Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk

2017-12-04 Thread David Christensen
On 12/04/17 06:39, Dan Norton wrote: On 12/04/2017 12:27 AM, David Christensen wrote: Are there any other commands that readers might find interesting (before I wipe the SSD)? Just out of curiosity, lvdisplay? # lvm lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Path/dev/vg-stretch

Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk

2017-12-04 Thread David Christensen
On 12/04/17 07:21, David Wright wrote: I recently reformatted a disk thus: puck: GPT-style, master Part # filesys sizecoderôle puck- 1007KiB partition tables and alignment space puck01 - 3MiBEF02bios-boot for Grub

Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk

2017-12-04 Thread David Christensen
On 12/04/17 17:34, David Christensen wrote: That's why I plan to try again with the simplest automagic partitioning and see what happens. I wiped the SSD, ran d-i, and chose "Partitioning method" -> "Guided - use entire disk and set up encrypted LVM", which produced:

Re: overcoming known kernel bug

2017-12-12 Thread David Christensen
On 12/12/17 05:30, Brian Oney wrote: I am having trouble with my 2016 lenovo thinkpad yoga 11e (3rd gen) running the current version of debian stable (stretch). The on wake-from-suspend the fan runs on high. Specifically, I have: ~ $ uname -a Linux tinkbox 4.9.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.51-1

Re: overcoming known kernel bug

2017-12-13 Thread David Christensen
On 12/13/17 05:22, Brian J. Oney wrote: Please do not top post: https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#What_is_top-posting_.28and_why_shouldn.27t_I_do_it.29.3F Dear David, Please address your posts to the list. this is different issue. My CPUs are just fine and I can use the laptop

Re: BeFS or BFS or other filesystem for linux with attributes on debian

2017-12-19 Thread David Christensen
On 12/19/17 14:07, Dan Hitt wrote: Just for reference, although the attributes exist and i ithink are exactly what i need, it looks like the system has to be nudged a little to use them. So, for example, with cp, you need to do 'cp -a' to carry along the attributes ('cp -p' is not enough).

Re: how to install stretch securely

2017-12-12 Thread David Christensen
On 12/11/17 21:30, John Hasler wrote: David Christensen writes: I suggest that you contact your stock broker and find out what hardware, operating system, and software they recommend and support. I suggest that if your broker requires any particular hardware, OS, or software that you find

Re: overcoming known kernel bug

2017-12-13 Thread David Christensen
On 12/13/17 05:49, Jeroen Mathon wrote: Please do not top post: https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#What_is_top-posting_.28and_why_shouldn.27t_I_do_it.29.3F Hey David, Please address your posts to the list. Have you tried compiling your kernel from source, or researching if a

Re: need a video function in wheezy

2017-11-17 Thread David Christensen
On 11/17/17 01:33, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 16 November 2017 23:33:43 David Christensen wrote: On 11/16/17 18:21, Gene Heskett wrote: I have a machine vision utility for use on a CNC machine, that uses gladevcp. But the launching script, in xml, is looking for a specific lib

Re: need a video function in wheezy

2017-11-17 Thread David Christensen
On 11/17/17 09:56, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 17 November 2017 10:49:20 David Christensen wrote: Have you searched through the releases of Wheezy to see if any have the specific version of the library you need? If found, air-wall the machine, put in a new system drive, install that release

Re: Talking about RAID - disks with same id

2017-11-10 Thread David Christensen
On 11/10/17 00:12, deloptes wrote: this raid was created ~12y ago without metadata. https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/self-harm ;-) David

Re: Wanted - a Debian SOHO NAS

2017-11-10 Thread David Christensen
On 11/10/17 07:57, Reco wrote: I have this QNAP TS-412 box ... [and] I'm looking for [a] replacement with the following treats: - Able to run Debian, stock kernel is strongly preferred. - Non-x86, and I don't need another kirkwood ARM. CPU -- number of cores, number of bits, frequency, power

Re: Wanted - a Debian SOHO NAS

2017-11-10 Thread David Christensen
On 11/10/17 11:17, David Christensen wrote: Remote management?  When powered down? ^^ Correction: When in ACPI S1-S5 states? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface David

