[gentoo-user] Backing up KDE config files

2022-04-05 Thread Dale
Howdy, As some know, I've rearranged some hard drives and data recently.  Got the data moved into the new places.  Given those changes, I'm also having to adjust my backups as well.  Before, I just backed up /home/dale and told rsync to exclude a few large directories that needed to be stored on o

[gentoo-user] LVM and the /usr Logical Volume

2022-04-05 Thread dhk
My new laptop is set up to dual boot and has a clean Gentoo install as the second operating system.  It looks like there may be an issue with the /usr Logical Volume (LV) somewhere between LVM, initramfs and udev.  Only the base system has been installed and updated (no desktop). The issue is

RE: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-04-05 Thread Laurence Perkins
> -Original Message- > From: Rich Freeman > Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2022 11:59 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 11:10 AM Wols Lists wrote: > > > > I don't know how you take advantage of it, but li

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-04-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 11:10 AM Wols Lists wrote: > > I don't know how you take advantage of it, but linux by default caches > disk i/o. You can tell it to "don't cache" and apparently it makes a > major difference. Given that rsync reads once and then never uses it > again, you don't want it cach

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-04-05 Thread Wols Lists
On 05/04/2022 14:58, Laurence Perkins wrote: -Original Message- From: Dale Sent: Monday, April 4, 2022 4:37 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around One thing that annoys me, it trying to use swap. I don't want to disable it becaus

RE: [SUSPECTED SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Choose a wireless access point

2022-04-05 Thread Laurence Perkins
> -Original Message- > From: William Kenworthy > Sent: Monday, April 4, 2022 8:05 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [SUSPECTED SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Choose a wireless access point > > > On 4/4/22 23:12, Jack wrote: > > On 4/4/22 01:31, William Kenworthy wrote: > >> Is t

RE: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-04-05 Thread Laurence Perkins
>-Original Message- >From: Dale >Sent: Monday, April 4, 2022 4:37 PM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around > > >One thing that annoys me, it trying to use swap. I don't want to disable it >because on occasion Firefox goes nuts and st

Re: [gentoo-user] Choose a wireless access point

2022-04-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On 5/4/22 16:05, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 5 April 2022 08:46:52 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 11:16:10 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: On 5/4/22 07:09, Michael wrote: On Monday, 4 April 2022 16:12:53 BST Jack wrote: On 4/4/22 01:31, William Kenworthy wrote: Is there a way f

Re: [gentoo-user] Choose a wireless access point

2022-04-05 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 5 April 2022 08:46:52 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 11:16:10 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > > On 5/4/22 07:09, Michael wrote: > > > On Monday, 4 April 2022 16:12:53 BST Jack wrote: > > >> On 4/4/22 01:31, William Kenworthy wrote: > > >>> Is there a way force openrc an

Re: [gentoo-user] Choose a wireless access point

2022-04-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 11:16:10 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > On 5/4/22 07:09, Michael wrote: > > On Monday, 4 April 2022 16:12:53 BST Jack wrote: > >> On 4/4/22 01:31, William Kenworthy wrote: > >>> Is there a way force openrc and wpa_supplicant to map a particular > >>> access point to an in