I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is
highly-partitioned, like this:
/
/boot
/usr
/tmp
/usr/portage == via NFS
/var
/var/lib/postgresql
/var/tmp
/var/log
/var/spool
(Not all of them will reside on the same physical disk; I have
/dev/sda up to /dev/sdd)
I've been searching high
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 20:53, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is
highly-partitioned, like this:
/
/boot
/usr
/tmp
/usr/portage == via NFS
/var
/var/lib/postgresql
/var/tmp
/var/log
/var/spool
(Not all of them will reside on
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is
highly-partitioned, like this:
/
/boot
/usr
/tmp
/usr/portage == via NFS
/var
/var/lib/postgresql
/var/tmp
/var/log
/var/spool
(Not all of them will reside
cov...@ccs.covici.com writes:
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2011-11-24, cov...@ccs.covici.com cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems
to work, but I was thinking to use rsnapshot instead which seems like a
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 21:35, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is
highly-partitioned, like this:
- 8 snip
I don't use LVM but I suspect that on this list
On 25-Nov-11 17:12, Pandu Poluan wrote:
/ == 800 MiB
/boot == 20 MiB
/usr == 1800 MiB
/usr/portage == 2000 MiB
/var == 4000 MiB
/var/lib/postgresql == 1000 MiB
I think it is more than wise to put /tmp on separate
partition, and mount it with nodev/nosuid/noexec.
Malware frequently use tmp
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 21:35, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is
highly-partitioned, like
于 2011年11月24日 15:34, justin 写道:
On 24/11/11 06:27, Paul Hartman wrote:
Hi,
After emerging glibc-2.14.1 today, pam stopped working, which
prevented KDE from working and some other things. I got this kind of
message:
/lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
cov...@ccs.covici.com writes:
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2011-11-24, cov...@ccs.covici.com cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
I am using rdiff-backup which is no longer maintained, but still seems
to work, but I was
On Friday 25 November 2011 14:53:17 Pandu Poluan wrote:
I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is
highly-partitioned, like this:
/
/boot
/usr
/tmp
/usr/portage == via NFS
/var
/var/lib/postgresql
/var/tmp
/var/log
/var/spool
(Not all of them will reside on the same
On Nov 26, 2011 12:05 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 21:35, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info
wrote:
I want to
On Nov 26, 2011 12:06 AM, Stéphane Guedon steph...@22decembre.eu wrote:
On Friday 25 November 2011 14:53:17 Pandu Poluan wrote:
I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is
highly-partitioned, like this:
/
/boot
/usr
/tmp
/usr/portage == via NFS
/var
Pandu Poluan pandu at poluan.info writes:
Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room
starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D
Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty complex.
I feel your pain
I too have had trouble
On Nov 26, 2011 12:05 AM, 微菜 micro...@fedoraproject.org wrote:
于 2011年11月24日 15:34, justin 写道:
On 24/11/11 06:27, Paul Hartman wrote:
Hi,
After emerging glibc-2.14.1 today, pam stopped working, which
prevented KDE from working and some other things. I got this kind of
message:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
SNIP
/mnt/distfiles ext3/4 (shared via nfs)
Why do you separate the distfiles from the portage tree?
Rgds,
distfiles has a tendency to grow large over the years. IIRC nothing
cleans it up automatically so having it
On Nov 26, 2011 1:05 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Pandu Poluan pandu at poluan.info writes:
Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room
starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D
Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and
On Friday 25 November 2011, Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 21:35, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info
wrote:
I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is
highly-partitioned, like this:
- 8
Am 25.11.2011 19:11, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
On Nov 26, 2011 12:05 AM, 微菜 micro...@fedoraproject.org
mailto:micro...@fedoraproject.org wrote:
于 2011年11月24日 15:34, justin 写道:
On 24/11/11 06:27, Paul Hartman wrote:
Hi,
After emerging glibc-2.14.1 today, pam stopped working, which
On Friday 25 November 2011, Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 20:53, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is
highly-partitioned, like this:
/
/boot
/usr
/tmp
/usr/portage == via NFS
/var
/var/lib/postgresql
On Friday 25 November 2011 19:17:07 Mark Knecht wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
SNIP
/mnt/distfiles ext3/4 (shared via nfs)
Why do you separate the distfiles from the portage tree?
Rgds,
distfiles has a tendency to grow large over
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 01:31:45AM -0600, Dale wrote
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6878530.html?sid=924b3c65e5584c4dc81672583d97b85d#6878530
You need more ram, swap space or maybe drive space for the portage work
directory. Basically, it's running out of space somewhere.
