Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:12:30 -0500, Dale wrote: Then again, when I put a CD/DVD in, it doesn't mount it automatically anymore. I think that is a KDE4 thing. I may not have turned something on. I just haven't looked into it yet. That's a settings thing, turned off by default System

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:47:09 -0700, walt wrote: However, if you want to leave both cables connected and change your BIOS to boot from 'sdb', you will need to edit some of the files on 'sdb', Check your BIOS first, some allow you to disable individual SATA ports, so you can disconnect the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: So I have a lot of docs (specs of microcontrollers, howtos, programm and source code docs...etc) on my disk. This one part. Those are fairly normal files. Then: I often transer videos from my DVB-T-receiver/recorder to my

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread meino . cramer
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-04-02 10:52]: On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: So I have a lot of docs (specs of microcontrollers, howtos, programm and source code docs...etc) on my disk. This one part. Those are fairly normal files. Then: I often

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 11:11 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-04-02 10:52]: On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: So I have a lot of docs (specs of microcontrollers, howtos, programm and source code docs...etc) on my disk.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread meino . cramer
William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au [10-04-02 11:32]: On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 11:11 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-04-02 10:52]: On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: So I have a lot of docs (specs of microcontrollers,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 11:11:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: A question to LVM: As much as I know, LVM combines several partition to one big partition, and if one partition fails, at least other others of that volume are damaged, too. It can be used that way, but you have only one disk, so

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread meino . cramer
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-04-02 12:48]: On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 11:11:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: A question to LVM: As much as I know, LVM combines several partition to one big partition, and if one partition fails, at least other others of that volume are damaged, too.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread David W Noon
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:20:02 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem: [snip] A question to LVM: As much as I know, LVM combines several partition to one big partition, and if one partition fails, at least other others of that volume are damaged, too.

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-02 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: With only 2 disks I personally think you're on the right path. With 3 disks I'm personally planning on RAID1 using 3 copies. ... My comment about RAID was that I am learning the hard (alas expensive) way that not all

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:04:53 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: only to be sure to have understood everything correctly: Suggestion is to create for example one root partition and a swap partion. And I will create on big rest of the disk-partition. The last one will be subdivided with LVM into

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread meino . cramer
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-04-02 14:08]: On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:04:53 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: only to be sure to have understood everything correctly: Suggestion is to create for example one root partition and a swap partion. And I will create on big rest of the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 02 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-04-02 14:08]: On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:04:53 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: only to be sure to have understood everything correctly: Suggestion is to create for example one root partition and a swap

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 14:45 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 02 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-04-02 14:08]: On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:04:53 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: only to be sure to have understood everything correctly:

[gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com

2010-04-02 Thread Dan Johansson
Hallo, Someone knows what's up with gentoo-wiki.com? I get a Connection to 207.98.216.138 Failed and downforeveryoneorjustme.com reports It's not just you! http://gentoo-wiki.com looks down from here. Regards, -- Dan Johansson, http://www.dmj.nu

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com

2010-04-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: Hallo, Someone knows what's up with gentoo-wiki.com? I get a Connection to 207.98.216.138 Failed and downforeveryoneorjustme.com reports It's not just you! http://gentoo-wiki.com looks down from here. Looks like his

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com

2010-04-02 Thread erdunand
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 09:34:12AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: Hallo, Someone knows what's up with gentoo-wiki.com? I get a Connection to 207.98.216.138 Failed and downforeveryoneorjustme.com reports It's not

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 02 April 2010, William Kenworthy wrote: My experience was with raid 0, while the higher raid redundancy will shift the reliability figures back the other way. wrong. Raid0 is meant for 0 redudancy and reduced reliability for more performance. Before you start talking about Raid

[gentoo-user] language

2010-04-02 Thread Roger Cahn
Hi all, Yesterday I gave a presentation with OOo-3.2 Impress with my laptop (xfce4, thunar). I used a video projector Dell, which worked fine. However, this made my language change from french to english in many of my packages. Right click on desktop and the showed window is in english; the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Dan Cowsill danthe...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: With only 2 disks I personally think you're on the right path. With 3 disks I'm personally planning on RAID1 using 3 copies. ... My comment about

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com

2010-04-02 Thread Dan Johansson
On Friday 02 April 2010 16.50:56 erdun...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 09:34:12AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: Hallo, Someone knows what's up with gentoo-wiki.com? I get a Connection to

