Re: housekeeping

2022-12-28 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/28/2022 6:34 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:20:57 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote: Just because they are a cache doesn't mean they are necessarily safe to delete while running. Most applications take care of managing their cache files. I used to try and deal with avoiding

Re: Help Needed Identifying a File and a Security Failure on it.

2022-12-28 Thread Stephen Morris
On 25/12/22 00:11, Tim via users wrote: Tim: You could use the file, less, cat, or hexdump commands. "file" would try to identify it, the others will just show you the contentsĀ for you to try and identify it. If it's zero bytes in size, the system is probably just using the name of the file,

Re: housekeeping

2022-12-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:20:57 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote: > Just because they are a cache doesn't mean they are necessarily safe to > delete while running. Most applications take care of managing their > cache files. I used to try and deal with avoiding backups of "unimportant" stuff until I

Re: housekeeping

2022-12-28 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/28/22 14:45, Bill Cunningham wrote: What files are basically safe to remove because they are caches and such? There is the invisible file .cache. And the /var/cache. The files in /tmp are these safe to delete? Are there any other files you can delete? For example if you were using rsync,

housekeeping

2022-12-28 Thread Bill Cunningham
What files are basically safe to remove because they are caches and such? There is the invisible file .cache. And the /var/cache. The files in /tmp are these safe to delete? Are there any other files you can delete? For example if you were using rsync, what file would you not want to backup,

Re: /run/media

2022-12-28 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/28/2022 02:41 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Just for info, the mounting of the removable device under /run/media/ is not Gnome specific it is also done that way under KDE, so from that I would assume it is system wide. Xfce as well. ___ users

Re: /run/media

2022-12-28 Thread Stephen Morris
On 28/12/22 12:43, Amadeus WM via users wrote: It looks like if you add it to /etc/fstab, then Gnome auto-mounting won't touch it. Confirmed! Works like a charm, thank you very much! Just for info, the mounting of the removable device under /run/media/ is not Gnome specific it is also done

Re: Upgrade to F37 didn't start

2022-12-28 Thread Andreas Fournier
On Wed, 2022-12-28 at 12:03 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 11:54 AM Andreas Fournier > wrote: > > > > I thought it would be time to give Fedora 37 a test, so in Gnome > > Software I initiated the upgrade. It downloaded a lot of stuff and > > when > > that was done I

Re: time for a new lenovo 12" notebook

2022-12-28 Thread Barry Scott
On 28/12/2022 16:38, George N. White III wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 5:48 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: Time to install Fedora37 and on what? I have a Lenovo x140e upgraded with 16Gb mem (even though spec says 8Gb max) and 500GB SSD, but I am looking for something perhaps

Re: time for a new lenovo 12" notebook

2022-12-28 Thread Dorian ROSSE
I was bought a ThinkPad x250 for keep a little screen unfortunately this isn't for handyman because I had a IBM for it add-in card becoming too much older after the lose of the family of processors i386 Dorian Rosse. From: George N. White III Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Upgrade to F37 didn't start

2022-12-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 11:54 AM Andreas Fournier wrote: > > I thought it would be time to give Fedora 37 a test, so in Gnome > Software I initiated the upgrade. It downloaded a lot of stuff and when > that was done I pressed on the 'Restart & Upgrade' button. Then I got a > popup that I had

Upgrade to F37 didn't start

2022-12-28 Thread Andreas Fournier
I thought it would be time to give Fedora 37 a test, so in Gnome Software I initiated the upgrade. It downloaded a lot of stuff and when that was done I pressed on the 'Restart & Upgrade' button. Then I got a popup that I had incompatible software, the python3-argh package. I thought I would just

Re: time for a new lenovo 12" notebook

2022-12-28 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 5:48 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Time to install Fedora37 and on what? > > I have a Lenovo x140e upgraded with 16Gb mem (even though spec says 8Gb > max) and 500GB SSD, but I am looking for something perhaps newer and > perhaps won't hang at times. > > Requirements are: