Re: [gentoo-user] Software emulation of angled arrow keys on Lenovo Thinkpad?

2022-08-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 05:58:28PM -0400, Jack wrote > Ah - I expect the game is interpreting keycodes fairly directly. You > can use xev (or similar) to find what the various keys are currently > producing, and there must be some (Xorg related) program to translate > them to whatever the

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 4:59 PM Dale wrote: > I may do some mobo hunting shortly. See what little thing I can buy > that is powerful enough. I don't think a Raspberry Pi is enough. It > gets close tho. Biggest thing, I'd need a lot of SATA ports. LOTS of > them. Granted, I had a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-25 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 2:59 PM Dale wrote: >> While at it, can I move the drives on LVM to another system without >> having to copy anything? Just physically move the drives and LVM see >> them correctly on the new system? > As long as we aren't talking about boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-25 Thread Dale
Wols Lists wrote: > On 25/08/2022 19:59, Dale wrote: >> While at it, can I move the drives on LVM to another system without >> having to copy anything?  Just physically move the drives and LVM see >> them correctly on the new system?  I may try to build a small computer >> for a NAS soon.  I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-25 Thread Wols Lists
On 25/08/2022 19:59, Dale wrote: While at it, can I move the drives on LVM to another system without having to copy anything?  Just physically move the drives and LVM see them correctly on the new system?  I may try to build a small computer for a NAS soon.  I'm not sure what is the least I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 2:59 PM Dale wrote: > > While at it, can I move the drives on LVM to another system without > having to copy anything? Just physically move the drives and LVM see > them correctly on the new system? As long as we aren't talking about boot partitions/sectors, the answer

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-25 Thread Dale
Jack wrote: > On 8/25/22 08:52, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 8:43 AM Dale wrote: >>> I've already got data on the drive now with the default settings so it >>> is to late for the moment however, I expect to need to add drives >>> later.  Keep in mind, I use LVM which means I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE plasma desktop view shows files that don't exist

2022-08-25 Thread Mateusz Okulus
On 22/08/24 11:05AM, Jack wrote: > Checking here for any ideas or suggestions before I report as a KDE bug. > > I have my KDE Plasma desktop set to show my ~/Desktop folder. Two days ago, > I created a script.pl Perl script in that folder. (No, I don't generally do > work in that folder, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-25 Thread Jack
On 8/25/22 08:52, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 8:43 AM Dale wrote: I've already got data on the drive now with the default settings so it is to late for the moment however, I expect to need to add drives later. Keep in mind, I use LVM which means I grow file systems quite often

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 8:43 AM Dale wrote: > > I've already got data on the drive now with the default settings so it > is to late for the moment however, I expect to need to add drives > later. Keep in mind, I use LVM which means I grow file systems quite > often by adding drives. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-25 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: > > On 25/8/22 06:45, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >>> [..] >>> Also, if you're using ext2/3/4, there's the preset, i.e. if you're >>> rather sure about what kind of data is going to be on there, you >>> can tune it so that it reserves more or less place for metadata like >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-25 Thread William Kenworthy
On 25/8/22 06:45, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: [..] Also, if you're using ext2/3/4, there's the preset, i.e. if you're rather sure about what kind of data is going to be on there, you can tune it so that it reserves more or less place for metadata like inodes, which can be another bit. When I