Adding a keymap post-install
Posted: 2016-04-04 Filed under: system | Tags: console, fi, keyboard, language, layout Leave a commentI have a non US keyboard and I normally choose the appropriate keyboard layout already at install time. Now, I installed Slackware 14.1 beta1 in a virtual machine in order to check how my SlackBuilds work. However, I forgot to set the keyboard this time. Read the rest of this entry »
Virtual machine settings 2
Posted: 2016-03-17 Filed under: system | Tags: cpu, slackbuilds, ugene, virtualbox, vm Leave a commentThis is ridiculous. Some time ago I ‘fixed’ the setting of my VirtualBox. However, I experienced segfaults again. I am using VirtualBox version 5.0.14 r105127 on Slackware64 14.1 -multilib. The host machine is running Slackware64 -current and the program in question is Ugene version 1.21.0. I managed to make it build fine after I set the following options for the VM: Read the rest of this entry »
Mount a remote folder by sshfs
Posted: 2016-03-04 Filed under: desktop, network, system | Tags: fusermount, mount, ssfs, ssh 1 CommentI have several computers at home, all behind a router. Sometimes, I need to access files between computers and so far I have always used ssh either in the terminal or by gftp.
However, I wanted to be able to mount certain folder remotely in a seamless way, as if it was on the computer I was currently using. This can easily be done by sshfs. It is not part of Slackware, but can be found at SBo: sshfs-fuse.
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SSD trimming as a cron job
Posted: 2016-01-23 Filed under: system | Tags: cron, crontab, ext4, fstrim, fstrimDaemon, SSD, trim, XFS 3 CommentsI use XFS for my SSD and the partitions are mounted with default settings in /etc/fstab. Instead of using the discard option, I decided to set the fstrim command running as a cron job. As a side note, other filesystems that support trimming listed in the Arch Wiki are: Btrfs, Ext4, JFS.
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SSD trouble
Posted: 2016-01-16 Filed under: system | Tags: discard, error, ext4, ext4_find_entry, filesystem, fstab, noatime, relatime, SSD, trim, unable to read itable block 3 CommentsOne of my PCs has a 60.0 GB Corsair Force GT SandForce Driven SSD. When I bought it, I read a bit about SSDs and I set several options in my /etc/fstab. However, whenever copying some big files, the system seemed to hang for a while. In other cases, the it would just crash, killing X and leaving me in the console, but even shutting down was not possible. It would spit out errors, containing stuff like: Read the rest of this entry »
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