Joe Riel:
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:
If you absolutely need Java 1.5 then you will need to install the
older version from the Lenny non-free archive.
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/sun-java5-jre
Right. How would I do that?
In order to install packages from the non-free
Bob Proulx:
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
... Apache (from upstream) has supported it for a while and I've had
it in production (system based on Ubuntu Maverick) for a number of
months.
Re: NameVirtualHost *:443
This is good to hear but if so then how do they pull that off? I
thought
(Please don't Cc: people in the list unless requested.)
Joe Riel:
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:32:48 +0100
In order to install packages from the non-free section, just add
non-free at the end of your sources.list lines. Example for squeeze:
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
Celejar:
I understand that you're technically adding traffic and processor
overhead; the question is how much?
My 1.66GHz atom D510 can encrypt/decrypt AES with ~20MByte/s on a single
core. Typically, my wifi reaches only 10% of that throughput.
Additionally, encryption is usually done by the
Celejar:
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:33:28 +0100
Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote:
Celejar:
I understand that you're technically adding traffic and processor
overhead; the question is how much?
My 1.66GHz atom D510 can encrypt/decrypt AES with ~20MByte/s on a single
core
S Mathias:
[7z]
real 6m43.608s
user 10m1.092s
sys 0m3.957s
[xz]
real 10m40.788s
user 10m33.363s
sys 0m2.106s
Apparently, 7z uses multiple cores, while xz doesn't. Otherwise,
performance is mostly the same.
J.
--
I wish I could do more to put the sparkle back into my
Monte Milanuk:
I'm somewhat inclined to go with option 'C': an HP Proliant
Microserver N36L - comes without OS (certified for RHEL5), 1GB ECC
memory + 160gb SATA drive. Move the OEM drive to the optical drive
bay, stuff the four HDD bays with 2TB drives and call it a day. A
little more
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI:
However, SSL has the added benefit that no one will be spying on
your traffic, even if it's basically public information that is
available via other means.
ACK. And additionally, it becomes harder to distinguish public from
private communication. Why should anyone want
Daniel Andersson:
# aptitude install php5
The following NEW packages will be installed:
apache2-mpm-prefork{ab} libapache2-mod-php5{a} libonig2{a}
libqdbm14{a} php5 php5-cli{a} php5-common{a} php5-suhosin{a}
0 packages upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to
Florian Kulzer:
[…] Backticks should also work if you want to avoid the $(...)
bashism.
That's not a bashism, it's perfectly legal POSIX/SUS.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_06_03
J.
--
In this bunker there are women and children. There are
Adrian Levi:
This is going to be my new backup script,
I don't want to keep you from learning shell scripting, but I generally
advise against scripting your own backup solution. From my experience
the result is error prone, tends to attract feature creep and is hard to
deploy to new
Rodolfo Medina:
All right, I didn't want to be prolix. This happens when I try to catch a
streaming video from internet. On my system, while the video is running from
the web, it is stored in the directory ~/.mozilla/firefox/garbage/Cache.
After it's all stored, I collect it from there
Rodolfo Medina:
Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de writes:
What about about:config, media.cache_size? Just a guess.
It's not a matter of Cache size, that I already set to a very large value:
it's
a problem of single files size.
I know, that's why I didn't suggest fiddling
Stefan Monnier:
I don't care much about performance: I have a WD10EADS in a wl700ge, for
example (yes, that's a home router with a 266MHz MIPS cpu and 64MB of
RAM: no fan, no noise).
My two WD10EARS are sitting in a MiniITX case with four hotswap bays.
The system runs 24/7, uses an Atom CPU
teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net:
I think what we mainly should take from all this is Western Digital
sucks and we should never buy their crap...
Yeah, we should rush out and buy Samsung drives with their faulty
firmware which forgets write operations if one sends the wrong IDE
command at the
Stan Hoeppner:
Jochen Schulz put forth on 1/11/2011 3:19 AM:
And those pesky 4k blocks will never take hold. 512 bytes were a good
idea in the 1950s, so what's wrong with it now!?
4KB blocks are great. Too bad these drives report 512B blocks to the kernel,
which is what causes
pt3...@gmail.com:
Is it true I should avoid APT and use some other frontend or, better,
dpkg directly?
Never use dpkg directly if you don't have to. Apt-get and aptitude are
both good frontends with similar capabilities. Which one you use is
mostly a question of personal preference. Only when
Dotan Cohen:
So despite the feel of the drive, the green SATA drive blows the two
snappier IDE drives out of the water.
