Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

On 28/03/2022 13:52, Dale wrote: I googled and was trying to find info on how long it will take to shrink from 20TB to around 12TBs or so.  It didn't lead to much except for someone with some seriously large drives and it taking about a week to shrink.  That's a problem.  If it will even take a

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

On 03/04/2022 02:15, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Rsync has a bwlimit argument which helps here. Note that rsync copies the whole file on what it considers local storage (which can be mounted network shares) ... this can cause a real slowdown. It won't help on the initial copy, but look at the - I

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

On 05/04/2022 14:58, Laurence Perkins wrote: -Original Message- From: Dale Sent: Monday, April 4, 2022 4:37 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around One thing that annoys me, it trying to use swap. I don't want to disable it

Re: [gentoo-user] Module vboxdrv cannot be found

On 28/01/2022 09:10, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi, after a kernel update and a # emerge -av @module-rebuild the VirtualBox modules cannot be found any more. # find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -name 'vbox*' /lib/modules/5.15.16-gentoo/misc/vboxnetflt.ko

Re: [gentoo-user] Module vboxdrv cannot be found

On 28/01/2022 12:37, Bertram Scharpf wrote: On Friday, 28. Jan 2022, 10:45:01 +, Wols Lists wrote: On 28/01/2022 09:10, Bertram Scharpf wrote: after a kernel update and a # emerge -av @module-rebuild the VirtualBox modules cannot be found any more. You've updated your kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to expand ext4 partition

On 05/02/2022 19:37, Julien Roy wrote: At this point, I am considering transfering all my data to another volume, and re-creating the RAID using mdadm. You know about the raid wiki https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid ? (Edited by yours truly ...) Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to expand ext4 partition

On 06/02/2022 00:47, Mark Knecht wrote: If it's a WD Red Plus on the label then it's CMR and good. If it's WD Red without the "Plus" then it's SMR and WD has said don't use them for this purpose. It's not impossible to run the WD Red in a RAID, but they tend to fail when resilvering. If it

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing or renaming old /boot/grub directory warning

On 05/02/2022 11:21, Michael wrote: On Saturday, 5 February 2022 09:36:44 GMT Dale wrote: It failed with a missing normal.mod file. That file is in the old grub directory. Once I renamed the directory back to what grub expected, the system loaded grub fine. Ahh! The normal.mod command:

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling a sizable amount of spam and Dovecote question

Well, for the moment, I want to use it for gmail that I'm posting with. My reason for this, Seamonkey is in a iffy state.  I've already started using Firefox and containers for most other things but use Seamonkey mostly for emails.  My hope, set up something local so that I don't lose any older

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling a sizable amount of spam and Dovecote question

I already divide my emails into folders.  Example, any email that contains [gentoo-user] goes to the gentoo-user folder.  Similar for -dev etc.  I also have folders for things like banking, friends, family, shopping websites etc etc.  Well over 95% of my emails goes to a folder other than the

[gentoo-user] dmesg on boot - is this behind my crashes?

I've got a slightly unstable system, and I'm beginning to get a feel that it's something to do with my Radeon graphics card. I've got a Ryzen 3 processor, so I'm not using onboard graphics. Output attached - can anybody give me any clues? There's what looks like a crash where it says "cut

Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting a network printer

On 14/01/2022 12:44, Dale wrote: I researched and found a couple places that claimed if you refill the cartridges before they were about empty, then it would keep working. However, other people said the chip prints a specific number of pages and then shows empty whether it is or not.  I know

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive error from SMART

On 12/04/2022 18:21, Laurence Perkins wrote: You can get up to 16X SATA PCI-e cards these days for pretty cheap. So as long as you have the power to run another drive or two there's not much reason not to do RAID on the important stuff. Also, the SATA protocol allows for port expanders,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM and the /usr Logical Volume

On 07/04/2022 05:00, John Covici wrote: Are you using systemd or openrc? What are you using for your initrd, dracut or something else? I also wonder if dm1 is the same thing as your/dev/mapper/... by another name -- check where the link points to. If it isn't, then there's something wrong.

