Hi Pankaj,
Not wishing to put words in Linux-Fan's mouth, but my own views
are…
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:04:09AM +0530, Pankaj Jangid wrote:
> Linux-Fan writes:
>
> > * OS data bitrot is not covered, but OS single HDD failure is.
> > I achieve this by having OS and Swap on MDADM RAID 1
> >
Hi Mick,
On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 11:36:09AM +, mick crane wrote:
> I know I'm a bit thick about these things, what I'm blocked about is where
> is the OS.
Wherever you installed it.
> Let's say I have one PC and 2 unpartitioned disks.
> Put one disk in PC and install Debian on it.
I think
Hi Erwan,
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 04:09:47PM +0100, Erwan David wrote:
> It would be handy to have the state of debconf (with all the
> answers I already gave).
I do:
dpkg --get-selections \* > /var/lib/dpkg_selections
debconf-get-selections > /var/lib/debconf_selections
(and then back up
Hi Mick,
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:47:34PM +, mick crane wrote:
> I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections.
> Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ?
> 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0
There is no strong connection between the
Hi Jim,
On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 08:12:52AM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> What is a script'able way to list a pkg version (or nothing if it is not
> installed)?
$ dpkg-query --showformat '${Version}\t${Status}\n' --show coreutils
8.23-4 install ok installed
$ dpkg-query --showformat
Hello,
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 06:18:29PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 03:06:34PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > Datasheet says:
> >
> > * Enhanced Power-Loss Data Protection with Tantal capacitors
>
> It does not have a battery = it does not have a BBU.
Hello,
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 05:42:35PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> It's a cheap model (relatively), and lack all those fancy BBU features,
> but it works for my employer:
>
> # smartctl -a /dev/sdj
> ...
> Vendor: SAMSUNG
> Product: MZILT1T9HAJQ/007
Datasheet says:
*
Hello,
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 09:17:03AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 07:25:54AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> >What do you mean by power loss protection -- do you mean, for example, that
> >the host computer is on a UPS, or is that a feature of some SSDs?
>
> It's
Hello,
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 11:14:37PM +0100, deloptes wrote:
> Can someone recommend server or NAS grade (SATA) SSD - a reliable one for
> RAID use?
I suggest checking smartctl values on your existing device to see
how much data you write in a week or so, then convert that to the
matching
Hello,
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 02:38:46PM +0100, Jesper Dybdal wrote:
> I would hope that the most recently modified half of the array would be the
> one to overwrite the least recently modified one, so that a temporary
> absence of one disk which later comes back unmodified, will not destroy
>
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 11:42:37AM +0100, Thomas A. Anderson wrote:
> When i enter mdadm --examine /dev/sdb
>
> I get:
>
> /dev/sdb:
>
> MBR Magic: aa55
>
> Partition[0] : 3907026944 sectors at 2048 (type 83)
It would say more than that if sdb had ever been an md RAID member.
Are
Hi Mick,
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 03:32:07PM +, mick crane wrote:
> On 2020-12-29 13:10, Andy Smith wrote:
> >The default metadata format (v1.2) for mdadm is at the beginning of
> >the device. If you've put a filesystem directly on the md device
> >then the pre
Hello,
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 07:58:50AM +0100, Thomas A. Anderson wrote:
> I have been "using" mdadm to run software raid1 (stripping) on a file
> server i have been running.
As others have noted, RAID-1 is not striping but mirroring. I'll
assume you have used RAID-1. Showing us the content of
Hi Mick,
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 12:55:58AM +, mick crane wrote:
> I have a buster PC and a bullseye PC which are both supposed to have
> gigabyte network cards connected via a little Gigabyte switch box.
"gigabyte" is not a network speed. You probably mean gigabit; that
is 10⁹ bits per
Hello,
On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 11:10:20PM +, mick crane wrote:
> On 2020-12-22 22:19, Michael wrote:
> >- pvcreate to add a partition to a pool of physical volumes
[…]
> I have only skimmed reading the fine manual and other things but I'm
> guessing that if the partition is full I'll
Hello,
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 11:32:33AM +, mick crane wrote:
> I noticed that if you add yourself to sudo group in /etc/group you
> have to logout and log back in for it to be noticed.
