in UEFI boot mode [which you don't need when booting in
Legacy/BIOS mode.]
Note that, for new installs, I generally say always create a decent
sized partition for UEFI, so if you want to change you can, although it
sounds like in your case it probably doesn't matter :-)
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Wol
ted, started Network
Manager (which I thought I'd uninstalled) and wonder of wonders I have
internet!
But some documentation would certainly be appreciated.
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Wol
ody should trust anybody else more than they have need to - and
especially governments should not trust 3rd-party nationals! It's not
worth it.
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Wol
typically have a ramdisk of
maybe 128GB.
As previously mentioned, it only uses what space it needs, so I guess
with 32GB of real RAM, with most stuff my system wouldn't touch swap
even with huge ramdisks being declared.
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Wol
at exactly is
wrong, or what to try ...
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Wol
As the error says, you generally need to do a full update before you can
depclean.
What error(s) do you get when trying to update firefox or thunderbird?
What happens if you try to update @world?
Both firefox and thunderbird see
buy a dozen USB flash drives.
And then, if USB isn't the default boot media, he might as well sort out
UEFI boot, and multi-boot that way.
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Wol
ced options, I think you'll
find you can do what you want.
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Wol
. At least
it was only the boot that was trashed.
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Wol
ly using half my disk (and with terabyte disks, both
the amount of change, and the amount of disk used, is likely to be a lot
less than those figures).
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Wol
ackup, you can then just mount that
snapshot to get a complete filesystem image. Full backups for the price
of incremental.
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Wol
this name
allocation stuff works, and it's pretty logical. It just takes quite a
bit getting your head round it.
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Wol
re-emerge of the modules.
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Wol
nteed to cause
problems".
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Wol
erest". A pretty cheap trade-off, imho.
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Wol
phers have abandoned crackable ciphers now - if
it's crackable then it's easily crackable. And all other ciphers simply
rely on the asymmetric effort taken to create a key or solve a key.
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Wol
of the day, if the computer takes an extra 20% time, I'm not
bothered. If I'm sat at the computer 20% time extra because the system
isn't responding because emerge has bogged it down, then I do care. And
when I'm building things like webkit-gtk, llvm, LO, FF and TB, they do
hammer my system. If they're running in parallel, my system would be
near unusable.
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Wol
e you start from whichever end won't
overwrite the source, otherwise start at whichever end you like".
Barring screw-ups (a very unsafe assumption :-), I'm pretty certain you
don't even need a backup!
I suspect the man-page even confirms this behaviour.
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Wol
services on top (plus an admittedly large chunk of
value-add, if you think it's value ...)
It goes Sid -> testing -> stable -> Ubuntu -> (X/K/L...)ubuntu
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Wol
reliable. Hey ho.
There's all sorts of tricks, some work for some people, others work for
others.
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Wol
hese hogs from @world then you can
just find out if they are going to be emerged (and emerge them first if
you want), or if you do exclude them from @world, you can emerge them
(to some extent at least) on your own timescale.
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Wol
that it said that was a bad idea and not guaranteed to
work. Certainly on my system, it just hung with, iirc, no logs whatsoever.
Once I enabled sddm.service, it worked fine ...
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Wol
o update @system
not @world. If @system is up-to-date, it's not major if you break other
stuff.
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Wol
, they're pretty ancient.
Good to know it all works, but if you're sticking a new card in an old
reader, they may not be compatible.
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Wol
..
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Wol
!
Thanks all!
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Wol
l footguns willy nilly.
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Wol
e
attack that tried to fill memory, that amount of swap would knacker my
system for a LONG time.
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Wol
On 16/04/2023 22:30, Mitch D. wrote:
Wol, can you elaborate on why you think Grub is deprecated on EFI systems?
Because EFI is a boot manager? Why chain-load boot managers?
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Wol
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023, 15:17 hitachi303 <mailto:gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de>> wrote:
Am
have
to update the EFI directory.
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Wol
.
Or, seeing as grub is deprecated with EFI, learn how to boot using EFI.
Don't worry, I haven't really learned either :-) I just keep a Slack
live-CD handy ...
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Wol
counter, and I only look at the contents of
the console if that's not enough.
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Wol
ystem (KDE) throws a pop-up up that says "what do you want to do?".
That, I think, is the default with which I am quite happy.
I'd rather (for *KNOWN* usb-sticks) put an entry in fstab.
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Wol
could use the savings and replace
a failed chip. Win win ...
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Wol
rather than some optional tool though.
what are they going to do about "eselect kernel set ..." then?
It's bad enough depclean deleting the active kernel if you don't watch
out, without something deciding to install a non-existent kernel and
deleting the live one :-)
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Wol
LWN tipped off. If they run an article, we might get a new upstream.
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Wol
On 28/01/2023 06:20, Dale wrote:
Michał Górny wrote:
# Michał Górny (2023-01-27)
# GKrellM and a variety of plugins. It's unmaintained for some time.
# Upstream homepage is gone, and the whole suite
those libs in an @set? Then you
could just do eg "emerge --update @libraries; emerge --update @world".
