FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE w/ SanDisk ImageMate S11202

2013-01-18 Thread Waitman Gobble
Hi, I have a PCI Express card with VIA VL800 chipset which seems to work OK with a Seagate drive, so I presume the interface is working. If I boot with a SanDisk ImageMate S11202 plugged into the USB 3.0 card, the display shows messages about the SanDisk device, appears to properly identify it,

Re: svn-export Re: svn bdb checkout?

2013-01-18 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello. 2013/01/17 21:32:08 -0700 Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com = To Xyne : WB On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Xyne wrote: WB WB I'm the author of svn-export. I haven't really touched the code since I wrote WB it in 2009 and back then I tended to write most things in noobish Perl. I shouldn't name

Re: absurd I/O perf with ZFS: hangs on zfs-cv)

2013-01-18 Thread Fabian Keil
Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: On 17 January 2013 07:52, Fabian Keil freebsd-lis...@fabiankeil.de wrote: Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: I don't think there are any laptops with large amounts of RAM as far as ZFS is concerned. Haha okay: 8GB of RAM. It is taking me

Re: tar compression

2013-01-18 Thread Arthur Chance
On 01/18/13 02:29, Fbsd8 wrote: The man page for tar command says there a 4 different compress types you can use, xz, bzip, bzip2 and gzip. bzip and bzip2 are synonyms I believe. Which one is the fastest and compresses the most? The general rule for compression is that fast and high

Re: Account only on the console

2013-01-18 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:19:24 +0100, Albert Shih wrote: Hi all, I would like to known how I can create a root-account (uid=0, login not=root) but I want this account accessible only on the console. Not from ssh but event not from su (other than root). Add a new account with UID 0

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-18 Thread Georg Reilinger
-- Excuse me... you're joking, right? I assume you have a plentycore -- processor with Gigs of RAM, and already two shells show a problem? -- That sounds totally wrong. Is that sarcasm or irony? Von: Polytropon free...@edvax.de An: Georg Reilinger

Re: Dependencies after port tree update

2013-01-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:50:51 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: man portmaster root@freebsd:/root # portmaster --list-origins ~/installed-port-list root@freebsd:/root # portsnap fetch update root@freebsd:/root # portmaster -ty --clean-distfiles root@freebsd:/root # portmaster

Re: absurd I/O perf with ZFS: hangs on zfs-cv)

2013-01-18 Thread Eitan Adler
On 18 January 2013 05:20, Fabian Keil freebsd-lis...@fabiankeil.de wrote: A common recommendation is to disable atime for all datasets where it isn't needed as it can cause lots of unnecessary write operations. Good call. I thought I had already disabled atime updating but it turns out that

pax error message

2013-01-18 Thread Fbsd8
I use pax this way. cd dir-path pax -wzX -x cpio -f path-file-name . The period at end of above command is part of the command. When dir-path contains data over 7G in size pax issues this error msg, pax: file is to large for cpio format ./dir-path How do I correct this?

Re: Dependencies after port tree update

2013-01-18 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:37:43 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Do the following directories have to be more empty? root@freebsd:/root # ls -hAl /usr/local/bin total 0 root@freebsd:/root # ls -hAl /usr/local/sbin total 0 root@freebsd:/root # ls -hAl /usr/local/lib total 12 drwxr-xr-x 4 root

Re: Dependencies after port tree update

2013-01-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I stopped by Ctrl + C, add --no-confirm to the command and run it again. To read this mail I had to use the archive, Opera can't display received emails at the moment ;). Thank you! Regards, Ralf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Dependencies after port tree update

2013-01-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:59:55 +0100, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: I stopped by Ctrl + C, add --no-confirm to the command and run it again. To read this mail I had to use the archive, Opera can't display received emails at the moment ;). Thank you! Oops, I should read

Re: Dependencies after port tree update

2013-01-18 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:03:33 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:59:55 +0100, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: I stopped by Ctrl + C, add --no-confirm to the command and run it again. To read this mail I had to use the archive, Opera can't display received

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-18 Thread RW
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:25:03 + (GMT) Georg Reilinger wrote: As a consequence, I can see myself do two possible things, to have a system running with KDE 3.5 once again: 1. Go back to an older release of FreeBSD and install KDE 3.5 from the that's pointless 2. To be honest, I

Re: Dependencies after port tree update

2013-01-18 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I wonder how to set a variable to automatically answer ok. In this case it might be interesting to check all configurations. I use this in /usr/local/etc/portmaster.rc: # Do not create temporary backup packages before pkg_delete (-B) NO_BACKUP=Bopt #

Re: Dependencies after port tree update

2013-01-18 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:37:43 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Do the following directories have to be more empty? ... If you have copied everything you might need from /usr/local (e. g. config files in /usr/local/etc) you can remove the whole directory

Re: absurd I/O perf with ZFS: hangs on zfs-cv)

2013-01-18 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: Hi all. Running FreeBSD 9.1-Release, I am seeing some absurd hangs (10 minutes or more to open a file) with SIGINFO informing me that the process is stuck on zio-io_cv. Does anyone have any suggestions for what I

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-18 Thread Mike Clarke
On Friday 18 January 2013 16:58:11 RW wrote: You can carry on using 3.5 on any current release. The problem is when it's eventually removed from ports, updating other ports may result in dependency problems. I'm already starting to experience some problems which I assume are due to

Safe way to repair corrupted GPT partition table?

