blogng/blog/2015-12-01-a-random-rant.markdown

---
comments: false
date: 2015-12-01 00:00
layout: post
tags: life, rant, filesystems
title: A Random rant
---

```
/me sets +rant
```
Yesterday, Found an old portable hard disk in the attic. Face lights up. Connect to computer, doesnt work. The connection probabaly fried. Its probabaly the connector, HDD internally uses a `SATA` bus.

I know what to do, lets oopen the server box and connect to the motherboard. Can’t find any SATA cable. `find sata ~house`

Finally hard disk plugged in, `FreeBSD` boots. `dmesg` shows everything is alright, except `ext4`. #sigh

Somebody suggests `fuse`. Alright, thats it then. Compile, `kldld` and booyeah!

Okay, its full of photos from past. Wow! I need to see them, lets share it to something with a monitor. That’d be my mac. `sshfs`? Sorry dude, you need the whole `XCode` suite and should sacrifice an extra kidney to load unsigned `kext`s.

But there are other ways of sharing files. `SMB` FTW!

Why the fuck are there three samba versions in ports. `cd /usr/ports/samba$(random_ver)`

Okay, samba is setup and mounted, tears

Nooo - I can’t access the hard disk. Why? huh perms fucking perms!

I got this! gonna chmod the shit out, but except… it doesn’t work. What the fuck does not implemented mean?

JFGI. JFGI POints to ext4 code - ext4 fuse is strictly read only. (facepalm)

Story still continues…
-												intial commit

											
										
										
											2017-01-22 21:30:42 +00:00
+								---
 								comments: false
-												Convert from old categories to tags

import sys
import yaml

with open(sys.argv[1]) as fp:
    data = fp.read()

if not data.find("---") == 0:
    # no head
    print("NO YAML HEAD FOUND")
    sys.exit(-1)

data = data[3:]
head_end = data.find("---")

head = data[0:head_end]
data = data[head_end+3:]

metadata = yaml.safe_load(head)

cats = metadata.pop('categories', None)
if cats != None:
    if type(cats) == list:
        tags = cats
    elif type(cats) == str:
        tags = cats.split()

    tags = list(map(lambda t: t.lower(), tags))

    metadata["tags"] = ", ".join(tags)
    new_data = f"---\n{yaml.dump(metadata, default_flow_style=False)}---{data}"
    # write it
    print(f"coverted: categories to tags: {tags} - {sys.argv[1]}")
    with open(sys.argv[1], "w") as fp:
        fp.write(new_data)
    sys.exit(0)

if not metadata.get("tags", None):
    metadata["tags"] = "untagged"
    new_data = f"---\n{yaml.dump(metadata, default_flow_style=False)}---{data}"
    print(f"untagged: {sys.argv[1]}")
    # write it
    with open(sys.argv[1], "w") as fp:
        fp.write(new_data)
    sys.exit(0)

print("No changes needed")

											
										
										
											2019-01-28 22:16:27 +00:00
+								date: 2015-12-01 00:00
 								layout: post
 								tags: life, rant, filesystems
 								title: A Random rant
-												intial commit

											
										
										
											2017-01-22 21:30:42 +00:00
+								---
 								```
 								/me sets +rant
 								```
 								Yesterday, Found an old portable hard disk in the attic. Face lights up. Connect to computer, doesnt work. The connection probabaly fried. Its probabaly the connector, HDD internally uses a `SATA` bus.
 								I know what to do, lets oopen the server box and connect to the motherboard. Can’t find any SATA cable. `find sata ~house`
 								Finally hard disk plugged in, `FreeBSD` boots. `dmesg` shows everything is alright, except `ext4`. #sigh
 								Somebody suggests `fuse`. Alright, thats it then. Compile, `kldld` and booyeah!
 								Okay, its full of photos from past. Wow! I need to see them, lets share it to something with a monitor. That’d be my mac. `sshfs`? Sorry dude, you need the whole `XCode` suite and should sacrifice an extra kidney to load unsigned `kext`s.
 								But there are other ways of sharing files. `SMB` FTW!
 								Why the fuck are there three samba versions in ports. `cd /usr/ports/samba$(random_ver)`
 								Okay, samba is setup and mounted, tears
 								Nooo - I can’t access the hard disk. Why? huh perms fucking perms!
 								I got this! gonna chmod the shit out, but except… it doesn’t work. What the fuck does not implemented mean?
 								JFGI. JFGI POints to ext4 code - ext4 fuse is strictly read only. (facepalm)
 								Story still continues…