[gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge
On 08/03/12 04:57, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: It came to my attention that during (after) an emerge run, df reports considerably less space available on my / than before the emerge (everything except /home sits on the root partition). I was wondering how this comes to be, since I have /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs. I am in the middle of a KDE upgrade (4.8.0→4.8.1) right now and before I started, I downloaded all distfiles and then looked at df /, it showed 1022 blocks, hence about 1 GB of free disk space. I am at package 115 out of 174 right now, and df shows a mere 389k blocks remaining. That's because the old files are not being deleted since they are in use. When you logout of KDE and restart the whole stack (/etc/init.d/xdm restart) then everything will be back to normal. Or simply reboot.
Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 02:47:08PM -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:55 AM, gand...@d-danks.co.uk wrote:
Hi,
I'm interested in the idea of cloning a live, complicated hardware
system onto a single external hard drive as a simple backup. I would
like this external drive to be completely bootable. What's the best
way to approach doing this? I was considering just doing a Gentoo
install from scratch but figured maybe there's a way to clone enough
of the live system to get me there less painfully?
The system I'm playing with has five 500MB hard drives with most
partitions in linked together in various forms of RAID. (1, 5 6)
That said, the total storage that this system presents KDE and the
users is about 600GB.
I have an external 1TB eSATA drive which is therefore large enough
to hold everything on this system, albeit without the reliability of
RAID which is fine for this purpose.
The system looks more or less like:
/dev/sda1 - /boot (50MB)
/dev/sdb1 - /boot copy
/dev/sdc1 - /boot copy
c2stable ~ # df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 51612920 31862844 17128276 66% /
/dev/root 51612920 31862844 17128276 66% /
rc-svcdir 1024 92 932 9% /lib64/rc/init.d
udev 10240 476 9764 5% /dev
shm 6151284 0 6151284 0% /dev/shm
/dev/md7 389183252 350247628 19166232 95% /VirtualMachines
tmpfs 8388608 0 8388608 0% /var/tmp/portage
/dev/sda1 54416 29516 22091 58% /boot
c2stable ~ # cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5]
[raid4]
md6 : active raid5 sdb6[1] sdc6[2] sda6[0]
494833664 blocks super 1.1 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3]
[UUU]
md7 : active raid6 sdb7[1] sdc7[2] sda7[0] sdd2[3] sde2[4]
395387904 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 16k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5]
[U]
md3 : active raid6 sdb3[1] sdc3[2] sda3[0] sdd3[3] sde3[4]
157305168 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 16k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5]
[U]
md126 : active raid1 sdc5[2] sda5[0] sdb5[1]
52436032 blocks [3/3] [UUU]
unused devices: none
c2stable ~ #
/dev/md3 is a second Gentoo installation that doesn't need to be
backed up at this time. md6 is an internal RAID used to back up md7
daily. It doesn't need to be backed up, but if the machine totally
failed killing all the drives that wouldn't survive so currently I
back up md126 to md6 daily, and then back up md6 weekly to an external
eSATA drive.
What I'd like to do is clone
1) /boot (sda1) including grub and everything required to make it bootable
2) back up the system portions of dev/md126 (/ )
3) Add some swap space on the external drive
4) back up /dev/md7 which is all of my VMs
5) back up /home to a separate partition on the external drive
6) back up some special things like /var/lib/portage/world and
/usr/portage/packages
My thought is that this drive is basically bootable, but over time
gets out-of-sync with the system. However should the system fail I've
got a bootable external drive with all the binary packages required to
get it running again quickly. However I can always boot the drive, do
an emerge -ek @world, and basically be back to where I am as of the
last backup.
The external drive will look something like:
/dev/sdg1 - /boot
/dev/sdg2 - swap
/dev/sdg3 - / (not including /home, /usr/portage/distfiles, etc)
/dev/sdg5 - /usr/portage/packages
/dev/sdg6 - /dev/md7
etc
I will of course have to modify grub.conf and /etc/fstab to work
from this drive but that's no big deal.
What are folks best ideas about how to approach doing something like
this?
Thanks,
Mark
Hi,
Why don't you something like bind mount the folders you want to copy
and rsync them to the eSATA disk, after creating a similar partition
layout on it. Remember to exclude system files like /proc/*, /dev/*
and /sys/* as well as the ones you want to exclude yourself from the
rsync. When you want to sync the clone again just do the same again
and rsync the changes.