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-02 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:12:30 -0500, Dale wrote: Then again, when I put a CD/DVD in, it doesn't mount it automatically anymore. I think that is a KDE4 thing. I may not have turned something on. I just haven't looked into it yet. That's a settings thing, turned

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Then: I often transer videos from my DVB-T-receiver/recorder to my harddisk to cut out the advertising and to transcode the videos to somethings better than ts (transport streams), These tend to be

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Mick
On Friday 02 April 2010 16:28:43 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Then: I often transer videos from my DVB-T-receiver/recorder to my harddisk to cut out the advertising and to transcode the videos to somethings better than ts

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-02 Thread Joseph
On 04/02/10 09:42, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:47:09 -0700, walt wrote: However, if you want to leave both cables connected and change your BIOS to boot from 'sdb', you will need to edit some of the files on 'sdb', Check your BIOS first, some allow you to disable individual

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:09 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: [ ... snip ... ] So I have a lot of docs (specs of microcontrollers, howtos, programm and source code docs...etc) on my disk. This one part. I've seen that nobody mentioned JFS yet... :) In some benchmarks the best FS for

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-02 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/1/2010 4:38 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Your media was either accepted after several tries by the drive for unknown reasons and is now usable in general again or you are observing a problem caused by

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:47 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I googled down some - often fairly outdated - texts about the best filesystem fpr a Linux box. Other texts focussed on uses, which do not aplly to me: Fileservers, webservers, database machines  etc. Wnat I want is a fast

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Friday 02 April 2010 16:28:43 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Then: I often transer videos from my DVB-T-receiver/recorder to my harddisk to cut out the advertising and to transcode

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-02 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:12:30 -0500, Dale wrote: Then again, when I put a CD/DVD in, it doesn't mount it automatically anymore. I think that is a KDE4 thing. I may not have turned something on. I just haven't looked into it yet. That's a settings thing, turned

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-02 Thread Joseph
On 04/02/10 07:59, Mark Knecht wrote: Good questions: 1) Yes, you can RAID partitions of drives. That's what I'm doing. You can look at the Gentoo RAID/LVM Install guide to see an example of using RAID0 and RAID1 on a single drive.

[gentoo-user] Re: Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-02 Thread walt
On 04/02/2010 07:59 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: 1) Yes, you can RAID partitions of drives. That's what I'm doing. You can look at the Gentoo RAID/LVM Install guide to see an example of using RAID0 and RAID1 on a single drive. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml

[gentoo-user] Re: Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-02 Thread walt
On 04/02/2010 08:46 AM, Joseph wrote: On 04/02/10 09:42, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:47:09 -0700, walt wrote: However, if you want to leave both cables connected and change your BIOS to boot from 'sdb', you will need to edit some of the files on 'sdb', Check your BIOS first,

[gentoo-user] Re: language

2010-04-02 Thread walt
On 04/02/2010 07:58 AM, Roger Cahn wrote: Hi all, Yesterday I gave a presentation with OOo-3.2 Impress with my laptop (xfce4, thunar). I used a video projector Dell, which worked fine. However, this made my language change from french to english in many of my packages. Right click on desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: language

2010-04-02 Thread Roger Cahn
Hi Roger, Hi Walt, Thank you for your answer. Just to clarify, are you saying the language problem was caused by using the video projector, or by running the OO file on your laptop, or ...? By using the video projector. It was the first time I used this one. I never had this problem with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:37 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/02/2010 07:59 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: 1) Yes, you can RAID partitions of drives. That's what I'm doing. You can look at the Gentoo RAID/LVM Install guide to see an example of using RAID0 and RAID1 on a single drive.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-02 Thread Joseph
On 04/02/10 09:47, walt wrote: On 04/02/2010 08:46 AM, Joseph wrote: On 04/02/10 09:42, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:47:09 -0700, walt wrote: However, if you want to leave both cables connected and change your BIOS to boot from 'sdb', you will need to edit some of the files on

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:28:43 -0500, Dale wrote: Then: I often transer videos from my DVB-T-receiver/recorder to my harddisk to cut out the advertising and to transcode the videos to somethings better than ts (transport streams), These tend to be bigger, often in the GB range, so