Thanks
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:17:07AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
SNIP
/mnt/distfiles ext3/4 (shared via nfs)
Why do you separate the distfiles from the portage tree?
Rgds,
distfiles has a tendency to grow large over
Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Nov 26, 2011 12:05 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com
mailto:markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm exactly as you are WRT to LVM but I admired Dale for giving it a
shot and I'm sorta feeling like I gotta start learn it just to be part
of the group... ;-)
Hey, not
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:12:42PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote
Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room
starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D
Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty complex.
So, I want to start from
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:17:07AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
SNIP
/mnt/distfiles ext3/4 (shared via nfs)
Why do you separate the distfiles
Dale wrote:
Oh, here is a funny one. Imagine walking up to the computer and
seeing knotify taking up 14Gbs of ram. O_O My rig was using all the
ram, some cache and slow as leap year. I kill -9'd that thing. G!!
Dale
:-) :-)
Instead of *cache*, make that *swap*. What was I
Francesco Talamona wrote:
IMO /usr/portage and /boot are too small, these are the respective
sizes in my system: [root@aemaeth:~]$ du -sh /usr/portage 19G
/usr/portage [root@aemaeth:~]$ du -sh /boot 52M /boot HTH Francesco
This is my size and it works fine with the occasional use of eclean:
Walter Dnes wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 01:31:45AM -0600, Dale wrote
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6878530.html?sid=924b3c65e5584c4dc81672583d97b85d#6878530
You need more ram, swap space or maybe drive space for the portage work
directory. Basically, it's running out of space
On Friday 25 November 2011 21:09:04 Mark Knecht wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:17:07AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
SNIP
/mnt/distfiles
Hi there!
I have some fonts which are not included in the repository.
How can I install them?
Cheers!
Hi there!
I have some problems with several fonts.
For example, 0 in Andale Mono is displayed with a dot shifted by
several points.
This shift looks different in different sizes.
How to fix this?
Cheers.
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:55:02 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
I also wonder if /var/tmp can be shared between boxen (via NFS),
assuming I ensure that no two boxen perform emerge at the same time...
That will really slow down emerges.
--
Neil Bothwick
Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:12:42 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
I don't use LVM but I suspect that on this list that would be the #1
recommendation to take care of the numbers question.
Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room
starts spinning, and I can hear wolves
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:07:48 -0600, Dale wrote:
Here is one thing to think about on LVM. If you put /usr on a separate
partition, you will need the init thingy, thanks to the dev at fedora.
Not yet you don't. I'm happily running a separate /usr (LVM has nothing
to do with it) without an
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:53:57 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
Why do you separate the distfiles from the portage tree?
A better question is why put the distfiles in the middle of the portage
tree? It really makes no sense, they are two very different types of data.
A separate DISTDIR also makes
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 02:27:04PM -0600, Dale wrote
The funny thing, I have to leave mine on tmpfs because when I update
LOo, I don't have enough space on /var. I have enough ram tho. lol
I know I have enough diskspace. See my reply to Pandu in the
Partitioning strategy...? thread.
*
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:58:56 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
* the rest of the drive is one large reiserfs partition
The power of LVM, without the pain.
Hardly. For instance, a runaway program filling logfiles will
fill up everything, you can't isolate, for example, personal and system
data.
I
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:59:51 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
I've used Gentoo since 2006 and never had any reason to emerge -e.
Apart from the occasional gcc ABI change, the only time I do it is after
a fresh install, so that everything is built with the installed toolchain.
--
Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 22:30 +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:59:51 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
I've used Gentoo since 2006 and never had any reason to emerge -e.
Apart from the occasional gcc ABI change, the only time I do it is after
a fresh install, so that
106 minutes, 177 packsges on a fresh install (on a dual E5345 I just got my
hands on). God help you if you if you have KDE installed, though. Even
without it, my core desktop has somewhere between 500-700 packages. Builds
overnight on my Phenom 9650.
ZZ
On Nov 25, 2011 2:04 PM, Florian Philipp
In the last day or two wicd broke badly due to a net-tools upgrade.
The recommended workarounds are to specify USE=old-output
for net-tools or to downgrade net-tools one version (I am ~amd64).
Neither of these have helped me. Wicd cannot start either the
wired or wireless interface.
When I
2011/11/25 Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net
Am 25.11.2011 19:11, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
On Nov 26, 2011 12:05 AM, 微菜 micro...@fedoraproject.org
mailto:micro...@fedoraproject.org wrote:
于 2011年11月24日 15:34, justin 写道:
On 24/11/11 06:27, Paul Hartman wrote:
Hi,
After
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:07:48 -0600, Dale wrote:
Here is one thing to think about on LVM. If you put /usr on a separate
partition, you will need the init thingy, thanks to the dev at fedora.
