Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

Am Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 07:26:30AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > If you don't play games, then definitely get integrated graphics. > > I'd add to this, you could still play many games, especially older games > > using > > a modern APU. The integrated graphics capability is broadly comparable > >

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

Am Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 01:18:39PM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 9:33 AM Dale wrote: > > > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > > All AM5 CPUs have GPUs, but in general motherboards with video outputs > > > do not require the CPU to have a GPU built in. The ports just don't > >

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

Am Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:04:15AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > The physical connector is called M.2. The dimensions of the “sticks” are > > given in a number such as 2280, meaning 22 mm wide and 80 mm long. There > > are > > different lengths available from 30 to 110 mm. M.2 has different “keys”,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

Am Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 08:33:20AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > (moving this to gentoo-user as this is really getting off-topic for -dev) > […] > We're going on almost 20 years since the Snowden revelations, and back > then the NSA was basically doing intrusion on an industrial scale. Weeaalll,

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

Am Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 08:23:27AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 8:11 AM Dale wrote: > >> My biggest thing right now, finding a mobo with plenty of PCIe slots. > >> They put all this new stuff, wifi and such, but remove things I do need, > >> PCIe slots. >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

Am Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 09:26:33PM -0500 schrieb Grant Taylor: > On 3/27/24 13:58, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Hi all, > > Hi, > > > I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 servers. > > Changes > > can occur on both sides which means I need to have it synchronise in both > >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

Am Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 05:33:43PM +0100 schrieb ralfconn: > Il 28/03/24 07:30, J. Roeleveld ha scritto: > > > Unison creates a local index of all files it syncronised. So when you > > > move a > > > file around on one end, Unison will notice that because the file at the > > > new > > > location

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

Am Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 01:08:03AM +0100 schrieb Alarig Le Lay: > On Wed 27 Mar 2024 20:37:27 GMT, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > +1 for Unison. I’ve been using it for many years now to synchronise between > > the four PC systems in my household. > > > > Unison creates

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

Am Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 03:59:18PM -0400 schrieb Matt Connell: > > Syncthing is also a good idea. The major difference: syncthing is a > > permanently running daemon, so changes are synced very fast (the > > interval is configurable, IIRC). OTOH, Unison is run individually by > > you. That’s why

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

Am Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 03:42:07PM -0400 schrieb Matt Connell: > On Wed, 2024-03-27 at 19:58 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 servers. > > Changes can occur on both sides which means I need to have it > > synchronise in

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

Am Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 08:18:14PM +0100 schrieb ralfconn: > Il 27/03/24 19:58, J. Roeleveld ha scritto: > > Hi all, > > > > I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 servers. > > Changes > > can occur on both sides which means I need to have it synchronise in both > >

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I zap a specific area of a gnumeric spreadsheet page?

Am Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 05:46:31PM -0400 schrieb Walter Dnes: > The province of Ontario does weekly Covid data updates which I > summarize and post on the DSLReports Canchat subforum, e.g. > https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r33854514-#google_vignette Note the > data gap in the pink and brown

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

Am Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 06:15:09PM - schrieb Grant Edwards: > I need to set up some sort of automated backup on a couple Gentoo > machines (typical desktop software development and home use). One of > them used rsnapshot in the past but the crontab entries that drove > that have vanished :/

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync options after backup restore. Transfer speed again.

Am Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 02:29:26AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Dale wrote: > > > > Second problem.  The transfer speed is back to the old slower speed.  > > I'm pretty sure I am using the same old options on both ends.  Still, > > it's back to being slow again.  Some info: > > > > > > <<< SNIP >>> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync options after backup restore. Transfer speed again.

