Darktable documentation on this matter is somewhat fragmented, so I figure a small how-to on how to install it from source on Fedora 23 could be useful. The version included in the official repositories is really old (version 1.6.9 as per today) and is missing some important presets for many widely used cameras. The latest version source code archive can be downloaded from here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases. Before compiling and installing the software the following dependencies must be installed: …

Every time I have to setup a software RAID in Linux using mdadm I forget something, this time I am writing it down once and for all (or at least I hope so). For the sake of simplicity I will use the creation of a RAID1 as example but this very same procedure can be applied for any other kind of RAID. RAID array creation 1. Partition the drives This step must be repeated for each drive of the array (/dev/sdb and /dev/sdc in my case). …

XFS just like EXT4 (I wrote a post about it last year) supports online defragmentation, to manage those volumes on CentOS and Fedora xfsprogs package is needed. Fragmentation level of XFS volumes can be checked with the command: [root@CentOS ~]$ xfs_db -c frag -r /dev/sdb1 actual 4491, ideal 4006, fragmentation factor 10.80% To perform online defragmentation of XFS volumes run the following command: …

Since every time I am about to install Vim I forgot how to set it up, set it as default system wide text editor and so on I figure I’ll write it down once and for all. First of all let’s install Vim, specifically the so called enhanced version which is capable of loading plugins and colorschemes: [user@Fedora ~]# sudo dnf install vim ### powerline plugin [user@Fedora ~]# sudo dnf install vim-plugin-powerline I personally really like molokay colorscheme from tomasr; putting it in the default colorscheme directory does the trick if we want to use it for every user. …

EXT4 is usually pretty good at keeping files fragmentation at minimum, but, sometimes, especially if dealing with really huge files, some fragmentation may actually occur. Luckily EXT4 supports online defragmentation, command fsck displays, among other things, fragmentation percentage: [root@fedora ~]$ fsck.ext4 -fvn /dev/sda1 e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) Warning! /dev/sda1 is mounted. Warning: skipping journal recovery because doing a read-only filesystem check. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information 429 inodes used (1.31%, out of 32768) **5 non-contiguous files (1.2%)** 1 non-contiguous directory (0.2%) # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 0/0/0 Extent depth histogram: 420 45161 blocks used (34.46%, out of 131072) 0 bad blocks 1 large file 402 regular files 17 directories 0 character device files 0 block device files 0 fifos 0 links 1 symbolic link (1 fast symbolic link) 0 sockets ------------ 420 files The command e4defrag, which is contained in e2fsprogs, can be used to perform online defragmentation of EXT4 volumes. …

Let’s say we have a big single FLAC file we want to split into multiple files, we are on Fedora and we don’t want to use anything but the command line. First of all: [root@fedora ~]$ yum install lame ffmpeg shntool cuetools To split the single FLAC file run: [user@fedora ~]$ shnsplit -o flac -f file_name.cue -t "%n - %p - %t" file_name.flac This will produce n single files, -t parameter is used to specify file name format (in this case: track_number – performer – track_name). To copy metadata from CUE to the single files run: …

Long story short: in Fedora 20 (and as far as I remember also 19 and 18) XScreenSaver doesn’t power off the monitor backlight when locking the screen. Being the lazy ass I am it took like me 2 or 3 years to find the motivation to solve the issue. It was actually pretty simple, no need to edit some obscure config file or else, in XFCE just click on: Application menu -> Settings -> Screensaver. A window will appear, select Blank Screen Only in the Mode dropdown menu, then switch to the advanced tab, un-check power Management Enabled and check Quick Power-off in Blank Only Mode. This is it, now every time the screen locks the monitor backlight will also power off. …

A new Linux kernel version is released and guess what: VMware Workstation fucked up once again. The fix posted on the Arch Linux wiki is applicable also to Fedora 19, I’ll post it here for future reference. $ cd /tmp $ curl -O http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/plain/vmware-patch/vmblock-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.10.patch $ curl -O http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/plain/vmware-patch/vmnet-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.10.patch $ cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source # tar -xvf vmblock.tar # tar -xvf vmnet.tar # patch -p0 -i /tmp/vmblock-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.10.patch # patch -p0 -i /tmp/vmnet-9.0.2-5.0.2-3.10.patch # tar -cf vmblock.tar vmblock-only # tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only # rm -r vmblock-only # rm -r vmnet-only # vmware-modconfig --console --install-all For more information: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VMware#3.10_kernels …