Or maybe what I do if I'm expecting trouble - "emerge --update @system;
emerge --update @world". I guess those libraries are in @system?
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Wol
don't know anything about clang ... it must be the default ...
I thought part of Firefox/Thunderbird was written in Rust, so I assumed
it was built with llvm as a matter of course.
I'll just wait for it to sort itself out.
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Wol
ble a couple of the HOTPLUG options and then it showed up.
But / should (a) tell you where it is, and (b) tell you what to enable
to make it appear.
That's what Peter meant when he said / will always find it. / won't make
it appear, it tells *you* how to make it appear.
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Wol
://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/What_is_RAID_and_why_should_you_want_it%3F
(Disclaimer - I either wrote or heavily edited it.)
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Wol
be obsolete.
Because if another drive fails during rebuild, you are officially screwed.
Fun, innit?
They've always said that. Just make sure you don't have multiple drives
from the same batch, then they're less likely statistically to fail at
the same time. I'm running raid-5 over 3TB partitions ...
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Wol
, but that massively reduces the need for network
traffic.
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Wol
denominator and
messing up your speeds ...
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Wol
, integrity protects against disk corruption. They're all
unlikely events, but I've got loads of disk space, a powerful system,
and I don't stress it, so I've got power to spare for it.
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Wol
to partition them, and ext to manage the directories and files.
I do the latter ...
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Wol
e) for our multi-user mini that served the entire company with
256KB of ram ...
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Wol
32MB.
That was about ten years before you ...
:-)
Wol
that's my experience of USB, too. It just isn't reliable. And
anything that works and you like, they discontinue!
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Wol
On 27/11/2022 15:49, Mike Civil wrote:
On 27/11/2022 14:50, Wol wrote:
Postfix afaik just has one humungous config file, so when your distro
updates the config, all your local changes are trashed :-(
I don't want to faff about with special copies, backups, origs etc.
Everything should "
.
Postfix afaik just has one humungous config file, so when your distro
updates the config, all your local changes are trashed :-(
I don't want to faff about with special copies, backups, origs etc.
Everything should "just work (tm)".
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Wol
an't
come soon enough.
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Wol
trying to do that. I understood that video cards didn't support it,
so I have two video cards, but I haven't managed to get both of them
working together, so far ... (couldn't even get the computer to boot
properly last I tried ...)
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Wol
all the time, is that finding the
time to actually copy the old config, make, make modules, make install,
fix grub, sort out problems, reboot, is actually quite hard.
It's not just a few minutes ...
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Wol
ion leaves a lot
to be desired and, as always, the reason is not enough manpower.
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Wol
is the bad block is now
allocated to two different inodes?
If a read fails, you SHOULD NOT do anything. If a write fails, you move
the block and mark the failed block as bad. But seeing as you've moved
the block, the bad block is no longer allocated to any file ...
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Wol
it will make it a lot easier ...
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Wol
to satisfy both.
So the intent was clearly to install pipewire underneath a working
pulseaudio, and just move applications across as and when.
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Wol
On 30/09/2022 20:46, Matt Connell wrote:
On Fri, 2022-09-30 at 20:36 +0100, Wol wrote:
I've noticed that --depclean hardly seems to be cleaning anything out
now. Despite regular emerge updates. I do an emerge update world every
week, followed immediately by a depclean, but it's probably cleaned
month? Despite updating loads? Is
that normal?
(Although I've not had any problems with depclean that a --bdeps didn't
resolve)
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Wol
On 28/08/2022 22:53, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 2:33 PM Wol <mailto:antli...@youngman.org.uk>> wrote:
>
> On 28/08/2022 22:07, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > Is there a particular reason why your mailer inserts the quote
character
> > only o
starts.
Because the OPs mailer sent it as one line per paragraph?
My mailer (Tbird) is configured for plain text, but still screws up when
it receives html junk.
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Wol
are CMR.
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Wol
the names of the range I'm looking
for - Seagate Ironwolf, Toshiba N300 - about £170 for 8TB ...
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Wol
so you can go back in time. It's nice to have both, but
snapshotting gives you full backups for the price of incremental.
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Wol
sending from one zfs to
another it knows exactly what bytes to send.
I don't think he means a corrupted file, he means a corrupted video. If
the drive faithfully records the corrupted feed, the filesystem is not
going to catch it!
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Wol
o use a mobile? (Yes that IS a
serious question - I provide tech support to family like that :-)
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Wol
it to poll every 5 mins or so (it's configured by
default to do so).
But if it's accidentally been configured to only check when asked ...
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Wol
Win10 take over the port and
drive it, with linux out of the picture.
Don't trust me on this, I don't play with USB and it's ages since I
stumbled across this, but it's worth taking a look.
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Wol
-of-date and delete
it? NOT a good idea.
The OP needs to make sure that both 5.15.41 and 5.15.48 are in his boot
menu, AND that they both work, before risking clearing out the rest ...
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Wol
s it looks
sensible, say "y" and get rid of it.
It looks like you've got seven kernels there, so five sevenths space
freed up is quite a lot ...
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Wol
to
have one file in package.use for each package I actually want installed.