Am Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 09:20:45PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, > > As most know, I had to restore from backups recently.  I also reworked > my NAS box.  I'm doing my first backup given that I have more files that > need to be added to the backups.  When I started the rsync, it's > starting from

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting output of a program running in background after a crash

Am Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 08:35:21PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 10:44:39PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > > > >> Why don't you test throughput without encryption to confirm your > >> assumption? > > What does `c

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting output of a program running in background after a crash

Am Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 10:44:39PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > > It only does this when I'm copying files over. Right now I'm copying > > about 26TBs of data over ethernet and it is taking a while. Once I > > stop it or it finishes the copy, the CPU goes to about nothing, > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting output of a program running in background after a crash

Am Sun, Oct 08, 2023 at 07:44:06PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Just as a update.  The file system I was trying to do a file system > check on was my large one, about 40TBs worth.  While running the file > system check, it started using HUGE amounts of memory.  It used almost > all my 32GBs and most of

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from desktop to desktop without function keys.

Am Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 06:44:09PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 10:47:31PM +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > >> On Saturday, 30 September 2023 20:59:04 BST Dale wrote: > >> > >>> Is there a way with the keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] 6.1.53-gentoo-r1 kernel not booting

Am Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 11:25:46PM +0200 schrieb Håkon Alstadheim: > > Den 30.09.2023 22:57, skrev Valmor F. de Almeida: > > > > Hello, > > > > For a while now (3 weeks or so) I have been upgrading the linux kernel > > on a Dell XPS laptop starting from 6.1.41-gentoo (which is my current > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from desktop to desktop without function keys.

Am Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 10:47:31PM +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > On Saturday, 30 September 2023 20:59:04 BST Dale wrote: > > > Is there a way with the keyboard to switch to a desktop above 10? Even > > if it just switches up one at a time, that would work. Say switch to 10 > > and then keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

Am Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 05:54:21PM +0200 schrieb ralfconn: > On 9/23/23 14:04, Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > As most everyone knows, I redone my NAS box.  Before I had Truenas on it > > but switched to Ubuntu server thingy called Jimmy.  Kinda like the > > name.  lol  Anyway, Ubuntu has the

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

Am Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 02:30:32PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > I read the other replies and I think it is caching the data, the drives > writes and catches up and then it asks for more data again. Tool tip: dstat It puts out one line of values every x seconds (x == 1 by default). With arguments you

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] 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,

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] Computer case for new build

Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 11:01:48AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > > > The higher-end motherboards have switches, and not all > > > the lanes may be the highest supported generation, but I don't think > > > any modern AMD motherboards have any kind of PCIe controller on them. > > > > Here are the

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

Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 09:17:45AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > > Well they allow you to put larger cards in, but they don’t have the lanes > > for it. Somewhere else in the thread was mentioned that the number of lanes > > is very limited. Only the main slot (the big one for the GPU) is

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

Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 04:43:02AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Wols Lists wrote: > > Oh, and to the best of my knowledge, you can combine a video card and > > an AGPU. BTW: it’s APU, without the G. Because it is an Accellerated Processing Unit (i.e. a processor), not a GPU. > I been on Newegg using

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

Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 01:01:42AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > They have added a lot of stuff to mobos since I bought one about a > decade ago.  Maybe things have improved.  I just like PCIe slots and > cards.  Gives me more options. I definitely know the feeling. That is why I went with µATX instead

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

Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 06:40:52PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> I tend to need quite a few PCIe slots.  I like to have my own video > >> card.  I never liked the built in ones. > > You’re just asking to be asked. ;-) Why don’t you like them? (I fear I may > > have asked that before). > > > > I get

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

Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 02:20:56PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> […] > >> The downside, only micro ATX and > >> mini ITX mobo.  This is a serious down vote here. > > Why is that bad? µATX comes with up to four PCIe slots. Even for ten > > drives, > > you only need one SATA expander (with four or six

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

Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 02:59:22PM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > > I have a four-bay NAS with server board (ASRock Rack E3C224D2I), actually my > > last surviving Gentoo system. ;-) With IPMI-Chip (which alone takes several > > watts), 16 GiB DDR3-ECC, an i3-4170 and 4×6 TB, it draws around

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

Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 07:16:17AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 6:13 AM Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > > Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 12:17:20AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > > […] > > > The downside, only micro ATX and > > > mini I

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

Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 12:17:20AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, > […] > I've found a few cases that peak my interest depending on which way I go > with this.  One I found that has a lot of hard drive space and would > make a descent NAS box, the Fractal Design Node 804.  It's a cube shaped > thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Certain packages refuse to use binary from build save, the -k thing.