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and the /usr Logical Volume

On 06/04/2022 14:12, Dale wrote: Is it possible that something else has the usr label?  I don't see anything in the info you provided but maybe it is elsewhere, somewhere. Another option, try using the UUID instead.  That would eliminate the above if that is the problem. Grasping at straws.

Re: [gentoo-user] which lenovo or huawei laptop?

On 06/04/2022 19:53, n952162 wrote: I bought a bottom of the line HP laptop and had only problems with unsupported chips.  I'd like to buy a lenovo or huawei now. Has anyone had bad experiences porting /gentoo/ to either? If you're prepared to pay decent money (there's no such thing as a

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing windows on second drive

On 10/04/2022 01:30, Miles Malone wrote: That is correct, yeah. Wouldnt do you any harm to backup your ESP beforehand, though it's unlikely to be more than a precaution On Sun, 10 Apr 2022 at 10:13, Adam Carter wrote: I'm assuming that windows will modify the EFI configuration and i will

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive error from SMART

On 12/04/2022 02:27, Dale wrote: The one I aborted was because it was stuck on 10% for well over a day. The whole test doesn't take that long, or shouldn't anyway.  I restarted it shortly after that.  I might add, the test did take many hours longer than it estimated which from my past

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the point of baloo?

On 17/09/2023 19:35, Peter Böhm wrote: Am Sonntag, 17. September 2023, 19:46:05 CEST schrieb Wols Lists: It always annoys me, but baloo seems to be being an absolute nightmare at the moment. I tried to kill it and it appears to have just restarted. Is there a use flag I can use to just get

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the point of baloo?

On 17/09/2023 19:37, Michael wrote: However, unlike locate, baloo is meant to index not just file names, but also metadata tags and relationships relevant to files, emails and contacts. Its devs would argue it has a small footprint. So it is meant to be*more* than a simple file name indexer.

[gentoo-user] What is the point of baloo?

It always annoys me, but baloo seems to be being an absolute nightmare at the moment. Iirc, it's "the file indexer for KDE" - in other words it knackers your response time reading all the files, wastes disk space building an index, and all for what? So that programs you never use can a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

On 13/09/2023 12:28, Peter Humphrey wrote: A thought on compiling, which I hope some devs will read: I was tempted to push the system hard at first, with load average and jobs as high as I thought I could set them. I've come to believe, though, that job control by portage and /usr/bin/make is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

On 19/10/2023 12:55, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 23:49:25 -0500, Dale wrote: That config kinda reminds me of the old grub.  A title line, location of kernel and then options.  Sounds easy enough.  The new grub config is almost impossible to config by hand.  They had to make a tool

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

On 19/09/2023 10:13, Dale wrote: That's a interesting way to come up with passwords tho.  I've seen that is a few whodunit type shows.  Way back in the old days, they had some interesting ways of coding messages.  Passwords are sort of similar. Back when we were busy conquering India ... The

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

On 20/09/2023 19:05, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: In principle, a repeated space character in your passphrase could help reduce the computational burden of an offline brute force attack, by e.g. helping an attacker to identify the number of individual words in a passphrase. Due to the rotation,

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

On 19/09/2023 10:10, Jude DaShiell wrote: Once the set spots got figured five dice got used for letters add the total and subtract 4 for the particular letter. Which actually isn't random. It's a bell curve peaking probably between J and M. Think, if you throw 2 dice, there are 36 possible

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

On 20/09/2023 23:39, Grant Edwards wrote: Assuming GParted is smart enough to do overlapping moves, is it smart enough to only copy filesystem data and not copy "empty" sectors? According to various forum posts, it is not: moving a partion copies every sector. [That's certainly the obvious, safe

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

On 19/09/2023 00:40, Dale wrote: I get it when you wanna do it your way because it always worked™ (which is not wrong — don’t misunderstand me) and perhaps you had some bad experience in the past. OTOH it’s a pricey component usually only needed by gamers and number crunchers. On-board graphics

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

On 18/09/2023 12:16, Rich Freeman wrote: This is part of why I like storage implementations that have more robustness built into the software. Granted, it is still only as good as your clients, but with distributed storage I really don't want to be paying for ECC on all of my nodes. If the

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

On 18/09/2023 11:13, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: With so many drives, you should also include a pricey power supply. And/or a server board which supports staggered spin-up. Also, drives of the home NAS category (and consumer drives anyways) are only certified for operation in groups of up to

Re: [gentoo-user] world updates blocked by Qt

On 11/10/2023 17:44, Philip Webb wrote: 231011 Alan McKinnon wrote: Today a sync and emerge world produces a huge list of blockers. qt 5.15.10 is currently installed and qt 5.15.11 is new in the tree and being blocked. All the visible blockers are Qt itself so --verbose-conflicts is needed.

