Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 28 Dec, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 28 Dezember 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem. I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems, so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date. I've come across

[gentoo-user] brasero drive detection

2009-12-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have two machines with nearly identical hardware and (believed) identical GenToo (~amd64) systems. On one of these I have to start brasero with --device=/dev/sr0 while on the other one brasero detects the driver by itself. Both 'hal' configuration look identical. Has anybody an idea where

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade or start over..

2009-12-29 Thread Jon Hardcastle
--- On Sun, 27/12/09, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: From: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade or start over.. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Sunday, 27 December, 2009, 22:24 On Sunday 27 December 2009 21:46:23 Jon Hardcastle

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade or start over..

2009-12-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 11:41:51 Jon Hardcastle wrote: I absolutely depend on mdadm/lvm (which i believe require in some way devicemapper and udev) and these are the biggest things i am worried about changing. Does anyone have any experience here? I am assuming that unmerging and

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade or start over..

2009-12-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:41:51 -0800 (PST), Jon Hardcastle wrote: I absolutely depend on mdadm/lvm (which i believe require in some way devicemapper and udev) and these are the biggest things i am worried about changing. Does anyone have any experience here? I am assuming that unmerging and

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 29 Dezember 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 28 Dec, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 28 Dezember 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem. I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems, so that

[gentoo-user] LyX doesn't find style files / classes anymore

2009-12-29 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Hi, since a few days, LyX doesn't find it's style files or Latex classes anmore, although they are still installed on the system. Any hints as to what be causing this? Thanks... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync reverts to old file versions

2009-12-29 Thread Grant
Periodically, I'll manually touch up cover art that I've scanned, and I've noticed that it will revert to the untouched-up version after one of these rsyncs.  Does that make sense to anyone? - Grant So it it synchronizes in the opposite direction of the one given in the command? It's

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Konqueror URL links

2009-12-29 Thread Stroller
On 28 Dec 2009, at 13:16, Mick wrote: ... I remember that when I hovered my mouse over links in web pages on Konq 3.5, it would show at the bottom of the window the URL that the link in question contained. This allowed me to decide if I wanted to visit the URL or not. This is usually

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 29.12.2009 14:04, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: I do no know btrfs. But there are two nice things about reiser4: it takes your data seriously. It tries everything to make sure your data hit the platter. Device does not support

[gentoo-user] Re: brasero drive detection

2009-12-29 Thread walt
On 12/29/2009 12:30 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have two machines with nearly identical hardware and (believed) identical GenToo (~amd64) systems. On one of these I have to start brasero with --device=/dev/sr0 while on the other one brasero detects the driver by itself. Both 'hal'

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 29.12.2009 14:04, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: I do no know btrfs. But there are two nice things about reiser4: it takes your data seriously. It tries everything to make sure your data hit the platter. Device does not support barriers? Reiser4 detects that and goes into sync mode.

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 00:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: just think a moment of the tons of bug fixes constantly going into ext4. That crap is not stable. Pre-alpha maybe. People say this from time to time, yet I have been running ext4 on my root directory of my laptop since July 2008.

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 00:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: just think a moment of the tons of bug fixes constantly going into ext4. That crap is not stable. Pre-alpha maybe. People say this from time to time, yet I have been running

[gentoo-user] subclipse???

2009-12-29 Thread Mark Knecht
What are the commands to find out if subclipse is supported through an overlay? http://subclipse.tigris.org/ Thanks, Mark