If you don't want to log out of the shell you can do this:
$ exec sg sudo "newgrp $(id -ng)"
The "exec"
Hello,
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 11:51:17AM +, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> That generates a followup question, out of curiosity. Presumably for
> that to work, all the info needed for the computer to learn about the VG
> at boot must be stored on the PV. What happens when there is more than
> one
Hello,
On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 04:05:18PM +, Darac Marjal wrote:
> I am somewhat boggling, though, at the idea in the Instructions[1]
> of crossgrading from arm64 to amd64. What manner of machine can
> interpret both of those instruction sets?!
A virtual machine, hence qemu! :)
Cheers,
Andy
On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 01:40:53AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 04 December 2020 01:03:34 Andy Smith wrote:
> > Again we have been down this avenue before, but I will try one last
> > time.
[…]
> > So, can you show us a few lines of logs from yo
Hello,
On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 12:03:57AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> what file do I edit to add todays
> /var/log/httpd/other_vhosts_access.log to its list of logs to
> watch. That's the log file with the real data in it today. And
> does it need enabled in another, different file.
Again we
Hi David,
On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 01:32:35PM +1100, David wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 13:10, Andy Smith wrote:
> > So much text written without clear statement of problem!
>
> I understand why you wrote that, but you might be unaware that
> Martin has previously ment
Hello,
On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 07:35:27AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I've had it with a certain bot that that ignore my robots.txt and
> proceeds to mirror my site, several times a day, burning up my upload
> bandwidth. They've moved it to 5 different addresses since midnight.
This must be
Hello,
On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 07:39:14AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> I am guilty as charged but haven't yet found the relevant information
> as to how systemd helps solve this issue.
You can put a time zone in a systemd timer. I can't see how it can
be stated any simpler than that.
If you
Hello,
On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 01:58:45PM +, James B wrote:
> This might be wrong, but as far as I understand doesn't systemd
> now have the ability to manage cron jobs (as well as mount points,
> home folders and other things)?. Is there anything in this newer
> functionality that might make
Hi Flo,
On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 06:57:46PM +0100, Flo wrote:
> Let's assume an average message size of 20MB. Then 100 messages are
> enough to make it INBOX file that big. This doesn't necessarily mean
> that this is disorganized.
The average size of mail I have received in the last 2 months is
Hi Martin,
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 08:48:51PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> find . -name "*" -exec ls -l {} \; \
> |grep -F / \
> | awk ' { total += $5 } END { print total }'
>
> That usually just adds the sizes of all the files it can
> find all the way through the tree.
>
> If
Hello,
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 06:31:53PM -0400, Antonio Barragan wrote:
> I have a PC with Debian 10 installed (on dev/sda), and working properly.
> Now I would like to add to it a second, 150 GB HDD (SATA), taken from
> another machine.
[…]
> How could that be done?
If you don't have hot
This was very occasionally working but mostly not. I updated the
boot firmware of the Intel I350 NICs and now it seems to work every
time.
Previously it was stopping after downloading
debian-installer/amd64/grubx64.efi by TFTP, and just showing me a
grub> prompt. Now it goes on to request all the
Hi Stefan,
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 02:52:49PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> One of the has /boot/initrd.img files that take about 15MB while the
> other has /boot/initrd.img files that take about 30MB (in both cases,
> they are compressed with `lzma`).
>
> Any idea what this difference could
Hi Martin,
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 01:20:39PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> I just cd'd to that directory and it looks like there's
> about 1 GB there.
Are you sure about this? There is no Debian or Ubuntu host I have
access to that has a /usr/share/zoneinfo/ that contains more than
Hello,
More of my adventures in EFI land.
Machines that boot by EFI need an EFI System Partition. I'm used
to using software RAID everywhere and providing redundancy for
everything. It seems that the designers of EFI didn't think about
that one.
https://www.tinkerfairy.net/efi-raid.txt
Hi Mike,
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 02:30:08AM +, mike.junk...@att.net wrote:
> Of the 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ America/Chicago and
> CST6CDT are the only two that might apply to me. Are the rest of
> any use to me at all? If so how? And, yes, I understand that they
> need to be
Hi Andrei,
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 12:30:49PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Vi, 20 nov 20, 00:56:19, Andy Smith wrote:
> >
> > I have tried both the buster netboot.tar.gz and the daily d-i build
> > and get the same behaviour with both.