Regards,
Derek
As an added note on this, rsync's --one-file-system (-x) flag is handy
for avoiding grabbing unneeded things, but will typically leave you
without the base few device nodes needed to boot the backup, those can
either be grabbed from a stage3, or created with (courtesy of Linux
From Scratch's section 6.2.1. Creating Initial Device Nodes):
mknod -m 600 ${backup}/dev/console c 5 1
mknod -m 666 ${backup}/dev/null c 1 3
The best way to copy a filesystem without any sub-mounts is to
mount-bind it to some directory and copy it from there:
mkdir /tmp/root
mount --bind / /tmp/root
rsync -a /tmp/root/ /mnt/backup/
Note that copying a rw filesystem (especially /) on a
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] FOSS history books
2012/3/7 Andrés Becerra Sandoval andres.bece...@gmail.com: All of these are not entirely historical: - Hackers, heroes of the computer revolution, Steven Levy - Open Advice, Lydia Pintscher - Two Bits. The Cultural Significance of Free Software, Kelty - The Power of Open, Creative Commons - The Success of Open Source. Steven Weber - Perspectives on Open Source Software, http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=10477ttype=2 Thank you, I'll make sure to take note on these and look up after Rebel Code. -- Andrés Becerra Sandoval
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:50:40PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/03/12 04:57, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: It came to my attention that during (after) an emerge run, df reports considerably less space available on my / than before the emerge (everything except /home sits on the root partition). I was wondering how this comes to be, since I have /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs. I am in the middle of a KDE upgrade (4.8.0→4.8.1) right now and before I started, I downloaded all distfiles and then looked at df /, it showed 1022 blocks, hence about 1 GB of free disk space. I am at package 115 out of 174 right now, and df shows a mere 389k blocks remaining. That's because the old files are not being deleted since they are in use. When you logout of KDE and restart the whole stack (/etc/init.d/xdm restart) then everything will be back to normal. By jove, that's definitely it. I knew about this fact from other use cases (like deleting a video file which I'm still watching. HA, do that, Windows!), but never thought of it regarding emerging. I always assumed for some reason that the files were kept in RAM and the physical file itself was no longer relevant. Just closing all programs before logging out gave back around 350 M. And yes, I had a typo in the original mail; instead of 1000 blocks I meant 1000k Blocks. And also yes, I already knew about eclean-dist. I even wrote a counterpart for Debian which deletes all .debs that aren't installed anymore, but keeps all the rest. Anyway, after the reboot I now have 1059k blocks free. :) -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I forbid any use of my email addresses with Facebook services. “Oh, gravity, thou art a heartless bitch.” – Sheldon Cooper pgpfKioA2w12Z.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge
On 08/03/12 16:55, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:50:40PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/03/12 04:57, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: It came to my attention that during (after) an emerge run, df reports considerably less space available on my / than before the emerge That's because the old files are not being deleted since they are in use. When you logout of KDE and restart the whole stack (/etc/init.d/xdm restart) then everything will be back to normal. By jove, that's definitely it. I knew about this fact from other use cases (like deleting a video file which I'm still watching. HA, do that, Windows!), but never thought of it regarding emerging. I always assumed for some reason that the files were kept in RAM and the physical file itself was no longer relevant. Just closing all programs before logging out gave back around 350 M. I discovered this nifty little tool recently that tells you if any deleted files are currently being kept open by running processes: app-admin/checkrestart. I usually run it after world updates so I can tell whether I need a restart or not.
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:03:36AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 00:46:17 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: A consultant is a person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets the watch, and sends you a bill for it. Ah thanks for the notice, another nice catch for my signature database. :) [...] Neil Bothwick Would a fly without wings be called a walk? What do you call a dead bee? - A was. *scnr* Thanks for the replies everyone, to give it a bit more info, its just a big dump of data but I want to get the old drives out before they die and lose everything (They're hitting 20,000 hours up time). Before now i'd been replacing the whole array and literally using cp as mentioned but I can't afford to do that this time thanks to the price of hard drives. The LVM is just one big volume group with one big logical volume with xfs slapped on top covering the whole thing, I set it up so I could just add drives as and when and expand the filesystem. As far as I understand I'm pretty stuck in this situation as I believe XFS partitions can't be shrunk only enlarged? Based on your replies it looks like pvmove is going to be the way forward, it'll be offline while its being done anyway as I dont have enough sata ports to plug the new drive in whilst the old 3 are connected (going to have to pull the OS drive and do the pvmove from sysrescuecd). The other option of creating a new volume and moving the data to it can't happen because theres a good 6tb of data on it and I only have a new 3tb going in. Should it just be a case of adding the new drive as a pv to the volume group then doing pvmove against one drive at a time and thus removing them from the volume group? Thanks again for the replies and I'll give pvmove a go when the drive arrives.