Am Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 11:44:03PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, Hi instead of going berserk mode and wasting kWh on rebuilding “just in case it might help”, why not try and dig a little deeper. > A couple of my video players are not playing videos correctly. Whicch players? > I've > rebuilt

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

Am Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 12:50:20PM +0100 schrieb Wols Lists: > Bear in mind a lot of systems are thermally limited and can't run at full > pelt anyway ... Usually those are space-constrained systems like mini PCs or laptops. Typical Desktops shouldn’t be limited; even the stock CPU coolers

Re: [gentoo-user] TrueNAS not helping me now.

Am Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 02:45:11PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Oh, creating a > vdev was the trick.  Once that is done, expand the pool.  It's one of > those, once it is done, it seems easy.  ROFL Note that people used to shoot themselves in the foot when lazily (or by accident) adding a single disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

Am Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 01:53:21AM -0400 schrieb Philip Webb: > 230729 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I've been a loyal user of KMail for many years. > > Claws mail is often mentioned hereabouts and I'd like to try it, > > but first I'd need to export KMail's 20-odd-year maildir history > > to mbox

Re: [gentoo-user] net-misc/x2goserver-4.1.0.3-r2

Am Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 08:50:47AM -0600 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > x2goserver emerged with notice: > > ERROR: preinst > > Installation of a symlink is blocked by a directory: > '/etc/x2go/xinitrc.d' > This symlink will be merged with a different name: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Instrumenting emerges

Am Sat, Jul 08, 2023 at 12:42:13PM -0300 schrieb David M. Fellows: > while [ true ] ; do cat /proc/loadavg |logger; sleep 60; done A spec more elegant: while sleep 60; do ... ; done -- Grüße | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network.

Re: [gentoo-user] Update requires restarting init process

Am Sun, Jul 02, 2023 at 11:51:52AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, > > Just a heads up.  I almost missed this in all the other normal messages > emerge spits out.  I think this was because of a glibc update.  Anyway, > if you update your system, look for a message about restarting the init > process

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.unmask: =app-text/evince-44.1 ~amd64

Am Tue, May 02, 2023 at 01:37:50PM -0600 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > Trying to emerge evince-44.1 but I get: > > Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.unmask: =app-text/evince-44.1 ~amd64 > > What is it looking for? It is not looking for the ~amd64 at the end of the line. -- Grüße |

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

Am Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 10:03:01AM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > > > That > > > said btrfs has its less than stellar moments.  I still have systems that > > > use > > > ext4 and they "seem" reliable for light duty but I make sure I have > > > backups > > > and do not trust them with

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

Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 02:04:52PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > On Saturday, 29 April 2023 12:45:31 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 01:20:52PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > > > > That > > > said btrfs has its less than stellar

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

Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 01:20:52PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > Filesystem choice is very much to do with your particular use case. > > I am not a fan of ext4 - lost too much data too many times.  I ve found > btrfs and xfs much tougher, and the online tools much more convenient. I’ve

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

Am Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 04:58:02PM +0200 schrieb tastytea: > > Does the transparent compression incur an overhead cost in processing, > > memory use, or disk writes? I feel like it certainly has to at least > > use more memory. Sorry if that's an RTFM question. > > it'll use more cpu and

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers fails to patch

Am Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 08:33:22PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > I cleared the tmp files to give it a fresh start.  It still failed.  The > directory and files it complains about being missing, they are.  I went > to the ebuild to see what patches are supposed to be installed.  This is > the part of the

