Re: What is better a 2nd drive for Raid 1 or a backup one?

2019-12-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 28Dec2019 07:32, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2019-12-25 05:51, Cameron Simpson wrote: We keep 2 backups: an "online" one which is updated regularly and an "offline" one which lives in a drawer where accidents won't happen to it. What does "online" (in quotes) mean? Unmounted, but routinely

Re: What is better a 2nd drive for Raid 1 or a backup one?

2019-12-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2019-12-25 05:51, Cameron Simpson wrote: > We keep 2 backups: an "online" one which is updated regularly and an > "offline" one which lives in a drawer where accidents won't happen to it. What does "online" (in quotes) mean? I ask since, until now, I don't recall anyone mentioning the 2

Re: What is better a 2nd drive for Raid 1 or a backup one?

2019-12-27 Thread John M. Harris Jr.
On Thursday, December 26, 2019 11:32:53 AM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 12:48 PM Javier Perez wrote: > > > > > > > Hi > > I have my /home partition on a 2TB HDD drive about half full. Should be > > doing regular backups but not in the habit. > > > > > > > What is better? > >

Re: grub.cfg and kernel video resolution

2019-12-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/27/2019 01:05 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: never encountered sections to man before You'll find a fairly brief explanation of them at the beginning of man's own man page, although it doesn't list what the various sections are for. Generally, of course, you only need to specify

Re: grub.cfg and kernel video resolution

2019-12-27 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 12/24/19 1:47 PM, stan via users wrote: On Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:32:48 -0500 Robert McBroom via users wrote: With the deprecating of the "vga=791" specification, what is the method of passing the video resolution to the kernel in a text mode boot?  The setting in grub.cfg gives the grub menu

Re: Fedora 31: network bridge does not get an IP address

2019-12-27 Thread Mike Wright
On 12/27/19 8:07 AM, Patrick Mansfield wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 07:38:19AM -0800, Mike Wright wrote: On 12/27/19 7:15 AM, Mike Wright wrote: "ip" is your friend.  To rename an interface it must be down.   "ip link set enp4s0 down"   "ip link set enp4s0 name eth0"   "ip link set

Re: Fedora 31: network bridge does not get an IP address

2019-12-27 Thread Patrick Mansfield
On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 07:38:19AM -0800, Mike Wright wrote: > On 12/27/19 7:15 AM, Mike Wright wrote: > > "ip" is your friend.  To rename an interface it must be down. > > > >   "ip link set enp4s0 down" > >   "ip link set enp4s0 name eth0" > >   "ip link set eth0 up" When and how can that

Re: Fedora 31: network bridge does not get an IP address

2019-12-27 Thread Mike Wright
On 12/27/19 7:15 AM, Mike Wright wrote: On 12/26/19 5:21 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 12/26/19 4:47 PM, Patrick Mansfield wrote: The bridge is supposed to bridge enp4s0 (it was being named lan1 prior to the upgrade to F31) and enp6s1 (was lan2 prior to F31 upgrade). The messages are for my

Re: Upgraded F31 system still believes it is living in the past, on F30!

2019-12-27 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 27 Dec 2019 13:23:12 +0100 Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 26 Dec 2019 19:58:45 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Thanks for pointing this out. Actually, I tried installing the RPMs but got > > the message that all of them were installed So, I reinstalled > > > > sudo dnf reinstall >

Re: Fedora 31: network bridge does not get an IP address

2019-12-27 Thread Mike Wright
On 12/26/19 5:21 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 12/26/19 4:47 PM, Patrick Mansfield wrote: The bridge is supposed to bridge enp4s0 (it was being named lan1 prior to the upgrade to F31) and enp6s1 (was lan2 prior to F31 upgrade). The messages are for my enp4s0, but it has no IP address. This is

Re: Upgraded F31 system still believes it is living in the past, on F30!

2019-12-27 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 26 Dec 2019 19:58:45 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Thanks for pointing this out. Actually, I tried installing the RPMs but got > the message that all of them were installed So, I reinstalled > > sudo dnf reinstall >