Re: disk geometry (i386/amd64)

2018-09-10 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Mon, 10 Sep 2018 17:37:53 -0700 From:Don NetBSD Message-ID: | So, I can use the 'd' partition to access the medium (after unlocking the label | portion). But, I can't count on anything else "displayed" by disklabel. And, | I can't count on even the

Re: disk geometry (i386/amd64)

2018-09-10 Thread Don NetBSD
On 9/9/2018 10:26 PM, Michael van Elst wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 05:49:15PM -0700, Don NetBSD wrote: On 9/9/2018 1:52 PM, Michael van Elst wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 12:08:14PM -0700, Don NetBSD wrote: Said another way, are these "in-kernel" values (which no longer reflect the

Re: disk geometry (i386/amd64)

2018-09-10 Thread Don NetBSD
On 9/10/2018 11:33 AM, Mike Pumford wrote: On 10/09/2018 01:49, Don NetBSD wrote: I'm not concerned with automatically detecting insertion/removal; that's the job that the operator performs (above) -- along with the tagging of the media, etc. I've done a lot of work with SAS disk enclosures

Re: disk geometry (i386/amd64)

2018-09-10 Thread Mike Pumford
On 10/09/2018 01:49, Don NetBSD wrote: I'm not concerned with automatically detecting insertion/removal; that's the job that the operator performs (above) -- along with the tagging of the media, etc. I've done a lot of work with SAS disk enclosures that support SES. They often have an SES

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-10 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Thomas Mueller wrote in <20180909071938.644bfa7...@mail.duskware.de>: .. |I didn't know about i3-gaps but now see it in FreeBSD ports but not pkgsrc. Thing is also, you seem to have super-duper boxes whereas i am happy to have tinyc in order to develop my little MUA and not more than that

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-10 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Thomas Mueller wrote in <20180908132956.6a9dea7...@mail.duskware.de>: |from Pedro Pinho: | |> Here's a complete list of WM's for *nix systems |> https://www.gilesorr.com/wm/table.html | |> What exactly do you mean with " I tried awesome some years ago, but the |> "awesome"

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-10 Thread Patrick Welche
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 05:01:41PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote: > Not as fun as I had hoped! It has been a while since the last round, and I > wondered, given an ideal world with infinite developer time and full > documentation, with just an eye on correctness, what current views were on: > > *