Re: Koffice in KDE-4.2.2

2009-04-08 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 06:54:02PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hello pple, I installed KDE-4.2.2 but I cannot see the office apps. What am I missing? The Koffice version for KDE-4 is still in beta. Looking at

Re: Mysql make question

2009-04-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 02:30:03 Lars Eighner wrote: On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Dave Stegner wrote: I am venturing into Mysql. I am trying to install it from the port, 5.1.33. Simple question: Immediately after the start of make, you are presented with a list of options. Are those

Re: Copying files without scp

2009-04-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 01:31:18 Steve Bertrand wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: On Apr 7, 2009, at 16:13, Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi all, To copy data from one server, I normally (always) use scp. I'm looking for a method to perform this copy task without the overhead of encryption for

Re: make, list and M pattern

2009-04-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 21:54:13 Boris Samorodov wrote: Hello List, I need to create a list with some valid values and check an input value. Should this makefile work? - LIST=f8 f9 all: @echo USE_LINUX=${USE_LINUX}, LIST=${LIST} .if empty(LIST:M${USE_LINUX}) @echo The

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 23:35:03 Bob Johnson wrote: On 4/4/09, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi all [...] My suggestion is to start with a ports tree that is fixed in time. Make that ports tree available as part of this package system and compile a typical desktop set of

Re: make, list and M pattern

2009-04-08 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:09:43 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:54:13 +0400, Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: Hello List, I need to create a list with some valid values and check an input value. Should this makefile work? - LIST=f8 f9 all: @echo

Re: make, list and M pattern

2009-04-08 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:45:04 +0200 Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 07 April 2009 21:54:13 Boris Samorodov wrote: Hello List, I need to create a list with some valid values and check an input value. Should this makefile work? - LIST=f8 f9 all: @echo USE_LINUX=${USE_LINUX},

TeX/LaTeX in FreeBSD

2009-04-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I build print/tex and print/latex from the ports, but I must be forgetting some configuration somewhere, because when trying to compose qa document LaTeX cannot find the various include files like article.cls That must be a very stupid mistake. Few years ago I did build TeX/laTeX from the

Re: SQLgrey not happy

2009-04-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 16:05:53 Len Conrad wrote: Trying to install everything via pkgs, but it messed up. fbsd 7.1 SQLgrey 1.7.6 installed as pkg_add p5-DBD-mysql installed as: pkg_add -r ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-current/All/p5-DBD -mysql-4.010.tbz

Re: TeX/LaTeX in FreeBSD

2009-04-08 Thread Ionut Vancea
Hi, On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Olivier Nicole o...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: Hi, I build print/tex and print/latex from the ports, but I must be forgetting some configuration somewhere, because when trying to compose qa document LaTeX cannot find the various include files like article.cls

Change to Graphical Mode from DOS Mode

2009-04-08 Thread Rajeev Sharma
Sir, I have successfully downloaded FreeBSD 6.4 Release linux installed on my PC. But it starts in DOS Mode. I want to shift to Graphical Mode. Kindly advice me what to do. Thanks Rajeev Sharma rajb3...@gmail.com rajb3...@rediffmail.com

Re: Change to Graphical Mode from DOS Mode

2009-04-08 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On 4/8/09, Rajeev Sharma rajb3...@gmail.com wrote: Sir, I have successfully downloaded FreeBSD 6.4 Release linux installed FreeBSD is _not_ linux ;) on my PC. But it starts in DOS Mode. aka Console mode. I want to shift to Graphical Mode. Once you log in, (use your login name and

Re: Change to Graphical Mode from DOS Mode

2009-04-08 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Rajeev Sharma wrote: Sir, I have successfully downloaded FreeBSD 6.4 Release linux installed on my PC. But it starts in DOS Mode. I want to shift to Graphical Mode. Kindly advice me what to do. Thanks Rajeev Sharma rajb3...@gmail.com rajb3...@rediffmail.com

Re: C programming question

2009-04-08 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:41:54AM +0200, Valentin Bud wrote: Hello community, I have built with a micro controller a system of power plugs that can be controlled through the serial port. I have 2 plugs that i can start/stop and check the status of them. This is accomplished by

Re: Copying files without scp

2009-04-08 Thread A. Wright
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Steve Bertrand wrote: Can someone recommend a *known good* production quality copy mechanism that will act like scp, but without the overhead? rsh? nc? If you are happy with rsh authentication, then have you looked at plain old rcp? A.

BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER in VNC-client

2009-04-08 Thread pluknet
Hi, folks. Is there any VNC-client able to throw ctrl-alt-esc event in order to break to debugger? I need this feature to control a guest FreeBSD which console is exported via VNC. Thanks. -- wbr, pluknet ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Multiple instances of MySQL

2009-04-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 14:55:26 DAve wrote: However, I would suggest that you provide, as you suggest, a separate instance of mysql just for this client as well. If they screw up the instance they won't affect other customers. To run a separate instance, I would suggest using

Re: Change to Graphical Mode from DOS Mode

2009-04-08 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/8 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl:     I have successfully downloaded FreeBSD 6.4 Release linux installed on my PC.  But it starts in DOS Mode. how you started FreeBSD in DOS mode? i would like to do so as i sometimes need to run DOS programs, but i have to boot DOS or

Re: C programming question

2009-04-08 Thread Valentin Bud
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Konrad Heuer kheu...@gwdg.de wrote: On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Frank Shute wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:41:54AM +0200, Valentin Bud wrote: Hello community, I have built with a micro controller a system of power plugs that can be controlled through the

Re: Change to Graphical Mode from DOS Mode

2009-04-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
how you started FreeBSD in DOS mode? i would like to do so as i sometimes need to run DOS programs, but i have to boot DOS or use slow dosbox. tell me - it's interesting. ___ Pretty sure he meant virtual terminal mode, where all you get is so he

Re: Change to Graphical Mode from DOS Mode

2009-04-08 Thread Chris Rees
Quoting from earlier: 2009/4/8 Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com: On 4/8/09, Rajeev Sharma rajb3...@gmail.com wrote: Sir,      I have successfully downloaded FreeBSD 6.4 Release linux installed FreeBSD is _not_ linux ;) on my PC.  But it starts in DOS Mode. aka Console

Re: C programming question

2009-04-08 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
Valentin Bud wrote: Thanks everybody for the heads up. I don't know (yet) which path i am going to take. I know a little bit of perl so i guess i'll start reading on how can i accomplish my goal with perl. thanks, v I've been programming for a very long time, and I can tell you that both

mysql memory

2009-04-08 Thread Valentin Bud
Hello community, I have mysql installed on FreeBSD 7.0 i386. I am using mysqltuner.pl from ports to check for tuning parameters. Now my problem, sort of speak, is that mysqltuner.pl shows the following: [OK] Maximum possible memory usage: 1.6G (53% of installed RAM) So as far as i understand

Re: make, list and M pattern

2009-04-08 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:09:43 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:54:13 +0400, Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: I need to create a list with some valid values and check an input value. Should this makefile work? - LIST=f8 f9 all: @echo

Re: Copying files without scp

2009-04-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca writes: To copy data from one server, I normally (always) use scp. I'm looking for a method to perform this copy task without the overhead of encryption for infrequent, high-volume transfers (hundreds to thousands of GB). The data will be transferred

Re: Change to Graphical Mode from DOS Mode

2009-04-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have successfully downloaded FreeBSD 6.4 Release linux installed on my PC. But it starts in DOS Mode. how you started FreeBSD in DOS mode? i would like to do so as i sometimes need to run DOS programs, but i have to boot DOS or use slow dosbox. tell me - it's interesting.

Re: mysql memory

2009-04-08 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
I think 'top' is showing the external view of the process and how many pages total of heap have been allocated (under 'RES'). Possibly your tuner program is just showing the size of the cache specifically. -Will Valentin Bud wrote: Hello community, I have mysql installed on FreeBSD 7.0

firefox3 with high latencies when acting with mouse or keyboard and graphics refresh

2009-04-08 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello, got a problem since yesterday after having done a lot of updates (ports): on all of my FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/amd64 boxes firefox does have enormous high latencies when typing in or moving the mouse or popping up the window icon or down. Since this happens on all of 8.0-CUR/amd boxes, I

Re: bsnmpd

2009-04-08 Thread Festin Alexander
В Mon, 6 Apr 2009 16:08:32 -0400 alexus ale...@gmail.com пишет: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin claudiu.vas...@gmail.com wrote: All out of ideas. try with a script...maybe, i dnt know. I understand there is always that way, but I'd like to figure out the proper

Three little question.

