24 18:44:02 wait... Oct 24 18:44:05 the fs uses FAT? :P Oct 24 18:44:24 well we could not get ntfs-3g to work Oct 24 18:44:28 ... Oct 24 18:44:34 FAT sucks ass :P Oct 24 18:44:49 transmission is probably trying to write sparse files Oct 24 18:44:52 they said it would be fine Oct 24 18:44:57 neither FAT or NTFS-3g supports that Oct 24 18:45:04 oh Oct 24 18:45:27 uh... fat is crappy, as hell, if your NAS crashes your files could get corrupted way easier than any other good filesystem Oct 24 18:45:30 : Oct 24 18:45:51 so what should I do? Oct 24 18:48:32 well Oct 24 18:48:40 why would you need ntfs or fat? Oct 24 18:48:50 ie. a windows compatible filesystems Oct 24 18:49:02 I use windows Oct 24 18:49:27 but it's a NAS? :P Oct 24 18:49:35 i mean, it's a NAS for a reason Oct 24 18:49:44 yeah Oct 24 18:49:44 network storage, operating system independent Oct 24 18:50:27 but if I use ext I can just plugit into my pc if I have probems with the nas Oct 24 18:50:39 I cant* Oct 24 18:50:43 there's an ext3 driver for windows Oct 24 18:50:46 somewhere Oct 24 18:51:06 ugh, fine Ill make it ext3 Oct 24 18:51:21 well, otherwise you can't create sparse files anyway Oct 24 18:51:30 so hardly any torrent app would work Oct 24 18:51:43 Can I just change the file system in fdiak? Oct 24 18:51:47 no Oct 24 18:52:06 you'll have to backup the files somewhere and create a new filesystem on it Oct 24 18:52:14 ok Oct 24 18:52:21 mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1 for example Oct 24 18:58:58 ok I did that but when I fdisk -l Oct 24 18:59:12 it says /dev/sdb1 1 1232 9896008+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) Oct 24 18:59:22 still win95 fat32 Oct 24 19:02:33 oh yea Oct 24 19:02:38 well, you can change it in fdisk too Oct 24 19:02:44 to 83 Oct 24 19:02:46 to Linux (83 i think) Oct 24 19:02:48 yea Oct 24 20:51:03 Hello Oct 24 20:52:49 I have installed unslung 6.10 and installed rtorrent witch is set to automaticly start when i save a .torrent file. Oct 24 20:53:41 That works fine but after files have been downloaded I do not have the rights to extract/copy them Oct 24 20:54:46 what user is rtorrent running as? Oct 24 20:54:57 root Oct 24 20:55:27 i have not figured out how to login as another user :) Oct 24 20:56:09 make a new user with useradd Oct 24 20:56:30 run "man useradd" for the manual page or google it for lots of info Oct 24 20:57:07 adduser? Oct 24 20:57:23 or adduser, yes Oct 24 21:01:50 how can I *force* Linux to use my swap? Once again, an intensive application has been killed by OOM-Killer despite having 500MB of free swap Oct 24 21:03:06 Hmm Oct 24 21:03:18 It might work to up your "swappiness" kernel parameter Oct 24 21:03:28 I set that really low Oct 24 21:03:32 so maybe Oct 24 21:03:43 swappiness = 1 Oct 24 21:03:49 I can't remember if low makes it use more or less. Oct 24 21:03:54 which is low, but it's not zero Oct 24 21:04:04 low = less likely to use swap Oct 24 21:04:06 A value of 0 will avoid ever swapping out just for caching space. Using 100 will always favor making the disk cache bigger. Most distributions set this value to be 60, tuned toward moderately aggressive swapping to increase disk cache. Oct 24 21:04:18 (ref: http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/linux-pdflush.htm) Oct 24 21:05:03 I thought setting it to 1 would make it swap *less* but it would still swap when it needed to Oct 24 21:05:08 I will go with 60 Oct 24 21:05:22 It might even be worth trying 100 :-) Oct 24 21:05:28 (if 60 is still not enough) Oct 24 21:05:44 my swap is on a flash drive. I don't want to abuse it :) Oct 24 21:06:09 Tbh, most flash drives are fine with large numbers of reads/writes, but I see your point. Oct 24 21:06:20 so I believe Oct 24 21:06:30 (and at least for testing purposes it's worth seeing what happens) Oct 24 21:07:29 I read that flash technology has a longer life than magnetic HDDs now but I don't know if it's totally true for USB pen drives Oct 24 21:09:53 anyway thanks for your thoughts. I hope it helps Oct 24 21:10:16 it previously died when rtorrent re-opened and had to do lots of hash checking Oct 24 21:20:56 well created a user, but when i make a directory in my attatched disk (120GB ext3) I cant open that from windows Oct 24 21:26:39 Does your windows install have the drivers to read the filesystem properly? Oct 24 21:28:18 are you logged onto the share with that user? Oct 24 21:28:40 i think so, if i as root manually change privilegies for a directory it works fine but i want to have it made automaticly Oct 24 21:29:44 if i try to map the drive and changing the user i get an error about multiple users Oct 24 21:31:40 disconnect the share Oct 24 21:32:27 and then? Oct 24 21:45:01 can't I change permission on the entire disk? and subdirectories? Oct 24 21:45:31 chmod -R [permission] [dir] Oct 24 21:45:37 ^ Oct 24 21:50:46 drwxrwxrwx 11 admin everyone 4096 Oct 24 23:08 public Oct 24 21:51:14 should do it Oct 24 21:51:25 not the most secure tho Oct 24 21:52:22 but dirs created by rtorrent in that dir doesnt get that permissions Oct 24 22:02:58 I hope you're not still running rtorrent as root, for a start Oct 24 23:33:23 HI, How i can resolve the problem of the problem of disk capacity incorrect on samba? Oct 24 23:36:29