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread David Christensen
On 11/13/17 15:27, Dan Norton wrote: On 11/13/2017 02:14 PM, David Christensen wrote: [...] Disk space is far cheaper than data loss.  Don't make the mistake of trying to save money through partition, LVM, file system, etc., gymnastics rather than simply buying another drive and doing

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-13 Thread David Christensen
On 11/13/17 07:26, Dan Norton wrote: On 11/13/2017 01:10 AM, David Christensen wrote: 1.  Image, backup, and/or archive everything.  You will especially want to get a copy of the /etc tree onto a USB flash drive so you can see LVM, fstab, etc., configuration settings for mounting the Debian

Re: need a video function in wheezy

2017-11-16 Thread David Christensen
On 11/16/17 18:21, Gene Heskett wrote: I have a machine vision utility for use on a CNC machine, that uses gladevcp. But the launching script, in xml, is looking for a specific lib: which if it ever did exist in wheezy, was since removed. This script is of course editable, so are the

Re: Talking about RAID - disks with same id

2017-11-09 Thread David Christensen
On 11/08/17 23:17, deloptes wrote: David Christensen wrote: While trouble-shooting PEBKAS issues is important to me, I have found that my attempts at trouble-shooting GNU/Linux issues is usually an exercise in futility.  The best I can hope for is finding a way to reproduce the issue and filing

Re: How to Clone a RAID1 Box to Another with Drives Twice As Big?

2017-11-09 Thread David Christensen
On 11/09/17 10:33, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 12:25:17PM -0600, Kent West wrote: I have a Debian Stable box with two 1TB drives, set up as a mirrored RAID1 setup. I have a replacement box with two 2TB drives. How do I best clone the old machine to the

Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-09 Thread David Christensen
On 11/09/17 09:55, Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 03:21:00PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 11/08/17 02:54, Andrew Wood wrote: 3Com Etherlink Model 3C905C That card is *old* -- it brings back memories. :-) And, 3Com is gone. Is there any FOSS support for 3Com stuff

Re: Sync two disks and hot swap

2017-11-09 Thread David Christensen
On 11/09/17 04:35, Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 10:13:17AM +0100, Dominik George wrote: what is the goal in having an identical copy of the disk? It's not even so much that. It's that the person who will be changing the disks will be hardly capable of just that, and will not

Re: Sync two disks and hot swap

2017-11-09 Thread David Christensen
On 11/09/17 14:46, Bob Weber wrote: On 11/9/17 2:01 AM, David Christensen wrote: Okay.  What RAID technology were you using -- LVM, mdadm, btrfs, ZFS, other? I use software raid with mdadm.  Its pretty forgiving with powering down and removing a drive (after sync) and growing the array back

Re: Talking about RAID - disks with same id

2017-11-09 Thread David Christensen
On 11/09/17 13:04, deloptes wrote: David Christensen wrote: What RAID technology are you using? Linux software raid - kernel is 4.12.10 Most people call it 'mdadm', after the command-line tool. I am running the same, but on Debian "stable": 2017-11-09 14:00:32 root@dipsy ~ #

Re: Talking about RAID - disks with same id

2017-11-08 Thread David Christensen
On 11/08/17 13:40, deloptes wrote: Hi, I noticed recently by accident that when I read/write from the oldest raid disks I have - only one of the tray leds blinks. Of course the led could be damaged, but rather not, so looking into it I found that both disks in question return same UUID. So I am

Re: Sync two disks and hot swap

2017-11-08 Thread David Christensen
On 11/08/17 02:49, Dominik George wrote: Hi, I have the following scenario: * A server with two hard drives in removable cases * A backup process writes data to both disks, making up a live backup server * A third disk is to be kept off-site * On a ergular basis, I want to hot-swap one

Re: sudo

2017-11-08 Thread David Christensen
On 11/08/17 12:56, Josh W. wrote: Hello, I am trying to figure out how to add a user to sudo... Not sure of the process.. Could somebody point me in the right direction. Thanks! https://www.michaelwlucas.com/tools/sudo David

Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-08 Thread David Christensen
On 11/08/17 02:54, Andrew Wood wrote: 3Com Etherlink Model 3C905C That card is *old* -- it brings back memories. :-) And, 3Com is gone. Is there any FOSS support for 3Com stuff? Intel supports FOSS on their products, which means their products are much more likely to work correctly on

