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toastal, in Why do you use the terminal?

I can use Fish’s history to jog my brain on actions I don’t quite remember. Remembering a sequence of screen menus to click thru is often much more tedious & error-prone. And when you have a commonly repeated process, it’s trivial to script because shell scripts are, well, scripts for that terminal shell.

Also the terminals applications are hella portable. I can use ssh/mosh over the network & have a similar or exact environment as my main PC on a remote box. vi was always a good enough editor.

Still, in "Combokeys" instead of hotkeys. [Feature/new command suggestion]
@Still@programming.dev avatar

I think you can already do this in one shortcuts, not sure of any standalone program that does, if definably accidentally bond like Ctrl+d, Ctrl+s to screenshot before

M500, in Why do you use the terminal?

It is quick. it does not need to load a bunch of things and in certain tasks, I can do multiple things at once.

I also find it easier to navigate and edit files with tab to complete.

NeoNachtwaechter, in File transfer to USB drive fails after 4.3 gb

What file system is there on your USB drive?

bluestarshield,

When right-clicking the drive and selecting “properties”, the filesystem type is stated to be MSdos

otter,

I found this

MS-DOS (FAT) - This is Disk Utility’s name for the FAT32 filesystem.

engadget.com/2011-09-19-mac-101-format-choices-fo…

So I think the advice about the FAT32 issue people mentioned is the issue :)

BOFH666, in File transfer to USB drive fails after 4.3 gb

LMGTFY

Use zip, rar or other tooling to split it into parts and reassemble on the destination.

Or use another filesystem, compatible with both targets.

bluestarshield,

It was already split by a fit Latvian girl of a Yarr-harr, fiddle-dee-dee persuasion, if you catch my drift. I really am afraid of fucking something up, so I’ll try other methods before splitting it further.

bartolomeo, (edited ) in File transfer to USB drive fails after 4.3 gb
@bartolomeo@suppo.fi avatar

Edit: nevermind, apparently I was wrong.

xkforce,

Theyd need a ntfs driver to do anything. If you try to do what you are suggesting without one, bad things happen. Unless that part of the partition isn’t ntfs formatted.

bartolomeo,
@bartolomeo@suppo.fi avatar

For real? Even just cp?

xkforce,

We have a specific driver for reading and writing to ntfs for a reason.

bartolomeo,
@bartolomeo@suppo.fi avatar

What’s the reason? Honest question.

xkforce,

Why do you think anyone bothered to write a ntfs driver if you could read and write to ntfs without it? Why do you think windows cant read ext4? What do you think file systems are?

bartolomeo,
@bartolomeo@suppo.fi avatar

I know where you’re coming from.

The best way to be happy is to be kind. Seriously, just try it and come to your own conclusion. It works way better than trying to extract satisfaction from life, which actually just creates more dissatisfaction.

bluestarshield,

Sorry if it’s a noob question, but isn’t a live session something you do with a USB stick without installing? The file is currently on the Mint install I used to torrent it, along with my other daily-driver things.

NeoNachtwaechter,

isn’t a live session something you do with a USB stick

Or, something you do with a fit Latvian girl…

bluestarshield,

Man, those guys who down voted you have no sense of humor. You made a sex joke in response to my video game piracy joke!

buckykat, in File transfer to USB drive fails after 4.3 gb

flash drive is probably formatted FAT32 and that file is too big for that format. reformat the flash drive to exfat.

hypnotic_nerd, in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?
@hypnotic_nerd@programming.dev avatar

I literally liked parrotOS, but I had other priorities and abandoned it forever

noctisatrae,

It’s not meant to be a daily drive, hackerman!

tasankovasara, in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?

GNU Guix. Need to do an Ayahuasca ceremony sometimes and try again with a much more radiant mind.

FrostyPolicy, in File transfer to USB drive fails after 4.3 gb

Sounds like the drive is FAT32 formatted. Max file size then is 4GiB. Compress it with bzip2 or 7zip or try the @bartolomeo’s solution.

