Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 12:12:07AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote > You can disagree as much as you like, but with the size of drives and > the current error rate of consumer hard drives it is not a question of > 'if' but just a matter of 'when'. It's not just the drive; it's the entire PC.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

On 08/09/2016 00:12, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 07.09.2016 um 08:18 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 07/09/2016 01:57, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 01.09.2016 um 11:01 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 01/09/2016 09:18, gevisz wrote: 2016-09-01 9:13 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon :

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

Am 07.09.2016 um 08:18 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On 07/09/2016 01:57, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> Am 01.09.2016 um 11:01 schrieb Alan McKinnon: >>> On 01/09/2016 09:18, gevisz wrote: 2016-09-01 9:13 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon : > On 01/09/2016 08:04, gevisz wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Wastebin or trash?

On Wednesday 07 Sep 2016 20:51:51 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 07/09/2016 19:53, Simon Thelen wrote: > > On 16-09-07 at 18:41, Mick wrote: > >> On Thursday 08 Sep 2016 00:47:13 Andrew Lowe wrote: > >>> On 07/09/16 23:45, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > As I said in the "emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: Wastebin or trash?

On 2016-09-07, Simon Thelen wrote: > IMAP itself does not have a concept of "Trash", the creation of such > a mailbox is the prerogative of the client (unless the server itself > feels that the imap client doesn't know what it's doing and moves > deleted emails into a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help! IP blocking not working

On 07/09/2016 18:39, Grant wrote: >> Hi, my site is being ravaged by an IP but dropping the IP via >> shorewall is seeming to have no effect. I'm using his IP from nginx >> logs. IP blocking in shorewall has always worked before. What could >> be happening? > > > I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Wastebin or trash?

On 07/09/2016 19:53, Simon Thelen wrote: > On 16-09-07 at 18:41, Mick wrote: >> On Thursday 08 Sep 2016 00:47:13 Andrew Lowe wrote: >>> On 07/09/16 23:45, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, As I said in the "emerge @system" thread, I've built a fresh ~amd64 system on this i7

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 2:25 PM, gevisz wrote: > > What you have just said implies that I had not had a problem > booting the system after adding a new drive had I used initramfs > correctly. Well, I do agree that, after loading the initramfs, the system > may find the kernel to

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-07 16:19 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : > On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 7:57 AM, gevisz wrote: >> 2016-09-07 12:36 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : >>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: grub-mkconfig is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Wastebin or trash?

On 16-09-07 at 18:41, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 08 Sep 2016 00:47:13 Andrew Lowe wrote: > > On 07/09/16 23:45, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > As I said in the "emerge @system" thread, I've built a fresh ~amd64 system > > > on this i7 box. I also created a new user directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB crucial file recovery

Is there a filesystem that will make that unnecessary and exhibit better reliability than NTFS? >>> >>> >>> Yes, FAT. It works and works well. >>> Or exFAT which is Microsoft's solution to the problem of very large >>> files on FAT. >> >> >> FAT32 won't work for me since I need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help! IP blocking not working

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Grant wrote: > > I said I was under attack but it was really just an unthrottled and > very greedy bot. fail2ban would have gotten him. But while we're on > the subject, how would you recommend thwarting a DDoS attack against a > dedicated

Re: [gentoo-user] Wastebin or trash?

On Thursday 08 Sep 2016 00:47:13 Andrew Lowe wrote: > On 07/09/16 23:45, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > As I said in the "emerge @system" thread, I've built a fresh ~amd64 system > > on this i7 box. I also created a new user directory for myself, copying in > > only .bash*,

Re: [gentoo-user] Wastebin or trash?

On 07/09/16 23:45, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, As I said in the "emerge @system" thread, I've built a fresh ~amd64 system on this i7 box. I also created a new user directory for myself, copying in only .bash*, .gkrellm2 and .mozilla. After spending a good long time setting up KDE and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help! IP blocking not working

> Hi, my site is being ravaged by an IP but dropping the IP via > shorewall is seeming to have no effect. I'm using his IP from nginx > logs. IP blocking in shorewall has always worked before. What could > be happening? I'm blocking like this with the firewall

[gentoo-user] Wastebin or trash?

Hello list, As I said in the "emerge @system" thread, I've built a fresh ~amd64 system on this i7 box. I also created a new user directory for myself, copying in only .bash*, .gkrellm2 and .mozilla. After spending a good long time setting up KDE and friends just the way I like them, the one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help! IP blocking not working

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Grant wrote: Hi, my site is being ravaged by an IP but dropping the IP via shorewall is seeming to have no effect. I'm using his IP from nginx logs. IP blocking in shorewall has always worked before. What could be

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 7:57 AM, gevisz wrote: > 2016-09-07 12:36 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : >> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >>> >>> grub-mkconfig is not finding an initramfs, as evidenced by the lack of >>> an "initrd"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help! IP blocking not working

>>> Hi, my site is being ravaged by an IP but dropping the IP via >>> shorewall is seeming to have no effect. I'm using his IP from nginx >>> logs. IP blocking in shorewall has always worked before. What could >>> be happening? >> >> >> I'm blocking like this with the firewall running on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

gevisz wrote: > So, the question remains: why not to desing the GRUB in such a way > that it could look for the boot partition by its UUID on any available > hard drives? Why don't you ask to the GRUB designers? This is a GENTOO mailing list. raffaele

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-07 12:36 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> >> grub-mkconfig is not finding an initramfs, as evidenced by the lack of >> an "initrd" in in grub.cfg. >> >> If it is unable to find an initramfs, it will

[gentoo-user] Re: [Solved but ...] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-07 11:40 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 09:22:59 +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> After many attempts, I finally managed to boot with the new drive >> attached manually editing the above entry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg >> 1) deleting the root=UUID=44*** part of

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > grub-mkconfig is not finding an initramfs, as evidenced by the lack of > an "initrd" in in grub.cfg. > > If it is unable to find an initramfs, it will always output > root=/dev/sdX instead of root=UUID=... > For

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 09:22:59 +0300, gevisz wrote: > After many attempts, I finally managed to boot with the new drive > attached manually editing the above entry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg > 1) deleting the root=UUID=44*** part of its line (which probably means > that adding

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

On 07/09/2016 08:22, gevisz wrote: > 3) changing hd1 and ahci1 throughout the entry to hd3 and ahci3 > (currently I am not sure about the last number but will find it > out in the next boots) > wich is strange as BIOS reports that the boot disk sits on the > 0th IDE chanel and >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-07 1:03 GMT+03:00 gevisz : > 2016-09-07 0:32 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : >> On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 00:05:32 +0300, gevisz wrote: >> >>> >> But it seems that GRUB does not read fstab... :( >>> > >>> > It does not, because it has not loaded the kernel yet, so

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

On 07/09/2016 01:57, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 01.09.2016 um 11:01 schrieb Alan McKinnon: >> On 01/09/2016 09:18, gevisz wrote: >>> 2016-09-01 9:13 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon : On 01/09/2016 08:04, gevisz wrote: >> [snip] >> it will take about 5 seconds to