Couple of days back, I was getting the following error:
Directory inode 2362521 has an unallocated block #245823. Allocate?
And this continued for hours together and I was in a hurry. Did not really care about the error and all I wanted was to get rid of the error but for that I needed to get to the file/directory with inode number mentioned in the error and finally “find” command came to rescue:
Continue readingIt is always “Better safe than sorry” so, here are some things you
should do..
First check fstab, if you have partitions other than root then use UUID instead of device:
UUID=a8f13a0d-3f1f-42e4-b076-f44b4163306c /mnt/Backup ext4 defaults,relatime 1 2
Then entries for all your mounts should be like above.
Points to note here :
Disk is mounted using the UUID and not with /dev/sdXX. This ensures
that even if your disk ids change, you will be able to mount them. To
get the partition UUID, you can execute :
pkgwat is a nice utility to search the fedora packages websearch.
Description : Pronounced "package WAT", pkgwat is a fast CLI tool for querying : the fedora packages webapp. : https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/ : : You can make its search even better by helping us tag packages. : https://apps.fedoraproject.org/tagger
And to search for a package, you can use ::
pkgwat search pkgwat -h # get help on package.
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I was getting really bad battery life on my Fedora 19 system, and did not find much on how to tune it. Finally I found something that just does not need much configuration but works pretty well. So, here is what you need to do:
sudo yum install tuned tuned-adm
The second package, tuned-adm installs additional themes for power saving. It is optional and not mandatory. Once you have installed these, you can do the following:
Continue readingI think, like me, you would have faced a lot of situations, where you wanted to delete all the files or directories in a location, leaving only the required files/directories. So, I have a directory containing lots of files/directories and I want to delete most of them except some 5/10 of them, how to I do it.
I finally wrote a small script to do that. First save list of files that you do not want to delete in file called “listnames” and then execute the below script. This will give you the rm commands that you need to execute. If you want you can execute the rm command from the script, but to be able to review, I just have the commands echoed.
Continue readingIf you like the kind of effects in those photobooths then here is something that will get you some pretty good time.
http://fedoraproject.org/en/using/tutorials/cheese.html
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On Fedora with Gnome-shell 3, its been long time that I was not able to get transparent window. So, finally I thought to spend some time to try to fix that. Finally got that fixed with all the configurations below in the conkyrc. Here the default color is set to LightSkyBlue but feel free to change that.
I hope this helps fedora community who is struggling to get transparent window. And here is the code :
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