TheLobotomist, in My Linux Journey
@TheLobotomist@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Thank you for sharing!

MyNameIsRichard, in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?
@MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml avatar

Fedora Core. It had so many problems updating. That would have been in the mid 2000s so it may have improved since then.

temeela, in File transfer to USB drive fails after 4.3 gb
@temeela@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Seems like your USB drive is formatted with a filesystem that doesn’t support large files like FAT32, if you are able to, try formatting into exFAT in Linux with:


<span style="color:#323232;">sudo mkfs.exfat -n LABEL /dev/YOURUSB
</span>

or in Windows by right clicking on the USB and clicking format.

bluestarshield,

Alright, I’ve used your code, sudo mkfs.exfat -n LABEL /dev/sdb1

but the console returns this


<span style="color:#323232;">exfatprogs version : 1.1.3
</span><span style="color:#323232;">open failed : /dev/sdb1, Device or resource busy
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">exFAT format fail!
</span>

what’s the problem here? I’ve cleared out all storage on the drive, and made sure that it isn’t opened in the file explorer, and it shouldn’t be reading/writing anything because it’s empty.

thanks for the help btw

itslilith,
@itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

You must unmount the drive before formatting. And also know that formatting wipes the drive, so if there is anything on there you want to keep, back it up beforehand

9point6, (edited )

And triple check the device path, you don’t want to unceremoniously unmount and obliterate one of your non-system drives (shouldn’t be able to unmount your system drive)

This may or may not be advice from learned experience

Nyfure, (edited )

It not only has to be not 'open' in the explorer, but properly unmounted. Tools like mkfs dont do that for you, its just not their job. (and might be unwanted or stop your from making mistakes like accidentally overwriting the wrong drive)

try umount /dev/USBDRIVE

If that still complaints about Device or ressource busy, then something is still using it.
Either try to close things that might be the culprit, reboot and try again or, if installed and you are compfortable, you can check which processes using lsof -D <path where drive is mounted to> (you can get that location using mount | grep <path to usb drive>)

fortniteplaya, in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?

I’ve messed with a decent amount, listed in my post. Most distros weren’t customized the way that I wanted them to be or I didn’t like the looks so I prefer Debian and Arch for simplicity’s sake depending on the use case and going from there.

gerryflap, in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?
@gerryflap@feddit.nl avatar

Manjaro. I had previously already used Antergos and Ubuntu, but after Antergos stopped I needed something like it. So I installed Manjaro in my secondary PC (with old components). I constantly got into trouble with the manual kernel version selection thingy. I was used to kernel updates being part of the normal update process, and suddenly I had to manually pick the new one. I constantly ran into incompatibility issues with older or newer kernels, vague update deadlocks where I couldn’t update things because they depended in each other, and I absolutely hated having to use a separate program for updating the kernel. Now the PC runs Fedora and I’m liking that a lot more so far…

lemmyvore,

Manjaro ships with a LTS kernel, which is marked “recommended” in the kernel selection tool. By default you don’t have to do anything, don’t ever need to use the kernel selection, and you won’t experience any problems, it works like any other distro.

The issues you described are caused by selecting one of the non-recommended kernel versions. It’s assumed you know what you’re doing if you do that.

idefix,

Exactly I really don’t get the argument there. Manjaro’s handling of kernel selection is brilliant. Multiple LTS kernels, a recommended one, bleeding hedge and experimental ones. There’s something for everyone and it’s super easy to use.

gerryflap,
@gerryflap@feddit.nl avatar

It’s not so much an argument, it’s my personal experience. My experience was just not great. Maybe I did something wrong, but I’ve had a way better experience with Antergos, Arch, Fedora, and Ubuntu.

gerryflap,
@gerryflap@feddit.nl avatar

Idk what was wrong then, but I constantly had issues with packages being out of date due to the kernel and not wanting to update. Dependencies were constantly a mess. I’d rather just have normal Arch or Antergos/Endeavor

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