Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root
On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 19:14:36 -0700, Joseph wrote:
If I remove the mounting line from fstab they mount with correct
permission joseph:users but the mount point is reference as UUID and
it makes it hard to reference it in bash scripts.
MOUNTPOINT=$(mount | awk '/^\/dev\/sdb1/ {print $3}')
Then you can let the automounter take care of everything for you. If you
use /etc/fstab, the device is mounted as root, but because you have a
mixture of filesystems you can specify the correct options for one
without breaking another. It is far simpler to let the automounter take
care of all of this and just handle the movable mount point.
There is probably a udisks option that sets the mount point to the device
name rather than the volume name or UUID, good luck finding it :)
--
Neil Bothwick
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[gentoo-user] VMware Workstation environment on Gentoo
Is there some special configuration to make VMware Workstation on gentoo support virtual machines with more than one NIC? No, it just works. I have some windows vms with multiple nics
Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge subtitleeditor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/01/2014 08:02 AM, Gevisz wrote: The subtitleeditor failed to emerge with the message provided below. The required additional information is attached as text files. Any thoughts? Based on 'checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool,' it looks as if you may need to rebuild the perl modules (maybe a recent perl update?). Try using perl-cleaner [1]: perl-cleaner --allmodules -v And then try to emerge subtitleeditor. If that doesn't work, try revdep-rebuild. Hopefully that'll fix your issue :) Regards, Pavel [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/perl/perl-cleaner.xml -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSxEMAAAoJENb1ecI556sujnUQAIXwkvaV53Wq26hX5fLPIYan DnKG8Xiyz6dgnVqeNyUjasNwJOHzsGK+btN+HX6do3xWyqI9ZYkZxovWeIqrSdkp Op0bfHEFBSCEtWS/7glPE4S8JoCkRjni+LGZAYhKW5VjqQfCh4YJkd9odDwE08RM EI5YtMag/vFQviJO1iT/Hs4HE7lrU1W4AsY7Acp+lY4OFvIUB1k3rzkl5rIyE32O yUcwnagMFnTSRjICQttSkEsOaAFNhFCCd9tkBjtQGVAq1siiY+vu996KkAO9BUuY 6pHZZQUnlPKwimSiNFV+U1RDIFrzYYsSBUjwepZ3XWCJ5+y1eqn/X4Dc8nK2dTc0 X5HODAEHCDezqAe4akJQp8HiGfE+sBbwgQ3EPDevBXofdrfFaHJ2mSm/u2WbE2gF MLMe+oTKrGGAs6HaIwDo5bmF7Uw1g6elEkvADRJNSkJQeluzObeEgELori+1y/ij GHUVDaPgxbWXGQre6AFtGGyKobI5aDvFKlqWfOugCF4TTkX97NjbbQ9BvdNZslBJ D0o/YttUGHvxCyiCgs9HPsD86B/hcg+JES9e7fHfVgrd9OaJj/+uHljfdgiY2g8n /53tUOoXlAVHWN/2PWh4iSlwsIsjm9MXnM+f+H9bLYF+/Ia78pEVAQRjH6GpDyHC vHcolg6znsdrCFNxDRx/ =aq4R -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge subtitleeditor
On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 08:32:00 -0800 Pavel Kazakov nullishz...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/01/2014 08:02 AM, Gevisz wrote: The subtitleeditor failed to emerge with the message provided below. The required additional information is attached as text files. Any thoughts? Based on 'checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool,' it looks as if you may need to rebuild the perl modules (maybe a recent perl update?). Try using perl-cleaner [1]: perl-cleaner --allmodules -v And then try to emerge subtitleeditor. If that doesn't work, try revdep-rebuild. Hopefully that'll fix your issue :) Regards, Pavel It indeed worked. Thank you. Details: First, I recalled that I forgot to run revdep-rebuild after the today's world update. So, I ran revdep-rebuild first. It found something broken and recompiled cairo. After that, I tried to emerge subtitleeditor once more but the operation failed with the similar error. Then, I ran perl-cleaner --allmodules -v and, as a result, 83 perl-related packages (including git) were recompiled and that allowed subtitleeditor emerge cleanly.
