Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

2016-03-30 Thread Meino . Cramer
meino.cra...@gmx.de [16-03-31 04:52]: > Neil Bothwick [16-03-31 04:04]: > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 19:35:33 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > > By the way: For what stands the 'dd' for ? > > > (Think unix!) > > > > The apocryphal story is that

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

2016-03-30 Thread wabe
Ian Bloss wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016, 22:46 wrote: > > > Neil Bothwick [16-03-31 04:04]: > > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 19:35:33 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > > > > By the way: For what stands the 'dd' for ? > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

2016-03-30 Thread Ian Bloss
I've always thought it was something like data/disk duplication On Wed, Mar 30, 2016, 22:46 wrote: > Neil Bothwick [16-03-31 04:04]: > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 19:35:33 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > > By the way: For what stands the 'dd' for

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

2016-03-30 Thread Meino . Cramer
Neil Bothwick [16-03-31 04:04]: > On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 19:35:33 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > By the way: For what stands the 'dd' for ? > > (Think unix!) > > The apocryphal story is that it is copy and convert, but cc was already > taken by the C compiler. > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Blacklisting all packages from overlay except a specific group and version

2016-03-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 30/03/16 05:48, Bryan Gardiner wrote: On 30 March 2016 05:01:16 GMT+09:00, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: So, I want to install packages from an overlay, but only from a specific group. In this case, the dev-qt/ group. The overlay name is "qt". It doesn't work: package.mask:

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

2016-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 19:35:33 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > By the way: For what stands the 'dd' for ? > (Think unix!) The apocryphal story is that it is copy and convert, but cc was already taken by the C compiler. If you have ever mistyped the of argument, you'll understand why some

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

2016-03-30 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 30 Mar 2016 19:36:57 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Neil Bothwick [16-03-30 17:12]: > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 06:36:15 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > Also worth mentioning is dcfldd which unlike dd can show progress of > > > the bit stream and also produce hashes of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

2016-03-30 Thread Meino . Cramer
Daniel Quinn [16-03-30 17:12]: > On 29/03/16 17:18, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > The usbstick I want to make an initial backup is 64GB of size. > That means, I will backup mostly zeroes. > > You could just use dd to take a full backup and then compress it. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

2016-03-30 Thread Meino . Cramer
Neil Bothwick [16-03-30 17:12]: > On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 06:36:15 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > Also worth mentioning is dcfldd which unlike dd can show progress of > > the bit stream and also produce hashes of the transferred output. It > > has the same performance as the dd

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

2016-03-30 Thread Meino . Cramer
Mick [16-03-30 17:12]: > On Wednesday 30 Mar 2016 05:28:29 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Mick [16-03-30 03:56]: > > > On Tuesday 29 Mar 2016 19:53:45 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > The real thing: > > > > The usbstick has a partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

2016-03-30 Thread Daniel Quinn
On 29/03/16 17:18, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: The usbstick I want to make an initial backup is 64GB of size. That means, I will backup mostly zeroes. You could just use dd to take a full backup and then compress it. If it is indeed mostly zeros it’ll compress very well: |# dd

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

2016-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 06:36:15 +0100, Mick wrote: > Also worth mentioning is dcfldd which unlike dd can show progress of > the bit stream and also produce hashes of the transferred output. It > has the same performance as the dd command though. I can't find the reference right now, but I did read