@Ariane if you still have Ubuntu on a flash drive, you can boot it up again (without re-burning any Linux distro to a drive or CD again) and actually delete them for real
@allquixotic I don't. Which is why I'd like to be suggested something simpler, smaller, but preferably a bit more than a black screen with white commands.
@Ariane smaller is sort of by definition going to be less friendly, although there are a few tiny distros that have a graphical interface, but they would be less familiar to someone who is used to Windows
there's Puppy Linux but it's rarely updated and the GUI is terrid (horrid + terrible)
@Psycogeek All of it. No, both of them. I want to reinstall my Windows which is spread across two drives, which, with how Windows is made, isn,t simple.
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@JimmyHoffa I meant for a modern general purpose Linux distro running on x86 hardware -- with the amount of drivers you have to ship, just the Linux kernel itself with a general-purpose x86_64 kernel would eat up at least 30 MB worth of binaries, bzipped or LZMA'ed
@JimmyHoffa obviously if you pare down the system to its bare minimum and ship exactly the drivers you need and compile with -Os and turn on special flags in .config that cut out huge swaths of the kernel that are generally useful for general-purpose distros, then zip everything up with LZMA2, you can probably get it down to under a megabyte if you ship just a tiny shell or busybox with the kernel
but that's almost never done outside of embedded systems where the user would never have the capability to gain root, much less do something low level with the device
@allquixotic I know, is crazy... The sheer size of everything in linux boggles my mind anymore after having taken a decade away from it from like 2000 - 2010... Coming back to it, it was no longer the simple OS of once upon a time..
there's also bloat / code size -- modern Linux, at its core, is much larger even without device drivers than the Linux kernel "not altogether too long ago" (say, 1999)
Error 1649 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 5265 hours (219 days + 9 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
Also get the same message with errors 1650 1651 1652
@terdon "Error 1649" could be an error code from the program that's checking the SMART, so, what program are you getting that from? BIOS? gsmartcontrol? Windows?
@allquixotic Just burn a mythbuntu live CD, you get to boot to a linux to fix all your problems, and watch TV while you wait for your problems to be fixed
@JimmyHoffa I don't think you are really aware of the full context of what's going on -- @Ariane is having the problem, not me; furthermore, her Internet is capped and she is trying to avoid downloading a large binary, but she wants a graphical interface, so we're looking for a small distro with a basic X environment of some sort for her to delete files on an NTFS volume from.
a Mythbuntu download is not what could be considered small
@Ariane Just because it was the one I knew, just have a look at the left hand side links on that page, they suggest various tools that can do this from windows
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Does anyone know how could I run a bash script without destroying data o disk? I want to test the scripts until they do what I want. Is it possible to use a sandbox or something like that?
So, y'all think the SMART error codes are HW specific? I'm trying to answer a Q on Unix & Linux and the OP is getting this SMART output. I think he has a failing drive but the self-assessment test is PASSED. On the other hand he gets those error codes :freetexthost.com/4z6lfhorpc
@Ariane do you already have a *nix computer somewhere? or is this your only computer? Do you know anyone who does have *nix, or otherwise speaks Shibboleet?
@Calin what are you trying to do? The standard MO is to use head to get the first N lines, try the script on that to make sure it works and then do it on the whole thing.
Statistically speaking, someone is probably reading all of this on their phone on the head right now. I'm just putting that one out there for everyone to masticate on...
@JimmyHoffa @JourneymanGeek I'm not sure what you mean. The OP's output has 4 errors, are you saying that error 1752 means there were 1751 different errors before it?
And @JimmyHoffa please don't use head and masticate in that context in the same sentence :)
@terdon 1652 bad watchamahoozits on a drive is really likely an insignificant amount of bits, plausibly correctible and not indicative of the health of the physical media
@Calin just standard MO, modus operandi, not a standard as such. The command head prints out the first N lines, so try head -n 200 or something and run the script on that
Sometimes, when I boot up my PC, I find that after the logo screen, an _ (underscore) is blinking and the machine does not boot. After that I have to unplug it from the mains and restart it and then it runs fine. So, Please tell me what has happened to my PC? My specifications are
Debian 7, 512 ...
@terdon (is smart different for different hardware) I have read of Seagate using some of the SMART data slots for proprietary information, threw off some smart interpretation program into thinking they were bad. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T. only thing I trust is reading the raw data, and trying to do the interpretation myself. Data layout handed to us there is a mess.
@terdon ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE these are different columns , the data under it should be under those columns , so it is a mess.
Sometimes I really wish "network boot" would actually deliver as simply as the name makes it sound like it would... I wonder if UEFI intelligent firmware has made this a greater reality than the old PXEBoot pain in the ass
@Ariane if this is what I think it is, the "USB thingie" just has some presets, it should work fine if you select that as long as the next step lets you pick an ISO
@DarthAndroid the raw data that is needed to determine if it is failing, is only a few things, and most of them start at 0. Plus some of them are session based and reset on init, and many of them don't matter as much as some thinks they do. The reallocated sectors, and if they are getting more and more. as bad as the data is, I don't see anything wrong with it.
Why people chase after most expensive SSD models instead of paying half as much for previous proven models and getting double capacity? Normal computer use will not notice difference between first and latter, especially considering today's power of CPUs and GPUs.
I think I understand now why people are such "machine whores" and get the latest gadgets all the time. I used to have old stuff and not care, but now that I have a PC with pretty good hardware and all, I get this little feeling of frustration inside when I see something better is out, haha.
@Boris_yo Right. I was pointing out that they should use a fresh SSD for each single test. If they didn't then the first tests may have impacted the results of the later tests
(Also, WTF is with the chat flagging system? I frequently have flag notices that I click on and there are no flagged messages, but the badge still says "1", and I just got one now and when trying to respond to it, received "You can only counter-flag messages that have been flagged." ....?!?!?! )
I have chat open all day and every once in a while I come back to it to see this:
Oh, wow, a flag! Let's click on it!
Oh, okay, no flag for me :( So I close the bubble, but the flag counter stays there for me to repeat this process over and over again until I refresh my browser window.
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It's just annoying because I'll come back after being away for an hour or two, and see the flag motif, but can't get it to disappear without reloading the page.
@allquixotic Heh, can't be too addicted. Can't even afford clothes, and I live with 6 pairs of pants, one of which is chic and not so good for school, 1 of which is too tight and hurts my hips, and another of which is too tight at the hips AND is too short.
@OliverSalzburg I am sure they do. They tested newest pre-production Evo's units. First failed, they send it back and got back another which also failed. Samsung were notified and rectified firmware issue. Guys tested again and so far no issues.
@Ariane I donno , I think we might be onto something. Why you don't want to be messing with a lady cop . Because she had to wear the same outfit for 5 DAYS :-)
@JimmyHoffa Internal units: Diskette drive? WTF? The diskdrive controller was usually on a separate card on the ISA bus, or added as a secondary ISA device to another card (such as an adaptec 1542 CF).
@allquixotic I can't begin to describe how many things are wrong with that. Also I only have 4 shirts, 3 of them require a tank top underneath, and I only have 2. There's a lot of wrong with that. (@jokerdino must be deeply disliking this.)
I have chat open all day and every once in a while I come back to it to see this:
Oh, wow, a flag! Let's click on it!
Oh, okay, no flag for me :( So I close the bubble, but the flag counter stays there for me to repeat this process over and over again until I refresh my browser window.
I u...
