pk stuff

While installing go, configuring vim syntax took longer than it should – would have been easier if I had known the following:

mkdir ~/.vim/ftdetect and ~/.vim/syntax if they don’t exist
vi ~/.vim/ftdetect/go.vim
containing:
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.go set filetype=go

copy go.vim to $GOROOT/misc/vim/go.vim to ~/.vim/syntax/

And of course, make sure you are running vim-enhanced and not vim-tiny, as tiny doesn’t support syntax highlighting.

Ever connected a hard disk to your computer without knowing how the partitions are formatted, or even what type of formatting? This surprisingly hard-to-find utility reveals all:

/usr/lib/klibc/bin/fstype /dev/sdb1

just replace sdb1 with your drive.

fstype prints something like this:

FSTYPE=jfs
FSSIZE=156225608

I have no idea why the hide this under /usr/lib/klibc/bin. Other applications in the klibc-utils package get mapped to more reasonable locations.