Re: FreeBSD 9.1 and SU+J

2012-11-04 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 11/04/2012 11:18 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: > On 4 November 2012, at 07:04, Bas Smeelen wrote: > >> On 11/04/2012 03:00 PM, Bas Smeelen wrote: >>> On 11/04/2012 02:11 PM, RW wrote: On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:44:28 +0100 Bas Smeelen wrote: > On 11/03/2012 07:30 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra wr

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:42:45 +1000 > From: Da Rock > Subject: Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media > > On 11/05/12 14:14, Polytropon wrote: > For reference, if one did backup the whole slice/disk using dd and then > compressed the data, would that effectively compress all thos

Re: Booting 2nd(!) FreeBSD installation sitting on same disk

2012-11-04 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Sat, 03-Nov-2012 at 23:34:48 +0100, jb wrote: > Andre Albsmeier siemens.com> writes: > > > ... > > However, when pressing F3, the system of slice 2(!) is > > loaded. This is due to the fact that boot1 always loads > > the first active FreeBSD slice ;-(. > > ... > > Is there no chance t

general ports config question

2012-11-04 Thread Gary Aitken
I've been wanting gimp 2.8.0 (now 2.8.2) for a bit and as it's been slow to show up in the ports collection, thought I would see about building it. Unfortunately, I don't know squat about the process but figured trying it would help slow my brain from atrophying at its currently rapidly accelerat

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Da Rock
On 11/05/12 14:14, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 19:49:24 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> In message <20121105035233.e3c4ae8a.free...@edvax.de>, >> Polytropon wrote: >> But as I said (above) to make this really work right, dump & restore really need to have -z options, an

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 19:49:24 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message <20121105035233.e3c4ae8a.free...@edvax.de>, > Polytropon wrote: > > >> But as I said (above) to make this really work right, dump & restore really > >> need to have -z options, and do the zipping/unzipping internally.

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <20121105035233.e3c4ae8a.free...@edvax.de>, Polytropon wrote: >> But as I said (above) to make this really work right, dump & restore really >> need to have -z options, and do the zipping/unzipping internally. Only >> if this were available could dump properly deal with end-of-media

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <50971b88.40...@herveybayaustralia.com.au>, Da Rock wrote: >Also, you may have considered this already (or not :) ), but you are >using a direct write to backup your system, and then considering >compression on top of that. CD/DVD filesystems incorporate some parity >to allow for def

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 18:37:43 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message <20121105021817.fc5bff1b.free...@edvax.de>, > Polytropon wrote: > > >> I would like to make this backup to a _minimal_ number of DVD+R disks. > > > >If you think you can add compression to your files (if it makes > >s

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <20121105021817.fc5bff1b.free...@edvax.de>, Polytropon wrote: >> I would like to make this backup to a _minimal_ number of DVD+R disks. > >If you think you can add compression to your files (if it makes >sense), it should be incorporated to the command. Yes. There really ought to b

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: >Assume one file will NOT be copied more than ONE DVD , i.e. , each file >will be completely recorded on one DVD : > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_stock_problem The problem you cited is an interesting one, but I do not believe that it is at all r

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Da Rock
On 11/05/12 11:18, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 16:56:58 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> I would like to make a backup of one of my systems using dump(8) in order >> to be sure that I get everything, including all of the obscure file attribute >> bits. > That eliminates at least som

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > I would like to make a backup of one of my systems using dump(8) in order > to be sure that I get everything, including all of the obscure file > attribute > bits. > > I would like to make this backup to a _minimal_ number of DVD+R dis

AoE vblade reporting size 0

2012-11-04 Thread FBSD UG
Hello, I'm trying to export a disk on FreeBSD 9.0-R4 over AoE (ATA over Ethernet) using vblade from ports. I run this as root: # vblade 1 1 em0 /dev/ada1 and the system returns this: ioctl returned -1 0 bytes pid 2629: e1.1, 0 sectors O_RDWR The drive nicely shows up on OSX and Linux a

Re: Character set conversion, locales, UTF-8, etc

2012-11-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 13:36:58 -0500, grarpamp wrote: > As an aside, why does FreeBSD seem to default to the above locale > instead of say, en_US.UTF-8 ? FreeBSD's file system does not default to any locale, as far as I know. The system is "agnostic" to what the characters in the file name mean or wh

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 16:56:58 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > I would like to make a backup of one of my systems using dump(8) in order > to be sure that I get everything, including all of the obscure file attribute > bits. That eliminates at least some tools. I have been using a similar ide

Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I would like to make a backup of one of my systems using dump(8) in order to be sure that I get everything, including all of the obscure file attribute bits. I would like to make this backup to a _minimal_ number of DVD+R disks. What's the proper procedure for this? In the dump(8) man page, I s

Why PostgreSQL doesn't start with shared_buffers=6GB ?

