gnome-disk-manager – the easier way to manage disks in Gnome with Palimpsest

2010-05-25 1 min read Fedora GNOME Linux

I had been using quite different set of tools to this but this is really good. Just install the gnome-disk-manager with

sudo yum install gnome-disk-manager

The interface is very clean and easy to understand and is it very very fast when compared to the other Graphical utilities.

Here are some screenshots to take you through.

LPI Certification help and tutorials

2010-05-20 1 min read Fedora Learning

For the last couple of days I have been very busy but not too away from my desktop. Though I did not get time to publish anything. Here’s one of my other favourite distributions. Its known as elpicx. This distribution is oriented towards LPI certification exams and contains some documents and links that are quite helpful.

Good thing is now it supports F9 with KDE.

I found that the documents in the distro are GPL and thus I dont think that there should be any issue in re-distributing the pdfs and the links, so <a href="http://amit.with-linux.com/elpicx/" target="_blank">here it is. If you find anything in these docs or links that I should not link or upload them, let me know. I wil remove them.

Startup animation and theme for Fedora 12 onwards.

2010-05-20 1 min read Fedora Learning Linux

Since the release of <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora 12, fedora is using plymouth. Plymouth kicks in just after grub and before the Xserver starts.

Description:

Plymouth provides an attractive graphical <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/bootsplash" title="Bootsplash" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootsplash">boot animation in
place of the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/text_messaging" title="Text messaging" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_messaging">text messages that normally get shown. Text
messages are instead redirected to a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/data_logger" title="Data logger" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_logger">log file for viewing
after boot.
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Disk identification by UUID in Fedora.

2010-05-19 2 min read GNOME Linux

Yesterday I managed to delete my complete /usr directory and thus had to re-install my OS but I learned something new yesterday which I didn’t know earlier or actually never bothered to find out.br /br /All the partitions are mounted by udev using the UUID or label now. Finding the label of setting the label is easy but that was not the case with UUID (at least till you dont know how to do it). So finally I set my foot to search it. Heres some of the things that I found:br /br /bblkid/b – Gives you a list like below for all your partitions:br //dev/sda6: UUID=”8D8A-6CF1” TYPE=”vfat” LABEL=”Backup” br /So this is sufficient to modify your fstab to refer to the UUID or label instead of the drive. So whats the change in fstab. If the earlier entry looks likebr //dev/sdb6nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /media/Bkup3nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; vfatnbsp;nbsp;nbsp; uid=500,nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; 0 0br /then you can change this to :br /UUID=”8D8A-6CF1”nbsp;nbsp; /media/Bkup3nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; vfatnbsp;nbsp;nbsp; uid=500,nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; 0 0br /What is the benifit:br /———————br /When you re-format your Hard Disk there is a likely possibility that the dev name could well change and thus completely changing the mount points for all your fstab entries. This is really a pain if you have 10 or more partitions like the way I have. So if you use label or UUID then they never change and your mount points remain the same.br /br /Effective use: Use autofs package to automatically mount all your partitions. Autofs mounts the package at /media/LABEL, so before you hit to start your autofs label all your disks.br /br /Other ways to find the disk labels and UUID’s:br /ls /dev/disk/by-uuid –gt; simplest way. :)br /br /Will get back to this later with more details.br /br /

Linux EBook

2010-05-18 1 min read Linux

My own book.. Though not too good but might be useful.

<a class="aligncenter" title="Ebook" href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in/mystuff/LinuxBook.pdf.bz2">Free Ebook

Leave a comment or send a mail to wordpress@amit-agarwal.co.in to get the password

Solved -- Errors with afraid-dyndns in Goddard (Fedora 13)

2010-05-06 2 min read Fedora Learning Linux

Since I updated to the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora 13, I was getting error from the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/dynamic_dns" title="Dynamic DNS" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_DNS">Dynamic DNS client for afraid. I was not getting enough time to fix this, so finally I decided to fix this in the night itself 🙂

Problem:
On running

afraid-dyndns

I was getting the error:

Entity: line 100: <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/parsing" title="Parsing" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing">parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: br line 99 and div
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Local DNS Server for faster DNS response time

2010-04-30 1 min read Fedora Linux

Here’s a quick tip for faster DNS response time. I installed a local DNS server which can contact the remote DNS server and enabled caching for the local DNS server. This ensures that the response time for the DNS queries is much faster.

I am on Fedora 10, so here’s what I was required to do:

yum install dnsmasq

After this I created a file called /etc/resolve.dns with the nameserver address’s and heres what it looks like:

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