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

Am Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 04:29:59AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> I wonder.  Is there a way to find out the smallest size file in a > >> directory or sub directory, largest files, then maybe a average file > >> size??? > > The 20 smallest: > > `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c '%s %n' | sort -n

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

Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 06:09:15PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > > I wonder. Is there a way to find out the smallest size file in a > directory or sub directory, largest files, then maybe a average file > size??? I thought about du but given the number of files I have here, it > would be a really

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

Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 06:32:45PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > <<>> > > > > When formatting file systems, I usually lower the number of inodes from the > > default value to gain storage space. The default is one inode per 16 kB of

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

Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 01:00:33PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > I think technically they default to the physical block size internally > and the earlier ones, attempting to be more compatible with HDDs, > had 4K blocks. Some of the newer chips now have 16K blocks but > still support 512B Logical

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

Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 12:18:14AM +0200 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > If you use ext4, run `dumpe2fs -h /dev/your-root-partition | grep Lifetime` > to see how much data has been written to that partition since you formatted > it. Just to get an idea of what you are looking at on y

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

Am Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 10:05:27AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Given how I plan to use this drive, that should last a long time.  I'm > just putting the OS stuff on the drive and I compile on a spinning rust > drive and use -k to install the built packages on the live system.  That > should help

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

Am Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 09:53:18PM +0100 schrieb Wol: > On 18/04/2023 21:01, Dale wrote: > > > I just use tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage (16GB, I'm on 32GB RAM.) Same. > /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs. And on every disk I allocate a swap partition > equal to twice the mobo's max memory. Three drives

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

Am Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 10:45:46AM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > And I don't know that formatting ext4 or some other FS to 16K > really helps the write amplification issue but it makes sense to > me to match the file system blocks to the underlying flash > block size. The problem is finding out

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

Am Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 02:27:53PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > ;-) (And shame on you for being 'a few months' behind on your updates) ;-) It’s my NAS (basically my media library), which only runs every few months due to its server hardware’s high power draw. -- Grüße | Greetings | Qapla’

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

Am Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 12:28:01PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 11:26 AM 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

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

Am Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 05:26:15PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > > I'm wanting to be able to boot something from the hard drive in the > > > event the OS itself won't boot.  The other day I had to dig around and > > > find a bootable USB stick and also found a DVD.  Ended up with the DVD > > > working

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

Am Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 01:22:32PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Frank, >Thank you for the in-depth explanation. > >I need to do some study before commenting further other than to say > so far I'm finding different comments depending on whether it's > an SSD or an M.2 drive. Uhm, I think

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

Am Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 08:08:59AM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > If you have an SSD or nvme drive installed then fstrim should be > installed and run on a regular basis. However it's not 'required'. > > Your system will still work, but after all blocks on the drive have > been used for file

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse and hibernate

Am Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 05:35:52PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > > > I have suspend/hibernate set up on a desktop ... it's been working > > > fine for years. But recently, it's been occaisionally coming out of > > > suspension some time after suspension without any intervention on my > > >

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

Am Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 07:24:47AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > > Of course, only you can answer that in the end. Write down what you need and > > what you care about. Weigh those factors. Then decide. Raw CPU power, > > electricity bill, heat budget (cooling, noise, dust), the “new and shiny” >

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

Am Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 07:18:09PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > I used to use the bogomips number as a rough guide.  Thing is, the new > CPU has a lower bogomips number than my current CPU does.  That doesn't > seem right. Bogomips seems to be vry simple, because it takes the current frequency

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

Am Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 02:08:29PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > <<>> > > With each generation, the architecture becomes more efficient, meaning more > > instructions per cycle, lower consumption and so on. The max frequency is > &

Re: [gentoo-user]Computer build, was PCIe x1 or PCIe x4 SATA controller card

Am Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 05:36:16PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > If you want to save money and aim for a low-cost AMD APU (processor with > > integrated graphics), you can get an older 3000-series Ryzen for a > > two-digit > > price. It’ll sti

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

Am Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 11:03:45PM +0100 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > Am Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 07:45:25AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > […] > > > PixInsight has a benchmark program built in and all the results > > > are open to look at