2009-04-08 Thread makefile
Every time I run make fetch-recursive,it fetched all the dependence packages.Not only the package I need to compile. For example,in the /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel,I run make fetch-recursive,it will download glib,but I alreaday have glib installed.Is there another command can solve

geli on exisitng laptop

2009-04-08 Thread new_guy
Hi guys, I'd like to use geli to whole disk encrypt a FreeBSD 7.1 laptop I already have setup. The laptop is up and working fine and I don't want to screw it up. It have the default partition layout. I've already used geli to encrypt the swap partition. The default partitioning at install

Re: bsnmpd

2009-04-08 Thread alexus
2009/4/8 Festin Alexander fes...@sakha.net: В Mon, 6 Apr 2009 16:08:32 -0400 alexus ale...@gmail.com пишет: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin claudiu.vas...@gmail.com wrote: All out of ideas. try with a script...maybe, i dnt know. I understand there is always that

Re: Copying files without scp

2009-04-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
Steve Bertrand wrote: To copy data from one server, I normally (always) use scp. I'm looking for a method to perform this copy task without the overhead of encryption for infrequent, high-volume transfers (hundreds to thousands of GB). The data will be transferred server-to-server

Re: powerd

2009-04-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
David Collins wrote: viper:~$ sudo powerd powerd: lookup freq: No such file or directory I also have the following viper:~$ sysctl dev.cpu dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU_ dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0

Re: Copying files without scp

2009-04-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
To copy data from one server, I normally (always) use scp. man rcp ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: powerd

2009-04-08 Thread David Collins
Frequency control is not supported in your case. You must have dev.cpu.0.freq and so on. What kind of processor do you have? Does it support powernow, cool'n'quiet or similar features? CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (501.14-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x673

Re: powerd

2009-04-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
David Collins davidcollins...@gmail.com wrote: Frequency control is not supported in your case. You must have dev.cpu.0.freq and so on. What kind of processor do you have? Does it support powernow, cool'n'quiet or similar features? CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron

Re: powerd

2009-04-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 04:37:35PM +0100, David Collins wrote: Frequency control is not supported in your case. You must have dev.cpu.0.freq and so on. What kind of processor do you have? Does it support powernow, cool'n'quiet or similar features? CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III

Re: powerd

2009-04-08 Thread Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
AFAIK that processor does not support changing frequency or voltage on the fly. Your right, I also had one of those CPU. Only thig you can do is OC from BIOS. I managed to OC it at a 566 MHz stable rate; also managed to have a near 600 MHz (589 MHz) experience but was unstable as hell.

ZFS Question

2009-04-08 Thread Amaru Netapshaak
Hello, I am interested in using something like ZFS for its distributed nature. I run a file server with samba acting as a PDC. I also run a second server as a BDC.  What I would like is a method for keeping both servers shared data drives in sync when both the PDC and BDC are running. I am

Re: ZFS Question

2009-04-08 Thread Julien Cigar
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 08:57 -0700, Amaru Netapshaak wrote: Hello, I am interested in using something like ZFS for its distributed nature. I run a file server with samba acting as a PDC. I also run a second server as a BDC. What I would like is a method for keeping both servers shared data

Re: Three little question.

2009-04-08 Thread RW
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 21:55:44 +0800 (CST) makefile makef...@yeah.net wrote: Every time I run make fetch-recursive,it fetched all the dependence packages.Not only the package I need to compile. For example,in the /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel,I run make fetch-recursive,it will

Re: geli on exisitng laptop

2009-04-08 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 07:06:27AM -0700, new_guy wrote: Hi guys, I'd like to use geli to whole disk encrypt a FreeBSD 7.1 laptop I already have setup. The laptop is up and working fine and I don't want to screw it up. It have the default partition layout. I've already used geli to encrypt

Re: Change to Graphical Mode from DOS Mode

2009-04-08 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 10:19:26 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com wrote: FreeBSD is _not_ linux ;) You're right. A german computer magazine wrote that FreeBSD is the better Linux. :-) on my PC. But it starts in DOS Mode. aka Console mode. There is no DOS mode in

Re: Change to Graphical Mode from DOS Mode

2009-04-08 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:40:18 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: so he should first learn about unix more. At least to avoid misunderstandings due to wrong terminology. We UNIX guys are usually smart enough to know what DOS mode refers to, but without correction

Re: low-level format before install?

