Re: [gentoo-user] Some mailing list emails not making it to me.

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:38:32 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Any one else seeing this?  Is it just me?  > It's usually just you, you do have an exceptional knack for breaking > things - and I've not even used the H word :) > > I been getting these the past week or so.  Around the

Re: [gentoo-user] Some mailing list emails not making it to me.

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:38:32 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Any one else seeing this?  Is it just me?  > It's usually just you, you do have an exceptional knack for breaking > things - and I've not even used the H word :) > > Yea, let's not get into the H thing.  That thing still

Re: [gentoo-user] Some mailing list emails not making it to me.

On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:38:32 -0500, Dale wrote: > Any one else seeing this?  Is it just me?  It's usually just you, you do have an exceptional knack for breaking things - and I've not even used the H word :) -- Neil Bothwick Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off NOW!

Re: [gentoo-user] Some mailing list emails not making it to me.

Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > Anyone else noticing they are missing some emails on this list?  I > missed one the other day, Michael I think it was, and I just missed > another one, yet to arrive, from Neil on the ext4 move thread by Grant. > I see Grant's reply to Neil but the message from Neil is not

[gentoo-user] Re: How to move ext4 partition

On 2023-09-20, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 10:57:00PM +0100 schrieb Victor Ivanov: > >> On Wed, 20 Sept 2023 at 22:29, Grant Edwards >> wrote: >> > >> > That depends on how long it takes me to decide on tar vs. rsync and >> > what the appropriate options are. >> >> I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to move ext4 partition

On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 21:28:29 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > you may as well then restore from that backup. I'm sure it will be a > > lot quicker than GParted's moving all the data around. > > That depends on how long it takes me to decide on tar vs. rsync and > what the appropriate

[gentoo-user] Re: How to move ext4 partition

On 2023-09-20, Victor Ivanov wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sept 2023 at 22:29, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> >> That depends on how long it takes me to decide on tar vs. rsync and >> what the appropriate options are. > > I've done this a number of times for various reasons over the last 1-2 > years, most

[gentoo-user] Re: How to move ext4 partition

On 2023-09-20, Wol wrote: > Or, assuming the people who wrote gparted have two brain cells to rub > together, I'm pretty sure they use the same technique as memmove. > > "If the regions overlap, make sure you start from whichever end won't > overwrite the source, otherwise start at whichever

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to move ext4 partition

Am Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 10:57:00PM +0100 schrieb Victor Ivanov: > On Wed, 20 Sept 2023 at 22:29, Grant Edwards > wrote: > > > > That depends on how long it takes me to decide on tar vs. rsync and > > what the appropriate options are. > > I've done this a number of times for various reasons

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

On 18/09/2023 17:13, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 6:03 PM Peter Humphrey > wrote: On Monday, 18 September 2023 14:48:46 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 3:44 PM Peter Humphrey mailto:pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk>> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to move ext4 partition

On Wed, 20 Sept 2023 at 22:29, Grant Edwards wrote: > > That depends on how long it takes me to decide on tar vs. rsync and > what the appropriate options are. I've done this a number of times for various reasons over the last 1-2 years, most recently a few months ago due to hard drive swap, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

Am Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 04:51:36PM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > > > Anyway, when I do that and use the new passwords successfully, I make a > > > backup copy and on my rig, I can encrypt it with a right click. I then > > > shred the original. > > > > Just on a sidenote, once you’re on an SSD,

[gentoo-user] Some mailing list emails not making it to me.

Howdy, Anyone else noticing they are missing some emails on this list?  I missed one the other day, Michael I think it was, and I just missed another one, yet to arrive, from Neil on the ext4 move thread by Grant. I see Grant's reply to Neil but the message from Neil is not here yet.  It may

Re: [gentoo-user] How to move ext4 partition

On 20/09/2023 22:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:24:17 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: However, GParted apparently does. Can GParted move an ext4 filesystem to a destination location that overlaps its starting location? For example, I have a 500GB partition containing an

[gentoo-user] Re: How to move ext4 partition

On 2023-09-20, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:24:17 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> For example, I have a 500GB partition containing an ext4 filesystem >> starting at sector 2048 (1MiB). I want to move that filesystem so that >> it starts at sector 3*2048 (3MiB). >> >> Can

Re: [gentoo-user] How to move ext4 partition

On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:24:17 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > However, GParted apparently does. Can GParted move an ext4 filesystem > to a destination location that overlaps its starting location? > > For example, I have a 500GB partition containing an ext4 filesystem > starting at sector

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 4:22 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 11:49:24PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > > Anyway, when I do that and use the new passwords successfully, I make a > > backup copy and on my rig, I can encrypt it with a right click. I then > > shred the original. >

[gentoo-user] How to move ext4 partition

I've got a Gentoo install using a GPT partition table and Legacy boot using Grub2. There is a single /root parition and a single swap partition on the drive. I did not create a bios-boot partition at the start of the disk, so I had to force grub2 to install using block-lists. I'd like to fix

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 11:49:24PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Anyway, when I do that and use the new passwords successfully, I make a > backup copy and on my rig, I can encrypt it with a right click.  I then > shred the original. Just on a sidenote, once you’re on an SSD, shredding has no use and is

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

Am Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 01:28:09PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > > I have a question tho. Can a person use a password/pass phrase that is > > like this: 'This is a stupid pass phrase.' Does it accept that even > > with spaces? I know file names can have spaces for a long while now but > > way

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

Another possibility is to write down encrypted passwords and don't disclose encryption technique. The rot13 is worthless. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Wed, 20 Sep 2023, Hoël

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

On 9/20/23 12:18, Hoël Bézier wrote: Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 12:36:13AM -0500 schrieb Dale: In the real world tho, how do people reading this make passwords that no one could ever guess?  I use Bitwarden to handle website passwords and it does a good job.  I make up my own tho when encrypting

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 12:36:13AM -0500 schrieb Dale: In the real world tho, how do people reading this make passwords that no one could ever guess?  I use Bitwarden to handle website passwords and it does a good job.  I make up my own tho when encrypting drives.  I'm not sure I can really use

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

On Wednesday, 20 September 2023 05:19:18 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Tuesday, 19 September 2023 06:36:13 BST Dale wrote: > >> Heck, a link to some good info on that would be good. :-) > > > > https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/-/blob/main/FAQ.md > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

Am 20.09.23 um 04:41 schrieb Dale: It is interesting what people can come up with.  Thing is, if one uses a true random generated password, they are hard to crack but also hard to remember.  I try to come up with something that will be hard to crack but easy for me to remember. If someone has