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

Am Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 07:45:25AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Another question.  My rig is getting a bit aged.  I have a AMD FX-8350 8 > > > core CPU running at 4GHz.  I also have 32GBs of memory.  I've read that > > > Intel currently has the best bang for buck on CPUs

Re: [gentoo-user] df command no longer working

Am Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 02:37:22PM -0600 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, > > As some may recall, I'm bad to fill up a hard drive.  I regularly use df > -h to see where drives are as far as filling up and such.  Usually, it > takes only a second or so to list them all.  Speed is one reason I use > it.  I

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

Am Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 08:03:36PM + schrieb Wol: > On 21/12/2022 06:19, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 05:53:03AM + schrieb Wols Lists: > > > > > On 21/12/2022 02:47, Dale wrote: > > > > I think if I can hold out a little w

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

Am Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 05:53:03AM + schrieb Wols Lists: > 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

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

Am Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 10:08:02PM -0600 schrieb Dale: I just read a news story about a new NAS model from Terramaster. (Interestingly, they have their OS on an internal USB stick, so it’s easy to swap it out for a standard Linux. And it uses a nice Celeron N5100 x86 processor.) > Eventually, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gaming on gentoo

Am Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 11:54:28AM -0500 schrieb David Rosenbaum: > Dave Out of curiosity: what is the purpose of those mails which simply full-quote another mail, but have no visible reply from you? I’ve been noticing them quite often of late. Am I missing somehting? -- Grüße | Greetings |

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

Am Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 03:53:28PM -0600 schrieb Dale: > > Did you ever tell us the exact CPU you have in there? All I can remember is > > it has 4 cores. And some AMD processor with a II in its name, but that was > > you main rig, right? > > It took some digging around but I found out it is a

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

Am Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 01:30:45PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > I don't know how to get the CPU flags on FreeBSD nor > how to determine if encryption is hardware or software > based on TrueNAS. Given some time I might Google > that. Wikipedia has lists of practically everything:

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

Am Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 01:07:43PM -0600 schrieb Dale: > See other reply that has more info.  I'm pretty sure it is the > encryption maxing out the CPU. The most simple benchmark is dd: unlock the LUKS layer on your HDD. then first read from the HDD directly and then from the LUKS device: dd

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

Am Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 12:38:45PM -0600 schrieb Dale: > I suspect it has something to do with this being a older system. Very likely. :) > I wouldn't be surprised if the SATA was a older and slower version. I hate to repeat myself, but no. Here are the speeds of SATA: Generation Year

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

Am Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 09:12:37AM -0600 schrieb Dale: > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 4:42 PM Dale > > wrote: > > > > > > > > My reasoning is simple, I'm already familiar with LVM and how to > > manage it.   > > > > […] > > Wipe the machine. You'll be happier. > > > >

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

Am Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 09:09:48AM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 8:52 AM Dale wrote: > > > I > > > wonder, could one install the LVM stuff and use that? That would be > > > interesting. I wonder if there is a NAS software that uses LVM > > > instead. Interesting

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

Am Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 12:49:01AM -0600 schrieb Dale: > > While ZFS has the same pooling feature as LVM, meaning you can bunch several > > disks together to create a JBOD, it has one big disadvantage over LVM: you > > can grow a pool, but not shrink it. Actually, while reading up on stuff for >

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

Am Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 09:50:01PM -0600 schrieb Dale: > > My point is: there is no need for a monitor. ;-) > > > > I noticing that now.  Once the install is done and you have the IP > address, heck, you don't need a monitor for much of anything it > appears.  I even found a console so one can

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

Am Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 04:43:25PM -0600 schrieb Dale: > > 4) While I cannot tell you if the card you ordered has a Linux or FreeBSD > > driver, I can point out that on the left hand side of your TrueNAS  > > dashboard, accessible in your browser hopefully, there is a pulldown > > called