2012-11-04 Thread Yuri
When I am setting shared_buffers=6GB in postgresql.conf it fails to start: DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=5432001, size=6612361216, 03600). even though kern.ipc.shmmax is set to ~7GB: $ sysctl -a | grep shm kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed: 0 kern.ipc.shm_use_phys: 0 kern.ipc.shmall: 1310720

Re: before new version

2012-11-04 Thread C-S
> Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 17:20:26 -0500 > From: ajtiM > To: Polytropon > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: before new version > Message-ID: <201211031720.27182.lum...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Saturday 03 November 2012 14:11:22 you wrote: >

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 and SU+J

2012-11-04 Thread Doug Hardie
On 4 November 2012, at 07:04, Bas Smeelen wrote: > On 11/04/2012 03:00 PM, Bas Smeelen wrote: >> On 11/04/2012 02:11 PM, RW wrote: >>> On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:44:28 +0100 >>> Bas Smeelen wrote: >>> On 11/03/2012 07:30 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: > On 03.11.2012 13:48, Doug Hardie wrote:

BIOS update saga - the end

2012-11-04 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I can't find my original thread, so starting a new one. So I bought a spare laptop disk, installed freedos on it, made a usb memstick with HP BIOS updating executable, and booted from it, only to stop at: "The BIOS on your notebook PC can not be updated. Refer to HP Customer Advisory C01457784"

Re: Dell H710 and H310 Raid Controller

2012-11-04 Thread Sean Bruno
On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 05:47 -0800, Omer Faruk SEN wrote: > It seems right now only way to go with Rx20 Server models is to use > Intel > cards (dell provides i350 chipset network interfaces as alternative) The Broadcom 5720 support is in current right now. It will not be in 9.1, but will be avai

Character set conversion, locales, UTF-8, etc

2012-11-04 Thread grarpamp
Hi. I think I'm looking for a character conversion tool. I have a few thousand files in a hier. I believe an app, possibly a Java one, created them while in en_US.US-ASCII mode, or perhaps some other unidentified locale. Whatever it was, I think it took binary filename data, interpreted it and wrot

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 and SU+J

2012-11-04 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 11/04/2012 03:00 PM, Bas Smeelen wrote: > On 11/04/2012 02:11 PM, RW wrote: >> On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:44:28 +0100 >> Bas Smeelen wrote: >> >>> On 11/03/2012 07:30 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: On 03.11.2012 13:48, Doug Hardie wrote: > I didn't notice that journaling is on by default

config multiport serial card

2012-11-04 Thread s m
hello everybody i have a moxa 4-port serial card and installed it on freebsd8.2 successfully. i have ttyu2-5 in /dev that are moxa ports. my question is how i can use these ports? i add the following lines to ttys file: ttyu2 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure ttyu3 "/usr/libexec/getty

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 and SU+J

2012-11-04 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 11/04/2012 02:11 PM, RW wrote: > On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:44:28 +0100 > Bas Smeelen wrote: > >> On 11/03/2012 07:30 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: >>> On 03.11.2012 13:48, Doug Hardie wrote: >>> I didn't notice that journaling is on by default and now dump is failing. The only way I can s

Re: Dell H710 and H310 Raid Controller

2012-11-04 Thread Omer Faruk SEN
Hi, Just tried 9.1-RC3 with R720 which has H710p( the only difference with H710 is 1 gb cache instead of 512mb ). It has recognized both H710p raid as mfid0 and also network cards are recognized as bgeX (*BCM5720)* but network cards times out (watchdog timeout) I think it is about http://forums.f

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 and SU+J

2012-11-04 Thread RW
On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:44:28 +0100 Bas Smeelen wrote: > On 11/03/2012 07:30 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: > > On 03.11.2012 13:48, Doug Hardie wrote: > > > >> I didn't notice that journaling is on by default and now dump is > >> failing. The only way I can see to disable journaling requires > >> t

RE: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen)

2012-11-04 Thread Manish Jain
> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 16:41:45 +0530 > From: bourne.ident...@hotmail.com > To: les...@eskk.nu > CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen) > > > On 04-Nov-12 13:17, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > > > > > Manish Jain 2012-11-02

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen)

2012-11-04 Thread Manish Jain
On 04-Nov-12 13:17, Leslie Jensen wrote: Manish Jain 2012-11-02 19:18: 1) Boot from your FreeBSD CD/DVD, enter the slice editor and change the type of your FreeBSD slice back to 165. Do not press Q. Press W instead. Conform with Yes to the warning, and then press Ctrl+Alt+Del to abort the in

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 and SU+J

2012-11-04 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 11/03/2012 07:30 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: > On 03.11.2012 13:48, Doug Hardie wrote: > >> I didn't notice that journaling is on by default and now dump is >> failing. The only way I can see to disable journaling requires that >> the file system be dismounted, or read-only. This is a remote

Re: Booting 2nd(!) FreeBSD installation sitting on same disk

2012-11-04 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Sat, 03-Nov-2012 at 18:46:04 +0100, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Andre Albsmeier > mailto:andre.albsme...@siemens.com>> wrote: > For various reasons I have to use this disk layout: > > One harddisk with MBR and 3 slices on a i386 box: > > Slice 1: Windo

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen)

2012-11-04 Thread Leslie Jensen
Manish Jain skrev 2012-11-02 19:18: 1) Boot from your FreeBSD CD/DVD, enter the slice editor and change the type of your FreeBSD slice back to 165. Do not press Q. Press W instead. Conform with Yes to the warning, and then press Ctrl+Alt+Del to abort the installation. 2) Boot from your FreeBS