Re: Sync two disks and hot swap

2017-11-08 Thread David Christensen
On 11/08/17 17:44, Bob Weber wrote: On 11/8/17 5:59 PM, David Christensen wrote: I have read articles about building a RAID 1 with three drives, migrating in data, pulling one drive and placing it off-site, operating in degraded mode on two drives, and then periodically re-installing the third

Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk

2017-12-03 Thread David Christensen
On 12/03/17 21:17, David Christensen wrote: But, it was not a total loss -- I can now dissect the SSD. More info: # lsblk /dev/sda NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:00 14.9G 0 disk |-sda1 8:10 953M 0 part `-sda2 8:20 4.7G 0 part # parted /dev/sda u s

Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk

2017-12-03 Thread David Christensen
On 12/03/17 13:44, Dan Norton wrote: On 12/02/2017 02:35 PM, David Christensen wrote: I'm not making progress with this PC so I'll probably abandon GPT. The disk is 1T and it was handled by the extended partition scheme before this experiment and it probably can again. I still want to do LVM

Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk

2017-12-02 Thread David Christensen
On 12/01/17 20:07, Dan Norton wrote: On 12/01/2017 08:54 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 12/01/17 10:50, Dan Norton wrote: >>> Maybe this is the wrong forum, but please bear with me a little bit. This post was sent from a desktop with jessie installed. The problem is it will not boot

Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk

2017-12-06 Thread David Christensen
On 12/05/17 15:18, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 05/12/2017 à 06:55, David Christensen a écrit : 4.  The firmware finds the first GPT partition and file system, which look "right" for EFI boot images. No. 5.  The firmware reads this file system and finds only one file, which it load

Re: how to install stretch securely

2017-12-11 Thread David Christensen
On 12/11/17 15:41, Long Wind wrote: maybe i worry too muchbut my new stretch will be used to trade stocksand virus can cost dearly On 12/11/17 17:08, Long Wind wrote: but my stretch is to be used to trade stocksand nearly all my wealth is in stock account so I can't make any mistake. I

Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk

2017-12-01 Thread David Christensen
On 12/01/17 10:50, Dan Norton wrote: Maybe this is the wrong forum, but please bear with me a little bit. This post was sent from a desktop with jessie installed. The problem is it will not boot normally. Network booting has been disabled in the NVRAM setup. After POST there is a one-liner

Re: new ssd in dell optiplex 745, won't even load grub

2017-10-28 Thread David Christensen
On 10/28/17 11:31, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I've partitioned and formatted this 64GB SSD, copied everything from both working partitions of a 2TB drive to it, filling it up to a whopping 18%, edited the SSD's version of /etc/fstab to use the proper blkid's to mount it including swap,

Re: debian zfs spl dkms build fails

2017-10-25 Thread David Christensen
On 10/25/17 19:42, Russell L. Carter wrote: This has been happening for over 2 weeks now: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877694 It has such cheerful effects as: root@knuth> zpool status The ZFS modules are not loaded. Try running '/sbin/modprobe zfs' as root to load them.

Re: debian zfs spl dkms build fails

2017-10-25 Thread David Christensen
On 10/25/17 21:23, Russell L. Carter wrote: Greetings.  Your reply is completely nonresponsive to the zfs kernel upgrade situation as it is today on debian. Why did you bother?  It's weird. I don't actually care very much.  I'm going to go back to dumb extfs if required.  I'm just fishing for

Re: Stretch: Greeter powers down and locks monitors

2017-12-20 Thread David Christensen
On 12/20/17 02:49, Roger Price wrote: Hi, I'm running stretch with Xfce.  Gnome is also installed.  The login greeter appears correctly, and allows login, but if I leave the "greeter" screen too long, then something intervenes and puts the two monitors into a sleep mode (iiyama E1700S orange

Re: mdraid on SSD - use scterc?

