<DIV>Hi David</DIV>
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<DIV>There is more choice from what you say but I am not familiar with the terms yet except ext2 which I know now because I just had a go at formating a floppy using KDE (using the live cd). How do I "KILL" a still busy floppy? because after I completed the formatting the floppy drive just stayed busy and everytime I tried to access it I got not accessible or error messages. I know I need to use the 'kill' command but I am not sure how, does this sound right</DIV>
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<DIV>/bin/kill -a //then I am not sure what else to add after the -a ???</DIV>
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<DIV>Mo</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>David Goodwin <david@codepoets.co.uk></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">> By the sound of it I will not be needing half the number of tools that I<BR>> am used to using under Windows.<BR><BR>if fsck runs on bootup it will normally tell you how defragmented a volume<BR>is (X% non-contigious). You will probably find that fsck will run every 30<BR>days or something (or never if you use reiserfs?). You can change this<BR>with tune2fs.<BR>hdparm is another tool, which can tell you whether you're using udma etc,<BR>nad can turn it on if required.<BR><BR>There is certainly more choice with linux for filesystems, with xfs,<BR>reiserfs, ext2, ext3, jfs and others to pick from. My favourite is<BR>reiserfs, as it seems to be very quick (I think it uses a bit more cpu<BR>time to omptimise the disk better... and as disks are slow and cpus are<BR>quick it's not a problem)... although I've heard rumours about data loss<BR>with it, I've never had any
problems.<BR><BR><BR><BR>My spelling is lousey, and i need a new little keyboard... has anyone seen<BR>any around ? (this keyboard is about the same size as a laptops.. I use it<BR>for my server to save desk space)..<BR><BR>David.<BR><BR><BR><BR>-- <BR><BR>http://codepoets.co.uk/david<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Wolves LUG mailing list<BR>Homepage: http://www.wolveslug.org.uk/<BR>Mailing list: Wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk<BR>Mailing list home: http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/wolves</BLOCKQUOTE><p><hr size=1><font face="Arial" size="2"> <a href="http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/mail/tagline_messenger/*http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com"><b>
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