Re: [GTALUG] little PCs for internet gateways

2016-10-25 Thread Alvin Starr via talk
On 10/25/2016 05:47 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: By gateway, I mean router/firewall/whatever box that sits between your LAN and the internet. Reasonable choices: - ISP-provided / sanctioned device (combo wireless router and modem) - ISP modem + user provided wireless router +

Re: [GTALUG] little PCs for internet gateways

2016-10-25 Thread James Knott via talk
On 10/25/2016 05:47 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > My previous gateways were SFF business PCs from a previous millenium. > Built like tanks. Reliable. Running full Red Hat Linux, so quite > familiar, versatile, and powerful. But they eat more electricity than > they should. And they

Re: [GTALUG] restore GPT partition table?

2016-10-25 Thread Jamon Camisso via talk
On 25/10/16 22:06, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > > Luckily gpt has two copies. One at the start of the disk and one at the end. > > Any gpt compatible partition tool should actually offer to copy the > backup from the end of the device. > Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. >

Re: [GTALUG] little PCs for internet gateways

2016-10-25 Thread John Sellens via talk
On Tue, 2016/10/25 05:47:02PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | By gateway, I mean router/firewall/whatever box that sits between your | LAN and the internet. | I've chosen to use two different Zotac Zbox tiny PCs. | - the CI321 is a fanless box with two ethernet

[GTALUG] little PCs for internet gateways

2016-10-25 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
By gateway, I mean router/firewall/whatever box that sits between your LAN and the internet. Reasonable choices: - ISP-provided / sanctioned device (combo wireless router and modem) - ISP modem + user provided wireless router + possibly running custom firmware like CeroWRT or OpenWRT - ISP

Re: [GTALUG] restore GPT partition table?

2016-10-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 07:33:30AM -0400, Matt Price via talk wrote: > OK, so I did this > > dd if=some.iso of=/dev/sdb > > oops -- that's not the USB key! that's my internal m.2 drive! > > The partition table is gone, but it used to contain 2 partitions, both of > them in an LVM, one of them

Re: [GTALUG] restore GPT partition table?

2016-10-25 Thread ac via talk
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:42:09 -0400 Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > On 10/25/2016 11:35 AM, Kevin Cozens wrote: > > On 16-10-25 08:07 AM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > >> The following link points to how to recover your partition from > >> the in system data: > >>

Re: [GTALUG] restore GPT partition table?

2016-10-25 Thread Alvin Starr via talk
On 10/25/2016 11:35 AM, Kevin Cozens wrote: On 16-10-25 08:07 AM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: The following link points to how to recover your partition from the in system data: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/43922/how-to-read-the-in-memory-kernel-partition-table-of-dev-sda The

Re: [GTALUG] FPD-Link adapter kits -Success - two out of three LCDs recycled

2016-10-25 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
Last top post on this thread. The first working LCD was an LG recycled from a Toshiba. That laptop needed the MB video chip to be refloated Thanks to Peter who let me have it for tinkering. I never got around to refloating it but the LCD is working ok. The next one was a 15 in LCD from an older

[GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] Meeting on 8 Nov at 7:30pm

2016-10-25 Thread hi--- via talk
# Thirteen Hours of Go with David Collier-Brown Trying out a new language by: - writing things based on cool or elegant stuff in it, - rewriting something you know in it, and - writing something that was hard elsewhere in it. And yes, it's indeed a cool

Re: [GTALUG] restore GPT partition table?

2016-10-25 Thread Matt Price via talk
oh man, all of that looks really helpful, folks. At work now (with my laptop safely plugged in and not hibernating!!) -- I will try when I get back home. I'll report back when I'm (hopefully) successful. On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Jamon Camisso via talk wrote: > On

Re: [GTALUG] restore GPT partition table?

2016-10-25 Thread Alvin Starr via talk
The partition table is still in memoryso you will have some luck till you reboot or force the system to do a partprobe. The following link points to how to recover your partition from the in system data:

Re: [GTALUG] restore GPT partition table?

2016-10-25 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Oct 25, 2016 7:33 AM, "Matt Price via talk" wrote: > > OK, so I did this > > dd if=some.iso of=/dev/sdb > > oops -- that's not the USB key! that's my internal m.2 drive! Your not the only one. https://www.linux.com/learn/how-fix-mangled-partition-table-linux I really like

[GTALUG] restore GPT partition table?

2016-10-25 Thread Matt Price via talk
OK, so I did this dd if=some.iso of=/dev/sdb oops -- that's not the USB key! that's my internal m.2 drive! The partition table is gone, but it used to contain 2 partitions, both of them in an LVM, one of them part of an extended logical volume that added space to /home on my overburdened main