Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-06 Thread Stroller
On 5 May 2013, at 17:16, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: ... The data on a SSD is not necessarily stored linar so it's not said that a new partition is using the same memory cells as the old one. … For a HDD I'd advise to create a copy using dd but from my understanding of SSD technology

Re: [gentoo-user] Using date/time variables in cronjobs?

2013-05-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 05 May 2013 19:21:18 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: For example, I want to keep 17 hourlies, and 30 nightlies, so I have two cron jobs set up, the hourly, and the nightly. Each backs up to a separate dir. So each time your backup fails, you reduce the number of available backups by one. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-06 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 07:50:52AM +0100, Stroller wrote: On 5 May 2013, at 17:16, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: ... The data on a SSD is not necessarily stored linar so it's not said that a new partition is using the same memory cells as the old one. … For a HDD I'd advise to create

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Randolph Maaßen r.maasse...@gmail.com wrote: I'm so damn lucky I dd'ed the SSD onto an external drive and worked at first on the image with qemu. A simple recreation of the partition brought the system back to live on the image. I tried the same on the real

[gentoo-user] Re: Nautical Gentoo hardware suggestions?

2013-05-06 Thread James
Stroller stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: … sci-geosciences/opencpn is in portage [1] However, much of the time, the Gentoo_nav_hadware will be on a 17 foot boat (damp and salty if not wet) … So I'm looking for marine grade hardware onto which installation of Gentoo is

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 06.05.2013 13:00, schrieb Hinnerk van Bruinehsen: On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 07:50:52AM +0100, Stroller wrote: On 5 May 2013, at 17:16, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: ... The data on a SSD is not necessarily stored linar so it's not said that a new partition is using the same memory cells as

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-06 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 07:34:20PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: emm - no. Wear leveling does not need any spare blocks. A lot of drives do have spare blocks, but those are never the same size of the original size (at least not on drives you can buy for a sensible amount of money). More

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/05/2013 20:36, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 07:34:20PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: emm - no. Wear leveling does not need any spare blocks. A lot of drives do have spare blocks, but those are never the same size of the original size (at least not on drives

[gentoo-user] Calibre Update Problems

2013-05-06 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, i run @world update. By calibre 0.9.29 broke the Process with follow message: quote calibre successfully installed. You can start it by running the command calibre There were 1 warning(s): * Setting up completion failed with error: install: der Aufruf von stat für

Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre Update Problems

2013-05-06 Thread Michael Mol
On 05/06/2013 03:15 PM, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, i run @world update. By calibre 0.9.29 broke the Process with follow message: quote calibre successfully installed. You can start it by running the command calibre There were 1 warning(s): * Setting up completion failed with

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-06 Thread Randolph Maaßen
2013/5/6 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com On 06/05/2013 20:36, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 07:34:20PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: emm - no. Wear leveling does not need any spare blocks. A lot of drives do have spare blocks, but those are never the same

[gentoo-user] Re: Delays while building Libre Office.

2013-05-06 Thread walt
On 05/05/2013 01:38 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: There doesn't appear to be any action in emerge which unpacks the build files (or even the entire source) of a package for perusal. This is a shame. You should become familiar with the 'ebuild' command, which I use very often when trying to debug

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Delays while building Libre Office.

2013-05-06 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 07.05.2013 01:22, schrieb walt: On 05/05/2013 01:38 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: There doesn't appear to be any action in emerge which unpacks the build files (or even the entire source) of a package for perusal. This is a shame. You should become familiar with the 'ebuild' command,

[gentoo-user] Re: Delays while building Libre Office.

2013-05-06 Thread walt
On 05/06/2013 04:37 PM, Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 07.05.2013 01:22, schrieb walt: On 05/05/2013 01:38 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: There doesn't appear to be any action in emerge which unpacks the build files (or even the entire source) of a package for perusal. This is a shame. You should