loadYOURSELF

BACKUP DISK

dd if=/dev/sdX | gzip > a.gz

RESTORE BACK

gzip -dc  a.gz | dd of=/dev/sdX

The new PBS series “WIRED Science” covers a diverse mix of topics, including news segments on health, physics and chemistry; expert interviews; and even scientific demonstrations of what puts the “glow” in glowsticks.

Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc., today unveils its new line of 16 in-car single CD players, offering hard disc drives and playback of various digital music formats including MP3 and Windows Media Audio (WMA). As more consumers choose to download music from the Internet and store it digitally, Pioneer is expanding its product offerings including seven new units that support MP3 and WMA. Nine models include Pioneer’s signature Organic Electroluminescent (OEL) display and two offer a new dual faceplate design that motorizes open to reveal a secondary display made of OEL.”As the mobile entertainment arena continues to evolve, Pioneer is adding new features and technologies like MP3 and WMA playback,” said Michael Townsen, vice president of marketing for mobile entertainment at Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. “We’ve seen enormous growth in the number of consumers who download music to use in portable CD players, so we’ve expanded our product offerings to meet the new demand.”

Music File Management

The Pioneer players will play standard audio CDs, finalized CD-Rs and finalized CD-RWs as well as finalized CD-Rs/CD-RWs containing MP3 and/or Windows Media Audio files. All files are easily accessed using Pioneer’s intuitive cross keys. Songs are accessed using its track tag information. Information displayed, including up to 32 bytes of file

Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain and Fountain Valley, CA USA — Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced the DataTraveler® Micro Reader, an all-in-one USB Flash drive and reader that can store, transfer and read content on mobile memory cards.

“As mobile phones perform more sophisticated functions, carving a greater place in the lives of mobile consumers, Kingston is developing faster speed/larger capacity cards and versatile USB/card/device readers to help users get the most out of their devices,” said Jean Wong, Flash memory product manager, Kingston®. “We believe the DT Micro Reader will be well received by the mobile community as a smart single-solution to navigate the plethora of devices and card formats on the market today.”

The DataTraveler Micro Reader is enhanced for Windows®

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, announced that Samsung’s Spinpoint A1 30 Gigabyte (GB) 1.3-inch hard drive is now incorporated into JVC’s new Everio GZ-MG730, which is an ultra compact hard drive camcorder.

The small form factor of Samsung’s CompactFlash Card-sized hard drive provides consumer electronics and mobile application designers added flexibility in developing new devices with advanced features and high density storage capacity. By incorporating Samsung’s Spinpoint A1 hard drive, JVC’s award winning Everio G Series, the pioneer model for hard drive-based camcorders, is also able to offer in its new 2008 line up a high-end model with high resolution digital camera function as well as high density storage.

Samsung’s new Spinpoint A1 hard drive fits within the dimensions of

LAKE FOREST, Calif. -  WD® (NYSE: WDC) today introduced its new My Passport™ Essential™ Portable USB Drives. Redesigned to complement WD’s popular My Book family of external drives, the drives introduce a sleek new form that feels good in your hand and fits neatly in a pocket or purse. Available now at select retailers and at WD’s online store (www.shopwd.com), the new My Passport Essential USB Drives feature a beautiful glossy black finish and put almost a third of a terabyte of digital storage in the palm of your hand.

Weighing in at less than 5 ounces, My Passport Essential Drives are light and compact to carry and because they are bus powered, they do not need an external power adapter¹. Equipped with sync and encryption software (Windows®-compatible only), this lightweight drive with mega-capacity, makes it easy to securely carry thousands of songs, or videos or photos.

WD Sync™ software allows consumers to take desktop content with them by simplifying the synchronization of essential personal files and Microsoft® Outlook® data on a PC. Should owners misplace the drive,

ata2.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0)
ata2.01: exception Emask 0×0 SAct 0×0 SErr 0×0 action 0×2 frozen
ata2.01: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 cdb 0×25 data 8 in
res 51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0×5 (timeout)
ata2: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd1)
ata2: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
ata2: soft resetting port
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata2.01: configured for UDMA/33

ata2: EH pending after completion, repeating EH (cnt=4)
ata2: EH complete
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB)
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn’t support DPO or FUA
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB)
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn’t support DPO or FUA

ata2.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0)
ata2.01: exception Emask 0×0 SAct 0×0 SErr 0×0 action 0×2 frozen
ata2.01: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 cdb 0×25 data 8 in
res 51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0×5 (timeout)
ata2: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd1)
ata2: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
ata2: soft resetting port
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata2.01: configured for UDMA/33
ata2: EH pending after completion, repeating EH (cnt=4)
ata2: EH completesd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB)
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn’t support DPO or FUA
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB)
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn’t support DPO or FUA

The CLI way

The df utility displays the disk space usage on all mounted filesystems. The -T option prints the filesystem type as well. By default, df measures the size in 1K blocks, which could be a little difficult for a desktop user to decipher. Use the -h option to get more understandable output:

$ df -h -T
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 ext3 20G 9.3G 9.1G 51% /
/dev/hda7 reiserfs 13G 2.1G 11G 17% /mnt/suse
/dev/sda1 vfat 241M 152M 90M 63% /media/usbdisk

Schedule FSCK ( File System Check ) on next reboot
?

Just login as root to your linux machine and
type:

host# cd /


host# touch forcefsck

Reboot and you’ll have fsck check your / partition