> >
> >
Hi,
I'm new to machines that absolutely require EFI booting. I have a
machine that only has NVMe devices, and I understand it needs to be
installed in EFI mode to boot.
I'm trying to install by PXE. I've done this hundreds of times with
a legacy BIOS, but it's not working for me in EFI mode and
Hello,
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 10:42:53PM +0100, Flo wrote:
> The mail files for each account are stored at /var/mail. No it has come to
> that point that such a file exceeded 2GB. And 'Get Messages' doesn't work
> anymore.
>
> Does anyone know about this issue? Any hints to solve it? I could
Hello,
On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 08:14:05PM -0500, Michael Grant wrote:
> > Well, that would do the job thoughtlessly. It might backfire
> > spectacularly.
[…]
> apt has an excellent reputation, I'm not sure I see why mechanizing
> such a process as apt does should be necessarily be bad. I'm not
Hi Mike,
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 05:09:42PM -0500, Mike McClain wrote:
> A section of the backup script is so:
> Params=(-a --inplace --delete);
> Flash=/sda/rpi4b
> cd /home/mike
> [ ! -d $Flash/mike ] && mkdir $Flash/mike;
>
> # exclude compressed files and the contents of most of the .*
Hi Jesper,
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 12:28:13PM +0200, Jesper Dybdal wrote:
> I run a few Stretch systems on old processors that do not support the RDRAND
> instruction.
>
> Can I simply install "haveged" on the Stretch systems *before* the upgrade
> to Buster to avoid problems during the upgrade?
Hello,
On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 02:41:37PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> All of the files and most of the directories in /var/log/ are owned
> by root. These are the exceptions.
>
> root@joule:/var/log# ls -ld {c*,ex*,s*}/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 _chrony _chrony 4096 Jul 22 2017 chrony/
>
Hello,
On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 01:48:48PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-10-11 at 19:47 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > "Percentage Used Endurance Indicator"
>
> Where do you see that?
Usually a SMART attribute like "233 Media Wearout Indicator" or if
that isn't available devices
Hi Mick,
On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 05:45:45PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
> Got a PC that has SSD and a HDD. I see that you are supposed to avoid writes
> to SSD for longevity.
Flash write endurance has come on leaps and bounds over the last
decade to the point where most people don't have to worry
Hello,
On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 06:40:01PM +0200, Hans wrote:
> And second: If the real transferrate is only 1,5Gbyte/sec, does this mean,
> that the sata controller is not capable to higher transferrates or does it
> possibly mean, that my configuration is wrong?
This is all meant to be
Hello,
On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 05:14:38AM +0530, Saurabh Kannaujia wrote:
> I run 'apt upgrade' and it
> changed to Kali linux rolling. I don't know why this happend
This could only have happened by putting Kali's repositories into
/etc/apt/sources.list or in a file under
Hello,
On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 10:35:51PM +0300, Valter Jaakkola wrote:
> So where can I change the mounting parameters of /dev/shm, or otherwise
> arrange
> it so that /dev/shm is noexec already at/after boot?
>
> (Out of curiosity, where is /dev/shm mounted from?)
I think from systemd:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 01:02:35PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Andy Smith wrote:
> > Create with:
> >mkfs.ext4 -E lazy_itable_init=0,lazy_journal_init=0
>
> This lasts significantly longer than my first mkfs run.
> The drive makes ~ 1950 write operations p
Hello,
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 10:24:44AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> i have encrypted my HDD's (*) data partition. Now the disk access LED is
> blinking rapidly as soon as i mount it.
Could it possibly be the lazy init feature of ext4, which is enabled
by default and can sometimes result in
Hello,
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 07:49:19AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 07:44:25AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > "hostid" tends to return a hexadecimal representation of the first
> > IPv4 address (but isn't guaranteed to).
>
> unicorn:~$
Hello,
On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 08:49:07AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:38:55 -0400
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > So you're just doing "sleep 1" every time.
>
> Ah, thank you. Yup. Which is weird, because it worked when I first
> wrote that many years ago.
