dd With Progress Bar? Try dcfldd

“Mini How To” dd With Progress Bar? Try dcfldd.

Introduction

As you know dd works very well but it has no progress bar.  There is really no way to tell how far along dd is.  This is annoying if you are waiting for dd to finish.  In this how to I’ll show you how to install and use dcfldd.

How To Install dcfldd

Open terminal or adept or synaptec what ever is you flavor of choice.  In the latter search for dcfldd.  In terminal Type:

How To Search Terminal Commands Recently Used

“Mini How To” How To Search Terminal Commands Recently Used.

Introduction

You know how to skip through the commands by using the arrow up and down keys but wouldn’t it be easier to search through the commands?  In this Mini How To I explain how to do it.

Recursive Search

You’ve typed in a long command for instance:

sudo hddtemp /dev/sda && sensors | grep Core\ 0 && sensors | grep Core\ 1

To check the temperatures of the machine that you’re working on.  You’ve checked it once and after a couple of days you want to use it again.  To do so as said you can scroll through the commands using the up and down arrow keys.  It might take while depending on how many commands you used after this one.

On the A205-S5825 the touchpad doesn’t double click.

Out of the box the touch pad on the A205-S5825. Here is how to fix this.

Open the XOrg configuration:

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Find:

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Synaptics Touchpad”

And add the following lines

        Option          "FingerLow"             "7"
        Option          "FingerHigh"            "8"
        Option          "MaxTapTime"            "180"
        Option          "MaxTapMove"            "110

And that’s it. Now you can double tap on the touch pad.

For more info on the touch pad settings go here.

fstab demystified how to add partitions and more

In this post you will learn to understand fstab and it’s entries. This post is a follow up to: How to partition new hard drives the easy way. It will show you how to add the new partitions of the new hard drive to fstab to mount the partitions automatically on boot.

Unfortunately there is no way to do this in a “point and click” manner. At least I’ve not been able to find one.

Maximum number of clients reached.

I’ve been getting this error lately “Maximum number of clients reached”. After doing some research if found out it was a swap problem. The UUID of the swap partition was wrong thus there was no swap to be used. This caused the “Maximum number of clients reached” error.

To fix this you can do two things.