Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 20:42:56 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: What is the best line for /etc/fstab ? The only example I have is : 'tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0' This doesn't seem to limit the size in any way. man mount explains it all, but the option you want is size, which

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Philip Webb
120905 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 20:42:56 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: What is the best line for /etc/fstab ? The only example I have is : 'tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0' This doesn't seem to limit the size in any way. 'man mount' explains it all ... Well, it

[gentoo-user] GSSIAPIKeyExchange is not supportd on OpenSSH_5.9p1

2012-09-05 Thread Ali Gholami
Hi everyone, I have installed latest version of Kerberos Heimdal 5.1.2 with openssh version 5.9p1 but when I try to login to a remote host using ssh I get an error: - .ssh/config: Bad configuration option: GSSAPIKeyExchange - Any thoughts how to fix this error? Thanks in advance! Ali

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 05 September 2012 10:02:49 Philip Webb wrote: 120905 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 20:42:56 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: What is the best line for /etc/fstab ? The only example I have is : 'tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0' This doesn't seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 05:02:49 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 'man mount' explains it all ... Well, it outlines it (smile). :-) I'll rephrase that: 'man mount' explains it all, for small values of all. ... but the option you want is size, which defaults to 50 % . That looks ok : I

Re: [gentoo-user] GSSIAPIKeyExchange is not supportd on OpenSSH_5.9p1

2012-09-05 Thread Eray Aslan
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Ali Gholami ghol...@kth.se wrote: .ssh/config: Bad configuration option: GSSAPIKeyExchange That config option needs a separate patch which has been around for ages but upstream OpenSSH maintainers are being an arse^H^H^H^H uncooperative. Sadly, Gentoo decided

Re: [gentoo-user] Weather thingy using up my network, ALL THE TIME.

2012-09-05 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 08:56:27PM -0500, Dale wrote: Well, I removed it but it seemed it was still there somewhere. I found out a while back that sometimes a little applet whatyoumacallit can get stuck behind another one. Yep, I actually seen that once a while back. I added a applet and

Re: [gentoo-user] Weather thingy using up my network, ALL THE TIME.

2012-09-05 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 08:56:27PM -0500, Dale wrote: Well, I removed it but it seemed it was still there somewhere. I found out a while back that sometimes a little applet whatyoumacallit can get stuck behind another one. Yep, I actually seen that once a while

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2012 10:02:49 Philip Webb wrote: 120905 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 20:42:56 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: What is the best line for /etc/fstab ? The only example I have is : 'tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0' This

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 05 September 2012 12:07:13 Dale wrote: I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages work directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the difference in compile times is just not there. Yes, I'd forgotten that. I just haven't got round to changing

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2012 12:07:13 Dale wrote: I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages work directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the difference in compile times is just not there. Yes, I'd forgotten that. I just haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 06:07:13 -0500, Dale wrote: I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages work directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the difference in compile times is just not there. Probably because with 16GB everything stays cached anyway. --

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 06:07:13 -0500, Dale wrote: I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages work directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the difference in compile times is just not there. Probably because with 16GB everything stays

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Adam Carter
I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages work directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the difference in compile times is just not there. Probably because with 16GB everything stays cached anyway. Would it still be useful to use tmpfs if you wanted to

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 05 September 2012 13:02:01 Dale wrote: I find that after a big update, like KDE, it helps to defrag /usr. Interesting. I've just run sudo e4defrag -c /usr and got a fragmentation of zero. That's after upgrading KDE last week. Then I ran it on all the nine ext4 partitions here and

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:52:45 -0500, Dale wrote: I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages work directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the difference in compile times is just not there. Probably because with 16GB everything stays cached anyway.

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:52:45 -0500, Dale wrote: I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages work directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the difference in compile times is just

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 05.09.2012 14:55, schrieb Adam Carter: I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages work directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the difference in compile times is just not there. Probably because with 16GB everything stays cached anyway. Would it

[gentoo-user] genkernel examples supporting RAID[4,5,6,10,...]?

2012-09-05 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm sort of glazing over falling asleep trying to understand the Gentoo genkernel Wiki page. This is not critical time-wise. I'm just curious about what genkernel could do in terms of creating a kernel an initramfs for a root partition on RAID 1 and metadata 0.9. I've done this in the

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel examples supporting RAID[4,5,6,10,...]?

