[LUAU] Relative Newbie Questions
Eric Hattemer
hattenator at imapmail.org
Thu Mar 31 01:09:31 PST 2005
Jacques L. Yerby wrote:
>Aloha Y'all,
>
>Years ago I installed a Slackware by hand on a PC so I thought I knew
>what I was doing. That was back when X-Windows was relatively new and I
>was pretty much running command line only.
>
>
Is this the same old computer? How old is it? Possibly KDE is just too
intense for it.
>Q1: What utility can I use to find out where the bulk of my files are?
>I'm running out of room and have created some bigger ext2 partitions and
>want to map the larger stuff over there.
>
>
Tim is right on, but be careful not to include "..". For that you would
probably want to "du -sk * .[^.]*|sort -n >usage" or something like that.
>Q3: I'm having some startup problems with KDE. It's a real slow
>startup. I don't have this problem with Gnome. (I have multiple
>windowing systems installed.)
>
>
You might try starting with no WM, then typing "startkde". See whether
its hanging somewhere and timing out eventually. You may also want to
upgrade to a newer version of KDE if the system can handle it.
>Q4: Is an NTFS partition WRITEABLE from Linux? All of my Win partitions
>are automatically mounted as RO. I don't want to screw around with this
>until I know more. (I'd like the capability of copying back & forth.)
>
>
There are at least three NTFS modules for Linux. You need the module to
be compiled with rw support, then you need to edit the fstab to mount
the partition without the -ro. People say that it is always dangerous
no matter what. The two open source modules come with kernel
2.something and 2.6. Neither of the two open source modules will write
to a winXP NTFS drive, but both should write to 2000 NTFS. Supposedly
the 2.6 version was rewritten or something and won't allow you to create
new files, or significantly change the size of an existing file. The
two open source modules have a possibility to write to the FS
incorrectly and completely ruin the FS to the point where windows can't
read it and scandisk can't fix it. The third module is called
CaptiveNTFS, and it uses the windows ntfs.sys file to do its job. This
makes some people angry, so they refuse to use it, but supposedly it can
read and write to NTFS perfectly.
That being said, it may be safer to go the other way around:
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm .
Safest is fat32/vfat, which is supported in just about all windows and
linux with no scary "You may ruin your computer if you use this"
warnings.
>P.S. Once again, at the mercy of my landlord I have to move. I'd prefer
>to stay out here on the N. Shore but if anybody sees anything nice
><$1000 I'd appreciate knowing about it. I'm a retiree and can't really
>afford much more than that.
>
>
I hear its getting a lot harder to rent on Oahu. One of the biggest
house rental landlords is liquidating. Maybe look for appartments on
the West coast.
-Eric Hattemer
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