Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Emerge and Tmpfs

2009-07-08 Thread Richard Freeman
Duncan wrote: Personally, I'd just go with the default nr_inodes. People with 2 gig or less of real RAM may need to worry about it, especially if they do a lot of parallel makes (tho with 2 gig I'd crimp on parallel makes way more than I do, too, so may not have to, but as I've said before,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Emerge and Tmpfs

2009-07-08 Thread Frank Peters
On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:55:43 -0400 Richard Freeman r...@thefreemanclan.net wrote: I occassionally get swaps, but that is no big deal. In the worst case swapping is no worse than not using tmpfs at all, and in the typical or best cases it is far better. It really is a no-lose scenario.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Emerge and Tmpfs

2009-07-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Frank Petersfrank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: However, I am not clear on how tmpfs will fail. If the tmpfs mount becomes filled or exceeds the file limit, since it is essentially just another disk partition shouldn't it produce a No more space left on device

[gentoo-amd64] latest k3b has no menu entry

2009-07-08 Thread Mark Haney
I just upgraded to 1.0.5-r5 of k3b and now I have no menu option in Multimedia. Is anyone seeing this as well? Where do I look in KDE4 to fix it? -- Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Emerge and Tmpfs

2009-07-08 Thread Duncan
Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net posted 20090708095104.39a8a53e.frank.pet...@comcast.net, excerpted below, on Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:51:04 -0400: However, I am not clear on how tmpfs will fail. If the tmpfs mount becomes filled or exceeds the file limit, since it is essentially just

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Emerge and Tmpfs

2009-07-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 08 July 2009 14:51:04 Frank Peters wrote: If the tmpfs mount becomes filled or exceeds the file limit, since it is essentially just another disk partition shouldn't it produce a No more space left on device error? No, it isn't a disk partition. It's a file system in RAM, with no

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Emerge and Tmpfs

2009-07-08 Thread Duncan
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com posted 58965d8a0907080737s2c4a71dah3c9b54e55f02d...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:37:01 -0500: In other words if you have a 2 gig tmpfs it's not going to eat up 2gb of your RAM unless you have actually put 2gb of files onto

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Emerge and Tmpfs

2009-07-08 Thread Arttu V.
On 7/8/09, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: However, I am not clear on how tmpfs will fail. If the tmpfs mount becomes filled or exceeds the file limit, since it is essentially just another disk partition shouldn't it produce a No more space left on device error? Yes it does. Or

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Emerge and Tmpfs

2009-07-08 Thread Richard Freeman
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 08 July 2009 14:51:04 Frank Peters wrote: Or is the system designed to extend the tmpfs through swapping? Sort of. If the tmpfs becomes full, part of it that isn't needed at the moment is swapped to disk, exactly as if it had been program space. This is

[gentoo-amd64] Recover files on ext4 partition

2009-07-08 Thread Bernhard Auzinger
Hi, does anyone of you have some experience in recovering a wiped out ext4 partition? I accidentially ran mkfs.ext4 on a ext4 partition for which I do not have a backup (I wanted to format sdg but instead I accidentially took sde :( ). Is there a way to recover the data in this case? Rgds

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Recover files on ext4 partition

2009-07-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Bernhard Auzingernordpolcam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, does anyone of you have some experience in recovering a wiped out ext4 partition? I accidentially ran mkfs.ext4 on a ext4 partition for which I do not have a backup (I wanted to format sdg but instead I

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Recover files on ext4 partition

2009-07-08 Thread Duncan
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com posted 58965d8a0907081341i22045daasaef92f2bd21d4...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:41:53 -0500: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Bernhard Auzingernordpolcam...@gmail.com wrote: does anyone of you have some experience in

[gentoo-amd64] Re: latest k3b has no menu entry

2009-07-08 Thread Duncan
Mark Haney mha...@ercbroadband.org posted 4a54bbb9.1080...@ercbroadband.org, excerpted below, on Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:31:05 -0400: I just upgraded to 1.0.5-r5 of k3b and now I have no menu option in Multimedia. Is anyone seeing this as well? Where do I look in KDE4 to fix it? I don't know

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Emerge and Tmpfs

2009-07-08 Thread Duncan
Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com posted fecdbac60907080910p1ac75f11pa686a0bb36dad...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:10:12 +0300: Or at least that's what it did to me last week when I was experimenting something utterly stupid with kernel memory settings on a box with 2GB

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Recover files on ext4 partition

2009-07-08 Thread Duncan
Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net posted pan.2009.07.09.00.51...@cox.net, excerpted below, on Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:51:32 +: Beyond that, I'd suggest contacting the maintainer (Ted Ts'o) himself, or more accurately, the ext4 list (much better than mailing an individual for something like this),