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diskseekd - disk seek daemon; simulates Messy Dos' drive cleaning effect |
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!!Note |
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This manpage has been automatically generated from fdutils's |
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texinfo documentation. However, this process is only |
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approximative, and some items, such as crossreferences, |
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footnotes and indices are lost in this translation process. |
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Indeed, these items have no appropriate representation in |
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the manpage format. Moreover, only the items specific to |
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each command have been translated, and the general |
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information about fdutils has been dropped in the manpage |
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version. Thus I strongly advise you to use the original |
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texinfo doc. |
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To generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the |
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__ ./configure; make dvi; dvips fdutils.dvi |
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To generate a html copy, run: |
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__ ./configure; make html |
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__A premade html can be found at: `http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/fdutils' |
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To generate an info copy (browsable using emacs' info mode), |
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__ ./configure; make info |
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The texinfo doc looks most pretty when printed or as html. |
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Indeed, in the info version certain examples are difficult |
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to read due to the quoting conventions used in |
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info. |
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!!Description |
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Several people have noticed that Linux has a bad tendency of |
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killing floppy drives. These failures remained completely |
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mysterious, until somebody noticed that they were due to |
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huge layers of dust accumulating in the floppy drives. This |
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cannot happen under Messy Dos, because this excuse for an |
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operating system is so unstable that it crashes roughly |
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every 20 minutes (actually less if you are running Windows). |
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When rebooting, the BIOS seeks the drive, and by doing this, |
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it shakes the dust out of the drive mechanism. |
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diskseekd simulates this effect by seeking the |
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drive periodically. If it is called as diskseek, |
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the drive is seeked only once. |
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!!Options |
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The syntax for diskseekd is as |
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follows: |
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diskseekd [[-d ''drive''] [[-i ''interval''] [[-p ''pidfile'' |
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-d ''drive'' |
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Selects the drive to seek. By default, drive 0 |
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(`/dev/fd0') is seeked. |
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-i ''interval'' |
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Selects the cleaning interval, in seconds. If the interval |
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is 0, a single seek is done. This is useful when calling |
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diskseek from a crontab. The default is 1000 seconds (about |
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16 minutes) for diskseekd and 0 for |
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diskseek. |
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-p ''pidfile'' |
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Stores the process id of the diskseekd daemon into |
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''pidfile'' instead of the default |
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`/var/run/diskseekd.pid'. |
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Other aspects of Messy Dos' flakiness are not |
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simulated. |
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This section lacks a few smileys. |
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!!See Also |
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Fdutils' texinfo doc |
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