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 14:45:29 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: seriously lvm sounds nice. But it isn't. It easily breaks. Do you have something to back that up? You want a save setup? Go raid5 or raid6. As a bonus - you can get more space if you need it by just adding another disk. And you

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 02 April 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 14:45:29 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: seriously lvm sounds nice. But it isn't. It easily breaks. Do you have something to back that up? You want a save setup? Go raid5 or raid6. As a bonus - you can get more space

[gentoo-user] Re: OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Jörg Schaible
Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Then: I often transer videos from my DVB-T-receiver/recorder to my harddisk to cut out the advertising and to transcode the videos to somethings better than ts (transport streams),

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-02 Thread stosss
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:12:30 -0500, Dale wrote: Then again, when I put a CD/DVD in, it doesn't mount it automatically anymore.  I think that is a KDE4 thing.  I may not have turned something on.  I just

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-02 Thread stosss
Bad enough you mentioned HAL in a conversation with Dale.  Now there's XML involved.  This thread is officially never going to end. This list really lightens up a day. LOL -- If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:20:24 -0500, Dale wrote: It is mounting it now. I can see it when I type in mount. I figured it was turned off somewhere. Now to get me a little icon on the desktop so I can open it. lol Try adding the Device Notifier plasmoid to the task bar, I ind that much more

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:21:04 -0500, Dale wrote: Am I supposed to have anything in fstab for KDE4 and the DVD? I don't have currently and didn't for KDE3 either. I read somewhere that KDE4 did this differently tho. No, KDE determines the mount point from the volume name. -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:40:54 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: LVM and RAID are completely different animals. No one suggested using it for any reasons of data security, running LVM on a RAID array gives both security and flexibility. As for being able to add space to RAID, you can't

Re: [gentoo-user] language

2010-04-02 Thread Kaddeh
Have you tried setting LINGUAS=fr in your make.conf? On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Roger Cahn rc...@club-internet.fr wrote: Hi all, Yesterday I gave a presentation with OOo-3.2 Impress with my laptop (xfce4, thunar). I used a video projector Dell, which worked fine. However, this made my

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 02 April 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:40:54 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: LVM and RAID are completely different animals. No one suggested using it for any reasons of data security, running LVM on a RAID array gives both security and flexibility. As for

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-02 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:20:24 -0500, Dale wrote: It is mounting it now. I can see it when I type in mount. I figured it was turned off somewhere. Now to get me a little icon on the desktop so I can open it. lol Try adding the Device Notifier plasmoid to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-02 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:21:04 -0500, Dale wrote: Am I supposed to have anything in fstab for KDE4 and the DVD? I don't have currently and didn't for KDE3 either. I read somewhere that KDE4 did this differently tho. No, KDE determines the mount point from the

Re: [gentoo-user] language

2010-04-02 Thread Roger Cahn
Have you tried setting LINGUAS=fr in your make.conf? Yes, it is. Thank's Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 21:50:09 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Assuming your controller supports hotplugging, assuming you have a drive available to plug in, assuming you are able to physically add a drive. sata can hotplug. all ahci controlers can hotplug and all sata drives can

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Freitag 02 April 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:40:54 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: LVM and RAID are completely different animals. No one suggested using it for any reasons of

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Freitag 02 April 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:40:54 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: LVM and RAID

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread stosss
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:47 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I googled down some - often fairly outdated - texts about the best filesystem fpr a Linux box. Other texts focussed on uses, which do not aplly to me: Fileservers, webservers, database machines  etc. Wnat I want is a fast and

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-02 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 03:27:39PM -0400, stosss wrote: Bad enough you mentioned HAL in a conversation with Dale.  Now there's XML involved.  This thread is officially never going to end. This list really lightens up a day. LOL -- If we can but prevent the government from wasting the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Freitag 02 April 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann

[gentoo-user] Re: language

2010-04-02 Thread walt
On 04/02/2010 10:13 AM, Roger Cahn wrote: Hi Roger, Hi Walt, Thank you for your answer. Just to clarify, are you saying the language problem was caused by using the video projector, or by running the OO file on your laptop, or ...? By using the video projector. It was the first time I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread meino . cramer
stosss sto...@gmail.com [10-04-03 05:31]: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:47 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I googled down some - often fairly outdated - texts about the best filesystem fpr a Linux box. Other texts focussed on uses, which do not aplly to me: Fileservers, webservers,