Remember you only tested near sequential access. That's what hard disks
are still quite good at. What makes your system feel sluggish is random
access and WD's 5400rpm
Klistvud:
Before partitioning and formatting:
obelix# hdparm -tT /dev/sda
…
After partitioning the drive, aligned on modulo 8 sector boundaries:
obelix:# hdparm -tT /dev/sda
Your test is unsuitable to detect any alignment-related performance
issues.
J.
--
No-one appears to be able to
Klistvud:
Dne, 09. 01. 2011 17:35:07 je Jochen Schulz napisal(a):
Klistvud:
After partitioning the drive, aligned on modulo 8 sector boundaries:
obelix:# hdparm -tT /dev/sda
Your test is unsuitable to detect any alignment-related performance
issues.
Care to elaborate why?
Because
Neil Youngman:
On Saturday 08 Jan 2011 03:28:47 Jochen Schulz wrote:
I wanted to make sure that the slow graphics you are abserving aren't
just the result of a more general problem with your system. If compiling
a kernel (with output redirection) takes about the same time now as
before
Neil Youngman:
Since I upgraded to testing my system has been slow, occasionally to the
point that I have power cycled it because I couldn't get it to respond to
anything else.
What's in the syslog? Does 'top' report what the system is doing?
It can take several seconds to pop up a menu
Neil Youngman:
On Friday 07 Jan 2011 16:53:05 Jochen Schulz wrote:
Neil Youngman:
It can take several seconds to pop up a menu and, in the worst case,
swapping from one window to another can take minutes, even if the other
window is a simple xterm. I have also observed windows being redrawn
Neil Youngman:
On Friday 07 Jan 2011 16:53:05 Jochen Schulz wrote:
Neil Youngman:
Since I upgraded to testing my system has been slow, occasionally to
the point that I have power cycled it because I couldn't get it to
respond to anything else.
What's in the syslog? Does 'top' report what
Martin Lorenz:
Thanks to all, who helped
it definitely was a rootkit.
came in by this exim bug:
Just out of curiosity: do you know when the attacker succeeded? The DSA
was published Dec 10th. Did you have a (theoretical) chance to install
the patch beofre the attack?
J.
--
I am on the
Russell L. Harris:
* tv.deb...@googlemail.com tv.deb...@googlemail.com [110103 09:24]:
But if you do only web browsing and email and don't run any
web-facing services you should be fine anyway.
I do not understand; what is a web-facing service?
It is a program accepting random connections
Nima Azarbayjany:
Today I installed Debian Squeeze on an entirely encrypted LVM partition as
proposed by the Installer (beta2). After several hours of initializing my
disk it finally installed and when I booted into the new system I saw an
unrecognized partition entry in my Places menu,
Jochen Schulz:
Klistvud:
I don't have a serious performance issue, though. There's an encrypted
LVM volume on top of it and throughput is limited by the CPU (Atom D510)
at about 20-25MByte/s. An unencrypted volume I just created for this
test yields 72MByte/s write and 98MByte/s read
Klistvud:
I'm planning to surprise my unsuspecting self with the above hard
drive for Christmas, but have read some alarming reports about
incompatibilities with GNU/Linux partitioning. Apparently, there are
no less than two distinct problems with these drivers:
I am running squeeze with
Mike Viau:
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:46:59 +0100 m...@well-adjusted.de wrote:
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
I don't understand the implied meaning of this error? Did you take any
precautions as to the alignment of your partition? What about if you
were planning on
shirish शिरीष:
How do I set up compiz. I downloaded compiz and the compiz-manager
using this wiki page.
http://wiki.debian.org/Compiz
…
Now I'm on an Intel machine (GMA31 chipset) and there's no /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Have you tried to run Compiz without altering the xorg.conf? The wiki
Hugo Vanwoerkom:
Camaleón wrote:
I send the messages to gmane.linux.debian.user (Gmane group for
this mailing list). Then, Gmane performs its magic and transforms
it into the real mailing list To: address
(debian-user[at]lists.debian.org).
I still take it that you send from gmail.
No,
Frank McCormick:
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:
I send the messages to gmane.linux.debian.user (Gmane group for this
mailing list). Then, Gmane performs its magic and transforms it into the
real mailing list To: address (debian-user[at]lists.debian.org).
