[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

2022-11-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2022-11-14, Michael wrote: > Shutting down your desktop applications and rebooting with a new > kernel takes no longer than a couple of minutes. On my systems it typically takes about 15-20 seconds. I try to reboot at least once a month when I have some spare time -- just to make sure I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

2022-11-14 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Monday, 14 November 2022 21:05:57 GMT Dale wrote: > >> Thing is, I may go a year, sometimes more, without updating the kernel. >> If I rebooted often, I could see using a LTS kernel. If a kernel can >> run for months with no problems, it's stable enough for me. Plus my >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

2022-11-14 Thread Wol
On 14/11/2022 21:44, Michael wrote: Shutting down your desktop applications and rebooting with a new kernel takes no longer than a couple of minutes. I mean even busy bank customer web portals have planned downtime. There's a lot more to it than that ... The reason I don't run new kernels

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

2022-11-14 Thread Michael
On Monday, 14 November 2022 21:05:57 GMT Dale wrote: > Thing is, I may go a year, sometimes more, without updating the kernel. > If I rebooted often, I could see using a LTS kernel. If a kernel can > run for months with no problems, it's stable enough for me. Plus my > hardware works. Keeping

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

2022-11-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 2:06 PM Dale wrote: > > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 12/11/2022 23:37, Dale wrote: > >> Usually, I try to update about once a year. I don't change hardware > >> much. > > > > The main reason I suggested LTS is because that, *when* you decide to > > do a @world update,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

2022-11-14 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/11/2022 23:37, Dale wrote: >> Usually, I try to update about once a year.  I don't change hardware >> much. > > The main reason I suggested LTS is because that, *when* you decide to > do a @world update, you will get the latest LTS of the same main > version you're

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

2022-11-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/11/2022 23:37, Dale wrote: Usually, I try to update about once a year.  I don't change hardware much. The main reason I suggested LTS is because that, *when* you decide to do a @world update, you will get the latest LTS of the same main version you're already using. For example you'll

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: e2fsck -c when bad blocks are in existing file?

2022-11-14 Thread Laurence Perkins
> > > -Original Message- > From: Grant Edwards > Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2022 7:55 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: e2fsck -c when bad blocks are in existing file? > > On 2022-11-12, Michael wrote: > > > Have your questions been answered