And if you qualify the packages with "current version" however you do
that, then they'll expire regularly so you're forced to keep it
up-to-date :-)
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Wol
?
What's PEP517? What are you talking about? What's the problem?
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Wol
'll see all the
dates you did an update, and by branching to that tag, you'll be able to
go back to that date.
I just use "lvm snapshot" :-)
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Wol
let me know).
Look into "git pack". It won't get rid of old versions, but I think it
compresses all the old stuff. But once the repository has been packed, I
gather it's normal for the old packed stuff to take up less space than
the current stuff.
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Wol
) is
not a wise idea at the moment so you don't get two-failure protection ...
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Wol
ANYthing into the space Windows has
left.
As for helping you do it, sorry I haven't. My two laptops that came with
linux, one I've added Windows, the other I have yet to configure. The
one that came with Windows still has no linux ...
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Wol
On 03/04/2022 19:37, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
Am Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 05:05:07PM +0100 schrieb Wol:
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
ce than is necessary ...
So --in-place actually has a lot of uses outside your two examples. I
have oodles of space, and both my source and target are on fast sata
links in the same computer, but not using --in-place would be *very*
costly for me.
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Wol
On 27/03/2022 21:36, Wol wrote:
I don't know either. I'm just far more familiar with the dm/md layer
because I run md-raid over dm-integrity. Hence dm-crypt.
Is cryptsetup a layer in its own right, or part of lvm? I prefer the
Unix "use several tools each of which does one thing well&qu
On 27/03/2022 21:13, Dale wrote:
Wol wrote:
On 27/03/2022 20:17, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
I sort of started this on another thread but wanted to nail a few things
down first. I'm wanting to encrypt some parts of my data on /home.
This is what I got hard drive wise.
root@fireball / # pvs
PV
6TB+8TB+8TB. I'd get a new 8TB, put dm-crypt
on it, and add it. Now I can remove the first 8TB, dm-crypt it and
re-add it. Same with the second 8TB. Now remove the 6TB and there you
are ...
My layout's rather different from yours, so I don't think I ought to say
too much :-)
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Wol
which they seldom did
when I was running Gentoo.
I guess that's because there's only one Kubuntu. The snag is every
gentoo is one of a kind ... :-)
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Wol
On 23/03/2022 17:20, Mark Knecht wrote:
So by 'Plasma' you imply KDE to me. Am I correct in that?
Yes and no ...
To a rough approximation, KDE is Qt4. Plasma is Qt5.
I don't really get it myself.
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Wol
by shipping SMR and not telling anyone. At least
Seagate appear to have been open about it.
And yes, raid and SMR do not go well together.
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Wol
what I need to keep and
what cruft can be deleted.
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Wol
would like --dont-stop ... if the dependency calculation
fails, just emerge everything that you have calculated ...
Because on an old system, this is the step that has a habit of failing
straight away ...
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Wol
even started! "too many failed dependencies - aborting" or
something like that ...
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Wol
gone wrong :-)
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Wol
loads of parity errors first time
:-) but you will probably get away with it if you're careful.
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Wol
the raid? I know
I'd have to grow the volume.
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Wol
update @world at the last minute.
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Wol
Given that anybody with half a clue knows NEVER to open unsolicited
attachments, I'm verging on thinking it's phishing. Anyways, I'm THAT
close to setting up an auto-delete rule on anything from him. The email
address feels spammy, too ...
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Wol
On 20/01/2022 19:57, Laurence Perkins
notes ...
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Wol
Got it installed, got apache to work as well. Thing is, it does .php
pages and my web browsers don't open .php files. It just wants to
download them. I'm not sure how to fix that, yet. I'm making progress
tho.
Quick google - have you installed and configured php - it's
.
which upgraded glibc! So now I need to configure this to keep the
current version of glibc and wait till the stable version goes past.
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Wol
had a scene
change, a frame was written in full, then subsequent frames were stored
as diffs. Is that what an i-frame is?
In which case, surely it can't be that tricky to delete a block without
having to decode/encode more than a few frames?
And how come PVRs do it so easily?
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Wol
On 20/12/2021 22:28, Grant Taylor wrote:
But the latter mails were missing vital headers and thus mail had a
problem displaying them properly.
That sounds like raw, unprocessed email to me.
You mean the body sans envelope?
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Wol
portage.
And expect to get bit by the freetype/harfbuzz circular dependency.
There's plenty of stuff out there how to get round it, but it can be a
pain ...
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Wol
the space.
Beyond this, not knowing how big your ram and swap actually are, it's
hard to provide better advice ...
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Wol
ook for
them as much of the docu is 5, 10 years old ...
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Wol
you decide you want to revert all those changes, you can just
delete that file, and bingo ...
Or just make all those changes dependent on the current version of
chromium/firefox. So when you update you may have to re-visit the
problem, or it may just solve itself.
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Wol
encies on each other, and then just an "update
world" to clean up the mess.
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Wol
On 21/11/2021 20:39, Julien Roy wrote:
Hello,
Some time ago I installed Steam on my system, which required me to add
the abi_x86_32 USE flag to a bunch of packages. Eventually I removed
Steam from my system a
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