Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

On Wednesday 30 Mar 2016 05:28:29 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Mick [16-03-30 03:56]: > > On Tuesday 29 Mar 2016 19:53:45 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > The real thing: > > > The usbstick has a partition table, which was the reason to ask > > > for a way to preserve

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

On Tuesday, March 29, 2016 01:56:22 PM R0b0t1 wrote: > That article implies you can do special things to increase performance. > Maybe, don't care to check. > > What it mentions that are widely applicable are block sizes and trimming > which are built into modern filesystems/drivers. > > I had

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

Mick [16-03-30 03:56]: > On Tuesday 29 Mar 2016 19:53:45 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > The real thing: > > The usbstick has a partition table, which was the reason to ask > > for a way to preserve it. > > OK, I wasn't sure if it did. > > In this case as I

Re: [gentoo-user] Blacklisting all packages from overlay except a specific group and version

On 30 March 2016 05:01:16 GMT+09:00, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >So, I want to install packages from an overlay, but only from a >specific >group. In this case, the dev-qt/ group. The overlay name is "qt". > >It doesn't work: > > package.mask: */*::qt > package.unmask:

[gentoo-user] Re: Blacklisting all packages from overlay except a specific group and version

Because that is already covered by: */*::qt in package.mask. This masks everything from the qt overlay, including versions of Qt higher or equal to 5.7. I only masked >=5.7, then the other packages from the qt overlay would not be masked. What I need is mask ALL packages in the qt overlay

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blacklisting all packages from overlay except a specific group and version

Why don't you mask versions higher than 5.7 instead? On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 17:00 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 29/03/16 23:01, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > So, I want to install packages from an overlay, but only from a specific > > group. In this case, the dev-qt/ group. The

[gentoo-user] Re: Blacklisting all packages from overlay except a specific group and version

On 29/03/16 23:01, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: So, I want to install packages from an overlay, but only from a specific group. In this case, the dev-qt/ group. The overlay name is "qt". It doesn't work: package.mask: */*::qt package.unmask: dev-qt/*-5.6*::qt With this, 5.6 versions are

Re: [gentoo-user] Blacklisting all packages from overlay except a specific group and version

They lets you do the bin-ary algebruhs with lotsa da thingies at wunce.

Re: [gentoo-user] Blacklisting all packages from overlay except a specific group and version

On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 23:01:16 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > So, I want to install packages from an overlay, but only from a > specific group. In this case, the dev-qt/ group. The overlay name is > "qt". Add the overlay with layman but don't add it to repos.conf. Then symlink the dev-qt

[gentoo-user] Re: Blacklisting all packages from overlay except a specific group and version

On 29/03/16 23:21, R0b0t1 wrote: Not entirely sure what you wish. Maybe package sets? Not sure what *you* mean :-) How would package sets help me in masking all packages from an overlay and then whilelist only specific ones?

Re: [gentoo-user] Blacklisting all packages from overlay except a specific group and version

Not entirely sure what you wish. Maybe package sets?

[gentoo-user] Blacklisting all packages from overlay except a specific group and version

So, I want to install packages from an overlay, but only from a specific group. In this case, the dev-qt/ group. The overlay name is "qt". It doesn't work: package.mask: */*::qt package.unmask: dev-qt/*-5.6*::qt With this, 5.6 versions are still masked. How do I do this?

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

On Tuesday 29 Mar 2016 19:53:45 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > The real thing: > The usbstick has a partition table, which was the reason to ask > for a way to preserve it. OK, I wasn't sure if it did. In this case as I suggested, fdisk will show you the number and size of partitions. minfo

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

That article implies you can do special things to increase performance. Maybe, don't care to check. What it mentions that are widely applicable are block sizes and trimming which are built into modern filesystems/drivers. I had performance decrease over time but am not sure the reason he gives

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

R0b0t1 [16-03-29 20:12]: > The USB drive should be exposed via the mass storage interface as just > plain storage. You don't need to do anything special. > > Older drives needed the user to be aware of the physical layout. Now the > firmware mostly takes care of it. Hi R0b0t1

