Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-26 Thread Adam Carter
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 8:57 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I have an external USB-3 drive with various system backups. There are 350 > .tar > files (not .tar.gz etc.), amounting to 2.5TB. I was sure I wouldn't need > to > compress them, so I didn't, but now I think I'm going to have

Re: [gentoo-user] Chrome - no system title bar or boarders

2021-09-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021, 8:19 AM Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 09:53:57AM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > > > Starting yesterday morning both of my KDE machines no longer show a > system > > title bar or border for Chrome, and only Chrome. All other apps are fine. > > Right

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-09-26 Thread Dale
Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 6:24 PM antlists wrote: > Hello, Wol and Dale >> When you rebuild it, get a surge protector and then put a UPS behind >> that ... snag is that's all extra expense :-( >> > Surge protectors: I googled it and mostly got bad reviews. Do they >

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-09-26 Thread Wols Lists
On 26/09/2021 22:22, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 6:24 PM antlists wrote: Hello, Wol and Dale When you rebuild it, get a surge protector and then put a UPS behind that ... snag is that's all extra expense :-( Surge protectors: I googled it and mostly got bad reviews. Do

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-09-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 6:24 PM antlists wrote: > Hello, Wol and Dale > When you rebuild it, get a surge protector and then put a UPS behind > that ... snag is that's all extra expense :-( > Surge protectors: I googled it and mostly got bad reviews. Do they _really_work? What would you

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-09-26 Thread Dale
antlists wrote: > On 26/09/2021 13:36, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>> Sure enough, the patch was succesful. Unfortunately, I cannot test it, >>> because my computer is out of luck (big thunderstorm, crappy power >>> provider, not-so-smart owner). > >> I'm sorry to hear it.  I'm sure you've done it

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-26 Thread antlists
On 26/09/2021 16:38, Peter Humphrey wrote: Or, I could connect a second USB-3 drive to a different interface, then read from one and write to the other, with or without the SATA between. If you've got a second drive, consider changing your strategy ... First of all, you want eSATA or USB3 for

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-09-26 Thread antlists
On 26/09/2021 13:36, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Sure enough, the patch was succesful. Unfortunately, I cannot test it, because my computer is out of luck (big thunderstorm, crappy power provider, not-so-smart owner). I'm sorry to hear it. I'm sure you've done it already, but get a decent backup

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 26 September 2021 13:25:24 BST Ramon Fischer wrote: > Addendum: > > To complete the list. Here the parallel implementation of "lzip": > > "plzip": https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html > > -Ramon > > On 26/09/2021 14:23, Ramon Fischer wrote: > > In addition to this, you may

Re: [gentoo-user] Chrome - no system title bar or boarders

2021-09-26 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 09:53:57AM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Starting yesterday morning both of my KDE machines no longer show a system > title bar or border for Chrome, and only Chrome. All other apps are fine. > Right clicking the Chrome tab area has a checkbox for 'Use system title bar >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to control 'configure' options for slrn?

2021-09-26 Thread Anna “CyberTailor”
net-nntp/slrn is a proxy-maint package so feel free to either contact its maintainer or submit improvements by yourself. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers/User_Guide#How_to_submit_package_updates

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-09-26 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Jorge. On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 23:44:51 +, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 5:29 PM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Alan > > > $ patch -p0 <../patch_for_5.14.diff > > > patching file ./drivers/tty/vt/vt.c > > > Hunk #1 FAILED at 3208. > > > 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED --

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-26 Thread Ramon Fischer
Addendum: To complete the list. Here the parallel implementation of "lzip": "plzip": https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html -Ramon On 26/09/2021 14:23, Ramon Fischer wrote: In addition to this, you may want to use the parallel implementations of "gzip", "xz", "bzip2" or the new "zstd"

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-26 Thread Ramon Fischer
In addition to this, you may want to use the parallel implementations of "gzip", "xz", "bzip2" or the new "zstd" (zstandard), which are "pigz"[1], "pixz"[2], "pbzip2"[3], or "zstmt" (within package "app-arch/zstd")[4] in order to increase performance: $ cd $ for tar_archive in *.tar;

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-26 Thread Simon Thelen
[2021-09-26 11:57] Peter Humphrey > part text/plain 382 > Hello list, Hi, > I have an external USB-3 drive with various system backups. There are 350 .tar > files (not .tar.gz etc.), amounting to 2.5TB. I was sure I wouldn't need to > compress them, so I didn't, but now I

[gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I have an external USB-3 drive with various system backups. There are 350 .tar files (not .tar.gz etc.), amounting to 2.5TB. I was sure I wouldn't need to compress them, so I didn't, but now I think I'm going to have to. Is there a reasonably efficient way to do this? I have 500GB