g4sra :
Anybody with a computer museum wanna give me a job ?
Hi,
I've got a bunch of historical computers of different sorts(most of them
are working fine), pieces, documentations, magazines, books, ads... and
dream about such a place too(especially with fully working NeXT
stations!!!)!
Quoting Hendrik Boom (hend...@topoi.pooq.com):
> Isn't there another FAT? called something like exfat? WHich is
> required (only by spec) for sd cards above a specific size?
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT
--
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On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 03:33:19PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Simon Hobson (li...@thehobsons.co.uk):
>
> > I have a suggestion ...
> > Create a small partition in NTFS or Fat, and put some files on there
> > saying what else is on the drive - and some hints on how to access it.
>
> Well,
On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 03:38:32PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Haines Brown (hai...@histomat.net):
>
> > With a sector of 512 bytes, it fat32 is apparently limit to 2 Tb. I'm
> > unclear whether a limit on the number of files becomes a problem. Vfat
> > might be analternative.
>
> VFAT
Quoting Haines Brown (hai...@histomat.net):
> With a sector of 512 bytes, it fat32 is apparently limit to 2 Tb. I'm
> unclear whether a limit on the number of files becomes a problem. Vfat
> might be analternative.
VFAT _is_ FAT32, just with a very dodgy long-filename extension.
Of possible
Quoting Simon Hobson (li...@thehobsons.co.uk):
> I have a suggestion ...
> Create a small partition in NTFS or Fat, and put some files on there
> saying what else is on the drive - and some hints on how to access it.
Well, and (assuming this drive is in an external case) attach ruggedly
to the
Haines Brown wrote:
> I left the drive NTFS because I wanted easy access to the drive for folks
> (granschildren) who do not run Linux.
>
> Othersie I prefer ext4. When you say NTFS is slower, to you mean three times
> slower (which I am experiencing) or a bit slower?
In my experience, as
On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 03:04:12PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 05:33:16PM +0100, g4sra via Dng wrote:
> >
> > My bad, changed from '#!/bin/bash' syntax to '#!/bin/sh'
> >
> > # this must follow immediately after the mount command
> > if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
> > echo
On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 05:33:16PM +0100, g4sra via Dng wrote:
>
> My bad, changed from '#!/bin/bash' syntax to '#!/bin/sh'
>
> # this must follow immediately after the mount command
> if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
> echo "Mount Failed!"
> exit 1
> fi
I'll give it a try. Thanks.
> Easy access to
On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 01:38:57PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 12:02:37PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 12:11:46AM +0200, Harald Arnesen via Dng wrote:
> > > Haines Brown [07.08.2020 18:19]:
> > >
> > > > Yes, for sure. If you are right about the
On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 12:02:37PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 12:11:46AM +0200, Harald Arnesen via Dng wrote:
> > Haines Brown [07.08.2020 18:19]:
> >
> > > Yes, for sure. If you are right about the speed difference between
> > > NTFS and ext4, then is there another FS
On 09/08/2020 16:55, Haines Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 02:53:13PM +0100, g4sra via Dng wrote:
>> 3) abort if the mount fails
>> [ $? -eq 0 ] || {echo "Mount Failed!"; exit 1;}
>
> I put this line into my backup script and only got a syntax error.
My bad, changed from '#!/bin/bash'
On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 12:11:46AM +0200, Harald Arnesen via Dng wrote:
> Haines Brown [07.08.2020 18:19]:
>
> > Yes, for sure. If you are right about the speed difference between
> > NTFS and ext4, then is there another FS that can be accessed by a
> > Windows machine that is not much slower
On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 02:53:13PM +0100, g4sra via Dng wrote:
> On 07/08/2020 21:01, Haines Brown wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 06:34:04PM +0100, g4sra wrote:
> >
> >> Post your backup script for others to look over.
