installed fedora core 5 on a pc with USB and some usual things. in boot up it is stopped at "Starting udev:". Its harddisk light is busy. is it reconfiguring the kernel?. what do to solve this problem?. (0 Replies)
Hello all
I have to run manually make commands in our system the make compilations task's takes very long
And I like to be able to run another make task right after one is finished.
What is the best way to automate it ? (2 Replies)
Hi,
I worte a script which runs perfect when i execute it manually. But when i scheduled into cron the grep command alone is not working.
the sample script,
/usr/bin/grep FTP $subfile > /tmp/tfsrec.dat
tfs=`echo $?`
if
then
echo "FTP FOUND"
else
echo "FTP NOT FOUND"
Where... (5 Replies)
I'm curious about the behavior where any udev labeled device causes that corresponding listing to disappear from fdisk, sfdisk, or in the case of RDAC, lsvdev.
I have seen this on both EMC clariion and Sun Storagetek/Engenio 6540 arrays.
We use RHEL5.1 and udev to create persistent labels for... (2 Replies)
Hello!
I'm sorry if this is the false Forum, didn't really knew where to put it...
My question:
I have serveral USB-Sticks and wrote several Udev-Rules for theme, each Sticks needs to do something else, but all are using the same script (they have common tasks to do) and only some parts are... (2 Replies)
hi
i want to automate fdisk command .
i spawned a process containing fdisk command from a process
and tried to send the options to fdisk promt from that process.
but that spawed process is notstarting itself
help me out
trying for two days
:wall:
my code:
#!/bin/bash
echo... (5 Replies)
Hello,
MBR partition table made by linux fdisk looks certainly not correct when printed by openbsd fdisk:
Partition table created on linux (centos 6.3):
# fdisk -l /dev/sdc
Disk /dev/sdc: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1305 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 *... (2 Replies)
I have made a program that reads a text file and checks for palindromic words and then outputs them. They each appear on a new line with a count of the number of occurences beside each of the words.
Requirements for being classed as palindrome are that the word must have at least 3 letters and... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: greenhouse91
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blockdev
BLOCKDEV(8) System Manager's Manual BLOCKDEV(8)NAME
blockdev - call block device ioctls from the command line
SYNOPSIS
blockdev [-q] [-v] command [command...] device [device...]
blockdev --report [device...]
DESCRIPTION
The utility blockdev allows one to call block device ioctls from the command line.
OPTIONS -V Print version and exit.
-q Be quiet.
-v Be verbose.
--report
Print a report for the specified device. It is possible to give multiple devices. If none is given, all devices which appear in
/proc/partitions are shown. Note that the partition StartSec is in 512-byte sectors.
COMMANDS
It is possible to give multiple devices and multiple commands.
--flushbufs
Flush buffers.
--getalignoff
Get alignment offset.
--getbsz
Print blocksize in bytes.
--getdiscardzeroes
Get discard zeroes support status.
--getfra
Get filesystem readahead in 512-byte sectors.
--getiomin
Get minimum I/O size.
--getioopt
Get optimal I/O size.
--getmaxsect
Get max sectors per request
--getpbsz
Get physical block (sector) size.
--getra
Print readahead (in 512-byte sectors).
--getro
Get read-only. Print 1 if the device is read-only, 0 otherwise.
--getsize64
Print device size in bytes.
--getsize
Print device size (32-bit!) in sectors. Deprecated in favor of the --getsz option.
--getss
Print sectorsize in bytes - usually 512.
--getsz
Get size in 512-byte sectors.
--rereadpt
Reread partition table
--setbsz bytes
Set blocksize.
--setfra sectors
Set filesystem readahead (same like --setra on 2.6 kernels).
--setra sectors
Set readahead (in 512-byte sectors).
--setro
Set read-only.
--setrw
Set read-write.
AUTHOR
blockdev was written by Andries E. Brouwer and rewritten by Karel Zak.
AVAILABILITY
The blockdev command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
Aug 2010 BLOCKDEV(8)