2018-06-17 Thread David Christensen
On 06/16/18 22:22, Richard Hector wrote: I've got a new server with 2 mdraid RAID 1 arrays - one on spinning disks, the other on SSDs. The spinners are set by default to use ERC; the SSDs are not, but appear to support it. Should I enable it on the SSDs? Enabling SCT Error Recovery Control

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-13 Thread David Christensen
On 06/10/18 21:35, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 11 June 2018 00:16:39 David Christensen wrote: On 06/10/18 13:44, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I have the dvd written, and a new 2T drive currently occupying the /dev/sdc slot. What I want, since the drive has been partitioned to /boot

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-15 Thread David Christensen
On 06/14/18 01:52, Gene Heskett wrote: I'm seeing, at newegg et all, what is said to be a 3d nand that seems to be the higher capacity drive, 240 GB etc, for prices in the $90 range. But you are mentioning PCIe. Is SATA about to be replaced, and I'll have to locate yet another motherboard to

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-10 Thread David Christensen
On 06/10/18 13:44, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I have the dvd written, and a new 2T drive currently occupying the /dev/sdc slot. What I want, since the drive has been partitioned to /boot, /home, /, and swap, is 1; for this install to not touch any other drive currently mounted, and

Re: Possible for full-disk encryption to encrypt /boot as well?

2018-05-26 Thread David Christensen
On 05/26/18 21:16, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 7:21 PM, David Christensen Have you considered a self-encrypting drive ... I'm 99.99% sure (like Dove soap sure) that Symantec full disk encryption doesn't work this way because I'm just as sure that none of the Dell models I've

Re: Possible for full-disk encryption to encrypt /boot as well?

2018-05-26 Thread David Christensen
On 05/25/18 11:55, Robert Dodier wrote: I'm working with Debian 9. I gather that there is a full-disk encryption option for the standard Debian installer, which, as I understand it, does not include encrypting /boot. ... On 05/25/18 17:33, Robert Dodier wrote: > I am working for an

Re: Import messages from Icedove to Thunderbird

2018-06-05 Thread David Christensen
On 06/05/18 11:09, Markos wrote: I've just installed Debian 9 (stretch) and I'm trying to import folder with messages from Icedove 38.5.0 at my old PC (running debian 8) to my new PC with Thunderbird 52.8.0. In Icedove I select a folder and Tools -> Import/export in mbox/eml format -> Export

Re: Possible for full-disk encryption to encrypt /boot as well?

2018-05-27 Thread David Christensen
On 05/26/18 23:40, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 12:43 AM, David Christensen < dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: On 05/26/18 21:16, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 7:21 PM, David Christensen Have you considered a self-encrypting drive ... I'm 99.99% sure

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

2018-07-01 Thread David Christensen
On 07/01/18 13:17, Charlie Gibbs wrote: I've been banging my head against the wall trying to compile OpenSSL clients on my Jessie laptop (see my recent posting titled "Can't link to OpenSSL on my laptop).  I've decided to upgrade it to Stretch like my desktop machine, which compiles these

Re: Strange LAN IP Address.

2018-07-02 Thread David Christensen
On 07/02/18 12:17, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have my principle Debian Stretch platform on the LAN in our home. Two towers (both Linux platforms) and a HP Printer have wired connections, my Win 10 Laptop and two Android smartphones use WiFi connections. This morning when I When I tried using

Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases?

2017-10-19 Thread David Christensen
On 10/19/17 10:55, Gene Heskett wrote: Since the last update to firefox-esr, none of the usual internet buying options work, or even show up after you've clicked add to cart. clamav also claims that ~/firefox/browser/omni.ja is infected, with but several re-installs of firefox-esr has not

Re: Bug#857597: debian-cd: "isolinux.bin missing or corrupt" when booting USB flash drive in old PC

2017-10-22 Thread David Christensen
On 10/20/17 12:25, Thomas Schmitt wrote: the weekly testing ISOs for i386 and amd64 are now equipped with the new MBR: https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso ... Testers wanted for booting this ISO from USB stick. Boots

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2017-12-30 Thread David Christensen
On 12/30/17 14:38, Matthew Crews wrote: The main issue I see with using BTRFS with MDADM is that you lose the benefit of bit-rot repair. MDADM can't correct bit rot, but BTRFS-Raid (and ZFS raid arrays) can, but only with native raid configurations. AFAIK: 1. mdadm RAID1 can fix bit rot,