2013-01-18 Thread Bob Willcox
Is there a way to repair a GPT partition table that has gotten corrupted (following a system hang during heavy I/O to a ZFS filesystem)? I now get these errors whenever I boot the system: GEOM: da0: corrupt or invalid GPT detected. GEOM: da0: GPT rejected -- may not be recoverable. Fortunately,

Have there been any fixes for long TCP delays with FreeBSD 8.3 or 9.x?

2013-01-18 Thread Richard Sharpe
Hi folks, I am seeing a problem when copying large files via SMB/Samba from a FreeBSD 8.0-based system (with Samba 3.6.6 and ZFS etc) where eventually Windows drops the connection. However, it seems, based on three captures I have, that what has happened is that FreeBSD has not supplied any data

sh script code to get file size.

2013-01-18 Thread Fbsd8
In a script in am working on I need to find out the allocated size of a sparse file. The only command that comes to mind is ls -lh The du -h command is not appropriate because it will show the occupied size and not the allocated size. I don't know how to parse out to the position in the output

Re: sh script code to get file size.

2013-01-18 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 18), Fbsd8 said: In a script in am working on I need to find out the allocated size of a sparse file. The only command that comes to mind is ls -lh The du -h command is not appropriate because it will show the occupied size and not the allocated size. I don't know

Re: sh script code to get file size.

2013-01-18 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 18/01/2013 23:26, Fbsd8 wrote: In a script in am working on I need to find out the allocated size of a sparse file. The only command that comes to mind is ls -lh The du -h command is not appropriate because it will show the occupied size and not the allocated size. I don't know how to

Re: sh script code to get file size.

2013-01-18 Thread Fbsd8
In a script in am working on I need to find out the allocated size of a sparse file. The only command that comes to mind is ls -lh The du -h command is not appropriate because it will show the occupied size and not the allocated size. I don't know how to parse out to the position in the

Re: sh script code to get file size.

2013-01-18 Thread Fbsd8
Chris Hill wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Fbsd8 wrote: In a script in am working on I need to find out the allocated size of a sparse file. The only command that comes to mind is ls -lh The du -h command is not appropriate because it will show the occupied size and not the allocated size. I

Re: sh script code to get file size.

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Hill
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Fbsd8 wrote: In a script in am working on I need to find out the allocated size of a sparse file. The only command that comes to mind is ls -lh The du -h command is not appropriate because it will show the occupied size and not the allocated size. I don't know how to parse

Re: Safe way to repair corrupted GPT partition table?

2013-01-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:08:25 -0600 Bob Willcox b...@immure.com wrote: Is there a way to repair a GPT partition table that has gotten corrupted (following a system hang during heavy I/O to a ZFS filesystem)? I would use a hex editor. Of course, try it out on another disk before working

Re: Safe way to repair corrupted GPT partition table?

2013-01-18 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 18 January 2013 15:08, Bob Willcox b...@immure.com wrote: Is there a way to repair a GPT partition table that has gotten corrupted (following a system hang during heavy I/O to a ZFS filesystem)? I now get these errors whenever I boot the system: GEOM: da0: corrupt or invalid GPT detected.

Re: svn-export Re: svn bdb checkout?

2013-01-18 Thread Xyne
On 2013-01-17 21:32 -0700 Warren Block wrote: A working version in any language would be great. A better version in Python would be nice, too, but it's the working part that's important. There's a difference between working and working on a random system with unexpectedly disabled features.

Slowdown of iwn wireless

2013-01-18 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! On my home network I noticed that wireless transfer slows down a lot over time. It starts at reasonable internet speed of 300kB/s or something but after 2h of using the network it barely gets more than 20kB/s across. Rebooting helps, as does kicking the kernel module/interface and recreating

Re: sh script code to get file size.

2013-01-18 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Jan 18 17:30:31 2013 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:26:54 -0500 From: Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com To: FreeBSD questions questi...@freebsd.org Subject: sh script code to get file size. In a script in am working on I need to find out the allocated

Re: svn-export Re: svn bdb checkout?

2013-01-18 Thread Xyne
Hi, svn-export has now been rewritten in Python 3. Here's a quick list of changes/features: * threads have been replaced with forks (and remain optional) * new option to set svn binary * new option to generate shell script instead of using internal calls * no subshell invocation * only svn

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE w/ SanDisk ImageMate S11202

2013-01-18 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I have a PCI Express card with VIA VL800 chipset which seems to work OK with a Seagate drive, so I presume the interface is working. If I boot with a SanDisk ImageMate S11202 plugged into the USB 3.0 card, the