Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally reformatted my EVMS root partition. Any hope of recovering data?

2006-09-26 Thread Wolfgang Illmeyer
try running reiserfsck, with --rebuild-sb and/or --rebuild-tree, as needed. But keep a copy of the partition around (as mentioned in the other posting), just in case you find a better way to rescue your files. /Wolfgang -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Should we NEVER do an ``emerge -u world''?

2006-09-27 Thread Wolfgang Illmeyer
Am Mittwoch, 27. September 2006 20:21 schrieb sdoma: Again top-posting :) One thing for you before I leave: I know that it is possible to avoid installation of unwanted upgrades using portage, but I don't like to have to say my comp what NOT TO DO. I await from my comp to do what I say it TO

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups

2006-09-27 Thread Wolfgang Illmeyer
Am Mittwoch, 27. September 2006 22:38 schrieb Leandro Melo de Sales: I have my linux servers integrated with LDAP. I'm planning to setup cups in order to store printers configurations on the LDAP server and manage them. Is it a good alternative? How about printing quota, I want to limit the

Re: [gentoo-user] another mistakenly deleted partition to recover :(

2006-09-28 Thread Wolfgang Illmeyer
Hi, Have a look at sys-block/gpart, it can probably help you. In your other thread you mentioned you had no space for backing up a partition. Too bad I didn't have the idea earlier, but you could create a copy on write partiton, for example with network block devices (needs kernel support and

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Wolfgang Illmeyer
Am Donnerstag, 28. September 2006 23:15 schrieb Daevid Vincent: Something has changed recently with 'emerge'. Whenever I use the -D option, which I am pretty much in the habbit of typing 'emerge -Dav' or 'emerge -Davu world/system', I notice it pulling in more stuff than it should. It never

Re: [gentoo-user] which package provides a given library?

2006-09-22 Thread Wolfgang Illmeyer
Am Freitag, 22. September 2006 11:23 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, I'd like to write my own .ebuild file. I know which libaries are needed by the new package but how can I find out which package provides a given library? e.g. libXext (probably virtual/x11) I've tried equery