Multiple SWAP partitions
Posted: 2020-12-05 Filed under: system | Tags: swap Leave a commentWhenever I do an install, I always create a swap partition. But how about, if I have several hard disk and I am not sure which one would be best? Or if I do not want to waste too much space of a single hard disk? Or just because.
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Wacom input drivers
Posted: 2020-11-05 Filed under: system, desktop | Tags: libwacom, wacom, xpurnalpp Leave a commentI bought a Wacom Intuos CTL-4100, since I need to draw some schemes during online meetings and I am really bad with the mouse. I installed libwacom and xournalpp from SBo. Everything works as it should on Slackware -current, however it does not work on 14.2.
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LILO and nvme
Posted: 2020-10-31 Filed under: system | Tags: bios, lilo, lilo.conf, nvme, partitions Leave a commentI recently upgraded to a 1 TB NVME drive and I have Windows 10 on it. The computer boots by default from another disk, a standard SSD, where Slackware -current is installed with LILO. The problem is that selecting Windows from LILO does not boot it. The screen just stays blank. If I specify in the BIOS that the NVME has boot priority, it boots fine.
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Automatically reconnect sshfs
Posted: 2020-06-10 Filed under: system | Tags: reconnect, ssh, sshfs, thunar Leave a commentI’ve been using sshfs to mount a remote folder between computers in my home networks. Sometimes I switch from WiFi to wired connection or the other way around. This causes Thunar to freeze, if I had forgotten to unmount the remote folder. Which I almost always forget to do and it becomes quite annoying.
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Copying MBR
Posted: 2020-04-30 Filed under: system | Tags: clone, dd, disk, mbr, partition Leave a commentI’ve been doing some disk partitions cloning between disks of different size. I needed to copy the master boot record (MBR), where LILO is, from one disk to another. I searched a bit and found a handy tutorial.
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