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2017-12-31 Thread David Christensen
On 12/31/17 09:44, Sven Hartge wrote: David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: On 12/30/17 14:38, Matthew Crews wrote: The main issue I see with using BTRFS with MDADM is that you lose the benefit of bit-rot repair. MDADM can't correct bit rot, but BTRFS-Raid (and ZFS raid

encryption and compression similarities -- was GRUB and boot partition

2018-01-05 Thread David Christensen
On 01/05/18 06:56, Gary Dale wrote: > On 2018-01-03 01:59 PM, David Christensen wrote: >> On 01/03/18 06:45, Gary Dale wrote: >>> ... Encryption is similar in concept to compression. >>> ... It could even reduce the space requirements. >> >> I'm curious --

Re: Optimized VM setup

2017-12-24 Thread David Christensen
On 12/23/17 20:06, Rusi Mody wrote: I teach programming. Students of my class have their own laptops required to have (some recent) linux. And this time (for the first time?) I saw that majority of the class were running Linux (usually but not always Ubuntu) on a VM on a Windows — typically

Re: Booting from USB on an old MacBook

2018-01-09 Thread David Christensen
On 01/08/18 23:30, juh wrote: ... I would like to install debian on my 2009 (or so) 13" MacBook to prevent being vulnerable to Meltdown and Spectre. Sadly the internal CD drive is broken and the notebook does not boot from USB. I didn't find any hint in the Bios settings how to boot from a usb

Re: OT: Help with a search and replace script in Perl for a big file with no line breaks

2018-01-24 Thread David Christensen
> On Jan 24, 2018, at 11:14 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > This is OT, but I thought I'd start with this list as it is the list that I > deal with more than any other. If no one here can help, suggestions for a > better list to try will be appreciated. > I used to subscribe to Perl

Re: OT: Help with a search and replace script in Perl for a big file with no line breaks

2018-01-26 Thread David Christensen
> On Jan 24, 2018, at 11:40 PM, deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > David Christensen wrote: > >> I used to subscribe to Perl Beginners, but the administrator got draconian >> about discussing other languages, I dropped, and now I appear to be >>

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-09 Thread David Christensen
On 01/09/18 19:54, John Hosack wrote: This is a bug report. I tried to use the reporting system, but it did not seem to be appropriate. So, I will give a narrative: This is what happened. I decided to install Debian on my small machine (Asus eeePC 900A, 1GB ram, 4GB storage). So I selected

Re: debian CD's DVD's

2018-01-11 Thread David Christensen
On 01/11/18 20:17, arne wrote: In the past it was possible to download debian cd's dvd's so one could have a full debian at home. Now this is not possible, I am missing some links? The jigdo files do not work nowadays too. The maximum debian you can get nowadays is 3 DVD's. The rule seems to be

Re: OT: Help with a search and replace script in Perl for a big file with no line breaks

2018-01-27 Thread David Christensen
> On Jan 27, 2018, at 12:58 AM, tomas wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 03:31:37PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > [...] > >> I've "cleaned up" more files than I care to remember. (Perl s

Re: Causes, cures and prevention of orphaned inodes?

2018-02-04 Thread David Christensen
On 2/4/18 12:49 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: receiving warning messages from the OS, Please post the warning messages from the OS, and identify where they are coming from. Please run 'mount' and post the prompt, the command, and the relevant portions of the output. Please do the same for

Re: Finding older ISOs

2018-02-12 Thread David Christensen
On 02/12/18 11:20, richey goldberg wrote: So I've had no luck trying to resolve my issues from this morning. A few test include staring the install for 9.3.0 64 bit (Loads fine) 8.10.0 32bit (Loads Fine).The AMD64 version of 8.10.0 still gives me issues. So I thought I would just grab an

Re: Finding older ISOs

2018-02-12 Thread David Christensen
, Feb 12, 2018 at 2:33 PM, David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: On 02/12/18 11:20, richey goldberg wrote: So I've had no luck trying to resolve my issues from this morning. A few test include staring the install for 9.3.0 64 bit (Loads fine) 8.10.0 32bit (Loads Fine).The

Re: [OT] debian (or debian like) terminal program for android

2018-02-10 Thread David Christensen
On 02/10/18 14:09, John Hasler wrote: Harry writes: Can anyone tell me if there is a serious terminal program for android phones? I mean a full OS and the basic commands. Especially I'd like to have ssh and scp among them. You don't want a terminal program. You want a terminal program

Re: Atypical mod to icons used to launch programs.

