Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate HD drives

2014-09-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, September 12, 2014 09:17:41 PM Joseph wrote: On 09/12/14 23:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:53:19 -0600, Joseph wrote: I have two identical HD in a box and want to duplicate sda to sdb I want sdb to be bootable just in case something happens to sda so I can swap

[gentoo-user] Forcing kmail to always default to NON-html email

2014-09-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
Hi all, I have not been able to find a setting anywhere in KMail to force it to always default to plain-text emails when creating a new email or replying. The few times I actually need html functionality, I prefer to just enable it for that single email. Unfortunately, kmail tends to remember

Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate HD drives

2014-09-13 Thread Kerin Millar
On 13/09/2014 04:17, Joseph wrote: On 09/12/14 23:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:53:19 -0600, Joseph wrote: I have two identical HD in a box and want to duplicate sda to sdb I want sdb to be bootable just in case something happens to sda so I can swap the drives and boot. Do

Re: [gentoo-user] Forcing kmail to always default to NON-html email

2014-09-13 Thread Mick
On Saturday 13 Sep 2014 07:56:50 J. Roeleveld wrote: Hi all, I have not been able to find a setting anywhere in KMail to force it to always default to plain-text emails when creating a new email or replying. The few times I actually need html functionality, I prefer to just enable it for

Re: [gentoo-user] Forcing kmail to always default to NON-html email

2014-09-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 13 September 2014 09:49:19 CEST, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 13 Sep 2014 07:56:50 J. Roeleveld wrote: Hi all, I have not been able to find a setting anywhere in KMail to force it to always default to plain-text emails when creating a new email or replying. The few

[gentoo-user] rebuild /var/db/pkg

2014-09-13 Thread toki clover
Hello, To make a long story short, I've lost db/pkg and I would like to rebuild.it . I only found two vero old posts : one in the forum (from 2007 or something) and another in the intertube by a lost gentoo user. Anyone is aware of some new info about this? Thanks in advance for this.

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild /var/db/pkg

2014-09-13 Thread Emanuele Rusconi
Have you seen this already? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=57911 The last link is still working: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/scripts/regenpkgdb -- Emanuele Rusconi

[gentoo-user] Re: rebuild /var/db/pkg

2014-09-13 Thread toki clover
I forgot to add that I have all the tbz2 tarball with the sources files. I made a little script to populate /var/db/pkg/cat/pkg, remain the specific files related to each pkg. I'm thinking of using ebuild helper with a little script which could decompress the tbz2 to D and then make ebuild merge

[gentoo-user] Re: rebuild /var/db/pkg

2014-09-13 Thread toki clover
Found: I just have to pass emerge -1 -O -gK $pkg and that's all! Lets do something else while waiting emerge to finish...

Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate HD drives

2014-09-13 Thread Joseph
On 09/13/14 08:07, Kerin Millar wrote: On 13/09/2014 04:17, Joseph wrote: On 09/12/14 23:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:53:19 -0600, Joseph wrote: I have two identical HD in a box and want to duplicate sda to sdb I want sdb to be bootable just in case something happens to

Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate HD drives

2014-09-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 13/09/2014 18:31, Joseph wrote: On 09/13/14 08:07, Kerin Millar wrote: On 13/09/2014 04:17, Joseph wrote: On 09/12/14 23:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:53:19 -0600, Joseph wrote: I have two identical HD in a box and want to duplicate sda to sdb I want sdb to be bootable

Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate HD drives

2014-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:52:57 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: If you remove the cunt argument as already mentioned, this will copy the whole drive, but it will be incredibly slow unless you add bs=4k. It also only copies it once, as soon as you start using sda, sdb will be out of date. Set up a

[gentoo-user] Re: duplicate HD drives

2014-09-13 Thread James
Joseph syscon780 at gmail.com writes: I'll be interested in setting up RAID-1. Is it hard? I've never done it and I know there is plenty of information on line about RAID-1 Is it hard to set it UP RAID-1 Joseph, Here is an excellent link for you to read. I'm *NOT* saying use BTRFS, as it

Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate HD drives

2014-09-13 Thread Kerin Millar
On 13/09/2014 17:45, Alan McKinnon wrote: snip If I do: fdisk /dev/sda t 1 fd Won't it destroy data on /dev/sda? No. Although mdadm will. A simple solution is to create the array with only the second disk as the initial member and designate the other device as literally missing. The

Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate HD drives

2014-09-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 13/09/2014 19:38, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:52:57 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: If you remove the cunt argument as already mentioned, this will copy the whole drive, but it will be incredibly slow unless you add bs=4k. It also only copies it once, as soon as you start

Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate HD drives

2014-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 13 September 2014 19:56:06 BST, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/09/2014 19:38, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:52:57 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: If you remove the cunt argument as already mentioned, this will copy the whole drive, but it will be

Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate HD drives

2014-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 13 September 2014 19:56:06 BST, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/09/2014 19:38, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:52:57 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: If you remove the cunt argument as already mentioned, this will copy the whole drive, but it will be

[gentoo-user] Re: 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation

2014-09-13 Thread Hans
On 28/08/14 21:45, Joseph wrote: I need to select 500GB or 1TB infernal 2.5in drive, any recommendation (reliability) of the brand. My current WD 320GB fail after 5-years. Go Samsung actually made by Samsung in Korea or if you can get Hitachi actually made by Hitachi in Japan. Western Digital

[gentoo-user] Re: clone XP-Virtual to a file

2014-09-13 Thread Hans
On 11/09/14 03:37, Joseph wrote: How to close virtualbox machine (windows xp) to a file? I need to transfer it to another box. I made some notes but they are old so I'm not sure if they are applicable or there is an easier way. === 1) Shut down the virtual machine you would like to

Re: [gentoo-user] Forcing kmail to always default to NON-html email

2014-09-13 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Saturday 13 September 2014 9:54:34 AM J. Roeleveld wrote: On 13 September 2014 09:49:19 CEST, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 13 Sep 2014 07:56:50 J. Roeleveld wrote: Hi all, I have not been able to find a setting anywhere in KMail to force it to always default to