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:39:11 +, Datty wrote: Should it just be a case of adding the new drive as a pv to the volume group then doing pvmove against one drive at a time and thus removing them from the volume group? Yes, and once you've done the first you can replace it with your system drive start using it again. -- Neil Bothwick Beware of cover disks bearing upgrades. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?
On Mar 8, 2012 2:50 AM, Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote:
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As an added note on this, rsync's --one-file-system (-x) flag is handy
for avoiding grabbing unneeded things, but will typically leave you
without the base few device nodes needed to boot the backup, those can
either be grabbed from a stage3, or created with (courtesy of Linux
From Scratch's section 6.2.1. Creating Initial Device Nodes):
mknod -m 600 ${backup}/dev/console c 5 1
mknod -m 666 ${backup}/dev/null c 1 3
... or just add another rsync invocation to backup /dev ...
Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 23:52:53 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
As an added note on this, rsync's --one-file-system (-x) flag is handy
for avoiding grabbing unneeded things, but will typically leave you
without the base few device nodes needed to boot the backup, those can
either be grabbed from a stage3, or created with (courtesy of Linux
From Scratch's section 6.2.1. Creating Initial Device Nodes):
mknod -m 600 ${backup}/dev/console c 5 1
mknod -m 666 ${backup}/dev/null c 1 3
... or just add another rsync invocation to backup /dev ...
That won't work because it will backup the full devfs mounted on /dev,
not the files that exist in the directory itself.
--
Neil Bothwick
Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?
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Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work
Am 2012-03-07 07:12, schrieb Bryan Gardiner: On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 07:38:08 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Mar 7, 2012 6:07 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 06.03.2012 21:32, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: The gnome hamster applet would be helpful if it worked against a DB somewhere ... have it on the desktop and the thinkpad and just press the shortkey gotta check how it works with gnome3 now. The dev has some work done for an extension for gnome shell: https://github.com/tbaugis/hamster-shell-extension Something for my todo-list. If I had some ;-) S Most important IMO is the capability to expert as CSV; then you can slice and dice it every which way you want :-) Rgds, I'm going to throw out that org-mode is also excellent for tossing around notes, scheduling, and time-tracking, though my experience with the time-tracking portion of it is limited so I'm not sure how well that would serve you. And it's all just text(TM) with a nice simple syntax. Definitely worth a look if Emacs is your editor of choice. oh, sorry, vi(m) here :-P thanks, S
Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 11:04:47AM -0600, Dale wrote: It is a nice program and I'm pretty sure it allows you to download from your card too. I'm not sure gtkam will allow downloads from the card so you are likely headed down the right road. Honestly, if digikam worked right with my camera, I'd use it in a heart beat. I like it but I can't get my pics to show up right. --^ Since your spelling is not always 100% precise ;-) do you really mean show up right, or do you mean show upright? The latter is a question of support by your camera. Meant as written, this time. lol I think I explained this a bit more in another post. My camera has a separate directory for each day. Digikam doesn't seem to show them correctly. Some images don't show up at all and others show up twice or even more than twice. I think it looks for just one directory but I'm not sure. But why bother with it a special download function in the first place? Most cameras support standard USB mass storage protocol, so if you set your camera to it and plug it in via USB, it shows up as a normal mass storage device. Digikam then recognises the folder structure on it and allows you to download the images. I'm still more old school -- I copy the images over from the card using $filemanager and then import them selectively into my digikam collection, which allows me to keep it clean more easily. Digikam is a really great management application. I've been using it since KDE 3 times. Its strong points are tagging and organising, and subsequent rediscovery by tags and descriptions you assign to a photo. And though I myself haven't used it much yet apart from a few select features, it has a nice editing program, too. As I said, digikam is a nice program. I'm not saying it isn't for sure. It is a bit much for me tho since I already have a way of managing my pics. I could use digikam but I already have a system that does what it does without all the fancy stuff. As to why I use gtkam. I use it because it renames the pics as it copies and puts them in sequence. Not only do I sort them by directories but I also give them names that helps sort them too. If I just copy files the camera has, I end up with a lot of files out of order and possible duplicates and such. Of course, now I have gtkam working without crashing, so far anyway. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--quiet-build=n
Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 23:52:53 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
As an added note on this, rsync's --one-file-system (-x) flag is handy
for avoiding grabbing unneeded things, but will typically leave you
without the base few device nodes needed to boot the backup, those can
either be grabbed from a stage3, or created with (courtesy of Linux
From Scratch's section 6.2.1. Creating Initial Device Nodes):
mknod -m 600 ${backup}/dev/console c 5 1
mknod -m 666 ${backup}/dev/null c 1 3
... or just add another rsync invocation to backup /dev ...