Yeah, but what address do
Craicovik:
The information of tigexp is not enougth for understand the problem.
I wanted to recommend the tiger-user mailing list, but tiger appears to
be dead and the last message in the list archive is from September 2009.
:-/
I have the following message in my tiger report:
--WARN--
shirish शिरीष:
Now I know that debian-user@lists.debian.org is a high-volume list and
can easily overwhelm a guy like me. Hence I was looking for a way to
subscribe to the list, send mails and still not receive mails other
than if guys explicitly address me either in To: , or in CC: . I have
Mathieu Malaterre:
I am trying to find out the memory used by a process (peak memory
actually). I found the command 'pmap', howeverI cannot find a way to
retrieve the PID of a process when execution time is really short. For
instance, this does not work:
/bin/ls (ps ax | grep ls)
This
Peter Tenenbaum:
In thinking this over, I think that the best approach is to simply have a
daily rsync --archive from my main hard drive to the backup drive. While I
understand that more sophisticated backup systems are often useful in a
large system, the system in question is a home
Lisi:
I have an idea that there may be some distinction at the atomic level
between UTC and GMT. Can anyone enlighten me? Or was the decision to
call it UTC in place of GMT purely political?
Ah, time for my favourite quote from the Java6 API documentation:
| Some computer standards are
Frank McCormick:
The video is Intel82865...a couple of years old.
I read something about old intel chips not being that well supported
anymore since the switch to KMS. Do you have KMS enabled (on a recent
kernel: not disabled)?
I have reconfigured X and ran it with the new xorg.conf.
I
Peter Tenenbaum:
Paul -- thanks for the suggestions. I guess that, since I am not using a
tape drive for backup, there's no good reason to use dump rather than rsync,
and the latter will leave me with a navigable file tree on the backup
drive.
If you are going that route anyway, I suggest
(Sorry if this comes late, but I had trouble getting through the list's
spam filters.)
Sthu Deus:
Can I make separate passwords (if one is necessary to boot) - for
accessing the FS and for just booting?
It appears you don't really understand how filesystem encryption
(usually) works. Let my
Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen:
At 16.10 this afternoon I started a process via a shell script which
is nso resource-hungry
…
(In the script, I am loopìng over the about 3700 tar.gz files in one
directory. For e ach of them, I am spawning a
sub-shell (using ) doing some installation wo rk).
Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen:
This si my shell (bash) script:
# shell script to install all the packages in ~/R/allpackages,
# to ~/R/allinstall . Should be run from ~/R/Recommend .
#
for FILE in ~/R/allpackages/*z
do
if [ -f $FILE ]
then
nice R CMD INSTALL
Brad Alexander:
That is a good point. Is anyone using the 2.6.36-1~experimental.1 from
experimental? Any stability issues?
I am running vanilla 2.6.36.1 and don't see any problems with it.
J.
--
In idle moments I remember former lovers with sentimental tenderness.
[Agree] [Disagree]
Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen:
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:56, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote:
Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen:
This si my shell (bash) script:
# shell script to install all the packages in ~/R/allpackages,
# to ~/R/allinstall . Should be run from ~/R/Recommend
James Brown:
I have a VDS under Debian Lenny,
~# uname -a
Linux 2.6.18-028stab070.4-ent #1 SMP Tue Aug 17 19:03:05 MSD 2010 i686
GNU/Linux
Is the rest of the software as ancient as the kernel? Lenny uses 2.6.26.
You should probably ask for a more recent kernel.
Is it a rootkit or other
Brad Alexander:
I was thinking about setting up a btrfs filesystem on this drive since
it will be mainly be data from my home workstation that I will be
using on my work laptop, so the data will be safely elsewhere. Both
the home workstation and the work laptop are running sid
Arthur Bela:
If i use https, then my connection is safe, ok.
Safe against earthquakes? -No.
Safe against a malicious server admin? -No
Safe against a man in the middle? Yes, but only under certain
circumstances.
Never say something is generally safe (or secure). Always mention which
risk
Leonardo Reis da Silva:
Qual debin devo instalar no meu pc?
I don't speak your language, but from the few keywords I know you
probably asked which architecture you have to choose for your 64 Bit
Intel CPU. The answer is: you can choose between i686 (32 Bit) and amd64
(64 Bit for recent Intel
Camaleón:
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:29:49 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
But I do not know how it gets the width of the screen.
