Re: [arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence

2014-03-13 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 13 March 2014 11:09, Don Raikes don.rai...@oracle.com wrote: Hi, Are there instructions for creating an archlinux usb key with persistence somewhere? I want to use my archlinux usb key as a diagnostic tool, and sometimes it is helpful to save files to it for later review. Any

Re: [arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence

2014-03-13 Thread Mark Lee
Salutations, While I don't know of any specific instructions on the Arch wiki, you can install Arch Linux onto a usb stick like a regular {H,S}DD. In my case, I made three partitions. The first was an NTFS partition for using the usb stick as a data transferring device; the second was a FAT32

Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

2014-03-13 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 15:21:23 Ary Kleinerman wrote: I'm thinking to use Arch for an Asterisk server. Nowadays I'm using Ubuntu 12.04LTS, but I can see all distribution changing to the new init system (systemd). I wanna change all my scripts to be compatible with systemd. Furthermore, my

Re: [arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence

2014-03-13 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 03/13/14 at 03:59am, Mark Lee wrote: While I don't know of any specific instructions on the Arch wiki, you can install Arch Linux onto a usb stick like a regular {H,S}DD. In my case, I made three partitions. The first was an NTFS partition for using the usb stick as a data transferring

[arch-general] Zramswap for /tmp

2014-03-13 Thread Mark Lee
Salutations, I wanted to float the idea of mounting /tmp on zram. We could still use the 50% ratio (or something less) but reduce the risk of running out of ram while using tmpfs. Regards, Mark

Re: [arch-general] Zramswap for /tmp

2014-03-13 Thread GSC
On 2014年03月13日 19:26, Mark Lee wrote: Salutations, I wanted to float the idea of mounting /tmp on zram. We could still use the 50% ratio (or something less) but reduce the risk of running out of ram while using tmpfs. Regards, Mark I find zram not very stable. Several system freeze happened to

Re: [arch-general] Zramswap for /tmp

2014-03-13 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:28 PM, GSC xgd...@gmail.com wrote: On 2014年03月13日 19:26, Mark Lee wrote: Salutations, I wanted to float the idea of mounting /tmp on zram. We could still use the 50% ratio (or something less) but reduce the risk of running out of ram while using tmpfs. Regards,

Re: [arch-general] Zramswap for /tmp

2014-03-13 Thread Simon Perry
On 13/03/14, GSC wrote: | I find zram not very stable. Several system freeze happened to me and I | stopped using it, Same, turned it on for two low-ram boxes I had, caused more problems than it solved. -- Simon Perry (aka Pezz)

Re: [arch-general] Zramswap for /tmp

2014-03-13 Thread GSC
On 2014年03月13日 19:35, Karol Blazewicz wrote: Are you talking about zramswap or zswap? The former did have some issues. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169585 I 'm talking about zramswap. I currently use linux-lts so zswap not yet available. Is zswap stable?

Re: [arch-general] Zramswap for /tmp

2014-03-13 Thread Mauro Santos
On 13-03-2014 11:40, GSC wrote: On 2014年03月13日 19:35, Karol Blazewicz wrote: Are you talking about zramswap or zswap? The former did have some issues. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169585 I 'm talking about zramswap. I currently use linux-lts so zswap not yet available. Is zswap

Re: [arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence

2014-03-13 Thread Øyvind Heggstad
On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 22:09:14 -0700 (PDT) Don Raikes don.rai...@oracle.com wrote: Hi, Are there instructions for creating an archlinux usb key with persistence somewhere? I want to use my archlinux usb key as a diagnostic tool, and sometimes it is helpful to save files to it for

Re: [arch-general] Zramswap for /tmp

2014-03-13 Thread Simon Perry
On 13/03/14, Mauro Santos wrote: | I have had it enabled for a while and I haven't yet seen any nasty crash | due to it. Hibernation also works fine and seems to go faster than | without zswap. How much RAM do you have? zram is probably solving a problem you don't have. Enable it on a VPS that

Re: [arch-general] Zramswap for /tmp

2014-03-13 Thread Mark Lee
Salutations, I've had excessive swapping (high cpu usage with kswapd) and the termination of running programs (like Skype) due to zram swapping. I used zramswap from the AUR to start the service, but it only calls on the kernel to produce the block devices. A compressed zram device (like maybe

