Re: Installing new SSD drive

2020-06-06 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2020-06-06 at 10:37 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I've got rust here that's been spinning for ~12 years in my basement, > 24x7, and I expect it to spin for a while longer. > > I can't quite come to terms with the idea of storage with a suicide > clock, ticking away. And on the

Re: Media writer/USB Flash -

2020-06-06 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-06-06 18:27, Samuel Sieb wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by "read-only files".  But you should be able to use any partition editor to delete whatever partitions are there and create new ones.  gparted, gnome-disks, fdisk, etc. __ ° If I use media-writer and then need to reuse

Re: Media writer/USB Flash -

2020-06-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 2:47 PM Bob Goodwin wrote: > When I put a Fedora .iso on a flash drive it leaves read-only files that > I always have difficulty clearing if I want to reuse the flash drive for > something other than media-writer. > > What should I do to clear the drive? > If you use

Re: Media writer/USB Flash -

2020-06-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/6/20 12:46 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: When I put a Fedora .iso on a flash drive it leaves read-only files that I always have difficulty clearing if I want to reuse the flash drive for something other than media-writer. What should I do to clear the drive? I'm not sure what you mean by

Re: upgrade from .iso

2020-06-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/6/20 9:38 AM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 6/1/20 12:53 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/1/20 3:05 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=32 make the upgrade through internet How can I do the same from a .iso file ? You can't.

Media writer/USB Flash -

2020-06-06 Thread Bob Goodwin
When I put a Fedora .iso on a flash drive it leaves read-only files that I always have difficulty clearing if I want to reuse the flash drive for something other than media-writer. What should I do to clear the drive? -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD

Re: issue upde fc32 (sagemath)

2020-06-06 Thread Jerry James
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 12:34 PM Patrick Dupre wrote: > I get the following error message: > dnf update > Last metadata expiration check: 0:07:57 ago on Sat 06 Jun 2020 08:23:49 PM > CEST. > Dependencies resolved. > > Problem 1: package polymake-singular-4.0.1-2.fc32.x86_64 requires >

Re: issue upde fc32 (sagemath)

2020-06-06 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 20:33:30 +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I get the following error message: > dnf update > Last metadata expiration check: 0:07:57 ago on Sat 06 Jun 2020 08:23:49 PM > CEST. > Dependencies resolved. > > Problem 1: package polymake-singular-4.0.1-2.fc32.x86_64

issue upde fc32 (sagemath)

2020-06-06 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I get the following error message: dnf update Last metadata expiration check: 0:07:57 ago on Sat 06 Jun 2020 08:23:49 PM CEST. Dependencies resolved. Problem 1: package polymake-singular-4.0.1-2.fc32.x86_64 requires perl-interpreter = 4:5.30.2, but none of the providers can be installed

Re: How to get rid of a kernel message spamming the journal?(SOLVED)

2020-06-06 Thread Lester M Petrie
On 6/6/20 12:58 PM, Jerry James wrote: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 10:47 AM Lester M Petrie > wrote: >> I am getting the following message written to the journal every 60 >> seconds. It is frequently at least half the journal. I know what >> kernel_lockdown is, but I have no idea what "pmdakvm" is.

Re: How to get rid of a kernel message spamming the journal?

2020-06-06 Thread Jerry James
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 10:47 AM Lester M Petrie wrote: > I am getting the following message written to the journal every 60 > seconds. It is frequently at least half the journal. I know what > kernel_lockdown is, but I have no idea what "pmdakvm" is. It's this:

Re: Installing new SSD drive

2020-06-06 Thread Javier Perez
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 2:46 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 6/6/20 12:11 AM, Javier Perez wrote: > > ├─sda3 8:30 28G 0 part / > > > > I plan to add a 120G SDD > > to install the OS on the SDD and keep /Shared_Media's partition on the > HDD. > > Eventually I want to convert it to a Raid 1

How to get rid of a kernel message spamming the journal?

2020-06-06 Thread Lester M Petrie
Hi, I am getting the following message written to the journal every 60 seconds. It is frequently at least half the journal. I know what kernel_lockdown is, but I have no idea what "pmdakvm" is. Jun 06 12:36:02 machinename.localdomain kernel: Lockdown: pmdakvm: debugfs access is restricted; see

Re: upgrade from .iso

2020-06-06 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 6/1/20 12:53 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/1/20 3:05 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=32 make the upgrade through internet How can I do the same from a .iso file ? You can't. ___ You can mount the .iso and read

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

2020-06-06 Thread Jerry James
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 9:54 PM R. G. Newbury wrote: > Brand new Fedora 32 KDE spin installation. Seems to work nicely, except: > > I have an error notification popping up, every hour, in the bottom right > corner of the screen: > > Plasma Desktop Workspace (and the minutes since the message was

Re: Installing new SSD drive

2020-06-06 Thread Matti Pulkkinen
Sam Varshavchik kirjoitti 6.6.2020 klo 17.37: I've got rust here that's been spinning for ~12 years in my basement, 24x7, and I expect it to spin for a while longer. I can't quite come to terms with the idea of storage with a suicide clock, ticking away. It's likely that, sometime in the

Re: Installing new SSD drive

2020-06-06 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Matti Pulkkinen writes: Javier Perez kirjoitti 6.6.2020 klo 10.11: Is it wise nowadays to create a swap partition on the SSD? It is a M.2 WD Green If you're thinking of swap's effect on the lifespan of the drive, it should be fine. In the early days of SSDs the common worry about SSDs

Re: Installing new SSD drive

2020-06-06 Thread Matti Pulkkinen
Javier Perez kirjoitti 6.6.2020 klo 10.11: Is it wise nowadays to create a swap partition on the SSD? It is a M.2 WD Green If you're thinking of swap's effect on the lifespan of the drive, it should be fine. In the early days of SSDs the common worry about SSDs getting wrecked by disk writes

Re: Installing new SSD drive

2020-06-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/6/20 12:11 AM, Javier Perez wrote: ├─sda3   8:3    0   28G  0 part / I plan to add a 120G SDD to install the OS on the SDD and keep /Shared_Media's partition on the HDD. Eventually I want to convert it to a Raid 1 sysyem. My idea is to copy /Shared media to a new disk, in a degenerate

Installing new SSD drive

2020-06-06 Thread Javier Perez
Hi. This is a personal project for a Home server. It has a 2T HDD divided into 5 partitions. [root@## ~]# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:00 1.8T 0 disk ├─sda1 8:101G 0 part /boot ├─sda2 8:20 260M 0 part /boot/efi ├─sda3 8:30 28G 0