Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP - specific inet no - how to

2012-11-08 Thread Andrea Conti
Hello, Normally, a device tries to get the previous inet number, but sometime this changes. DHCP clients can neither request nor suggest a specific IP address, so they don't try to get anything. It's just the DHCP server giving out the previous IP to the same client, either by chance or

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP - specific inet no - how to

2012-11-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/08/2012 09:18:35 AM, Andrea Conti wrote: Hello, Normally, a device tries to get the previous inet number, but sometime this changes. DHCP clients can neither request nor suggest a specific IP address, so they don't try to get anything. It's just the DHCP server giving out the

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP - specific inet no - how to

2012-11-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:18:35 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: Normally, a device tries to get the previous inet number, but sometime this changes. DHCP clients can neither request nor suggest a specific IP address, so they don't try to get anything. It's just the DHCP server giving out the

[gentoo-user] More file system frustration

2012-11-08 Thread William Kenworthy
If I try and do: moriah ~ # mount -t ceph 192.168.44.68:6789:/ /mnt/ceph -o users mount error 22 = Invalid argument It turns out the driver doesnt recognise the user or users mount option and gentoo wont let a user mount or access a root mount, or even let a user mount. Tried adding the user to

Re: [gentoo-user] More file system frustration

2012-11-08 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 17:59 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: If I try and do: moriah ~ # mount -t ceph 192.168.44.68:6789:/ /mnt/ceph -o users mount error 22 = Invalid argument It turns out the driver doesnt recognise the user or users mount option and gentoo wont let a user mount or

Re: [gentoo-user] More file system frustration

2012-11-08 Thread Kerin Millar
William Kenworthy wrote: If I try and do: moriah ~ # mount -t ceph 192.168.44.68:6789:/ /mnt/ceph -o users mount error 22 = Invalid argument Specifying users in that context doesn't make sense. Try creating an entry in /etc/fstab. For example: 192.168.44.68:6789://mnt/cephceph

[gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread jdm
I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb. To transfer I intend to dd the partitions across and then resize using lvm as home swap var are located on lvm. Is this the right approach or would you recommend another method? John D Maunder.

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP - specific inet no - how to

2012-11-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/08/2012 09:45:34 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:18:35 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: Normally, a device tries to get the previous inet number, but sometime this changes. DHCP clients can neither request nor suggest a specific IP address, so they don't try to get

[gentoo-user] uefi gpt grub2

2012-11-08 Thread jdm
Over the last few days I have tried to set up using uefi gpt and grub2. After many hours of frustration I have gone back to grub legacy and mbr. I followed the Gentoo wiki and Arch wiki and several other sources of which I failed miserably. Is this technology fairly unreliable? I booted from a

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP - specific inet no - how to

2012-11-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:13:56 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Have you considered running a local DHCP server, like dnsmasq? I have router (provided by my internet provider) which can be accessed by WLAN. Since I cannot modify/configure this router how can I make use of dnsmasq ? Good

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:08:18 +, j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb. To transfer I intend to dd the partitions across and then resize using lvm as home swap var are located on lvm. Can you connect both drives ate the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread jdm
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote : On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:08:18 +, j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb. To transfer I intend to dd the partitions across and then resize using lvm as home swap var are located on

Re: [gentoo-user] More file system frustration

2012-11-08 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 10:58 +, Kerin Millar wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: If I try and do: moriah ~ # mount -t ceph 192.168.44.68:6789:/ /mnt/ceph -o users mount error 22 = Invalid argument Specifying users in that context doesn't make sense. Try creating an entry in

Re: [gentoo-user] uefi gpt grub2

2012-11-08 Thread Randolph Maaßen
2012/11/8 j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk Over the last few days I have tried to set up using uefi gpt and grub2. After many hours of frustration I have gone back to grub legacy and mbr. I followed the Gentoo wiki and Arch wiki and several other sources of which I failed miserably. Is this technology