Re: [gentoo-user] OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

On 16/10/2023 08:51, Dale wrote: Anyone here have ideas?  Keep in mind, that thing uses systemd.  I thought I hated that before.  I truly hate that thing now.  Trying to figure out how to restart something is like pulling teeth with no pain meds. systemctl restart servicename? I like

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions

On 20/08/2023 03:34, Walter Dnes wrote: I've been on Gentoo for years and years, but I've never used a VPN, so consider me an absolute newbie. Canadian big news media has successfully lobbied our government to implement a link tax. Google has decided to avoid the tax by not linking to it in

Re: [gentoo-user] for the speakup users on the list

On 17/04/2022 18:28, Mark Knecht wrote: Echoing Jack's comment, I'm not sure this is a heat sink problem. Misoperation at the time of letting go of the reset button prior to POST. If the machine is starting cold a processor wouldn't overheat that fast but I haven't yet read all of your thread.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM and the /usr Logical Volume

On 25/04/2022 14:36, dhk wrote: After reinstalling Gentoo with a new liveusb, my system still looks similar to the way it was before.  I started with the existing partition schema and wiped everything and performed a separate independent install.  I am still not sure why the /dev/dm-1 block

Re: [gentoo-user] Google and "fetchmail" + "ssmtp"

http://mmogilvi.users.sourceforge.net/software/oauthbearer.html Hope this helps ... Cheers, Wol On 17/03/2022 16:51, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: Greetings, since quite some time, longe before "converting" to Gentoo, I've used "fetchmail" and "ssmtp" to retrieve and send mail via my Google

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : probable parts for comment

On 13/05/2022 15:43, Michael wrote: On Friday, 13 May 2022 09:39:51 BST Philip Webb wrote: Thanks for the detailed advice, esp Frank + Dale + also Wols + Perkins. These are my proposed parts for ANB6, wh I will buy from Canada Computers ; prices are in CAD, of course ; a few further comments

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove rust completely

On 12/05/2022 02:41, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: And yes, the compile time is one of the factors in not wanting it on my system. The second factor is a natural reaction toward feeling that I am forced to have it. Another reason is the growing collection of compilers and development tools and their

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python mess - random winge!

On 05/07/2022 17:44, Rich Freeman wrote: hat and its dependencies. Obviously you need to be caught up before things get removed from the repo, but the offending package itself will get removed when that happens anyway. You can always just globally keep the older version around longer if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot has no space left.

On 01/07/2022 00:21, Dale wrote: When I upgrade to a new kernel, I run for a month or so and then manually clean out /boot, that would include kernel, init thingy, System.map and config files. Seeing this reminds me it might be a good time to look into updating, even tho I might not reboot for

Re: [gentoo-user] google-chrome-103.0.5060 - choose password for new keyring

On 08/07/2022 07:44, Dale wrote: the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 7/7/22 21:50, Dale wrote: You found a solution that works.  That's great.  Now you can get back to doing more important things.  ;-) Dale :-)  :-) By upgrading one of my system, I've just noticed this behaviour is enforced

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange UEFI boot behaviour

On 11/07/2022 01:25, Peter Humphrey wrote: Should I consider re-flashing the BIOS? It's getting on for 10 years old. I did that to another machine once, thereby killing it stone dead. I've flashed bios's and done stuff like that. Yes it's scary, knowing you can kill the machine. No if you're

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot has no space left.

