picasa + suse: ulimit -v unlimited

I installed Picasa on openSUSE 10.2 but it would not start.

After some playing with WINEDEBUG=1 and strace I noticed many failures of mmap. Kissed by the debugging muse I tried ulimit -v unlimited and that was it. Problem solved. See also SOFTVIRTUALLIMIT in /etc/sysconfig/ulimit.

Level 2: take the directory with 3500 images and sort it somehow.

Editing the Memory Card Label

I got tired of my memory card being mounted as /media/VendorName so I renamed it. It is enough to give the FAT filesystem a volume label, but how to do it is not as obvious as I had hoped. Here's how:

# mlabel -i /dev/device ::NEWLABEL

That's a double colon. The trick is in using the -i option so that you can use mtools.rpm without configuring the drive letters beforehand. Don't forget to unmount the device before accessing it with mtools.