In cron scripts
Hi Byung-Hee,
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 10:29:46AM +0900, 황병희 wrote:
> Hi i just curious about Bullseye [0]. The Bullseye will be LTS?
Debian does not designate certain releases as LTS releases, so
bullseye will be no more "an LTS release" than buster is now, or
stretch, jessie etc were before
Hi Richard,
Your question is one of user support but you've sent it to the
debian-project list, which is about the Debian project itself and
not for asking user questions. So, I have directed replies to the
correct place which is debian-user.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 04:14:35PM -0400, richard
On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 09:37:47PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
> Basically there are already fewer upstream kernel developers that
> care about and understand 32-bit x86, and bug and even security
> fixes specific to 32-bit x86 lag behind those for amd64. KPTI fixes
> to address Meltdown
Hello,
On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 07:57:18PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> One practical point: it isn't possible to upgrade from a 32-bit
> installation to a 64-bit one, it's a reinstall job. I did actually have
> a go once, but quickly got bogged down with 'do A before B, and do B
> before A'.
I've done it
Hello,
On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 11:13:30AM -0700, cgi...@surfnaked.ca wrote:
> The Buster upgrade seemed to work OK. I re-booted and got to my
> xfce login screen. But when I entered my user ID and password,
> the screen blanked for a second or so, then came back to a blank
> login screen.
Use
Hello,
On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 12:43:35PM -0500, R. Ramesh wrote:
> My only wish is apt is updated to say something about the fact
> that this is unsupported and users are on their own, but still
> provide the download/install without we having to manually
> intervene.
I think¹ that there are
Hello,
On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 08:23:33PM -0500, R. Ramesh wrote:
> I did think about fresh install, but every method has its drawback. There
> are subtle changes that I could not get right in the past, so I chose
> upgrade path.
Last year I did do a squeeze to stretch upgrade by upgrading to
Hello,
On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 12:00:38AM +, Long Wind wrote:
> top-posting is default behavior of yahoo mail. i don't know why
> it's inconvenient for some list users.
I wouldn't normally bother to mention¹ but since you seem to be
pushing back on this…
Between your top posting and the
Hello,
On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 09:16:48PM +0200, deloptes wrote:
> Dan Ritter wrote:
> > This really sounds like you're trying to test out a scenario in
> > a situation where it can't possibly work.
> >
>
> But this is exactly what he has to do - connect two wired network interfaces
> to a
Hello,
On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 05:30:20PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> David Christensen wrote:
> > Some people have mentioned md RAID. tomas has mentioned LUKS. I believe
> > both of them add checksums to the contained contents. So, bit-rot within a
> > container should be caught by the
Hi Victor,
On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 12:09:03PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> There is a process listening on 127.0.0.1:8081 but for some reason
> netstat/sockstat/ss do not show it listening on IPv4. Is this a bug or a
> feature?
I think it's listening on an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address so it can
Hello,
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 11:44:54AM +0100, mick crane wrote:
> Do people use tape drives for backup ?
Only in places that need vast amounts of data stored for a very long
time with restores being rare. Restoration is slow with tapes. Even
a low end LTO drive will set you back thousands of
Hi Marco,
On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 09:47:24AM +0200, Marco Möller wrote:
> Is it possible (how?) to restrict a user to only be allowed to make use of
> its sudo usage permission if working at the physical console, not granting
> to this user sudo permission when i.e. logged in via ssh?
I was
Hello,
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 10:24:03PM +0530, Didar Hossain wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 01:52:30PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > https://www.mailop.org/
>
> Now this is the list that I want to be on. But, I am getting SSL errors trying
> to connect to https://chill
Hello,
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 12:59:06PM +0530, Didar Hossain wrote:
> I have shortlisted Digital Ocean and Linode for my use because both of
> datacenters in India. Is anyone using either of them for MX service?
You will be fine almost anywhere (as long as you find the service
reliable) for
Hello,
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 08:53:57PM +, gajuph4...@yahoo.com wrote:
> I have manually partitioned my hard disk drive as follows:
>
> /boot is assigned 200MB
> /root is assigned 10GB
> /swap is assigned 20GB
> /home is assigned 35GB
> /var is assigned 10GB
> /usr is assigned 5GB
>
Hello,
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 12:05:23AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:56:16PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >`iw phy` should give you all that data and a lot more.
