chrismarx's questions

My question is very similar to this one:

How do you repair an "input/output error" in an NTFS partition?

But I've given up on repairing the drive, I really just want to be able to get a few files off. It's a windows netbook, and I'm booting off ubuntu on a thumbdrive. If I try to mount the volume, I get the error in the aforementioned post:

error mounting: mount exited with exit code 13: ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error
Failed to read NTFS $Bitmap: Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows

I got the netbook to load windows from a win 7 thumbdrive, and was able to run chkdsk, it completed, and indicated some failed sectors, etc., but even after running that ubuntu still can't mount the volume.

Is there any way to just get a few files off this drive?

I followed these instructions to configure natural scrolling for my normal ubuntu (11.04) desktop, and they worked just fine:

http://maketecheasier.com/reverse-mouse-scrolling-direction-in-ubuntu/2011/09/16

but those settings, even when I'm logged in as the same user through nxserver remotely don't apply. So I tried to adjust the scroll direction manually using xinput like so:

 xinput list 
"pointer"   id=0    [XPointer]
"keyboard"  id=1    [XKeyboard]

and then:

 xinput get-button-map 0
X Error of failed request:  XI_BadDevice (invalid Device parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  131 (XInputExtension)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_OpenDevice)
  Device id in failed request: 0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  15
  Current serial number in output stream:  15

to see the current button map, trying to change the mapping with:

 xinput set-button-map "pointer" 1 2 3 5 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
X Error of failed request:  XI_BadDevice (invalid Device parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  131 (XInputExtension)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_OpenDevice)
  Device id in failed request: 0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  15
  Current serial number in output stream:  15

results in the same error. Anyone know how to do this?

So i edited the /etc/fstab file, and added this line

/dev/sdb1       /media/additionaldrive1 ext4 defaults   0       2

and most times, my hard drive is there waiting for me in the right location. but sometimes, and I'm not sure if i'ts at boot up, or sometimes afterwards, since I generally don't need to the use the drive immediately after boot up, I find the drive not at /media/addtionaldrive1, but at some seemingly random address of "62ae4915-ee29-414e-a684-fc700064d952"

This is annoying as it breaks file references to that drive (it has my virtual machine images). Any idea what the problem is? Reboot generally solves, it's not a very nice solution though.

edit:here is the fstab file:

proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
/dev/sda1       /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/sda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/sdb1       /media/additionaldrive1 ext4 defaults   0       2

So every once in a while compiz will crash, sometimes randomly, more often when I'm messing with the compiz settings.

I can restart compiz with compiz --replace, and it fixes the window decoration, etc., but that command never finishes in the terminal. If I close the terminal or ctrl-C, it causes compiz to crash all over. So the only thing I can do is just leave that terminal running (not a great solution).

In windows, you could navigate tree menus with left/right keys, now in ubuntu 11.04 (and perhaps previous versions?) i have to hold the shift key while i do that, its quite annoying, any way to configure this?

Edit:I've attached a picture indicating the problem:

So in windows, with the focus on the circled element, I could tap the "right key" and it would open up this folder. In ubuntu, in eclipse, nautilus, etc, i have to hold down shift and the right key to get the same behaviour.