2013/7/19 luis jure l...@internet.com.uy
on 2013-07-18 at 23:40 Davide De Prisco wrote:
I created partitions with fdisk and then I usually push all in with dd
from the old disk. For the grub you can install it like a normal disk.
did you use GPT or plain old MBR? so there's nothing
luis jure wrote:
hello list,
i want to migrate my system, currently in a HD, to a new SSD. i thought it
would be easy, but i decided to read a little before partitioning the disk
(my first SDD) and now i'm really confused...
i intend to have only two partitions in the SSD: one for / and the
On 17 July 2013 15:03, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 02:18:22PM +0200, András Csányi wrote:
On 17 July 2013 13:59, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:04:12AM +0200, András Csányi wrote:
mingdao@jeremiah
On 19/07/2013 08:56, Dale wrote:
luis jure wrote:
hello list,
i want to migrate my system, currently in a HD, to a new SSD. i
thought it
would be easy, but i decided to read a little before partitioning the
disk
(my first SDD) and now i'm really confused...
i intend to have only two
On 17 July 2013 14:49, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 01:39:36PM +0200, András Csányi wrote:
On 17 July 2013 11:35, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 10:04:12 +0200, András Csányi wrote:
Ok. How is possible to get the
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:35:52 +0200, András Csányi wrote:
Ok. How is possible to get the post-install message of an ebuild
without re-emerge the package neither opening the log file? The
man page of emerge cannot say anything about it.
When I sad that to read the ebuild is not user
On Jul 17, 2013 11:58 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com wrote:
Hi,
I need some help settling up networking with KVM machines.
I have one public interface with four publicly accessible IPs.
I want to run a private virtual network for the VMs, such that every VM
can access every other
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On 19/07/2013 08:56, Dale wrote:
luis jure wrote:
hello list,
i want to migrate my system, currently in a HD, to a new SSD. i
thought it
would be easy, but i decided to read a little before partitioning the
disk
(my first SDD) and now i'm really confused...
i intend to
On 19 July 2013 10:17, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:35:52 +0200, András Csányi wrote:
Ok. How is possible to get the post-install message of an ebuild
without re-emerge the package neither opening the log file? The
man page of emerge cannot say anything
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 03:22:11 -0500, Dale wrote:
Do you really want to put /home on a SSD?
Why not?
/home is the most frequently-read directory on most systems, and SSD
is ideal for that.
If you are concerned about wear-levelling, /home is not the danger
point
Interesting.
syslog-ng[32015]: segfault at 44d8 ip 7f4f3fa23c83 sp
7fffb233b940 error 4 in libsyslog-ng.so.0.0.0 (deleted)[7f4f3f9eb000
+67000]
Has anybody else seen anything like that?
Perhaps you forgot to restart syslog-ng after the update?
# ldd /usr/sbin/syslog-ng | grep libsyslog-ng
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 03:22:11 -0500, Dale wrote:
Do you really want to put /home on a SSD?
Why not?
/home is the most frequently-read directory on most systems, and SSD
is ideal for that.
If you are concerned about wear-levelling, /home is not the danger
point
2013/7/19 Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com:
syslog-ng[32015]: segfault at 44d8 ip 7f4f3fa23c83 sp
7fffb233b940 error 4 in libsyslog-ng.so.0.0.0 (deleted)[7f4f3f9eb000
+67000]
Has anybody else seen anything like that?
Perhaps you forgot to restart syslog-ng after the update?
2013/7/19 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 03:22:11 -0500, Dale wrote:
Do you really want to put /home on a SSD?
Why not?
/home is the most frequently-read directory on most systems, and SSD
is ideal for that.
If you are concerned about
On 07/19/2013 11:33:33 AM, Randolph Maaßen wrote:
2013/7/19 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com
Neil Bothwick wrote:
SSDs are not like USB flash drives, and it's been years since I
managed
to wear one of those out (mainly due to a kernel bug). They have
lifetimes similar to spinny disks these
Hello,
I am using zfs for a while now. I am not using it for / but for /var and my
media collection. PORTDIR is /var/portage so portage files are on zfs too.
This resulted in portage being incredible slow. eix-sync took ages, emerge -
auv world gave you enought time to prepare a meal. And eat
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you really want to put /home on a SSD?
My first step into SSD on my desktop was to put everything-but-home
onto it. I left home on a HDD. Speedup was very noticeable! Especially
portage-related things were very much faster
on 2013-07-19 at 01:56 Dale wrote:
Do you really want to put /home on a SSD?
well, not actually the whole /home, the SSD is too small for that. i'm not
sure yet, i might keep /home on a HDD and mount the partition on the SSD as
a directory under /home for some special uses. or the other way
Dan Johansson wrote:
Question: Is this a physical host or is it a virtual host running
under qemu?
