Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Michael Mol wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>>
>> It worked fine and it was there with 0 bytes.  Weird.
>>
>> I sort of gave up on this drive.  I had a very kind soul to send me a video
>> card when I did this build. He also sent me a 250Gb drive.  I copied all I
>> could to that but did lose a LOT of my videos and such.  Anyway, I'm doing
>> this right now:
>>
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc
>>
>> I figure that will put it back like brand new and very blank.  I'll recreate
>> my partition, throw a file system on it and see if it will let me copy back
>> to it or not.
>>
>> While I am at it, what is the best file system for videos?  That is the
>> biggest thing I use that drive for.  I had a LOT of NCIS, CSI and other
>> shows that are now gone.  Anyway, what are opinions on a file system for
>> videos on a 750Gb drive?  I had reiserfs on it before.
>>      
> I had a few terabytes of my own DVD rips on ext4 on a 3TB RAID5 once
> upon a time. Worked very well.
>
>
>    

I'm not picky.  Unless someone comes up with something better, I'll give 
ext4 a try.  I have read it is pretty swift plus it is some shiney new . 
. . stuff.  ;-)  Shhh.  There may be a lady on here too.  Read between 
the lines.

I'm just curious as to how much longer dd is going to take.  I wish it 
has some sort of a progress bar or something.  :/

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)