Thursday, August 24, 2006

Moving large amounts of data between drives

Indu gave me this great tip on copying lots of data between drives.

find . -type f -print | cpio -pduv --preserve-modification-time _destination_path_
where, _destination_path_ is a directory where the current filesystem tree will be copied

This works by printing all the files to stdout and then cpio parses them and puts them back as files. This was easily three times faster than using cp -r

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Webcam blues

Well, I tried to get the webcam working. It is an intel jobby but lsusb reports the following:

Bus 004 Device 003: ID 0733:0401 ViewQuest Technologies, Inc. CS330 WebCam

So, I thought, hey, I can get this going. I googled cs330 linux driver and found a sourceforge project that looked promising, spca50x. So, I found an rpm of it for suse10 on rpm.pbone.net. But, I can't get it to load with modprobe. Just says that it can't be found. Guess I will have to get on the lists and see if anyone has any ideas. They will probably want me to build it myself. Like that will work. Anyway Here are some of the links I found on the way.
http://spca50x.sourceforge.net/spca50x.php?page=cams
is the site for the driver.

I will probably have to learn how HAL and udev work. That will probably help setting up the BT headset better anyway.