Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 07:59:43AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-06-08 07:45, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 6/7/20 2:52 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> On Sun, 2020-06-07 at 14:07 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > >>> An inode is the chunk of metadata in the filesystem that describes a > >>> file. 

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

On 2020-06-08 07:45, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 6/7/20 2:52 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Sun, 2020-06-07 at 14:07 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> An inode is the chunk of metadata in the filesystem that describes a >>> file.  You could think of it simply as a directory entry, but it's more >>>

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

On 6/7/20 2:52 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2020-06-07 at 14:07 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: An inode is the chunk of metadata in the filesystem that describes a file. You could think of it simply as a directory entry, but it's more complicated than that. Sorry to be That Guy, but an

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

On Sun, 2020-06-07 at 14:07 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > An inode is the chunk of metadata in the filesystem that describes a > file. You could think of it simply as a directory entry, but it's more > complicated than that. Sorry to be That Guy, but an inode is definitely not a directory entry,

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

On 6/7/20 10:42 AM, Beartooth wrote: On a System76 PC several years old, running F32 fully updated (not Ubuntu), I see the following: $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev tmpfs

Re: Installing new SSD drive

John Mellor kirjoitti 7.6.2020 klo 15.09: Just out of interest, why do you care about wear from using swap? What I was trying to get across is just the opposite. To quote myself from my previous email, "I really would not worry about putting swap on an SSD". -- Terveisin / Regards, Matti

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 10:58:57 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > The file is probably sparse, i.e. it is only as large as the usage > which, at the moment, is 174M. Enough snapshots and it could eventually > grow to a max of 1.8T. OK, even I should know, but if I do I don't remember: how,

Re: Media writer/USB Flash -

On 6/7/20 11:33 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Interesting. I remember that gparted had exfat greyed out and at that time vfat32 looked like the best option and I used that, However I later simply used mkfs -t vfat. The stick I had was a new 64 GB and originally showed 64 in my Thunar file manager

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

On 6/7/20 10:31 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: It was apparently something to do with selinux. I usually disable selinux as the first or second thing I do to a new install. I forgot to do that. That should never be necessary. A quick edit to /etc/selinux/config and a reboot solved removed the

Re: Media writer/USB Flash -

On 2020-06-07 10:33, George N. White III wrote: On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 at 04:00, Samuel Sieb > wrote: FAT32 is the usual portable filesystem. FAT32 is the current usual but "future *has been*" portable filesystem.    FAT32 doesn't allocate partial blocks, so a

Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

On 6/7/20 10:42 AM, Beartooth wrote: On a System76 PC several years old, running F32 fully updated (not Ubuntu), I see the following: $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev tmpfs

What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

On a System76 PC several years old, running F32 fully updated (not Ubuntu), I see the following: $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev/shm

Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 10:30:04 -0600 Jerry James wrote On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 9:54 PM R. G. Newbury wrote: > Brand new Fedora 32 KDE spin installation. Seems to work nicely, except: > > I have an error notification popping up, every hour, in the bottom right > corner of the screen: > > Plasma

system-config-kickstart

I don't need to use system-config-kickstart very often, but I do tend to recommend it to colleagues who are starting out automating setup processes. I've just noticed for the first time that the package is no longer available, because it was never ported to Python 3/GTK 3:

Re: Media writer/USB Flash -

On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 at 04:00, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > FAT32 is the usual portable filesystem. > FAT32 is the current usual but "future *has been*" portable filesystem.FAT32 doesn't allocate partial blocks, so a direct copy of some linux directory often results in a very large loss of free

Re: Installing new SSD drive

On 2020-06-06 12:28 p.m., Matti Pulkkinen wrote: Sam Varshavchik kirjoitti 6.6.2020 klo 17.37: I've got rust here that's been spinning for ~12 years in my basement, 24x7, and I expect it to spin for a while longer. I can't quite come to terms with the idea of storage with a suicide clock,

Re: Media writer/USB Flash -

On 2020-06-07 03:00, Samuel Sieb wrote: Media writer might just be dumping the iso onto the drive.  In that case it's read-only because the iso filesystem is read-only. You need to reformat it to be able to write. I prefer to use the cli tool livecd-iso-to-disk which unpacks the iso and

Re: Media writer/USB Flash -

Bob Goodwin: >> Also what file system should I use from the selection offered by >> gparted? Today I tried "vfat32". Later changed that to "vfat" >> with mkfs, but I'm never sure what I should use. Samuel Sieb: > FAT32 is the usual portable filesystem. Don't you still get file size limits with

Re: Media writer/USB Flash -

On 6/6/20 5:06 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2020-06-06 18:27, Samuel Sieb wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by "read-only files".  But you should be able to use any partition editor to delete whatever partitions are there and create new ones.  gparted, gnome-disks, fdisk, etc. __ ° If I use