2018-02-14 Thread David Christensen
On 02/14/18 10:57, Richard Owlett wrote: I use Stretch with MATE as desktop. My current icons are from /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48 . I have multiple configurations of some programs installed. I would like to use icons that are semantically related. I would like to use custom icons that are

Re: Something eating diskspace in Testing

2018-02-16 Thread David Christensen
On 02/16/18 21:51, Johan DS wrote: hi I have testing installed with a separete /Home partition. My root partition /dev/sda2 is slowly filling up. In a few hours it goes from 7GB to 15GB. Until there is no more space. I used ncdu. And also did ls and finds for big files and/or directories . But

Re: Multiple independent terminals on a single machinde

2018-02-17 Thread David Christensen
On 02/17/18 04:46, Richard Owlett wrote: On 02/17/2018 01:57 AM, deloptes wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Therefore I'll change my metaphor. It is routine for one machine to support multiple independent terminals. Logically one expect that those terminals could appear on the host device. How

Re: Multiple independent terminals on a single machinde

2018-02-17 Thread David Christensen
On 02/17/18 11:32, Richard Owlett wrote: On 02/17/2018 01:19 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 02/17/18 04:46, Richard Owlett wrote: On 02/17/2018 01:57 AM, deloptes wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Therefore I'll change my metaphor. It is routine for one machine to support multiple independent

Re: SSH session audit

2018-02-19 Thread David Christensen
On 02/19/18 04:51, m...@risca.eu wrote: Hi, I'm co-managing a server with a friend of mine offering ourself some basic service (like emails, file sharing, etc). At this time each of us can freely login on the server via ssh (we trust each others) for the daily administrative tasks. I would

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2018-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 01/02/18 02:29, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 06:01:20PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 12/31/17 14:45, Sven Hartge wrote: David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: $ man 4 md SCRUBBING AND MISMATCHES ... If check wa

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2018-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 01/02/18 15:45, Darac Marjal wrote: On 02/01/18 23:02, David Christensen wrote: This is the second incorrect attribution to myself I've seen in the recent past... Really? It looks like you [wrote the mis-attributed text]. Yes, I know. So, what exactly are you complaining about? I'm

Re: (solved) Re: need help on wheezy installation

2018-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 01/02/18 15:47, Long Wind wrote: Thank Richard and David! On Tuesday, January 2, 2018 5:58 PM, David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: On 01/02/18 13:14, Long Wind wrote: i often use installation from hard diskit means downloading a iso image and b

Re: (solved) Re: need help on wheezy installation

2018-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 01/02/18 15:47, Long Wind wrote: Thank Richard and David! On Tuesday, January 2, 2018 5:58 PM, David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: On 01/02/18 13:14, Long Wind wrote: i often use installation from hard diskit means downloading a iso image and b

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2017-12-26 Thread David Christensen
On 12/26/17 11:37, Rick Thomas wrote: Is btrfs mature enough to use in enterprise applications? If you are using it, I’d like to hear from you about your experiences — good or bad. My proposed application is for a small community radio station music library. We currently have about 5TB of

Re: Stretch: Greeter powers down and locks monitors

2017-12-21 Thread David Christensen
On 12/21/17 04:20, Roger Price wrote: On Wed, 20 Dec 2017, David Christensen wrote: On 12/20/17 02:49, Roger Price wrote: Hi, I'm running stretch with Xfce.  Gnome is also installed.  The login greeter appears correctly, and allows login, but if I leave the "greeter" scree

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2018-01-01 Thread David Christensen
On 12/31/17 14:45, Sven Hartge wrote: David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: $ man 4 md SCRUBBING AND MISMATCHES ... If check was used, then no action is taken to handle the mismatch, it is simply recorded. If repair was

