To show how many blocks is reserved type:
tune2fs -l /dev/sdb1 | grep "Reserved block count"
To disable reserved blocks (and free space) type:
tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdb1
Ubuntu 12.04 policykit for XMBC suspend to work properly
Create following file in this path: /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/custom-actions.pkla
[Actions for erol user] Identity=unix-user:erol Action=org.freedesktop.upower.*;org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.*;org.freedesktop.udisks.* ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=yes ResultActive=yes
Ubuntu 12.04 proper LCDd suspend
Please edit this file: /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/LCDd and make it executable chmod +x LCDd.
#!/bin/sh
# If we are running LCDd stop and restart
# Otherwise lirc_* modules won't get unloaded and
# they do not work properly with suspend/resume
. "${PM_FUNCTIONS}"
suspend_lcd()
{
if [ -x /etc/init.d/LCDd ]; then
/etc/init.d/LCDd stop 2>&1 > /dev/null
fi
}
resume_lcd()
{
if [ -x /etc/init.d/LCDd ]; then
/etc/init.d/LCDd start 2>&1 > /dev/null
fi
}
case "$1" in
hibernate|suspend)
suspend_lcd
;;
thaw|resume)
resume_lcd
;;
*) exit $NA
;;
esacInstall Windows XP to external USB drive on DELL laptop
If you get BSOD with message STOP: 0x0000007B you have to do one of the following:
1. Set your SATA controller in BIOS to "compatible" rather then AHCI 2. Integrate sata AHCI or RAID controller in your XP install CD
One thing that also must be done is to replace NTDETECT.COM with modified version of this file which can be downloaded from:
Compiling rtorrent from source on Ubuntu Maverick
Download and compile libtorrent
sudo wget http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/libtorrent-0.12.6.tar.gz sudo tar zxfv libtorrent-0.12.6.tar.gz cd libtorrent-0.12.6 sudo ./configure sudo make sudo make install
Download and compile xmlrpc-c
sudo svn checkout http://xmlrpc-c.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xmlrpc-c/stable xmlrpc-c cd xmlrpc-c/ sudo ./configure sudo make sudo make install
Download and compile rtorrent
sudo wget http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/downloads/rtorrent-0.8.6.tar.gz sudo tar zxfv rtorrent-0.8.6.tar.gz cd rtorrent-0.8.6 sudo ./configure --with-xmlrpc-c sudo make sudo make install