On 30/06/2022 19:23, Michael wrote: On Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:15:33 BST Guillermo wrote: Hello, I still have the same problem, but the command worked fine. The command "emerge -a --depclean" will only remove uninstall the kernel packages, but will not remove files from/usr/src/, or old

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic - lilo can't find boot

On 24/07/2022 12:01, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm trying to revive an older Lenovo. It has worked in the past. Here is the kernel panic error (3 lines)... VFS: Cannot open device "801" or unknown-block (8,1): error -6 Please append a correct "root=" boot option: here are the available partitions:

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall

On 11/05/2022 19:34, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 May 2022 16:45:31 +, Laurence Perkins wrote: Alternatively, fully update the system before putting in your world file, and then instead of copying in the world file all at once just run a loop to emerge the lines in it one at a time.

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

On 26/08/2022 12:27, Dale wrote: I think it's saved a lot of bacon over the years:-) Even if I've mostly edited it. I haven't written much of it from scratch. Cheers, Wol I see typos.  Do they matter to you? Apart from the one intentional one, I'd like to fix any others :-) Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

On 25/08/2022 19:59, Dale wrote: While at it, can I move the drives on LVM to another system without having to copy anything?  Just physically move the drives and LVM see them correctly on the new system?  I may try to build a small computer for a NAS soon.  I'm not sure what is the least I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting amount of memory a program can use.

On 28/08/2022 15:21, Rich Freeman wrote: Something I wish linux supported was discardable memory, for caches/etc. A program should be able to allocate memory while passing a hint to the kernel saying that the memory is discardable. Linux DOES have that ... I'm not sure how to use it, but you

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

On 26/08/2022 00:56, Dale wrote: Wols Lists wrote: On 25/08/2022 19:59, Dale wrote: While at it, can I move the drives on LVM to another system without having to copy anything?  Just physically move the drives and LVM see them correctly on the new system?  I may try to build a small computer

Re: [gentoo-user] Replace 8TB drive with 10TB drive on encrypted LVM

On 14/09/2022 14:55, Dale wrote: I see the point but wasn't aware there was more than one way to do it with cryptsetup.  It seems there is several options for this.  I was pretty sure LVM was on bottom and mentioned it in my original post. After reading your post, I got to wondering, did I do

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.

On 10/09/2022 01:18, Paul Colquhoun wrote: 2) Remind us again why you still try to run Gentoo when you obviously dislike it. snark :-) A couple of things to remember: Gentoo IS a pita to install and run compared to most other distros - I've had a brand new laptop lying around for 6 months

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.

On 08/09/2022 21:24, Lee wrote: Who needs to go to the hassle maintaining a printer of their own, buying cartridges, paper etc? I set up an online account at my neighborhood Kinkos, and I just upload whatever docs I need and they print out in HD whatever I need for pennies a page. Ymmv.

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and adding a option, if it exists.

On 08/10/2022 04:44, Dale wrote: I might add, along with tab completion, I also use the highlight and middle click on the mouse.  A faster way to copy and paste when needed.  That's a nifty feature of Konsole. I think that's been part of X since the dinosaurs were around. Try it elsewhere, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

On 15/08/2022 00:20, Dale wrote: Right now, my backups are external hard drives.  I have a 3TB, a 6TB and a 8TB that sadly is SMR.  They are encrypted and after I do my backup updates, they go in a fire safe.  I tend to do updates once a week, usually while I'm doing OS updates. That NAS

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/docutils weird blockage

On 16/08/2022 21:05, Jack wrote: This one is actually pretty straightforward.  You have dev-python/sphinx-5.0.2 installed which requires a version of dev-python/docutils LESS THAN 0.19.  I suspect you were looking for conflicts in the USE flags, where there aren't any (that I see.)   It

Re: [gentoo-user] Scanner and weird streaking

On 30/12/2022 13:42, Dale wrote: Given I only use Linux, know of any good and commonly available flatbed scanner models?  I'm fine with used ones as long as they work.  I like the one I got since when I'm done, it stands upright in my closet and takes up very little floor space.  It does a

[gentoo-user] Thunderbird build failure ..

I got the following build failure in my weekly emerge yesterday ... * Messages for package mail-client/thunderbird-102.6.0: * ERROR: mail-client/thunderbird-102.6.0::gentoo failed (compile phase): * (no error message) * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 136: Called src_compile *

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

On 08/12/2022 13:31, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 5:38 AM Dale > wrote: > > Howdy, > > I've pretty much reached a limit on my backups.  I'm up to a 16TB hard > drive for one and even that won't last long.  Larger drives are much > more costly. 