Well... gathering information about the running terminal is possible:
s...@stt008:~$ stty -a | grep column
speed 38400 baud; rows 63; columns 86; line = 0;
Arthur Bela:
I copy files between HDD#1 and HDD#2.
When i finish, i need a quick hasing method - i just want to check,
that the copy was 100% ok.
Why do you want to hash? Hashing implies reading both trees completely,
computing hashes and comparing these hashes. It might be faster to just
Peter Tenenbaum:
Never mind. JFGI.
True. :)
Had to chmod 777 on /tmp.
/tmp usually has the sticky bit set. That makes sure that nobody can
delete other peoples' files.
J.
--
Scientists know what they are talking about.
[Agree] [Disagree]
Peter Tenenbaum:
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup ...
mkdtemp: private socket dir: Permission denied
Can your user write to /tmp? Google suggests to 'chmod 1777 /tmp'.
J.
--
I have been manipulated and permanently distorted.
[Agree] [Disagree]
Peter Tenenbaum:
Mark -- I've decided against using LVM because (a) it adds another level of
complication to the overall recovery / RAID-ification procedure, which at my
low level of expertise I really do not need, and (b) it's not clear to me
that LVM offers that much benefit for a
Camaleón:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 04:53:46 -0500, Zachary Uram wrote:
But all the awstats documentation I've read (that included in the Debian
package, stuff I found on google) says the other way should work.
I dont't think so.
Just think about it... how can Awstats know what host (config
tv.deb...@googlemail.com:
11/11/2010 13:29, Artur Frydel wrote:
Now I want to know, which of my packages are from multimedia.org
repository. How to check this one? Any dpkg or apt magical command?
aptitude search ~S~i~mmarillat
This will report packages of Christian Marillat from the
Stanisław Findeisen:
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/usb-modeswitch
Please, someone adds this thing to lenny would be great. :-)
That won't happen. Debian stable doesn't get new packages. There might
be a package on backports.org, though.
J.
--
We are lining up to see you fall flat
~Stack~:
But that would match against 9_asD which begins with a number (not what
I wanted). So I tried:
[_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*
I realize that the expression won't do what I mistakenly thought I
wanted it to do. What is puzzling to me is that my hard disk usage
peaked, my cpu jumped, and
Camaleón:
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:33:56 +0100, Michael Schmitt wrote:
2010/11/9 Camaleón
I myself would prefer to keep X11
I see not good technical reason for introducing the change. At least not
nowadays.
I am not an X window programmer (don't even know C), but my impression
is that X
Camaleón:
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:55:09 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
I am not an X window programmer (don't even know C), but my impression
is that X has quite a few design warts that many people would love to
get rid of. And you cannot really blame X for that, it's more than 25
years old
Sven Hoexter:
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:13:04PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
But I tend to agree with what another poster said: Ubuntu may be the
right place to try things like this. Debian isn't, but it still may
profit from the experience. Without being a Ubuntu fanboy, I hope
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:
In 4cd3921a.5090...@optonline.net, Doug wrote:
One thing I
really _don't_ like about Debian is its fear of the copyright. I really
want
Thunderbird and Firefox, with their familiar icons, on my screen, not the
goofy clones that Debian has come up with.
It's not
Sthu Deus:
Jochen:
Why do you use dpkg for that? Have you tried apt-get or aptitude? I
guess they will do what you want to achieve.
J.
I've tried that already. Please check this:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
postgresql-8.3 [8.3.11-0lenny1] postgresql-client-8.3
Rob Gom:
do you know/is there any graphical patch/diff viewer in Debian (or for
Linux in general)? Such a tool would produce side by side view of
changes/deletions/inserts.
Apart from vimdiff: have you tried Kdiff3?
J.
--
I can tell a Whopper[tm] from a BigMac[tm] and Coke[tm] from
Paul Cartwright:
I have dovecot imapd setup working on my Lenny box, and I have a
local user account setup in thunderbird have IMAP folders.
I am trying to setup my laptop to that IMAP account working, but it is
refusing connections...
do I need to do something to iptables? or am I
Alex PADOLY:
Do you know a method to do a compressed image of home directory.
Well, if your /home is not a separate filesystem, you cannot really
generate an image. But what about the following?
