Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size

2008-12-19 Thread Shaochun Wang
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:45:58PM +0100, Matthias Fechner wrote: Hi Dirk, Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: Kernel w/o CONFIG_LBD? thanks a lot! Your kernel must not be 64bits, I think. -- Shaochun Wang scw...@ios.ac.cn Jabber: fung...@jabber.org

[gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-19 Thread Grant
I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm planning on going through the normal installation process except for copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there anything to watch out for? Pitfalls to avoid, etc?

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm planning on going through the normal installation process except for copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the corresponding partition on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 08:01 -0800, Grant wrote: I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm planning on going through the normal installation process except for copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-19 Thread Uwe
Grant wrote: I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm planning on going through the normal installation process except for copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there anything to watch out for?

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size

2008-12-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 14:03:04 schrieb Shaochun Wang: Your kernel must not be 64bits, I think. Why not is he not allowed to run a 64bit kernel? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size

2008-12-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 19 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 14:03:04 schrieb Shaochun Wang: Your kernel must not be 64bits, I think. Why not is he not allowed to run a 64bit kernel? Bye... Dirk the option is not available with 64bits - maybe not needed.

[gentoo-user] video driver discovery

2008-12-19 Thread James
Hello, I have a this video card: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G Series I have this entry in make.conf: VIDEO_CARDS=radeon vesa ati-drivers is not installed. What video driver is the gentoo system running on? How can I verify which driver(version) it is using? ...I do not

Re: [gentoo-user] video driver discovery

2008-12-19 Thread Justin
James schrieb: Hello, I have a this video card: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G Series I have this entry in make.conf: VIDEO_CARDS=radeon vesa ati-drivers is not installed. What video driver is the gentoo system running on? How can I verify which driver(version) it

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-19 Thread Dale
Uwe wrote: Grant wrote: I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm planning on going through the normal installation process except for copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there anything to watch

must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 19:24:12 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Freitag 19 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 14:03:04 schrieb Shaochun Wang: Your kernel must not be 64bits, I think. Why not is he not allowed to run a 64bit kernel? the option

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-19 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 16 December 2008, Miguel Ramos wrote: Another argument in favour of cp in Linux: holes in sparse files are kept correctly, whereas using tar they are not. It is curious that this is very OS dependent. In FreeBSD, with cp, holes always go away, using tar, or better dump/restore is

Re: [gentoo-user] Best website backup practice

2008-12-19 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 17 December 2008, kashani wrote: Momesso Andrea wrote: So there is no way if I want to keep the databases runnung? If your database isn't terribly busy I'd setup a second Mysql instance on the same machines and make it a slave of your primary. Then when it's time to

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 19:24:12 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Freitag 19 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 14:03:04 schrieb Shaochun Wang: Your kernel must not be

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 21:53:47 schrieb Paul Hartman: Yes, in English must can also mean that you infer or presume something. Ah, yes. I remember :-) So, instead of your kernel must not be 64bits, maybe it would have been clearer to say I suspect you are not using a 64-bit kernel; if

Re: [gentoo-user] Best website backup practice

2008-12-19 Thread kashani
Mick wrote: On Wednesday 17 December 2008, kashani wrote: Momesso Andrea wrote: So there is no way if I want to keep the databases runnung? If your database isn't terribly busy I'd setup a second Mysql instance on the same machines and make it a slave of your primary. Then when it's

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 21:53:47 schrieb Paul Hartman: Yes, in English must can also mean that you infer or presume something. Ah, yes. I remember :-) So, instead of your kernel must not be 64bits, maybe

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:13:11 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: So, instead of your kernel must not be 64bits, maybe it would have been clearer to say I suspect you are not using a 64-bit kernel; if you were, it would not have this problem. :) So can your kernel must not... be understood as

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1 USE dvdnav

2008-12-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 02:16:09AM +, Penguin Lover Stroller squawked: Anyone see what I'm doing wrong here, please? Yes. See below. I can't seem to get mplayer to accept the dvdnav USE flag, which is always (-bracketed) out when I pretend to emerge it: snip Yet the ebuild seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1 USE dvdnav

2008-12-19 Thread Arttu V.
On 12/20/08, Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: I think you can try use unmasking the flag: add a line to /etc/portage/package.use.mask It's profiles related stuff, so I think /etc/portage/profiles/package.use.mask will be the right place. At least if one trusts portage's man page. --

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1 USE dvdnav

2008-12-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 06:34:56AM +0200, Penguin Lover Arttu V. squawked: On 12/20/08, Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: I think you can try use unmasking the flag: add a line to /etc/portage/package.use.mask It's profiles related stuff, so I think

[gentoo-user] depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
emerge -av --depclean: kde-base/kopete selected: 3.5.10 protected: none omitted: 4.1.3 kde-base/kget selected: 3.5.10 protected: none omitted: 4.1.3 kde-base/kmenuedit selected: 3.5.10 protected: none omitted: 4.1.3 The