Re: need help on wheezy installation

2018-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 01/02/18 13:14, Long Wind wrote: i often use installation from hard diskit means downloading a iso image and booting installerbut iso images have been removed from many mirrors Have you looked in the archives? http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/ David

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2018-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 01/02/18 10:05, deloptes wrote: David Christensen wrote: You can boot with your md device with the following kernel command lines: for old raid arrays without persistent superblocks: md=dev0,dev1,...,devn I did not write that. This is the second incorrect attribution to myself I've

Re: GRUB and boot partition

2018-01-03 Thread David Christensen
On 01/03/18 06:45, Gary Dale wrote: On 2018-01-02 02:35 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Encryption does not require extra space (except for header and block padding). Encrypted data have the same size of cleartext data. +1 Encryption is similar in concept to compression. AFAIK common use on

Re: how to prevent security update installation during stretch installation

2018-07-31 Thread David Christensen
On 07/31/2018 05:42 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 05:36:41PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: One possibility is to configure your Internet gateway to block traffic between the host and the Internet, and then install from CD-1, DVD-*, BD-*, etc., media. An easier

Re: how to prevent security update installation during stretch installation

2018-07-31 Thread David Christensen
On 07/31/2018 02:56 PM, Long Wind wrote: i plan to install debian by network Okay. i don't like security update, Why not? how to do it? Thanks! One possibility is to configure your Internet gateway to block traffic between the host and the Internet, and then install from CD-1,

Re: luks, crypttab: why 3 partition only 2 passphrases entered

2018-08-04 Thread David Christensen
On 08/02/2018 12:07 AM, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: On Aug/01/2018, David Christensen wrote: On 08/01/2018 03:47 PM, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: I have a Debian Stretch and recently I added a new cyphered partition. All works well but I don't understand why and it's bothering me. Setup: $ cat

Re: luks, crypttab: why 3 partition only 2 passphrases entered

2018-08-04 Thread David Christensen
On 08/04/2018 01:08 PM, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: root@pinux:~# dmsetup info /dev/dm-* Name: m2_root_crypt State: ACTIVE Read Ahead:256 Tables present:LIVE Open count:1 Event number: 0 Major, minor: 254, 0 Number of targets: 1 UUID:

Re: (finished)Re: how to prevent security update installation during stretch installation

2018-08-04 Thread David Christensen
On 08/02/2018 01:05 AM, Long Wind wrote: to David Christensen: your solutions is complex, I assume you are referring to "configure your Internet gateway to block traffic between the host and the Internet". Learning about Internet gateways in general, and about your gateway in

Re: luks, crypttab: why 3 partition only 2 passphrases entered

2018-08-01 Thread David Christensen
On 08/01/2018 03:47 PM, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: Hi, Hello. :-) I have a Debian Stretch and recently I added a new cyphered partition. All works well but I don't understand why and it's bothering me. Setup: $ cat /etc/crypttab m2_root_crypt UUID=4e655198-a111-... none luks,discard

Re: how to prevent security update installation during stretch installation

2018-08-01 Thread David Christensen
On 08/01/2018 01:00 AM, Long Wind wrote: i don't like security update because i suspect it cause problem (some packaged can't be installed) during stretch installation last time I suggest that you obtain the debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso image (via jigdo), burn it to CD/USB, configure

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-15 Thread David Christensen
On 08/15/2018 12:27 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 15/08/2018 à 05:36, David Christensen a écrit : On 08/12/2018 11:01 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Mind to explain why should /boot be on a separate partition ? Primarily because I often use dm-crypt on swap and root; Plain dm-crypt or LUKS

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-15 Thread David Christensen
On 08/15/2018 10:19 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 08/11/2018 04:50 PM, David Christensen wrote: I recommend: 1.  Get a small, fast, high-quality SSD to use as the system drive. Connect it to motherboard port SATA6G_1. 2.  Connect the optical drive to SATA6G_2. 3.  Do a fresh install

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-14 Thread David Christensen
On 08/12/2018 11:01 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 11/08/2018 à 22:50, David Christensen a écrit : 3.  Do a fresh install of Debian onto the SSD.  Partition manually, creating three primary partitions: /boot (1 GB), swap (1 GB), and root (10 GB). Mind to explain why should /boot