Reason for my question ist that recently the CPU-Id presented from quemu
in the guest has changed and if you have CFLAGS=-march=native then
some newly compiles SW could fail. One way to solve this
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 03:55:37AM -0500, Dale wrote:
Now I really feel about better getting one. That was my concern and
reason for the question. I'm sure /home gets its share of reads and
writes and was thinking the writes would cause a problem over time.
Maybe they are better now
2013/7/19 Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu:
Question: Is this a physical host or is it a virtual host running
under qemu?
Reason for my question ist that recently the CPU-Id presented from quemu
in the guest has changed and if you have CFLAGS=-march=native then
some newly compiles SW could
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:45:36 +0100, Mick wrote:
I have a MUCH smaller /home than Dale and on a new box I was thinking
of having it on a HDD, along with all things portage related. I
typically resync 3 -4 times a week but I am not sure how much
erase/write cycles this represents. Also, /home
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:43:39 -0500, Dale wrote:
My /home is over 1Tb, that is Tb too. I'm not buying
one big enough for all that.
1Tb is only 125GB, well within the capacity of current SSDs :P
Switching to an SSD, particularly on a laptop where you can't add a
second drive, really helps you
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 19 Jul 2013 17:43:39 Dale wrote:
luis jure wrote:
on 2013-07-19 at 01:56 Dale wrote:
Do you really want to put /home on a SSD?
well, not actually the whole /home, the SSD is too small for that. i'm
not
luis jure wrote:
on 2013-07-19 at 01:56 Dale wrote:
Do you really want to put /home on a SSD?
well, not actually the whole /home, the SSD is too small for that. i'm not
sure yet, i might keep /home on a HDD and mount the partition on the SSD as
a directory under /home for some special uses.
Alexey Mishustin wrote:
So, restarting syslog-ng should be all that's required to fix it - reboot is
overkill.
As for me, first I updated syslog-ng, then I issued
'/etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload' (by mistake, instead of 'restart'), and
then 'restart' as I should. Then, just when syslog-ng was
on 2013-07-19 at 12:47 Bruce Hill wrote:
The OCZs I've purchased have 3-5 year warranty, also. Most of the
mechanical hard drives you purchase today only have one year. I won't
buy any SATA mechanical drives except Hitachi.
i got 5 years on a 4Tb western digital caviar black i bought a couple
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 07:00:59PM -0300, luis jure wrote:
the system has been up just a few minutes, so i haven't had time to do
much. but i tried eix-sync and it seemed to me it went much faster. also
libreoffice opened in i think less than 2 seconds, instead of several
seconds like in my
hi, i just booted my new system. migration using rsync was smooth. i had
to fight a little with grub2 and gpt, but now it seems everything is
working fine.
the system has been up just a few minutes, so i haven't had time to do
much. but i tried eix-sync and it seemed to me it went much faster.
On 20/07/13 00:43, Dale wrote:
luis jure wrote:
on 2013-07-19 at 01:56 Dale wrote:
Do you really want to put /home on a SSD?
well, not actually the whole /home, the SSD is too small for that. i'm
not
sure yet, i might keep /home on a HDD and mount the partition on the
SSD as
a directory
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:43:39 -0500, Dale wrote:
My /home is over 1Tb, that is Tb too. I'm not buying
one big enough for all that.
1Tb is only 125GB, well within the capacity of current SSDs :P
Switching to an SSD, particularly on a laptop where you can't add a
second
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 06:29:21AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
One odd condition I ran into twice with the ssd + btrfs were
filesystems about half full but cant write to because the filesystem was
full!
After messy crashes it seemed like btrfs would lose some
files/sectors/whatever
on 2013-07-19 at 18:03 Dale wrote:
Mine is mostly videos and some smaller amount of pics. 1 Tb is 125Gb?
1Tb is 1,000Gb or so.
hehe... i guess neil meant that in average for each Tb you have in your
disk, only 125Mb is really important or useful. the rest is crap that just
piles up...
on 2013-07-19 at 17:11 Bruce Hill wrote:
Do some meaningful benchmark...
emerge -ajv app-benchmarks/bonnie++ bonnie++ -d /tmp -u root
then post us your output.
mmm... /tmp is on the root partition that's only about 40 Gb (in my old
HDD / was 30Gb, and that was enough, but sometimes i had
luis jure wrote:
on 2013-07-19 at 12:47 Bruce Hill wrote:
The OCZs I've purchased have 3-5 year warranty, also. Most of the
mechanical hard drives you purchase today only have one year. I won't
buy any SATA mechanical drives except Hitachi.
i got 5 years on a 4Tb western digital caviar black
luis jure wrote:
on 2013-07-19 at 18:03 Dale wrote:
Mine is mostly videos and some smaller amount of pics. 1 Tb is 125Gb?