Re: [arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence

2014-03-13 Thread Mark Lee
Salutations, Do you know how stable F2FS is (the Phoronix benchmarks don't tell us anything about data permanence)? Regards, Mark On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Øyvind Heggstad mrelen...@har-ikkje.netwrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 22:09:14 -0700 (PDT) Don Raikes don.rai...@oracle.com wrote:

Re: [arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence

2014-03-13 Thread Mark Lee
Salutations, If you kind of just follow my message you'll understand how. It really goes exactly like I said. I'll work on writing a script for generating one, possibly have a rough draft sometime tomorrow. Regards, Mark On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Manolo Martínez

Re: [arch-general] Zramswap for /tmp

2014-03-13 Thread Mauro Santos
On 13-03-2014 12:06, Simon Perry wrote: On 13/03/14, Mauro Santos wrote: | I have had it enabled for a while and I haven't yet seen any nasty crash | due to it. Hibernation also works fine and seems to go faster than | without zswap. How much RAM do you have? zram is probably solving a

Re: [arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence

2014-03-13 Thread Mauro Santos
On 13-03-2014 12:04, Øyvind Heggstad wrote: Any info would be appreciated. BTW: I am planning on using a 64gb usb key for this endeavor. Just create a extra partition on the usb stick and format it as f2fs or whatever. There you go, persistent storage. I would say go with btrfs in that

Re: [arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence

2014-03-13 Thread Mark Lee
Salutations, Remember that fat32 has a 4GB file size limitation (it doesn't effect Mauro Santos, cause his partition is 4GB). In addition I suggest using fat32 for /boot since it can also work on UEFI systems (minimum partition size is 100mb). I also use luks+btrfs (I use dmcrypt). Regards, Mark

Re: [arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence

2014-03-13 Thread Temlin Olivér
On Mar 13, 2014 2:56 PM, Mark Lee m...@markelee.com wrote: Salutations, Do you know how stable F2FS is (the Phoronix benchmarks don't tell us anything about data permanence)? Regards, Mark A quick search for 'samsung phone data loss' comes up only with undeleting methods and a virus.

Re: [arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence

2014-03-13 Thread Mauro Santos
On 13-03-2014 14:01, Mark Lee wrote: Salutations, Remember that fat32 has a 4GB file size limitation (it doesn't effect Mauro Santos, cause his partition is 4GB). In addition I suggest using fat32 for /boot since it can also work on UEFI systems (minimum partition size is 100mb). I also use

Re: [arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence

2014-03-13 Thread Don Raikes
I agree! It sounds like just what I need. -Original Message- From: Manolo Martínez [mailto:man...@austrohungaro.com] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 3:39 AM To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence On 03/13/14 at

Re: [arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence

2014-03-13 Thread Don Raikes
Sounds likea good setup. What tool are you using for partitioning? I don't remember luks/btrfs as an option in fdisk, admittedly I am coming from a debian perspective just switching to arch to try it out. -Original Message- From: Mauro Santos [mailto:registo.maill...@gmail.com] Sent:

Re: [arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence

2014-03-13 Thread Temlin Olivér
My setup right now is this: 32GB usb3 drive |-sda1 (4G) - fat32 |-sda1 (256M) - ext4 /boot |-sda2 (rest of drive) - luks - btrfs - subvolumes for root and home Sounds likea good setup. What tool are you using for partitioning? I don't remember luks/btrfs as an option in fdisk, admittedly

Re: [arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence

2014-03-13 Thread Mark Lee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/13/2014 01:20 PM, Temlin Olivér wrote: My setup right now is this: 32GB usb3 drive |-sda1 (4G) - fat32 |-sda1 (256M) - ext4 /boot |-sda2 (rest of drive) - luks - btrfs - subvolumes for root and home Sounds likea good setup. What

[arch-general] Why is qtcreator updated to 3.0.1.git then 3.1.0beta1?

2014-03-13 Thread GSC
I noticed recently that qtcreator is updated to such non-stable versions, and there is no critical bug related that require such updates on the bug tracker. What is the reason this package is updated to such versions so early? I remember there used to be similar early updates with earlier