Hi, On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Benjamin Bach wrote:
Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Benjamin Bach wrote:
Read it here: http://overtag.dk/blog/?postid=2
If you have comments or screenshots please e-mail me, and I'll add it. I wouldn't wanna miss a thing on this. It's my first linux review ever, and it took me like hours to write..
Links should be up on OSNews and Distrowatch sooner or later... And oh yeah, do feel free to link to it yourself =)
The "little download trick" part is a very good idea:
Since BitTorrent wasn't available immediately I started an FTP download. After 1,6 GB I decided to do BitTorrent instead and here's a little trick: Azureus (a BitTorrent client) scans files to see if they've changed ("Force rescan"). I started a new BitTorrent download which creates a full-sized, empty file. To merge it with my FTP download I stopped Azureus and did this: commandline:~$> dd if=/ftp_download.iso of=bittorrent.iso After that I did the rescan and Azureus started downloading all the missing pieces. Surprisingly my ISO ended up with the correct MD5sum.
Wonderful.
A simple "cp" would end up identical, even a "mv". ;-))
Cheers -e
What do you mean? dd merges, cp and mv overwrites.
No, it is not like you are hoping. In each case (cp, mv, dd) anything existing simply gets wiped if you do not have a shell alias for your command which would request back before doing. Like alias cp='cp -ip' alias mv='mv -i' So I would suggest "mv". This way, you would not have to delete the old file fragment later... Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)