From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QmwA4-0005RH-NC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:08:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1726921C227; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:08:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E03C21C082 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:07:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwj20 with SMTP id 20so3920552gwj.40 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:07:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ILIS92qclQBH9oOavx9AyUqMic1K767UcC3uJ25lw+M=; b=HiS/oC/mcQi68KkbxvpMmdoTU0+Mu+DfwTrgNuLYR9Zkx/jLDGAtOhiLBLl88FFPgA Jqc0072pZHDHjCtMVhdCEAAqClIcdM5gOwXmhplxHFE9qSPr59VpivyEHpWSGGc2gHFd g5mVNTqLeTCq9UPtKWIOQEc+25gtTbIQHCcQ4= Received: by 10.236.184.170 with SMTP id s30mr967301yhm.458.1311980820047; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:07:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-90-236.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.90.236]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c28sm1636131yhk.19.2011.07.29.16.06.58 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:06:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E333D11.2020405@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:06:57 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110708 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels References: <20110725182047.GM30008@ns1.bonedaddy.net> <4E31C6B2.1090009@gmail.com> <4E31F2B4.2090901@gmail.com> <1719001.xkopxB8nfY@eve> <4E330CE0.1090904@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a3d3457f0f127ffe7eaf3a64e04b18e9 Michael Mol wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Dale 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 :-) :-)