2009-04-08 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:41:27PM -0400, John Almberg wrote: Thanks for all the tips. At least I have something to start with. The guys in the data center reinstalled FreeBSD (the filesystem was totally corrupted again), and then ran what they called SMART test, which might be smartctl,

Re: geli on exisitng laptop

2009-04-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
new_guy wrote: Hi guys, I'd like to use geli to whole disk encrypt a FreeBSD 7.1 laptop I already have setup. The laptop is up and working fine and I don't want to screw it up. It have the default partition layout. I've already used geli to encrypt the swap partition. The default

Re: firefox3 with high latencies when acting with mouse or keyboard and graphics refresh

2009-04-08 Thread Jeff Laine
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:42:56PM +, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, got a problem since yesterday after having done a lot of updates (ports): on all of my FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/amd64 boxes firefox does have enormous high latencies when typing in or moving the mouse or popping up the window

Re: geli on exisitng laptop

2009-04-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 07:06:27AM -0700, new_guy wrote: Hi guys, I'd like to use geli to whole disk encrypt a FreeBSD 7.1 laptop I already have setup. The laptop is up and working fine and I don't want to screw it up. It have the default partition layout. I've already used geli to encrypt

Xorg and nvidia-driver-173 ABI

2009-04-08 Thread RW
I picked-up the most recent xorg update a couple of days ago, and since then X has been failing to start with the binary nvidia driver, and is leaving the following in Xorg.0.log: (EE) NVIDIA(0): This video driver ABI is not supported. (EE) NVIDIA(0): Use the -ignoreABI option to override

Re: geli on exisitng laptop

2009-04-08 Thread new_guy
Roland Smith wrote: My advice would be to put /home (where _your_ data resides) on a seperate partition and encrypt only that partition, with a password. Thanks to everyone for the advice. I really do appreciate it. I like this tip a lot. Since the default FreeBSD installer puts /home as

recovering from a missing package database?

2009-04-08 Thread Mark Stosberg
-- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark StosbergPrincipal Developer m...@summersault.com Summersault, LLC 765-939-9301 ext 202 database driven websites . . . . . http://www.summersault.com/ . . . . . . . .

Recovering loss of /var/db/pkg ?

2009-04-08 Thread Mark Stosberg
I'll just say it plainly: /var/db/pkg is long gone and there is no backup. It was not copied to new a machine. Is there is any hope of being able to use the ports or packages system in a meangingful way again? My sense is that some recovery is possible, but may be prohibitively expensive.

getfib?

2009-04-08 Thread Peter Cornelius
Dear list, Now, there, we've got setfib(1). Very well. But -- how do I figure out the FIB associated with a running process? Thanks, Peter. --- [1] setfib(1), cf. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=setfibsektion=1apropos=0manpath=FreeBSD+8-current -- Pt! Schon vom neuen GMX

sorta newb help compiling samba

2009-04-08 Thread Gary Gatten
Good afternoon, I've been playing with various flavors of *nix off and on for almost twenty years, but not doing much development the make process often causes me issues - as is the case with samba. I'm running freebsd 6.0. I've tried installing three different versions of samba from

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-08 Thread Bob Johnson
On 4/8/09, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: On Tuesday 07 April 2009 23:35:03 Bob Johnson wrote: On 4/4/09, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi all [...] My suggestion is to start with a ports tree that is fixed in time. Make that ports tree available as part of this

Re: Recovering loss of /var/db/pkg ?

2009-04-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark Stosberg m...@summersault.com writes: I'll just say it plainly: /var/db/pkg is long gone and there is no backup. It was not copied to new a machine. Is there is any hope of being able to use the ports or packages system in a meangingful way again? My sense is that some recovery is

Re: geli on exisitng laptop

2009-04-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:48:31AM -0700, new_guy wrote: Roland Smith wrote: My advice would be to put /home (where _your_ data resides) on a seperate partition and encrypt only that partition, with a password. Thanks to everyone for the advice. I really do appreciate it. I like

[ fbsd_quest ] file_caching and hd caches

2009-04-08 Thread spellberg_robert
howdy, y'all --- so, i was looking over the offerings of the on_line retailing usual suspects, when i got to thinking: q: to what extent does freebsd cache recently_used hard_drive files ? q: under freebsd, to what extent are hard_drive internal_caches and their sizes [ e. g.,

Re: sorta newb help compiling samba

2009-04-08 Thread Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:39:55 +0300, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: I found a 3.3.1 package - if my current attempts at the port upgrades fails I'll try this route. Thanks again! Gary Hey, If I were you, first of all, I would try the make clean; make distclean;make rmconfig;

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2009-04-08 Thread Len Conrad
We need to print a line when the 3rd field (with trailing ; delimiter) is, eg, exactly 5 lower case characters awk ' $3 ~ /^[a-z]{5,5};$/ {print $0} ' file ... doesn't work. Suggestions? thanks Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: firefox3 with high latencies when acting with mouse or keyboard and graphics refresh

2009-04-08 Thread Tim Kientzle
I saw something similar recently due to a mismatch between hald and the xorg server. In my case, it affected all applications, not just firefox. * Are you running hald? * Do you have AllowEmptyInput set in /etc/X11/xorg.conf? * Are you starting xdm, kdm, or gdm from /etc/ttys? Tim O. Hartmann

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2009-04-08 Thread Len Conrad
We need to print a line when the 3rd field (with trailing ; delimiter) is, eg, exactly 5 lower case characters awk ' $3 ~ /^[a-z]{5,5};$/ {print $0} ' file ... doesn't work. Suggestions? thanks Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Recovering loss of /var/db/pkg ?