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

On 09/12/2022 13:38, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Depending on the PVR make/model I've seen 1080p resolution recordings with .m2ts and .ts file extensions, while the codecs inside them are the same. I wasn’t aware that ts could contain h264. But then again—I never really bothered with live TV

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

On 18/12/2022 22:11, Dale wrote: Wol wrote: On 18/12/2022 18:59, Dale wrote: Since this is local, I just use rsync to do my backups.  I did have to change the options a bit.  It seems TrueNAS doesn't like some of the permissions or something. Are you running the rsync daemon on the NAS? I'm

Re: Living in NGL: was: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

On 19/12/2022 12:00, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 12:11 AM Dale wrote: If I like these Raspberry things, may make a media box out of one. I'd like to have a remote tho.  So, I've done that. Honestly, these days a Roku is probably the better option, or something like a

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

On 21/12/2022 02:47, Dale wrote: I think if I can hold out a little while, something really nice is going to come along.  It seems there is a good bit of interest in having a Raspberry Pi NAS that gives really good performance.  I'm talking a NAS that is about the same speed as a internal drive. 

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

On 10/12/2022 16:19, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Where do we confuse those two? We specifically talked of codecs and “contain”. "I didn't know .ts could contain h264". If .ts is the container, then surely the assumption is it can contain any codec? If not, why not? (Yes I do get the

Re: [gentoo-user] Any one with experience using getmail with postfix?

On 25/11/2022 11:56, William Kenworthy wrote: Hi,     I am looking into replacing fetchmail with getmail on my mail gateway system Are you using getmail, or getmail6? https://pyropus.ca./software/getmail/documentation.html#python3 A quick "emerge --search getmail" shows that gentoo is

Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDFs and/or jpegs together. Help, please!

On 25/11/2022 17:49, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: Alan, On Friday, 2022-11-25 16:40:11 +, you wrote: ... I have a problem, in that I need to join several PDFs or jpegs output from xsane (the scanner program) into a single document. For joining PDFs I use "pdftk" from "app-text/pdftk". I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing .wav files?

On 02/12/2022 10:45, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday, 2 December 2022 02:40:56 GMT Lee wrote: Doesnt cmus play wav files? I hadn't heard of it. Thank you all. Several promising ideas there. Another idea? Audacity? I know it's not thought of as a music player but it can. More importantly,

Re: Undeliverable: Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and adding a option, if it exists.

On 22/11/2022 21:58, Dale wrote: I'm top posting for those who want to ignore this message. This is the second message like this I've received.  Is anyone else getting these?  Did someone close their email account and not unsubscribe or something?  Is this just me? No it's not just you. I'm

[gentoo-user] Postfix config and update

I've just had emerge telling me it wants to trash my postfix config :-) I'm not sure whether my setup is actually using it, I use dovecot to deliver my mail, but is there any way I can stop random updates trying to trash my local changes? I'm rubbish at merging updates, and last time I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird build failure .. [Gone away]

On 01/01/2023 21:05, Wol wrote: On 01/01/2023 20:08, cal wrote: FWIW, Thunderbird builds fine with GCC on my machine -- I'm unsure of your reasons for setting your Portage compiler to clang, but you may wish to use a package.env override to build Thunderbird with GCC as a workaround until the

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -c when bad blocks are in existing file?

On 08/11/2022 13:20, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 8 November 2022 03:31:07 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: I've got an SSD that's failing, and I'd like to know what files contain bad blocks so that I don't attempt to copy them to the replacement disk. According to e2fsck(8): -c This option

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

On 11/11/2022 10:35, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Fri, 11 Nov 2022 at 11:30, Peter Humphrey wrote: I can't remember any difficulty going from the 5 series to 6.0.0 either, even though it was a .0 version, which we all know is generally to be suspected. Not when it comes to the linux kernel though,

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting a fixed nameserver for openvpn