>
> I do not find that command.
$ apt-file search --regexp bin/iw$
iw: /sbin/iw
$ apt
Hello,
On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 07:11:31PM +0200, deloptes wrote:
> 128 and 256MB on the Geode - 12 years in service
> buster with sysvinit, postfix, openvpn and shorewall
I have a Soekris net4801 which is an AMD Geode 266MHz with 128M RAM,
put to similar use. I'm going to retire it this month
Hello,
On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 09:20:11AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Does anyone know how to relate a noaa call sign into an ip address?
There is no relationship between a NOAA callsign and IP address
and I don't know why you would assume there would be. It is
vanishingly unlikely that it is
Hello,
On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 01:42:02PM +0200, Daniel Widenfalk wrote:
> I would very much appreciate some quick pointers on how to properly report
> this so that I don't have to dig up my posts to the xen users mailing list
> to figure out something I already should know.
Xen is a pretty
Hello,
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 06:40:17PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> I assume the list is using mailman?
Debian lists do not use Mailman, but SmartList I believe. It's
probably also a fair bit modified from upstream.
Cheers,
Andy
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Hi,
On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 12:41:26PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> How do I make screenshots acessible to the list?
In a text-based support forum like this I think one should be
careful to use images only as an additional resource, and still use
the body of the email to fully describe the
Hello,
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 09:30:30AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> Why not start with a minimal working system, even adding a few
> select tools, and then see what isn't necessary for your own
> minimalist system. Now you can try removing them from a *working*
> system and, should you go too
Hello,
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:17:58PM +0200, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> also, if in order to use RAID 10 you need 4 drives
Linux mdadm can do RAID-10 with 2 or more devices (also doesn't have
to be an even number).
> (but the dollar per Gb is approaching $0.02) and you get 1.5
> faster
Hi,
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 09:28:45AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 13 June 2020 09:19:39 Andy Smith wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 09:12:06AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > No > present
> >
> > I think you are confused. None of us wrote any such
Hi Gene,
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 09:12:06AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Here is a copy/paste of the from line as it arrives here
> From: l0f...@tuta.io
> No > present
I think you are confused. None of us wrote any such line so I have
no idea where you are seeing it, unless you are looking at
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 12:21:12PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
> The mbox mail archive format is a single file containing all
> messages concatenated together. Separate messages are recognised by
> a line that starts:
>
> >From y...@example.com ...
Amusingly I didn't
Hi,
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 02:08:14PM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote:
> 13 juin 2020 à 09:52 de a...@strugglers.net:
> > Looking at the email concerned, it had a line starting with "From"
> > quoted with a ">".
> >
> Indeed! I hope it's not a mistake of mine (usually I proofread my emails
> before
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 07:52:55AM +, Andy Smith wrote:
> Looking at the email concerned, it had a line starting with "From"
> quoted with a ">".
>
> Mailing lists often do things like that, breaking DKIM.
I will add that I recall that Debian postmasters
Hi,
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 10:30:44PM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote:
> 12 juin 2020 à 22:16 de mst...@debian.org:
> > More information from the OP, it looks like the message sent to the list
> > was base64 encoded html. So I'm guessing that the list software
> > autoconverted that to plain
Hi Nazar,
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 08:58:16PM +0200, Nazar Zhuk wrote:
> I have a 1Gbps network port that correctly connects as 1Gbps full duplex on
> boot, then drops to 100Mbps 4 seconds later.
Negotiation is failing and that is required for 1Gbit, so I would
start by ruling out the device that
Another thought that is maybe a little outside the box: If your BIOS
supports booting from USB or media slot then you could maybe make a
new boot partition on one of those devices and switch to booting
from that from now on.
Ties up a USB or media slot forever of course, but possibly an
Hi Rick,
On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 08:05:48PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
> What's the best way to increase the size of /boot ?
There is no easy way. If you boot into a live/rescue environment and
run parted you *may* be able to shrink your LVM and grow your /boot
but it's a procedure fraught with
Hello,
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:43:22AM -0400, Default User wrote:
> Andy, you mentioned restic, which I am not familiar with. Similar
> considerations would seem to apply to that also. But I might also try
> that out later.