1Tb is 1,000Gb or so.
hehe... i guess neil meant that in average for each Tb you have in your
disk, only 125Mb is really important or useful. the rest is crap that just
from my recent experience, a caveat if you're using GPT to partition your
disk and intend to boot from it: grub won't install on the disk (at least
if you have an old plain BIOS system, i understand this doesn't happen with
UEFI ??? ).
when i tried to run grub2-install i got this error message:
luis jure wrote:
on 2013-07-19 at 18:39 Dale wrote:
I think I could get my OS on a 30Gb SSD with no problem and plenty of
breathing room.
i had a 30Tb partition for my system in my old HDD, and the breathing
space wasn't quite plenty. often i found myself with less than the 6Gb
free required
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:43:39 -0500, Dale wrote:
My /home is over 1Tb, that is Tb too. I'm not buying
one big enough for all that.
1Tb is only 125GB, well within the capacity of current SSDs :P
on 2013-07-19 at 18:39 Dale wrote:
Ahh, that makes sense. Thing is, I can't get rid of family photos or my
videos. Nope, just ain't happening.
yeah, the same here... my 2Tb HD was almost full, so i bought a new 4Tb
disk. and it's a nice feeling having all that space free...
I think I
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:43:39 -0500, Dale wrote:
My /home is over 1Tb, that is Tb too. I'm not buying
one big enough for all that.
1Tb is only 125GB, well within the capacity of current
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:58:59PM -0300, luis jure wrote:
i had a 30Tb partition for my system in my old HDD, and the breathing
space wasn't quite plenty. often i found myself with less than the 6Gb
free required by libreoffice to compile, and i had to clean up a bit.
other than that yes,
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Bruce Hill
da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote:
I won't buy any SATA
mechanical drives except Hitachi.
Hitachi's storage division was sold off and split up last year. Their
2.5 HDD and SDD lines now belong to Western Digital (who continue to
sell the *Star
On Friday 19 Jul 2013 17:43:39 Dale wrote:
luis jure wrote:
on 2013-07-19 at 01:56 Dale wrote:
Do you really want to put /home on a SSD?
well, not actually the whole /home, the SSD is too small for that. i'm
not sure yet, i might keep /home on a HDD and mount the partition on the
SSD
Bruce Hill wrote:
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:58:59PM -0300, luis jure wrote:
i had a 30Tb partition for my system in my old HDD, and the breathing
space wasn't quite plenty. often i found myself with less than the 6Gb
free required by libreoffice to compile, and i had to clean up a bit.
other
On 20/07/13 07:44, luis jure wrote:
from my recent experience, a caveat if you're using GPT to partition your
disk and intend to boot from it: grub won't install on the disk (at least
if you have an old plain BIOS system, i understand this doesn't happen with
UEFI ??? ).
when i tried to
On 20 July 2013, at 00:03, Dale wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:43:39 -0500, Dale wrote:
My /home is over 1Tb, that is Tb too. I'm not buying
one big enough for all that.
1Tb is only 125GB, well within the capacity of current SSDs :P
...
Mine is mostly videos and
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:34:27PM -0500, Dale wrote:
Stop using disk and build in RAM:
tmpfs /var/tmp/portagetmpfs
size=7000M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shmtmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec
0 0
On 19 July 2013, at 19:58, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:45:36 +0100, Mick wrote:
I have a MUCH smaller /home than Dale and on a new box I was thinking
of having it on a HDD, along with all things portage related.
… /home is written all the
time with mail and various
on 2013-07-20 at 09:51 William Kenworthy wrote:
You have to map the drive so grub can find it:
no, i don't think that's the problem.
the problem is that with GPT disks you need a BIOS Boot Partition since
they don't have a MBR. is that correct?
Bruce Hill wrote:
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:34:27PM -0500, Dale wrote:
Stop using disk and build in RAM:
tmpfs /var/tmp/portagetmpfs size=7000M,nr_inodes=1M
0 0
tmpfs /dev/shmtmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec
0 0
from luis jure l...@internet.com.uy:
on 2013-07-20 at 09:51 William Kenworthy wrote:
You have to map the drive so grub can find it:
no, i don't think that's the problem.
the problem is that with GPT disks you need a BIOS Boot Partition since
they don't have a MBR.
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