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

The USB drive should be exposed via the mass storage interface as just plain storage. You don't need to do anything special. Older drives needed the user to be aware of the physical layout. Now the firmware mostly takes care of it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

Mick [16-03-29 19:12]: > On Tuesday 29 Mar 2016 18:33:01 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi Ian, > > > > If I do a > > > > eix partclone > > > > I get > > > > No matches found. > > [1]7241 exit 1 eix -n partclone > > > > . May be a typo... ;) >

Re: [gentoo-user] major problem involving nvidia drivers, gnome and x

I did and nvidia was installed, but modprobe nvidia in this kernel says invalid argument. Ian Bloss wrote: > Did you do a emerge @module-rebuild after updating your kernel? > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 04:26 wrote: > > > Philip Webb

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

On Tuesday 29 Mar 2016 18:33:01 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi Ian, > > If I do a > > eix partclone > > I get > > No matches found. > [1]7241 exit 1 eix -n partclone > > . May be a typo... ;) Please try not to top-post, it confuses the flow of the thread. Ian's

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

Hi Ian, If I do a eix partclone I get No matches found. [1]7241 exit 1 eix -n partclone . May be a typo... ;) Ian Bloss [16-03-29 18:30]: > Checkout partclone, I think it does what you're looking for. > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 12:19

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

Checkout partclone, I think it does what you're looking for. On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 12:19 wrote: > Hi Ia, > > thanks for your reply ! :) > > The usbstick I want to make an initial backup is 64GB of size. > That means, I will backup mostly zeroes. > > Where are the

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

Hi Ia, thanks for your reply ! :) The usbstick I want to make an initial backup is 64GB of size. That means, I will backup mostly zeroes. Where are the partioning/format defining on the device? If there are only stored the beginning of the device: How much do I need to copy? or: If there are

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

If you're gonna dd a drive you either go the same space or larger. To be sure you get everything you can just dd if=/dev/oldstick of=/dev/newstick Replacing old/newstick with the correct device. You can even keep a backup image with dd if=/dev/oldstick of=/home/user/whateveryounamedit.img

Re: [gentoo-user] major problem involving nvidia drivers, gnome and x

Did you do a emerge @module-rebuild after updating your kernel? On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 04:26 wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: > > > 160329 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > With 4.1.20 the nvidia drivers I am using get an invalid argument > > > when

[gentoo-user] Re: Xscreensaver 3D modules don't work

On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 01:03:14 -0400 Philip Webb wrote: > 160328 Corbin wrote: > > The "x11-misc/rss-glx" screensavers work just fine. > > I hadn't come across it before. > If I emerge it, will it automatically be adopted by Xscreensaver ? Yes -- after emerging it you'll

[gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

Hi, since companies know their usbstick internals best, they format their drives in a way, that the performance is best. That's why I want to make a complete image "backup" of my new usbstick first before using it in case of needing to reset the whole thing. The stick is a 64GB vfat formatted

Re: [gentoo-user] major problem involving nvidia drivers, gnome and x

Philip Webb wrote: > 160329 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > With 4.1.20 the nvidia drivers I am using get an invalid argument > > when trying to modprobe it. Its version 355.11-r4. > > If I try the latest version, I get modeset errors, > > although it stops giving me the

Re: [gentoo-user] major problem involving nvidia drivers, gnome and x

160329 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > With 4.1.20 the nvidia drivers I am using get an invalid argument > when trying to modprobe it. Its version 355.11-r4. > If I try the latest version, I get modeset errors, > although it stops giving me the invalid argument. I had a problem with 358 + 361 ,

[gentoo-user] major problem involving nvidia drivers, gnome and x

Hi. I normally do updates approximately monthly and I use the gnome overlay, so I get the latest gnome. I am also using ~amd64 version of gentoo. Now, this time when I went from version 4.1.17 to 4.1.20 kernel and did my monthly update at the same time, two things happened. On the 4.1.17