That won't work because it will backup the full devfs mounted on /dev,
not the files that exist in the directory itself.
--
Neil Bothwick
Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?
Thanks for all the ideas. As I've not done this sort of thing before
every one of them has been worth my time thinking about.
I ended up going a slightly different direction, only made possible by
how little disk space costs these days. Here's what I did:
1) As a chroot, on the live system I created a new Gentoo install.
This is just a very basic single disk partition type install as per
the Gentoo install guide. No apps, no KDE, nothing. Just the basic
stuff.
2) Once that install was up running I copied the server's world
file, /etc/portage/package.*, /etc/conf.d, /etc/X/xorg.conf a few
other things into this new install and ran emerge -ek @world to get it
up and running.
3) When all of that was complete and functioning, at least in the
chroot, I then took the chroot offline and used rsync to get the
chroot installed copied to the external drive.
4) WIth the rsync complete I then took a cut at modifying /etc/fstab
to be correct for booting from the external drive. Not sure about this
step at this time as I don't know for sure how the machine will name
the external drive.
I'm now looking to get /boot copied to the external drive, get grub
installed, and then see if I can boot using that drive.
Again, thanks for the ideas and keep 'em coming if you have more.
Cheers,
Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?
On 03/06/12 at 11:51AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: What are folks best ideas about how to approach doing something like this? Simple answer: Just use ReaR [1], it is even provided in sunrise [2] Regards, bacce [1] http://rear.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browser/sunrise/app-backup/rear signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge
On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:56:18 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/03/12 16:55, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:50:40PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/03/12 04:57, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: It came to my attention that during (after) an emerge run, df reports considerably less space available on my / than before the emerge That's because the old files are not being deleted since they are in use. When you logout of KDE and restart the whole stack (/etc/init.d/xdm restart) then everything will be back to normal. By jove, that's definitely it. I knew about this fact from other use cases (like deleting a video file which I'm still watching. HA, do that, Windows!), but never thought of it regarding emerging. I always assumed for some reason that the files were kept in RAM and the physical file itself was no longer relevant. Just closing all programs before logging out gave back around 350 M. I discovered this nifty little tool recently that tells you if any deleted files are currently being kept open by running processes: app-admin/checkrestart. I usually run it after world updates so I can tell whether I need a restart or not. Why go to the effor tof emerging another package? Use what you already have: lsof | egrep '(deleted)$' -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
[gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge
On 03/08/2012 12:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: lsof | egrep '(deleted)$' From 'man grep': Direct invocation as either egrep or fgrep is deprecated, but is provided to allow historical applications that rely on them to run unmodified. Seems you've been promoted to the rank of Historical Application. Congratulations, and a very warm welcome to the club :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge
On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:42:47 -0800 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/08/2012 12:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: lsof | egrep '(deleted)$' From 'man grep': Direct invocation as either egrep or fgrep is deprecated, but is provided to allow historical applications that rely on them to run unmodified. Deprecated by whom exactly? In the opinion of the developer? I strongly suspect that 1000s of sysadmins the world over are screaming in horror and telling the deprecator to shove off right about now... Seems you've been promoted to the rank of Historical Application. Congratulations, and a very warm welcome to the club :) Thank you very much! I'll wear that badge with pride, right next to my Pedantic Old Fart label. And I dare say our very own Mr Bothwick will be standing right next to me :-) -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 02:05:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Seems you've been promoted to the rank of Historical Application. Congratulations, and a very warm welcome to the club :) Thank you very much! I'll wear that badge with pride, right next to my Pedantic Old Fart label. And I dare say our very own Mr Bothwick will be standing right next to me :-) I prefer to sit these days, thank you :) -- Neil Bothwick Men who go out with flat chested woman have reasons for feeling down signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 22:01:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I discovered this nifty little tool recently that tells you if any deleted files are currently being kept open by running processes: app-admin/checkrestart. I usually run it after world updates so I can tell whether I need a restart or not. Why go to the effor tof emerging another package? Use what you already have: lsof | egrep '(deleted)$' Unless you already have checkrestart installed for its intended use, it's a lot better than grep for that. I hadn't thought of using it for this, nice idea. -- Neil Bothwick Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?
Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which is in portage or an overlay? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 07:50:24 AM IST, Grant wrote: Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which is in portage or an overlay? - Grant gwenview. Part of KDE suite and depends on KDE libraries. Also, F-Spot (It's a photo manager I guess). -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?
I typically use geeqie. On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which is in portage or an overlay? - Grant -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?
On March 8, 2012 at 9:20 PM Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which is in portage or an overlay? - Grant media-gfx/gqview
Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Daddy da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On March 8, 2012 at 9:20 PM Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which is in portage or an overlay? - Grant media-gfx/gqview gqview became geeqie, FWIW. I don't recall the full story, but IIRC, gqview stagnated, and geeqie is a fork. -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?
120308 Grant wrote: Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which is in portage or an overlay? I use Gwenview to review collections Feh to browse from a terminal: I've used them a long time strongly recommend both; if you're allergic to KDE, Geeqie mb a useable alternative. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?
On March 8, 2012 at 10:34 PM Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Daddy da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On March 8, 2012 at 9:20 PM Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which is in portage or an overlay? - Grant media-gfx/gqview gqview became geeqie, FWIW. I don't recall the full story, but IIRC, gqview stagnated, and geeqie is a fork. -- :wq Thanks ... I'm an old CLI dinosaur and display has been working for me fine for so many years. Something recently changed where it's not going from one file to the next in a directory. Also, there was something else I used to generate thumbnails, but I forgot. Just emerge geeqie ... btw ... gqview was just recommended to me 2 days ago in #gentoo ;)
Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?
On March 8, 2012 at 10:38 PM Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 120308 Grant wrote: Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which is in portage or an overlay? I use Gwenview to review collections Feh to browse from a terminal: I've used them a long time strongly recommend both; if you're allergic to KDE, Geeqie mb a useable alternative. Yeah, that was it ... feh mingdao@t420 ~ $ grep feh good_commands feh -t -Sfilename -E 128 -y 128 -W 1024 * Now to figure out how to keep that page of thumbnails from overflowing my 1600x900 Fluxbox desktop.
Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?
120308 Daddy wrote: On March 8, 2012 at 10:38 PM Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I use Gwenview to review collections Feh to browse from a terminal: Yeah, that was it ... feh. Now to figure out how to keep that page of thumbnails from overflowing my 1600x900 Fluxbox desktop. I have a Bash alias : alias feht='feh -td -E 150 -y 150 -W 1800' ; 'feh filespec' shows a slideshow of successive pictures, while 'feht filespec' shows an array of thumbnails inside the screen. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?
On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:52:38 +0530 Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Fri 09 Mar 2012 07:50:24 AM IST, Grant wrote: Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which is in portage or an overlay? - Grant gwenview. Part of KDE suite and depends on KDE libraries. Also, F-Spot (It's a photo manager I guess). Here's another vote for Gwenview... Once it's set up to have all of Gthumb's keyboard shortcuts ;). - Bryan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge
On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:56:18 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: I discovered this nifty little tool recently that tells you if any deleted files are currently being kept open by running processes: app-admin/checkrestart. I usually run it after world updates so I can tell whether I need a restart or not. Because I'm too lazy to unkeyword and emerge it... Does this program show how much space is being used by deleted files? Or, is there a way to access more information about or even recover such a zombie file? lsof gives its inode number, but I have no idea how to access it from there. - Bryan