> >
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 04:17:06PM -0400, Curtis Maurand via Dng wrote:
> I just mounted up an NTFS mount on my Ascii desktop. It loaded up fairly
> quickly. Any other operation such as opening a folder with a lot of entries
> took a very long time. This is on a Seagate Baracuda 1TB plugged
On 08/08/2020 14:53, g4sra via Dng wrote:
> On 07/08/2020 21:01, Haines Brown wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 06:34:04PM +0100, g4sra wrote:
> E.g. /etc/fstab
>/dev/XXX /mnt/backup ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
That should be
/dev/XXX /mnt/backup ntfs-3g defaults,noauto 0 0
On 07/08/2020 21:01, Haines Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 06:34:04PM +0100, g4sra wrote:
>
>> Post your backup script for others to look over.
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
> a="="
> b="Start: "
> c=$(date)
> mount /mnt/backup &
1) Don't
On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 03:27:43PM -1000, Joel Roth via Dng wrote:
> Haines Brown wrote:
> > Cron automatiically backs up some partitions on my HD by means of a
> > script. Not sure of the size of thse backupos, but perhaps 300 Mb.
> >
> > I have been doing the backups to an external WD USB
Haines Brown wrote:
> Cron automatiically backs up some partitions on my HD by means of a
> script. Not sure of the size of thse backupos, but perhaps 300 Mb.
>
> I have been doing the backups to an external WD USB drive, and they
> took around 3 hours. However, I became nervous about the
Haines Brown [07.08.2020 18:19]:
> Yes, for sure. If you are right about the speed difference between
> NTFS and ext4, then is there another FS that can be accessed by a
> Windows machine that is not much slower than ext4?
fat32. Or if you run a recent kernel on your Linux machine (Devuan 5.4
On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 04:01:09PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> Nothing in logs. But I don't unserstand this DBus syslog message that
> comes up every second or so:
>
> Aug 7 09:29:26 engels brltty[720]: DBus error: send message:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
I just mounted up an NTFS mount on my Ascii desktop. It loaded up
fairly quickly. Any other operation such as opening a folder with a lot
of entries took a very long time. This is on a Seagate Baracuda 1TB
plugged into a generic drive dock and connected by USB 3.0.
I would say that the
On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 06:34:04PM +0100, g4sra wrote:
> Check your logs for USB Bus resets, any device on the USB bus can
> cause these which will add seconds for every occurrence (a USB TV
> stick can make a backup crawl).
Nothing in logs. But I don't unserstand this DBus syslog message
On 07/08/2020 17:19, Haines Brown wrote:
On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 04:57:18PM +0100, Rowland penny via Dng wrote:
It is extremely slow, but I am unsure just how slow, but 3-4 times slower
sounds about right.
Wow!
If the drive is never plugged into a Windows machine, then there is no point
On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 04:57:18PM +0100, Rowland penny via Dng wrote:
> It is extremely slow, but I am unsure just how slow, but 3-4 times slower
> sounds about right.
Wow!
> If the drive is never plugged into a Windows machine, then there is no point
> in it being formatted as NTFS.
I do
On 07/08/2020 16:46, Haines Brown wrote:
On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 03:58:40PM +0100, Rowland penny via Dng wrote:
Do you use the USB drive on Windows, if not, just reformat it to ext4,
ntfs-3g is a FUSE system, it isn't a fast as you would like.
Thanks Roland. I left the drive NTFS because I
On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 03:58:40PM +0100, Rowland penny via Dng wrote:
> Do you use the USB drive on Windows, if not, just reformat it to ext4,
> ntfs-3g is a FUSE system, it isn't a fast as you would like.
Thanks Roland. I left the drive NTFS because I wanted easy access
to the drive for folks
On 07/08/2020 15:47, Haines Brown wrote:
Cron automatiically backs up some partitions on my HD by means of a
script. Not sure of the size of thse backupos, but perhaps 300 Mb.
I have been doing the backups to an external WD USB drive, and they
took around 3 hours. However, I became nervous
Cron automatiically backs up some partitions on my HD by means of a
script. Not sure of the size of thse backupos, but perhaps 300 Mb.
I have been doing the backups to an external WD USB drive, and they
took around 3 hours. However, I became nervous about the condition of
the drive which is
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