[gentoo-user] recommendation sought for external disk
My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. The system gets only modest usage. It is powered on about 1/2 the time and the disk often goes significant periods without activity so it spins down. I was considering what seagate calls an expansion hard drive. They are USB 3, but I will be using only USB 2. The desktop is gentoo-only and I don't need any backup software from seagate. The models are STBVx000100 for x=1,2,3,4 TB. I understand the price capacity trade-off, but wonder if anyone has any experience with these drives. Thanks in advance, allan
[gentoo-user] Re: recommendation sought for external disk
On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. Maybe I'm weird or something but I've never once had a hard drive fail gradually/gracefully. They all just stop working, usually when I power the machine on for the first time in the morning. What warning is the disk giving you of early failure?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: recommendation sought for external disk
On Wed, Jan 01 2014, walt wrote: On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. Maybe I'm weird or something but I've never once had a hard drive fail gradually/gracefully. They all just stop working, usually when I power the machine on for the first time in the morning. What warning is the disk giving you of early failure? First it wouldn't mount in during startup. Then I tried switching the USB ports on the desktop and rebooted. It mounted but fsck took forever with pauses. Then I shut down the system and unplugged the drive. allan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: recommendation sought for external disk
gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Wed, Jan 01 2014, walt wrote: On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. Maybe I'm weird or something but I've never once had a hard drive fail gradually/gracefully. They all just stop working, usually when I power the machine on for the first time in the morning. What warning is the disk giving you of early failure? First it wouldn't mount in during startup. Then I tried switching the USB ports on the desktop and rebooted. It mounted but fsck took forever with pauses. Then I shut down the system and unplugged the drive. allan Can you check it with smartmontools? I guess if it can't be mounted tho, it doesn't really matter about the rest. That sort of makes it hard to rescue the data on it. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: recommendation sought for external disk
On Wed, Jan 01 2014, Dale wrote: gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Wed, Jan 01 2014, walt wrote: On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. Maybe I'm weird or something but I've never once had a hard drive fail gradually/gracefully. They all just stop working, usually when I power the machine on for the first time in the morning. What warning is the disk giving you of early failure? First it wouldn't mount in during startup. Then I tried switching the USB ports on the desktop and rebooted. It mounted but fsck took forever with pauses. Then I shut down the system and unplugged the drive. allan Can you check it with smartmontools? I guess if it can't be mounted tho, it doesn't really matter about the rest. That sort of makes it hard to rescue the data on it. Dale The important data on the disk is also on another computer (or two). I do want to buy the replacement disk to again have redundancy. allan
Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation sought for external disk
On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I was considering what seagate calls an expansion hard drive. They are USB 3, but I will be using only USB 2. The desktop is gentoo-only and I don't need any backup software from seagate. The models are STBVx000100 for x=1,2,3,4 TB. I understand the price capacity trade-off, but wonder if anyone has any experience with these drives. Hi Allan, I am currently using 11 of these drives (1TB model; STBV1000100) connected via USB doing daily/weekly backups of infrastructure at work. They're specifically used on mostly Windows servers via WSB. They're written to quite often and have been on 24x7 since last January. I did have a problem with one drive a month in but it was replaced and have had no issues since. Keep in mind these have no on/off switch and are literally an expansiond drive, meant to be on all the time. I've performed test restores to a VM and no issues. Performance is OK even on USB2. I have no complaints on these particular models (other than the lack of a power switch), although I really should have purchased the 2TB models. Oh well. Dan
Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation sought for external disk
On Wed, Jan 01 2014, Daniel Frey wrote: On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I was considering what seagate calls an expansion hard drive. They are USB 3, but I will be using only USB 2. The desktop is gentoo-only and I don't need any backup software from seagate. The models are STBVx000100 for x=1,2,3,4 TB. I understand the price capacity trade-off, but wonder if anyone has any experience with these drives. Hi Allan, I am currently using 11 of these drives (1TB model; STBV1000100) connected via USB doing daily/weekly backups of infrastructure at work. They're specifically used on mostly Windows servers via WSB. They're written to quite often and have been on 24x7 since last January. I did have a problem with one drive a month in but it was replaced and have had no issues since. Keep in mind these have no on/off switch and are literally an expansiond drive, meant to be on all the time. I've performed test restores to a VM and no issues. Performance is OK even on USB2. I have no complaints on these particular models (other than the lack of a power switch), although I really should have purchased the 2TB models. Oh well. Dan Thank you dan. I didn't realize there was no on-off switch. But I assume it (or the driver/controller) will spin it down after prolonged idleness. Also from seagate are back plus drives. The documentation I found on the seagate site was scanty, but I am guessing they are the same as the expansion plus some windows/mac software that I won't use so I was planing on saving the $10. I wonder if they have power switches. Here are the prices seagate lists for some stores (cheapest shown). Backup Expansion Plus 1TB 8090 2TB100 110 3TB120 130 4TB170 180 I am leaning toward the 2TB. Again thanks for the information. allan