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

Am Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 10:08:02PM -0600 schrieb Dale: > I have a couple questions.  I currently have the NAS thingy on a older > Dell machine.  It has a 4 core CPU and 8GBs of ram so it is acceptable, > for the time being at least.  Bad thing is, only two drive bays.  :/  I > have a few

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

Am Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 08:44:42AM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Also, I think there are ways for you to build complex pools like a RAID0 > from your 6TB and 8TB drives, and then a RAID1 using the RAID0 and your > 14TB drive but I've never tried it because mine don't have enough drive > slots for

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

Am Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 09:20:17AM + schrieb Wols Lists: > > > 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

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

Am Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 02:27:07PM + schrieb Peter Humphrey: > On Friday, 9 December 2022 13:38:32 GMT Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > ...I never really bothered with live TV recordings in recent years. These > > days, if I find something interesting, I download th

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

Am Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 01:13:50PM + schrieb Michael: > > > I get the impression Dale isn't actually PLANNING his disk storage. It's > > > just a case of "help I'm downloading all this stuff where do I put it!!!" > > > > Haha, thanks for the laugh. > > Actually this had me thinking what is

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

Am Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 05:30:18PM -0600 schrieb Dale: > > I use USB3 hard drives on Pis for my bulk storage because I care about > > capacity far more than performance, and with a distributed filesystem > > the performance is still good enough for what I'm doing. If I needed > > block storage

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

Am Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 06:36:14PM + schrieb Wols Lists: > > > 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.  A must have NAS is quickly approaching.  I've been > > >

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

Am Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 06:37:52AM -0600 schrieb Dale: > 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.  A must have NAS is quickly approaching. Hear hear, ye olde story. ;-)

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

Am Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 06:16:12AM -0600 schrieb Dale: > >> What does it try to do in simple terms?  Or, how would I use it may be a > >> better question?  > > Look at my mail from 23.10., it has a textual description (the one with the > > file tree): it basically wraps the old script over all

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

Am Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 05:54:30AM -0600 schrieb Dale: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > There ya goo. As I suspected, I already wrote most of it in October right > > away, I only couldn’t find the file until now. I just had to fix the same > > bugs as in the first

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

Am Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 06:17:09AM -0600 schrieb Dale: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > >> I added a little . on that last line before the extension bit.  I'm a > >> happy camper. > > Give me a nudge if you want the more luxurious version with interactive > > selec

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

Am Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 03:59:27AM -0600 schrieb Dale: > > If you still want to stick to a terminal solution akin to mv, then there is > > no way around a little script which wraps mv by extracting the extension and > > filename base. You could also add some “intelligence” with regards to > >

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

Am Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 07:37:01PM - schrieb Grant Edwards: > >> My office setup had three screens, each with four virtual desktops. > >> > >> When using multiple screens, you develop the habit of using one screen > >> for common, always-on stuff (e.g. email, web browser) and the other > >>

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

Am Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 06:16:04AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 01:35:55AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > > >> Well, I ran into a slight problem.  This isn't much of a problem with > >> Linux but I'm not sure how this would

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

Am Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 01:35:55AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Well, I ran into a slight problem.  This isn't much of a problem with > Linux but I'm not sure how this would work on windoze tho.  The problem, > if it is one, is the file extension.  Let's say I have a mp4 file that > is the older

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

Am Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 10:10:52AM +0200 schrieb Arve Barsnes: > On Thu, 6 Oct 2022 at 06:40, Dale wrote: > > > > Howdy, > > > > This may not exist. If not, oh well. Sometimes when I'm moving files > > with Dolphin, I need a added feature. I tend to use split panes when I > > copy or move

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot shutdown or reboot because of logind disconnection

Am Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 02:15:51AM -0400 schrieb Walter Dnes: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 10:40:53AM +0800, johnstrass wrote > > > Compiling gcc uses alot of memory, sometimes only less then 10MB > > left free ( I am doing this on a small yeeloong netbook with only > > 1GB memory). > > Ouch, I'm

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