Linux – Midnight Commander – rescan compressed archive

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When I open any archive (for example zip) in midnight commander it open it and as I understand it caches its content. When you open this archive second time MC uses its cache. How to reset this cache? I ask because my archives change but I see the old content. Ctrl+R doesn't help.

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I got the answer from developers at mailing list:

This is known issue: https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/62 https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2454

As workaround, menu Command -> "Active VFS list", select wanted zip VFS and press "Free VFSs now".

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It works for me now. I am using

GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.21

strace wait on long time

connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(6011),
  sin_addr=inet_addr("x.x.x.x")}, 16) = ? ERESTARTSYS
  (To be restarted if SA_RESTART is set)'

I tried this:

# hostname

use this for /etc/hosts:

nameofhost=hostname

add this $nameofhost to the /etc/hosts on line starting with

127.0.0.1 localhost ... $nameofhost

Cheers!

Midnight Commander: file size format

You can adjust the displayed digits with the column size option, see the “Listing mode” section in the manual. The file to edit is ~/.config/mc/panels.ini.

To list the file sizes as K, M or G use a narrow size column using the user_format key:

[New Left Panel]
user_format=half type name mark size:4 space mtime

If you want the size without abbreviation, reserve enough space for it:

[New Right Panel]
user_format=half type name mark size:16 space mtime

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