2009-04-08 Thread Robert Huff
Lowell Gilbert writes: /var/db/pkg is long gone and there is no backup. It was not copied to new a machine. Is there is any hope of being able to use the ports or packages system in a meangingful way again? You can do a forced reinstall of all your ports, and you'll end up

Re: [ fbsd_quest ] file_caching and hd caches

2009-04-08 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, spellberg_robert wrote: howdy, y'all --- so, i was looking over the offerings of the on_line retailing usual suspects, when i got to thinking: q: to what extent does freebsd cache recently_used hard_drive files ? To the extent that RAM is available. q: under

RE: sorta newb help compiling samba

2009-04-08 Thread Gary Gatten
Latest error below. Going with the pkg_add... libsmb/clikrb5.c: In function `krb5_set_real_time': libsmb/clikrb5.c:132: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type libsmb/clikrb5.c:133: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type The following command failed: cc -I.

awk field (was Re: (no subject))

2009-04-08 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Len Conrad wrote: We need to print a line when the 3rd field (with trailing ; delimiter) is, eg, exactly 5 lower case characters awk ' $3 ~ /^[a-z]{5,5};$/ {print $0} ' file ... doesn't work. Suggestions? Please give an example of the line this doesn't work on, and

Re: Re: where is spl_autoload found in PHP

2009-04-08 Thread af300wsm
On Apr 6, 2009 2:04pm, Maxim Khitrov mkhit...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:13 PM, af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I saw Zend in the ports and so I'm hoping that some here use it and can help me with this one. I've installed the latest stable Zend, which is a little

RE: sorta newb help compiling samba

2009-04-08 Thread Gary Gatten
LOL - pkg_add failed, couldn't find openLDAP! I thought ports and packages was supposed to automagically address all the dependencies! Trying to install krb5 now - couple other users reported same issue I had so maybe recent port is fixed. Did I mention how much fun this is?! -Original

Re: [ fbsd_quest ] file_caching and hd caches

2009-04-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
hard_drive internal_caches and their sizes [ e. g., 2mb, 8mb, 16mb ] important ? It depends on workload. almost not important. if FreeBSD would support NCQ it will be more, but still anything above 4MB doesn't make a difference IMHO.

Re: [ fbsd_quest ] file_caching and hd caches

2009-04-08 Thread spellberg_robert
thanks, warren [ love your dot_com, btw ] --- Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, spellberg_robert wrote: howdy, y'all --- so, i was looking over the offerings of the on_line retailing usual suspects, when i got to thinking: q: to what extent does freebsd cache recently_used

Why USB enclosure with HD isn't a block device?

2009-04-08 Thread Yuri
I got USB enclosure and put HD there. I tried to create NTFS on it (using mkntfs from sysutils/ntfsprogs). And got the message: /dev/da0 is not a block device. Refusing to make a filesystem here! mkntfs does 'stat' on /dev/da0. Why /dev/da0 stats not as a block device? Yuri

Re: Why USB enclosure with HD isn't a block device?

2009-04-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
And got the message: /dev/da0 is not a block device. Refusing to make a filesystem here! Just a wild guess, but shouldn't you create slices first? Then create the filesystem on /dev/da0s1 Bests, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Why USB enclosure with HD isn't a block device?

2009-04-08 Thread Yuri
Olivier Nicole wrote: Just a wild guess, but shouldn't you create slices first? Then create the filesystem on /dev/da0s1 Bests, Olivier This as a must in the past. But now I always format, for example flash disks, without slices. And both Windows and FreeBSD have no problem. And I

Re: Why USB enclosure with HD isn't a block device?

2009-04-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 08:50:41PM -0700, Yuri wrote: I got USB enclosure and put HD there. I tried to create NTFS on it (using mkntfs from sysutils/ntfsprogs). And got the message: /dev/da0 is not a block device. Refusing to make a filesystem here! mkntfs does 'stat' on /dev/da0. Why