Not yet you don't. I'm happily running a separate /usr (LVM has nothing
to do
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:12:42 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
I don't use LVM but I suspect that on this list that would be the #1
recommendation to take care of the numbers question.
Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room
starts spinning, and I
I've just started building a new system from scratch, and have run into a
problem.
The motherboard only has SATA and USB conectors, no legacy IDE/PATA/FDD/etc
connectors at all.
The problem is that all 4 of the Live CDs I have tried fail to boot
completely.
All of them bring up the initial
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Walter Dneswaltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:17:07AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluanpa...@poluan.info wrote:
SNIP
/mnt/distfiles ext3/4 (shared via nfs)
Why do you separate
On 2011-11-25, cov...@ccs.covici.com cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
I noticed that there was no real restore,
Um, it's a regular file sysmte, so you use cp -a to restore.
but as you say you can usually find what you are looking for. I will
probably try on an experimental basis.
--
Grant
Hello!
It seems that /usr/share/locale is keeping files for many languages not
of any use to me: around 200MB in total.
Is there a way to configure this away that I am not aware of?
Thanks in advance,
Sebastian
On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 11:01 +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote:
Some research tells me that this is a problem with SATA CD-ROMs, and
needs a
kernel configured with the libata module option atapi_enabled=1
Does anybody know of a Live CD that will work with a SATA CD drive?
AFAIK most (all) modern
On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 01:28 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
It seems that /usr/share/locale is keeping files for many languages
not
of any use to me: around 200MB in total.
Is there a way to configure this away that I am not aware of?
Thanks in advance,
What do you have in LINGUAS and
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
In the last day or two wicd broke badly due to a net-tools upgrade.
The recommended workarounds are to specify USE=old-output
for net-tools or to downgrade net-tools one version (I am ~amd64).
Neither of these have
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:28:50 PM Albert W. Hopkins wrote:
On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 11:01 +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote:
Some research tells me that this is a problem with SATA CD-ROMs, and
needs a
kernel configured with the libata module option atapi_enabled=1
Does anybody know of a Live CD
On Nov 26, 2011 5:05 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:12:42 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
I don't use LVM but I suspect that on this list that would be the #1
recommendation to take care of the numbers question.
Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes
2011/11/25 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info
I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is
highly-partitioned, like this:
/
/boot
okay
/usr
why? just makes your life harder.
/tmp
okay
/usr/portage == via NFS
if it makes you happy...
/var
okay
Am 26.11.2011 01:28, schrieb Sebastian Pipping:
Hello!
It seems that /usr/share/locale is keeping files for many languages not
of any use to me: around 200MB in total.
Is there a way to configure this away that I am not aware of?
Thanks in advance,
Sebastian
Please follow
On Fri, Nov 25 2011, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
In the last day or two wicd broke badly due to a net-tools upgrade.
The recommended workarounds are to specify USE=old-output
for net-tools or to downgrade net-tools one version (I
On Nov 26, 2011 9:05 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com
wrote:
2011/11/25 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info
I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is
highly-partitioned, like this:
/
/boot
okay
/usr
why? just makes your life harder.
Why will it make
26 Florian Philipp wrote:
Am 26.11.2011 01:28, schrieb Sebastian Pipping:
It seems that /usr/share/locale is keeping files for many languages
not of any use to me: around 200MB in total.
Is there a way to configure this away that I am not aware of?
Please follow the section glibc Locales
Paul Colquhoun wrote:
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:28:50 PM Albert W. Hopkins wrote:
On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 11:01 +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote:
Some research tells me that this is a problem with SATA CD-ROMs, and
needs a
kernel configured with the libata module option atapi_enabled=1
Does anybody
On 11/25/2011 10:00 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
26 Florian Philipp wrote:
Am 26.11.2011 01:28, schrieb Sebastian Pipping:
It seems that /usr/share/locale is keeping files for many languages
not of any use to me: around 200MB in total.
Is there a way to configure this away that I am not aware
Have you looked at localepurge?-- Sent from my HP TouchPadOn Nov 25, 2011 7:00 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 26 Florian Philipp wrote:
Am 26.11.2011 01:28, schrieb Sebastian Pipping:
It seems that /usr/share/locale is keeping files for many languages
not of any use to me:
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:53:17 +0700
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is
highly-partitioned, like this:
partition setups are like lovers - highly variable. And the one that
suits you will suit almost no-one else.
Many of the
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