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
2tb drive probably different sector size. cp -auv recommended. Am 08.11.2012 12:12 schrieb j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk: I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb. To transfer I intend to dd the partitions across and then resize using lvm as home swap var are located on

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP - specific inet no - how to

2012-11-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, November 08, 2012 12:13:56 PM Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 11/08/2012 09:45:34 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:18:35 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: Normally, a device tries to get the previous inet number, but sometime this changes. DHCP clients can neither

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread Srdjan Rakic
I used rsync for that. On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: 2tb drive probably different sector size. cp -auv recommended. Am 08.11.2012 12:12 schrieb j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk: I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Revdep-rebuild: ams won't start due to shared library libclalsadrv.so.1

2012-11-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 01:08:37PM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 05:56:12PM -0800, walt wrote: Hello […] $ ams ams: error while loading shared libraries: libclalsadrv.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory […] […]

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 14:03:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: 2tb drive probably different sector size. cp -auv recommended. Very good point. Use cp, rsync, tar or lvm tools, in fact anything but dd. -- Neil Bothwick Like an atheist in a grave: all dressed up and no place to go.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread mindrunner
i always use ddrescue for migrating to another hdd. it is much more comfortable than dd and does not depent on file systems, etc. I always prefer copying on block device level. On 11/08/2012 03:12 PM, Srdjan Rakic wrote: I used rsync for that. On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Volker Armin

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:23:08 +0100, mindrunner wrote: i always use ddrescue for migrating to another hdd. it is much more comfortable than dd and does not depent on file systems, etc. I always prefer copying on block device level. Even when the two devices have different block sizes? At

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 08.11.2012 12:12 schrieb j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk: I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb. To transfer I intend to dd the partitions across and then resize using lvm as home

[gentoo-user] genkernel compile only one new module

2012-11-08 Thread ifj. Stefán István
Hello! I have a quite good kernel, but today I realised that I need a kernel module that hadn't been compiled before. Is there any way to compile only that new module, and not compiling the whole kernel and all of the modules again? Thanks, István

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel compile only one new module

2012-11-08 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 06:55:31PM +0100, ifj. Stefán István wrote: Hello! I have a quite good kernel, but today I realised that I need a kernel module that hadn't been compiled before. Is there any way to compile only that new module, and not compiling the whole kernel and all of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 08.11.2012 17:37, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 08.11.2012 12:12 schrieb j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk: I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb. To transfer I intend to dd the

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel compile only one new module

2012-11-08 Thread mindrunner
Why exactly would you do this? Just because of saving time? If you do not clean kernel dir, it will compile very fast. On 11/08/2012 07:02 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 06:55:31PM +0100, ifj. Stefán István wrote: Hello! I have a quite good kernel, but today I realised that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread mindrunner
I never payed attention to this. all i know is that the alignment is correct. (checked with parted) On 11/08/2012 04:37 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:23:08 +0100, mindrunner wrote: i always use ddrescue for migrating to another hdd. it is much more comfortable than dd and

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel compile only one new module

2012-11-08 Thread Mark David Dumlao
make was specifically designed so that by default, it would only compile things whose dependencies had changed since last run. If your kernel config had not selected the object before, and all you do is add it as a module, then when you rerun make, only that module should be recompiled. However

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread john
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:17:25 +0100 Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 08.11.2012 17:37, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 08.11.2012 12:12 schrieb j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk: I am about to change my

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 8. November 2012, 16:23:08 schrieb mindrunner: i always use ddrescue for migrating to another hdd. it is much more comfortable than dd and does not depent on file systems, etc. I always prefer copying on block device level. that is just stupid. You copy the fragmentation, the

[gentoo-user] Control /bin/cp default behavior

2012-11-08 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I just noticed that cp doesn't use btrfs' capabilities to do lazy copies (a.k.a. copy on write) unless you specify --reflink=auto. For my console needs, I could specify an alias but I don't see why scripts shouldn't use the option as well. Is there an environment variable to control cp