# tar cvzf /backup/home-$(date '+%F').tar.gz /home
For a more advanced backup solution, look at
Sthu Deus:
I can not remove the following:
$ sudo /usr/bin/dpkg -r postgresql-8.3 postgresql-client-8.3
Why do you use dpkg for that? Have you tried apt-get or aptitude? I
guess they will do what you want to achieve.
J.
--
Americans have a better life.
[Agree] [Disagree]
patrick:
if a system is using the bigmem kernel:
uname -a
Linux buddy2 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 18:52:29 UTC 2009
i686 GNU/Linux
why would aptitude safe-upgrade try to
install a non bigmem kernel?
$ aptitude why linux-image-2.6.26-2-686
J.
--
I throw away plastics and
Michael P. Soulier:
I wanted to test something with a newer kernel so I grabbed a newer one from
lenny-backports, but it includes a new linux-base that insisted on
re-addressing all my devices by uuid. Now that I'm done, when linux-base is
removed that shouldn't break anything, should it?
David Baron:
What is the best way to do this? (If I simply cp -a, I might dispense with
LVM
altogether since it's services on a 1 terra disk are not critical any longer).
I thought to simply add partitions on the new disk to the current volumes and
sometime later remove some or all of
Debian TR:
I am not able to install libopensnyc0 from official repos.
What are you actually trying to do? And which Debian version are you
looking at?
$ apt-cache policy libopensync0
libopensync0:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.22-2
Version table:
0.22-2 0
500
Camaleón:
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:37:27 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
(...)
It isn't contained anymore in squeeze and sid. Probably because no
package depends on it:
$ aptitude search '~Dlibsync0' | wc -l 0
opensync-plugin-barry (from sid) seems to have such dependency:
Darn, maybe I
Martin Spinassi:
How do you do your CPU benchmarks test?
Generally, I don't. :) But what I find interesting when comparing CPUs
is the speed of video encoding (h.264).
J.
--
Tony Blair is a hypnotised self-seeking scarecrow just like all the
rest.
[Agree] [Disagree]
Long Wind:
I have a P3/550, slot 1
the cpu fan is noisy, so I remove it
but I am not sure about heat sink
What will happen if CPU overheat?
If you are lucky: the CPU switches off the system before any damage is
done. If you are not so lucky, the CPU will die. If you have bad luck,
it will
Long Wind:
if maximum temperature of PC's environment is 35 degrees
then, maximum will be decreased by how much if the fan is removed?
There is no general answer to this question. It depends on your CPU,
heatsink, thermal paste, the computer case, airflow through the case and
inside the room
Celejar:
ffmpeg -i example.flv example.mp4
I find that the above command line reduces the size of the video to
about a third of the original, but at the cost of egregious degradation
of the video quality. If I use the 'sameq' option:
ffmpeg uses a fixed default for geometry (-s) and
Celejar:
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 18:58:05 +0200
Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote:
ffmpeg uses a fixed default for geometry (-s) and quality (-sameq,
-qscale, -vb etc.). You have to set both explicitly if you need anything
else (which you usually do).
Thanks. Is there a tutorial
Zhang Weiwu:
Here I re-ask the question in plain language and an improvised example:
I have computer A that runs a website. I only want
myhost.dyn-dns.com to be able to access this website, others who
want to access the website should get denied. How do I configure
Enrico Weigelt:
* Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de schrieb:
- You are starting an rm process for every file to delete. You can end
the command with + instead of \; to make find pass as many files
to rm as possible. If you delete many files that way, that may make a
big difference
MASOKIS:
hi.. i'm happing a difficult. i learn oracle .. as usual. i use oracle in
windows platform.. but i my love is on linux..
:)
then i setup the path..using this command;
maso...@oshirixnet:~$ nano /etc/profile
to
MASOKIS:
oh.. it was a missing part. now i already try it. the path now echo as
inside the file.
maso...@oshirixnet:~$ . /etc/profile
maso...@oshirixnet:~$ echo $PATH
Pol Hallen:
I try to redirect output of this script to file (using tee) and also send
it to mail
the script deletes files older than 150days:
find /share/.trash/ -type f -atime +150 -exec rm -fr {} \;
- atime finds files *last accessed* 150 days ago. You probably need
mtime instead.
hugo vanwoerkom:
As root I compiled a module.
What is a module? Some stand-alone program? Usually, people mean
kernel modules when talking about modules and these are not meant to
be executed.
Then I try to execute it and I get 'permissions denied'
Check the mount options for the filesystem
T o n g:
I saw that it is a common practice to issue sync several times before
umount. I know it's a good practice, but is it really necessary?