On 06/03/2023 11:08, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday, 6 March 2023 10:56:37 GMT Wols Lists wrote: On 06/03/2023 10:06, Michael wrote: I suspect the behaviour you noticed is related to FF functionality like TRR (Trusted Recursive Resolver) farming all your DNS queries over to the cloudfarce

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting a fixed nameserver for openvpn

On 05/03/2023 18:41, Dale wrote: I edited the file they say with kwrite.  Even after I restart openvpn, the IP they want is there but it doesn't use it according to the site they sent for me to check it with.  It shows other IP addresses.  I'm sure I'm missing something, likely something simple,

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting a fixed nameserver for openvpn

On 06/03/2023 08:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 07:54:51 +, Wols Lists wrote: There's another file - can't remember its name - that tells your resolver what to try in what order - the hosts file, dns, what dhcp told you, etc etc, so your resolver might not be using dns the way

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting a fixed nameserver for openvpn

On 06/03/2023 10:06, Michael wrote: On Monday, 6 March 2023 08:24:35 GMT Wols Lists wrote: On 06/03/2023 08:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 07:54:51 +, Wols Lists wrote: There's another file - can't remember its name - that tells your resolver what to try in what order

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On 17/04/2023 02:14, Dale wrote: My current install is over a decade old.  My /boot partition is about 375MBs.  I should have made it larger but at the time, I booted CD/DVD media when needed.  I didn't have USB sticks at the time.  This time, I plan to make some changes.  If I put Knoppix

Re: [gentoo-user] updating /boot directory EFI

On 17/04/2023 17:52, Mark Knecht wrote: Later on a Kubuntu update found Windows, updated the EFI stuff on the Windows drive and then, I see this morning, erased everything out of the Kubuntu EFI partition but left the partition there. I had a similar problem trying to install SUSE to dual boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On 18/04/2023 23:13, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs. And on every disk I allocate a swap partition equal to twice the mobo's max memory. Three drives times 64GB times two is a helluva lot of swap. Uhm … why? The moniker of swap = 2×RAM comes from times when RAM was

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

On 27/04/2023 16:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 15:54:34 +0200, tastytea wrote: btrfs and zfs have some useful features for normal use cases. the transparent compression can save a lot of space and even increase speed in some cases, the checksumming guarantees that you will never

Re: [gentoo-user] updating /boot directory EFI

On 17/04/2023 23:36, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday, 17 April 2023 21:41:09 BST Wols Lists wrote: On 17/04/2023 17:52, Mark Knecht wrote: Later on a Kubuntu update found Windows, updated the EFI stuff on the Windows drive and then, I see this morning, erased everything out of the Kubuntu EFI

Re: [gentoo-user] Can some config files be automatically protected from etc-update?

On 17/04/2023 19:26, Walter Dnes wrote: Now that the (no)multilib problem in my latest update has been solved, I have a somewhat minor complaint. Can I get etc-update to skip certain files? My latest emerge world wanted to "update"... 1) /etc/hosts (1) 2) /etc/inittab (1) 3) /etc/mtab (1)

Re: [gentoo-user] PCIe x1 or PCIe x4 SATA controller card

On 27/03/2023 01:18, Dale wrote: Thanks for any light you can shed on this.  Googling just leads to a ton of confusion.  What's true 6 months ago is wrong today.  :/  It's hard to tell what still applies. Well, back in the days of the megahurtz wars, a higher clock speed allegedly meant a

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to get sd card reader to work

On 13/06/2023 03:01, John Blinka wrote: Good to know it all works, but if you're sticking a new card in an old reader, they may not be compatible. Don’t know what constitutes new/old, but these are <1 year old cards. Satisfied with empiric evidence that it all works. Have written mp3

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

On 31/07/2023 16:55, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday, 31 July 2023 15:19:22 BST Wols Lists wrote: The big question that needs answering is "Are you storing your emails in dovecot, or in kmail?" In KMail. My server has fetchmail -> postfix -> dovecot. Fetchmail collects POP

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

On 29/07/2023 03:37, Bryan Gardiner wrote: User of Claws with a local maildir here. One mail per file always felt safer to me. If you do want to keep using maildir, net-mail/dovecot provides IMAP access to ~/.maildir out of the box, and I've found this combination to be reliable. Just a tip

