Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

2021-03-31 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 30 March 2021 18:11:56 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > On Saturday, 2020-12-05 19:07:51 +0100, I myself wrote: > > ("> >" refers to Michael ) > > > Michael, > > > > On Friday, 2020-11-27 19:07:17 +, you wrote: > > > ... > > > A 4k block size is recommended for ntfs-3g which is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

2021-03-31 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:23:27 BST Dale wrote: >> Michael wrote: >>> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:09:03 BST Dale wrote: Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 12:37:49 BST Dale wrote: >> I checked the man page, I see nothing about the show progress

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

2021-03-31 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > You may want to run some tests on the sticks you have, if only to bottom out > what their performance is on different PCs and USB ports: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/run/media///TESTFILE bs=512 > count=60 oflag=direct conv=notrunc,fsync status=progress > > Use a large enough file

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

2021-03-31 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 12:37:49 BST Dale wrote: > >> I checked the man page, I see nothing about the show progress option. > Are you sure? > > This is what I see here on line 47: > > "status=LEVEL > The LEVEL of information to print to stderr; 'none' suppresses >

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

2021-03-31 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:09:03 BST Dale wrote: >> Michael wrote: >>> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 12:37:49 BST Dale wrote: I checked the man page, I see nothing about the show progress option. >>> Are you sure? >>> >>> This is what I see here on line 47: >>> >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

2021-03-31 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:23:27 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:09:03 BST Dale wrote: > >> Michael wrote: > >>> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 12:37:49 BST Dale wrote: > I checked the man page, I see nothing about the show progress option. > >>> > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

2021-03-31 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:09:03 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 12:37:49 BST Dale wrote: > >> I checked the man page, I see nothing about the show progress option. > > > > Are you sure? > > > > This is what I see here on line 47: > > > > "status=LEVEL > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

2021-03-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:09:03 -0500, Dale wrote: > I wish I could view man pages like I used to in Konqueror.  It displays > like a webpage and is much easier to search through. I miss that too. I use mankier.com these days, which gives similar benefits. I have a shortcut set up in chromium so

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

2021-03-31 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 12:37:49 BST Dale wrote: > I checked the man page, I see nothing about the show progress option. Are you sure? This is what I see here on line 47: "status=LEVEL The LEVEL of information to print to stderr; 'none' suppresses everything but error

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

2021-03-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2021-03-31, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:09:03 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I wish I could view man pages like I used to in Konqueror.  It displays >> like a webpage and is much easier to search through. > > I miss that too. I use mankier.com these days, which gives similar >

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

2021-03-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:23:27 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Yes, I also liked the old Konqueror interface. Searching for > > keywords e.g. "progress" within man pages works if you preface the > > keyword with "/": > > > > /progress > > > > will find it and "n" or "Shift+n" will jump forward and backward

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

2021-03-31 Thread Jack
On 2021.03.31 16:28, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2021-03-31, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:09:03 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I wish I could view man pages like I used to in Konqueror.  It displays >> like a webpage and is much easier to search through. > > I miss that too. I use

[gentoo-user] Gparted leaves gaps

2021-03-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I use gparted often, usually from SystemRescueCD, and a common task is to move partitions to allow for one to be enlarged. I should be able to specify all the operations in a list, but whenever I do that gparted inserts 1MB gaps between partitions, so I have to do one at a time.

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

2021-03-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2021-03-31, Jack wrote: > On 2021.03.31 16:28, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Many years ago, there was an X11 man page and gnu info viewer that I >> used to use, but I can't remember the name of it. This was probably >> 20+ years ago (pre GTK and Qt), so the chances that it's still around >> are

Re: [gentoo-user] Gparted leaves gaps

2021-03-31 Thread William Kenworthy
On 1/4/21 12:39 am, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I use gparted often, usually from SystemRescueCD, and a common task is to > move partitions to allow for one to be enlarged. I should be able to specify > all the operations in a list, but whenever I do that gparted inserts 1MB gaps

[gentoo-user] Disable password required to mount removable hard disk.

2021-03-31 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi, I use a sata drive caddy with 2Tb hard disks for offline backups.  Almost everytime (within sessions are ok?) it asks for a password before automounting.  This is just annoying and has no security benefit in my environment (why just hard disks when USB keys and SD cards don't ask for