"Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/dists/stable/Release"

I have received this warning every time I upgrade my Linux Mint Debian Editian 2 (LMDE 2). Today I decided to solve this problem. After some research I found a possible solution. I'm still testing, but I'll share it this way to fix the problem:

First step, execute this command:

$ sudo sed -i -e 's/deb http/deb [arch=amd64] http/' "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-earth-pro.list"

So, execute this one:

$ sudo sed -i -e 's/deb http/deb [arch=amd64] http/' "/etc/cron.daily/google-earth-pro"

And then:

$ sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get check

As I commented, I'm still testing if this configuration will be reset, but with this I can upgrade the sources. In case I have news I will tell you.

Tks!

Formatar pendrive no NTFS usando Linux

Pelo linux, acesse o terminal e entre com o seguinte comando:

sudo mkntfs

Caso não tenha essa ferramenta instalada, instale-a digitando:

$sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs

Verifique a partição de sua pendrive:

sudo fdisk -l

A saída será similiar a essa:

$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 223.6 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 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
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: BE38E239-B337-4CD5-BEC8-66F1E43FC9B3

Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1       4096    589823    585728   286M EFI System
/dev/sda2     591872  17778687  17186816   8.2G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3   17778688 324978687 307200000 146.5G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda4  324978688 468860927 143882240  68.6G Linux filesystem

Disk /dev/sdb: 14.7 GiB, 15724707840 bytes, 30712320 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
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device     Boot Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1  *     2048 30711807 30709760 14.7G  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Veja que no meu sistema a pendrive foi montada em /dev/sdb1, certifique-se corretamente aonde será montada a sua. Tenha certeza para que ocorra nenhum acidente e apague uma partição errada.

Agora iremos desmontar a pendrive antes de iniciar a formatação.

$sudo umount /dev/sdb1

Feito isso, iremos formatar a pendrive com o sistema de arquivos NTFS. Usarei o mkntfs, e antes que pergunte porque não o comando mkfs.ntfs é porque esse último é um link para o primeiro, veja:

$ locate mkfs.ntfs
/sbin/mkfs.ntfs
/usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.ntfs.8.gz

$ ll /sbin/mkfs.ntfs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 May 26  2015 /sbin/mkfs.ntfs -> mkntfs*

Com o comando mkntfs usarei as seguintes flags:

-f, --fast            Perform a quick format
-v, --verbose         Verbose execution
-L, --label STRING    Set the volume label

Explicando:

-f  para formatação rápida (quem usa ou já usou Windows sabe do que estou falando)

-v  para exibir na tela o passo a passo de todo o processo de formatação

-L para dar nome ao pendrive

Vamos ao comando propriamente dito:

$ sudo mkntfs -f -v -L minha_pendrive /dev/sdb1

Cluster size has been automatically set to 4096 bytes.
Creating NTFS volume structures.
Creating root directory (mft record 5)
Creating $MFT (mft record 0)
Creating $MFTMirr (mft record 1)
Creating $LogFile (mft record 2)
Creating $AttrDef (mft record 4)
Creating $Bitmap (mft record 6)
Creating $Boot (mft record 7)
Creating backup boot sector.
Creating $Volume (mft record 3)
Creating $BadClus (mft record 8)
Creating $Secure (mft record 9)
Creating $UpCase (mft record 0xa)
Creating $Extend (mft record 11)
Creating system file (mft record 0xc)
Creating system file (mft record 0xd)
Creating system file (mft record 0xe)
Creating system file (mft record 0xf)
Creating $Quota (mft record 24)
Creating $ObjId (mft record 25)
Creating $Reparse (mft record 26)
Syncing root directory index record.
Syncing $Bitmap.
Syncing $MFT.
Updating $MFTMirr.
Syncing device.
mkntfs completed successfully. Have a nice day.

Terminado o processo é só checar sua pendrive.

Caso tenha problemas ao usar a pendrive no linux, e receba uma mensagem tal como essa:

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
then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation
for more details."

Proceda dessa forma:

$ sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
$ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb1

Lembrando que nesse caso minha pendrive foi montada em /dev/sdb1, certifique o local em que sua pendrive foi montanda com o comando fdisk -l.

That's all folks!