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SPAM: Like parted command is there any other command to partition a device
by MASTHAN DUDEKULA 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Hi All, Now i am using SLES 10. To partitioning a device on ia 64 m/c i am using parted command. Do we have any other command to partition a device ? On ia 64 m/c , how to find the partition table in terms of block, means, partition 1 start at x block and end at y block. Thanks in advance. regards, Masthan

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Re: [suse-ia64] variant behaviour of parted command.
by MASTHAN DUDEKULA 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Waht about i386 machine ? on i386 machine why s not showing any space for partition table ? On 8/10/06, Andreas Schwab <schwab(a)suse.de> wrote: > > "MASTHAN DUDEKULA" <d.mastan(a)gmail.com> writes: > > > *My question is, on ia 64 arch why parted command is leaving first 17 > kB of > > the device?* > > That's the space for the partition table. > > Andreas. > > -- > Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab(a)suse.de > SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany > PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 > "And now for something completely different." >

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variant behaviour of parted command.
by MASTHAN DUDEKULA 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Hi All, On SLES 10 , I am using parted command to partition a device but the behaviour of parted command is varying from one Archetecture to another archtecture. I am using the following command to partition a device from 0 to 100 MB *$ parted -d /dev/sda mkpart p 0 100* and with the help print option i am printing the partition table. The o/p of $*parted -s /dev/sda print* is varying from one arch to another arch. The o/p of *$parted -s /dev/sda print* on i386 machine Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0kB - 73GB Disk label type: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1kB 100MB 100MB primary reiserfs type=83 The o/p of *$parted -s /dev/sda print* on i386 machine Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0kB - 7516MB Disk label type: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 17kB 100MB 100MB *My question is, on ia 64 arch why parted command is leaving first 17 kB of the device?* Your help is appreciated Regards, Masthan

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having a daemon monitor its own shared libraries?
by Per Jessen 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

I've got a daemon that uses a library that is occasionally updated - not very frequently, perhaps once per month. What I'm thinking about is having the daemon monitor this particular library for changes using inotify. I could perhaps do an automatic restart or something like that - or maybe there is a way of reloading/refreshing a library whilst running? Another question is - is there a way of listing libraries in use from within my daemon? I could just hardcode the name, but ... /Per Jessen, Zürich

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Converting an old program
by Carl William Spitzer IV 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

I have an old dos program of mine which I want to convert to linux. Its in Borland C. It creates a unique name based on the systems current date and time not an offset from 1970 but the current MMDDYY HHMMSS. I beleive tis best left as C but some of the routines I remember being Borland specific would need to be rewritten. This is a first effort for me in Unix and I would like help from the list as I can not afford books at this time. Though once I used it stand alone its best called from a script which passes it file names one at a time. Here is the Code sorry about the line length. /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ /* UNIQUENA a program to rename a given file or set thereof by encoding the */ /* date and time from the system. Should the time be zero that section will */ /* rerun until a non zero result is obtained. This program will handle wild */ /* cards and multiple files listed. see OVERWRIT & PUBLIC */ /* prog by Carl William Spitzer IV */ /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ /*struct date */ /* int da_year; current year */ /* char da_day; day of the month */ /* char da_mon; month (1 = Jan) */ /* */ /*struct time */ /* unsigned char ti_min; minutes */ /* unsigned char ti_hour; hours */ /* unsigned char ti_hund; hundredths of seconds */ /* unsigned char ti_sec; seconds */ /* ----------------------- function prototype section ---------------------- */ void main( int argc, char *argv[] ); void UniqueName( char *); /* ------------------------ preprocessor statements ------------------------ */ #include <dos.h> #include <dir.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <alloc.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <process.h> /* -------------------- global variables and structures -------------------- */ /* ----------------------- main and other functions ------------------------ */ void main (int argc, char *argv[]) { char *OldName; char *NewName; char drive[MAXDRIVE]; char dir[MAXDIR]; char file[MAXFILE]; char ext[MAXEXT]; int flags; if (argc<1) { printf("Usage: %s filespec\n",argv[0]); exit(1); } flags = 0; OldName = argv[1]; do { UniqueName(NewName); flags=fnsplit(OldName,drive,dir,file,ext); /* split the string to separate elems */ fnmerge(NewName,drive,dir,NewName,ext); /* merge everything into one string */ flags = ( (rename(OldName, NewName) == 0) ? 0 : 1); } while (flags == 1); } void UniqueName( char * NN) { struct date Today; struct time Now; div_t x,y; char Buffer[20]; gettime (&Now); getdate (&Today); x = div( (Today.da_year-1980) * Today.da_day * Today.da_mon,2); do y = div(Now.ti_hour * Now.ti_min * Now.ti_sec + Now.ti_hund,2); while (y.quot == 0); sprintf (Buffer,"%04X%04X",x.quot,y.quot); strcpy(NN, Buffer); } -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

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