2012-09-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm sort of glazing over falling asleep trying to understand the Gentoo genkernel Wiki page. This is not critical time-wise. I'm just curious about what genkernel could do in terms of creating a kernel an

Aw: Re: [gentoo-user] dm-crypt + ext4 = where will the journal go?

2012-09-05 Thread Roland Häder
To add my 2:All you need is build initram and pass it as a argument to pre configured kernel (with needed encryption and hash algorithms built in) Initram scripts are on github here https://github.com/tokiclover/mkinitramfs-ll Can I also use dracut? Or wont it setup initrd? I I didnt setup LVM

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel examples supporting RAID[4,5,6,10,...]?

2012-09-05 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 05.09.2012 17:39, schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi, I'm sort of glazing over falling asleep trying to understand the Gentoo genkernel Wiki page. This is not critical time-wise. I'm just curious about what genkernel could do in terms of creating a kernel an initramfs for a root partition on

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] dm-crypt + ext4 = where will the journal go?

2012-09-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Roland Häder r.hae...@web.de wrote: To add my 2¢: All you need is build initram and pass it as a argument to pre configured kernel (with needed encryption and hash algorithms built in) Initram scripts are on github here

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel examples supporting RAID[4,5,6,10,...]?

2012-09-05 Thread Michael Hampicke
Last thing you need to do is pass the domdadm kernel parameter in your bootloader. With grub to you just edit /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=domdadm I meant grub2

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 5. September 2012, 09:23:58 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 20:42:56 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: What is the best line for /etc/fstab ? The only example I have is : 'tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0' This doesn't seem to limit the size in any way.

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:30:24 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: man mount explains it all, but the option you want is size, which defaults to 50%. I use 80% which is what gives the somewhat odd size of 13GB. This is based on physical RAM, but tmpfs will use swap if there is not enough

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:52:45 -0500, Dale wrote: I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages work directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the difference in compile

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2012 13:02:01 Dale wrote: I find that after a big update, like KDE, it helps to defrag /usr. Interesting. I've just run sudo e4defrag -c /usr and got a fragmentation of zero. That's after upgrading KDE last week. Then I ran it on all the nine

Aw: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] dm-crypt + ext4 = where will the journal go?

2012-09-05 Thread Roland Häder
dracut and genkernel will both set up initrd. Okay, thank you. :) Now I hang with this: --- Emerging (1 of 203) dev-db/oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.3-r1 * Fetching files in the background. To view fetch progress, run * `tail -f

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2012 13:02:01 Dale wrote: I find that after a big update, like KDE, it helps to defrag /usr. Interesting. I've just run sudo e4defrag -c /usr and got a fragmentation of zero.

[gentoo-user] Kleopatra-4.4.11.1 segfaults

2012-09-05 Thread Mick
I just noticed that Kleopatra segfaults. Before I start rebuilding blindly, this is what it shows on the terminal: == $ kleopatra Statup timing: 0 ms elapsed: Command line args created QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I have to say that here, it is not a whole lot of fragmentation but it does seem a bit faster afterwards. I guess it depends on what is fragmented and such. I sometimes wonder if it defrags itself. Even

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I have to say that here, it is not a whole lot of fragmentation but it does seem a bit faster afterwards. I guess it depends on what is

[gentoo-user] Fix for getting libxml2 compiled!

2012-09-05 Thread Roland Häder
Hi all, I finally got libxml2 compiled, first I had to do this: # emerge expat # emerge python # cd /usr/portage/dev-lang/python/ # emerge python-2.7.3-r2.ebuild # cd - This makes sure that libexpat is there. Now the package is still not compiling because of a missing .so file, see this: # cd

Re: [gentoo-user] dm-crypt + ext4 = where will the journal go?

2012-09-05 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 05.09.2012 20:18, schrieb Roland Häder: dracut and genkernel will both set up initrd. Okay, thank you. :) Now I hang with this: --- Emerging (1 of 203) dev-db/oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.3-r1 * Fetching files in the background. To view

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 05 September 2012 21:46:59 Dale wrote: So, I find it funny that they make a tool that really isn't needed very much. :/ Call it belt-and-braces if you like. (That's UK braces, which I think are US suspenders.) -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:54:51 -0500, Dale wrote: I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages work directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the difference in compile times is just not there. Probably because with 16GB everything stays cached anyway.