The developers dream editor

Today i became frustrated about my favourite editor kate. It’s a great tool, but it is still missing tools that a developer really needs everyday (e.g. replace in files). Also searching in opened files is a pain because the search text has to be entered for each file seperately. Why is it not possible to define the search text once and press F3 in each document tab?

Years ago i used PSPad on Windows, but sadly there is no Linux port available (using Wine is no option). So i began to search for a useful Linux GUI text editor and came across Komodo Editor.

It is enhanceable via plugins and seems to have all features i’m missing till now. The only feature i’m missing is the ‘block’ editing mode.

The fiollowing plugins seems to be useful:

P.S.: Emacs and vi are no options, i want to have a GUI 🙂

Do you want to have a 32bit version of OMV?

Hello all,

i am thinking about to release only a 64bit version of OpenMediaVault. Today most older hardware already supports 64bit, so i do not think that there is any need for a 32bit version anymore. Please tell me want what you are thinking about this.

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4k alignment

Currently i’m a little bit confused. I’m trying to take care about the correct 4k alignment to get best performance for new HDDs with size > 2TiB. I’m using the following command till now, but i know it is not the optimal setting, but how to tell parted to auto-align the partition?

parted -s — ${device} mklabel gpt mkpart primary 0 -1

Using

parted -s -a optimal — ${device} mklabel gpt mkpart primary 0s -1s

does not fix the problem. Everytime the partition layout looks like

# fdisk -lu /dev/sdd
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on ‘/dev/sdd’! The util fdisk doesn’t support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sdd: 106 MB, 106954752 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 13 cylinders, total 208896 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdd1               1      208895      104447+  ee  GPT
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(0, 0, 1) logical=(0, 0, 2)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(13, 0, 51)

which is not optimal. Any tipps?

New storage management

After a long time i will show you the new storage management in OpenMediaVault. I split it into three sections:

  • Physical disks
  • RAID management
  • Filesystems

Hopefully this will be the best solution to be open to add additional storage services.

Debian installer problem with GRUB

OpenMediaVault is using the Debian installer d-i to install the core system. The install process is preseeded to reduce user interaction and to do not allow the user to choose incorrect settings. While testing i realized that the installation of GRUB fails when the following parameters are given:

  • The system is installed on sde for example
  • sda-sdd are empty disks

In this case the installation fails with the message that it is not possible to install GRUB on sda. What? sda? I have choosen /dev/sde to install the core system. Why the hell is GRUB trying to install itself on sda?

Is this a bug or do i miss something?

The following options are used in the preseed.cfg file:

d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true
d-i grub-installer/with_other_os boolean true

Any tipps or suggestions?

Update:
The bug also appears when using the latest Squeeze netinst ISO. A bug has been reported to Debian grub-installer package.