No, it's completely unnecessary as umount does the sync for you. Just
don't unplug removable drives before umount returns.
If I copy a big chuck
Csanyi Pal:
When I installed 64bit Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze, I used my $HOME
directory with it's dot files too.
So, I think the .bashrc and .bash_profile remain in the state in which
was on Gentoo.
Yes, that's how it should be. Debian package managers must never touch
anything under
tw...@cstone.net:
I'm specifically interested in whether the Verizon USB 760 broadband
wireless modem is now supported, but in general, when the kernel image is
upgraded, where can I find a list of the new hardware inclusions without
asking anyone to lead me by the hand?
The release
Alexander Batischev:
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 07:46:00PM -0400, tw...@cstone.net wrote:
I'm specifically interested in whether the Verizon USB 760 broadband
wireless modem is now supported, but in general, when the kernel image is
upgraded, where can I find a list of the new hardware inclusions
Kevin Ross:
On 09/01/2010 02:43 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote:
What mainboar, CPU and case do you use? I am currently searching for a
similar solution as well. I am considering to buy a Mini-ITX Atom board,
but it's hard to find a decent case with enough space for 3-4 hard
disks.
This case
Angus Hedger:
Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote:
I am still just a little bit unsure about wattage. Do I need 180W with
an Atom board (D510 + ION or NM10 chipset) + four hard drives and one
optical drive?
Have a look here [1], I know it doesn’t have the D510, but if you do
Mariusz Sielicki:
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 11:43:02PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
What mainboar, CPU and case do you use? I am currently searching for a
similar solution as well. I am considering to buy a Mini-ITX Atom board,
but it's hard to find a decent case with enough space for 3-4 hard
Aaron Toponce:
I was in the same situation as you not a month or two ago. I spend days
online looking for a good NAS, and really couldn't find anything that
impressed me. I ended up going with 4-1 TB 3.5 drives, and putting them
in a Linux software RAID 10 with LVM on top.
What mainboar,
Sthu Deus:
Jochen:
I put such files under /srv/files. /srv is meant for service-specific
files, e.g. /srv/www, /srv/imap etc. The naming below /srv is up to
you, though.
Why www under /srv? - If it was always in /var?
Well, to quote the FHS (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html):
Sthu Deus:
Wolodja:
/pub -- this is not part of the FHS and you might want to search for a
better place. What kind of data do you have here?
Sorry for long absence here. Where would You put something common for
all the users, say movies, music, etc?
I put such files under /srv/files.
Jordon Bedwell:
Jochen Schulz wrote:
No, they couldn't. :) Windows (since at least XP) doesn't allow
formatting disks larger than (IIRC) 32GB with the FAT filesystem. It's
either NTFS or… NTFS.
[…] Yes, Windows XP will format a drive way past 32GB, it's
plain silly to say it won't, you
Tom Browder:
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:44, Alain Baeckeroot
Lenny does not support ext4 for /boot (maybe / too), but
it can manage ext4 for other partitions.
https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#For_people_who_are_running_Debian
http://wiki.debian.org/Ext4
For sure there is
Tom Browder:
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:22, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote:
In order to be able to at least mount existing ext4 filesystems during
installation, you canalso try Kenshi Muto's d-i:
http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/
These are regular images, just with a more recent
Jordon Bedwell:
Calling you names? lol? And I don't need to read out-dated KB
articles,
Show me more recent ones which support your claim.
I logged into Windows XP machine here in the office and
did it before I even posted...I formatted an external HD with FAT32
with no problems.
You are
Bob Proulx:
It is just a disk drive. There isn't anything magical about it
having come with FAT32. That is just a mild convenience so that the
casual MS user does not need to format it themselves. But they could
and you could too.
No, they couldn't. :) Windows (since at least XP) doesn't
Lisi:
I have been asked to set this HDD up as a backup device on a Lenny system.
It
will primarily be used for photographs and personal files.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Verbatim-Desktop-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B0017422EA
The exact type of disk is irrelevant to your task. And, btw, the
Jörg-Volker Peetz:
Did you enable the 'discard' mount option on your ext4 file system (see
kernel-/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt) in order to make usage of
the TRIM-ability of the SSD?
Me? -No, because my (1st gen) X25m model doesn't support TRIM.
J.
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I think the environment will be
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