Note that you did not state any of these requirements for only
Hello,
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 08:52:05PM -0400, Default User wrote:
[vast mounts of quoted text snipped - please don't quote too much!]
> So, in backing up my home partition, is use:
>
> sudo rsync -avvzHAXPish --delete /home/default
>
Hello,
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 08:14:22AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> I had to look up Neil McGovern to find out what "status" he has in the Debian
> organization. IIUC, he was the DPL (I guess I learned an acronym) in
> something like 2015, and he may now be the executive director of
Hi Dan,
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 10:20:00PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 01:02:33PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote:
> > my question is more about what tools to use, which are more
> > stable, and which fit in better with debian.
> >
> > But this is not really a user question,
Hi Keith,
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 02:45:33PM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> I might give it a try - but my history with fora that are
> available in browser is that I forget to go look at what is
> happening; even when I ask a question. At least with email, I get
> a prompt to look at un-read
Hello,
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:45:02AM +0300, Reco wrote:
> So, thoughts, options?
I am really glad that Debian is investigating this option and I look
forward to answering (and asking!) typical debian-user questions
there. I hope that fellow debian-user regulars will give it a try
with an
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 09:49:43PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> In an attempt to reduce the load on my time servers
Is this an actual problem you have observed? I ask because there is
very little that an individual can do to cause noticeable load on a
time server. You would have to have many
Hi Tony,
On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:28:58AM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> My plan would be to install the SSD in the cage, and dd the contents of the
> array onto the SSD. I would then change the BIOS to boot from the SSD,
> making the RAID array redundant.
Just as you have two HDDs in a
Hello,
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 04:00:34PM -0700, Tom Dial wrote:
> I think that ZFS, although different, is no less complicated or
> inflexible than the other identified options. Adding mdraid
> probably would not decrease complexity.
It is far easier to reshape mdraid arrays (in terms of number
Hi Dennis,
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 05:55:52PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> I have 4TB running on an AMD Ryzen under Buster. What is the current
> consensus of the best file system to use for general data usage?
If your 4TB isn't composed of at least one more drive for redundancy
then for me all
Hi Russell,
On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 07:11:21AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 07:05:11AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> >(do these as root, since that seems to be how you are working)
> >
> ># which a2ensite
> ># ls -la /usr/sbin/a2ensite
>
Hi Russell,
On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 06:59:55AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> I receive the following error message when attempting to enable a
> virtual host (apache2 in Debian 10):
>
>root@penelope:/etc/apache2/sites-available# a2ensite domain1.com.conf
>bash: a2ensite: command not
Hi,
On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 03:41:13PM +0100, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
> So, I know this is a debian list and could be obtain biased opinion but what
> are better point to use debian on a server instead of CentOS?
Really I think you are best off using whichever one you have the
most experience
Hello,
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 12:11:54PM +1300, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> If you need to protect against an attacker willing to examine your HDD with
> magnetic force microscopy, there is no substitute for physical destruction
> of the media.
Even then it's unnecessary! No has ever recovered
Hello,
On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 10:50:54AM +, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> I am interested to know if there is any other tool besides dig and
> delv, something like perhaps cdnfinder [6] which will make it more
> interesting to find things ?
Can't you just traceroute or mtr to the site in question
Hello,
On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 05:05:07PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-12-30 21:00:55)
> >
> > > If debian was serious about supporting the "arm's" that would have
> > > been fixed several years ago by moving that list and its contents to
> > > "debian-arm-devel", and
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 12:52:45PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I *sympathize* with my contact.
>
> I *HAVE BEEN* customer service for ~half-century.
>
> *PUT UP* or .
I also sympathise with the customer service person, which is why I
urged you not to hand them links to things that are
Hello,
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 08:36:19AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Thank you. Monday I'll make a followup report referencing this thread.
I don't think that the person you are corresponding with will be
technical as such; they'll have less knowledge of HTTP, caches,
last-modified, Debian
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 09:57:39AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> You may have to resort to similar measures.
Hopefully though, most people asking questions here are more willing
to read documentation and accept advice, and so will end up with
more sensible solutions.
Regards,
Andy
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