Re: Hrdware question

2018-08-11 Thread David Christensen
On 08/11/2018 08:19 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running Debian Stretch on my 64bit Linux platform. I am planning on installing a 500B SSD as the boot HD and have a question about the SATA connectors on the ASUS M5A97 R2.0 MB. I have what I thought was a simple question, but Google has

Re: painted into a corner

2018-08-21 Thread David Christensen
On 08/21/2018 07:29 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2018 22:08:07 Felix Miata wrote: Gene Heskett composed on 2018-08-21 20:29 (UTC-0400): it will not install grub on anything but /dev/sda. I've been scratching my head trying to remember the details of bootloader installation

Re: Lightening Hit screwed boot sequence on Stretch

2018-08-21 Thread David Christensen
On 08/21/2018 11:26 AM, J.W. Foster wrote: I have a stock Stretch system actually with  a multiple boot to different hard drives via grub2. It has been running well for over a year even longer since I rebuilt with new Motherboard and upgraded from Debian 8.I am currently able to boot a

Re: Bash count

2018-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 08/22/2018 01:33 PM, Gokan Atmaca wrote: 715 1.1.1.1 322 2.2.2.2 152 3.3.3.3 61 4.4.4.4 2018-08-22 18:28:07 dpchrist@vstretch ~/sandbox/debian $ cat gokan-atmaca-20180822-1333.txt 715 1.1.1.1 322 2.2.2.2 152 3.3.3.3 61 4.4.4.4 2018-08-22 18:28:12 dpchrist@vstretch

Re: Lightening Hit screwed boot sequence on Stretch

2018-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 08/22/2018 05:53 AM, J.W. Foster wrote: Wow, this is all extremely  good and I have not got  a gadget for testing the actual computers power supply inline. I did use a good quality meter to check the incoming line and it is stable out of the surge protectors at 121 VAC.The thing tha

Re: question about memtest86+

2018-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 08/22/2018 02:58 PM, Long Wind wrote: i install memtest86+ of stretch to test memory Which Memtest86+ did you install on Debian Stretch? Please provide the URL. How did you install Memtest86+? i don't see any error msg, but after a few minutes, it shutdown my PC does that mean my

Re: painted into a corner

2018-08-22 Thread David Christensen
On 08/21/2018 08:25 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2018 23:03:29 David Christensen wrote: Are you using the d-i in standard "install" mode, or in "advanced -> expert" mode? The latter gives you much more control. I think I tried that on the first at

Re: Bash count

2018-08-22 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: Please ignore previous post. David On 08/22/2018 01:33 PM, Gokan Atmaca wrote: I have a list like the one below. I want to separate those bigger than 101. How can this be done ? 715 1.1.1.1 322 2.2.2.2 152 3.3.3.3 61 4.4.4.4 2018-08-22 18:28:07

Re: question about memtest86+

2018-08-23 Thread David Christensen
On 08/23/2018 01:26 AM, Long Wind wrote: to All:i've just return home, Thanks to all who reply! to David:i use apt-get to install memtest86+ on debian 9.4 for i386 it reconfig grub and i reboot to enter memtest86+ from grub menu Thank you for making me aware of memtest86+ integration into

Re: question about memtest86+

2018-08-24 Thread David Christensen
On 08/24/2018 12:05 AM, Long Wind wrote: Sorry, Ben, i made mistake, it isn't hp dx5150, it's lenovo motherboard is 865GV-M8, I'm having a hard time STFW for that motherboard. There are several motherboards that use the 865GV chipset, both socket 478 and LGA 775. Please provide a URL to

Re: painted into a corner

2018-08-19 Thread David Christensen
On 08/19/2018 12:40 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I just installed stretch to a fresh 2T HD. letting it autopartition and format for separate /, swap, /var and /home partitions. But I didn't let it overwrite the grub on the 1st drive it was/is booting wheezy from. I figured I'd mount

version control systems [was BTRFS and debian]

2018-07-14 Thread David Christensen
On 07/14/18 02:37, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I've completely replaced CVS with git these days - for all my > hacking of course, as well as parts of home/ - and I finally figured > out how to have a inter-system (or -drive) "git update" work > "properly" by which I mean: ... > This took me a few

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