Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

Hello, On Thu, 18 Jun 2020, Dale wrote: >David Haller wrote: [..] >> Compile with: >> gcc $CFLAGS -o ones ones.c >> or >> gcc $(portageq envvar CFLAGS) -o ones ones.c >> >> and use/test e.g. like >> >> ./ones | dd of=/dev/null bs=8M count=1000 iflag=fullblock [..] >I got it to

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 19:25:11 +0100, antlists wrote: > > Warning; that still does not change the fact that each individual file > > cannot exceed 4G in size on regular FAT. > > > Warning 2: I did exactly that, and it LOOKED like it was working > happily, until it overflowed some internal limit

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

On 22/06/2020 19:50, Dale wrote: Anyway, the 8GB cards have been plenty large enough so it could be any number of reasons they say the limit is 32GB.  It could be they know it will run out of file names.  Most pics are named with four digit numbers. So, 9,999 files and it either stops taking

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

On 22/06/2020 14:19, Dale wrote: So if I bought a 64GB card, I forced it to be formatted with FAT on say my Linux box here, it would work in my trail cameras anyway?  It makes sense.  It would seem it is more of a file system issue since accessing a device shouldn't be affected my its

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

On 22/06/2020 11:56, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:28:17AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote The SD standard says >33G should use exFAT, this is why many devices state they only support cards up to 32G. The really mean they only support FAT. My Dashcam is like this but it happily

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, 18 Jun 2020, Dale wrote: >> David Haller wrote: > [..] >>> Compile with: >>> gcc $CFLAGS -o ones ones.c >>> or >>> gcc $(portageq envvar CFLAGS) -o ones ones.c >>> >>> and use/test e.g. like >>> >>> ./ones | dd of=/dev/null bs=8M count=1000

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

On 22/06/2020 20:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: Warning 2: I did exactly that, and it LOOKED like it was working happily, until it overflowed some internal limit and my 1G card turned into a 128M card or whatever it was. Have you actually TESTED that card IN THE DASHCAM and made sure it can actually

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

antlists wrote: > On 22/06/2020 19:50, Dale wrote: >> Anyway, the 8GB cards have been plenty large enough so it could be >> any number of reasons they say the limit is 32GB.  It could be they >> know it will run out of file names.  Most pics are named with four >> digit numbers. So, 9,999 files

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

antlists wrote: > On 22/06/2020 11:56, Walter Dnes wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:28:17AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote >> >>> The SD standard says >33G should use exFAT, this is why many devices >>> state they only support cards up to 32G. The really mean they only >>> support FAT. My Dashcam

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:40:49 +0100, antlists wrote: > >> Warning 2: I did exactly that, and it LOOKED like it was working > >> happily, until it overflowed some internal limit and my 1G card > >> turned into a 128M card or whatever it was. Have you actually TESTED > >> that card IN THE DASHCAM

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

antlists wrote: > On 22/06/2020 14:19, Dale wrote: >> So if I bought a 64GB card, I forced it to be formatted with FAT on >> say my Linux box here, it would work in my trail cameras anyway?  It >> makes sense.  It would seem it is more of a file system issue since >> accessing a device shouldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, 22 Jun 2020, Dale wrote: >> David Haller wrote: >>> On Thu, 18 Jun 2020, Dale wrote: David Haller wrote: > [..] > ./ones | dd of=/dev/null bs=8M count=1000 iflag=fullblock >>> [..] I got it to compile, at least it created a file named ones

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

Hello, On Mon, 22 Jun 2020, Dale wrote: >David Haller wrote: >> On Thu, 18 Jun 2020, Dale wrote: >>> David Haller wrote: [..] ./ones | dd of=/dev/null bs=8M count=1000 iflag=fullblock >> [..] >>> I got it to compile, at least it created a file named ones anyway.  What >>> I'm unclear

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I unsubscribe

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Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:17:33 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > > The cards I use are class 10, slow but pretty fast for the type of > > > card.  Generally, I can download several hundred MBs in a minute or > > > two.  Deleting sometimes over a 1,000 pics one at a time just isn't > > > feasible.  That

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 06:56:43 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > The SD standard says >33G should use exFAT, this is why many devices > > state they only support cards up to 32G. The really mean they only > > support FAT. My Dashcam is like this but it happily works with a 128G > > card, once I

Re: [gentoo-user] circular dependency - please help

On 06/21/2020 12:21:08 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I do need python2.7 since I do need media-gfx/gimp. Unfortunately, I have masked dev-python/setuptools version >= 47.0.0 too late. Now I cannot emerge dev-python/setuptools-46.4.0-r1 since this needs dev-python/pbr which in turn cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:52:43 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > PS. exFAT has made it into the latest Linux kernels. > > > > Great. So linux may be able to read the card just fine, but it's still > > useless in the device I bought it for ... :-) > > > > Cheers, > > Wol > > Ha! The beauty of

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:28:17AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > The SD standard says >33G should use exFAT, this is why many devices > state they only support cards up to 32G. The really mean they only > support FAT. My Dashcam is like this but it happily works with a 128G > card, once I

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I unsubscribe

Sean, please read responses at the bottom of this message. On Monday, 22 June 2020 08:23:08 BST Dale wrote: > Sean O'Myers wrote: > > How do How do I unsubscribe please unsubscribe me > > > > > > > > Sent from Mail for > > Windows 10 > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Memory cards and deleting files.

On 2020-06-22, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I'd run sync as well, just to be sure, although umount shouldn't return > until everything is flushed to the card. I suppose it's possible that the data _had_ been flushed to the card, but was still the card's write buffers and had not been committed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 06:56:43 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > >>> The SD standard says >33G should use exFAT, this is why many devices >>> state they only support cards up to 32G. The really mean they only >>> support FAT. My Dashcam is like this but it happily works with a 128G

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 08:19:28 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> The SD standard says >33G should use exFAT, this is why many devices > >>> state they only support cards up to 32G. The really mean they only > >>> support FAT. My Dashcam is like this but it happily works with a > >>> 128G card, once I

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 08:19:28 -0500, Dale wrote: > > The SD standard says >33G should use exFAT, this is why many devices > state they only support cards up to 32G. The really mean they only > support FAT. My Dashcam is like this but it happily works with a >