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

On 29/07/2023 11:13, Arsen Arsenović wrote: Wols Lists writes: On 29/07/2023 03:37, Bryan Gardiner wrote: User of Claws with a local maildir here. One mail per file always felt safer to me. If you do want to keep using maildir, net-mail/dovecot provides IMAP access to ~/.maildir out

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

On 29/07/2023 12:01, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hm. I already have Dovecot on my LAN server, because KMail is horribly buggy with POP3, which is what my ISP offers. So fetchmail -> postfix -> dovecot became necessary before I could use IMAP4 in KMail. All incoming emails are transferred to my

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

On 29/07/2023 15:50, Arsen Arsenović wrote: But I DO have to care about postfix/main.cf. This makes the fundamental blunder of mixing distro defaults and local config in the SAME FILE. So yes it does offer me etc-update. But if I MISS THAT, I've just trashed my local config and have to rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

On 29/07/2023 14:54, Arsen Arsenović wrote: Again, it shouldn't be able to do that. Please check CONFIG_PROTECT using: portageq envvar CONFIG_PROTECT It should, normally, contain /etc, set by profiles/base/make.defaults. And here is the root of the mis-understanding between us. And also why

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

On 31/07/2023 00:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 23:53:39 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: ... I use Claws 99% of the time, but occasionally run Thunderbird. Neither program cares that I have also used the other to read my mail. Ah, but you're using IMAP4 and leaving your emails on

Re: [gentoo-user] Need some help with location of git clone when bisecting with 9999-ebuilds

On 11/08/2023 01:23, Yixun Lan wrote: 1) Where should I store the git clone of the repository and how do I tell emerge to read the source files from there, when emerging the ebuild, instead of downloading them from the Internet as usual? how about have a local clone of wine repository?

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS

On 27/07/2023 17:18, Michael wrote: Although I've been using btrfs for the best part of 10 years I have not really done justice to it, because I have neither explored nor used enough most of its features. I am now thinking of installing Gentoo on btrfs again, but this time I want to optimise

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

On 31/07/2023 13:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday, 31 July 2023 08:34:05 BST Wols Lists wrote: On 31/07/2023 00:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 23:53:39 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: ... I use Claws 99% of the time, but occasionally run Thunderbird. Neither program cares that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading modules prevents shutdown

On 17/06/2023 12:57, dhk wrote: Thanks for the tips.  After spending a lot of time on and off for a few weeks trying to keep /lib/modules on its own partition, it just did not work right; the system was scrapped and rebuilt per the trivial solution with /lib/modules on the root partition.  Now

[gentoo-user] Mouse pain

I've been having grief with my mouse for a while, and all the help I can find is "how to adjust mouse speed", which is not my problem... and seems to be about the only thing that is adjustable ... Basically even something as simple as left click doesn't work properly. I'm guessing it's timing

[gentoo-user] Systemd query ...

Nothing to do with but sparked by the Apache problem ... One of the emails mentioned that the "ExecStop" section didn't appear to be working ... That's caused me considerable grief in a systemd config file I've written ... Basically, somebody else added an ExecStop section - and all hell

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pain

On 15/05/2023 03:51, William Kenworthy wrote: Checked your menu? XFCE has a "mouse and touchpad" under settings with a number of useful items including acceleration, double click timings etc. Yes. As I remember, KDE USED to have such a menu ... Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pain

On 15/05/2023 17:18, Michael wrote: On Monday, 15 May 2023 17:11:45 BST Wols Lists wrote: On 15/05/2023 03:51, William Kenworthy wrote: Checked your menu? XFCE has a "mouse and touchpad" under settings with a number of useful items including acceleration, double click timings etc.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

On 04/02/2024 15:48, Grant Edwards wrote: OK I see. That's a bit different than what I'm doing. I'm backing up a specific set of directory trees from a couple different filesystems. There are large portions of the "source" filesystems that I have no need to back up. And within those directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

On 08/02/2024 06:38, J. Roeleveld wrote: ZFS doesn't have this "max amount of changes", but will happily fill up the entire pool keeping all versions available. But it was easier to add zpool monitoring for this on ZFS then it was to add snapshot monitoring to LVM. I wonder, how do you deal

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