Re: PCI-e SSD recommendation for a F22 machine

2015-09-04 Thread Ian Malone
On 2 September 2015 at 21:45, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if it is possible to use a PCI-e SSD for the root and swap > partitions of a workstation running F22. I am thinking of installing F22 and > my swap here -- the machine has 64GB memory. So

iso fedora 22

2015-09-04 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, Can I found the image: Fedora-Workstation-22-x86_64.iso not the Live version not the netinstall version the DVD version Thank. === Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com

Re: PCI-e SSD recommendation for a F22 machine

2015-09-04 Thread Ian Malone
On 4 September 2015 at 13:50, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 10:33:16 +0100 Ian Malone wrote: > >> On 2 September 2015 at 21:45, Ranjan Maitra >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I was wondering if it

Re: PCI-e SSD recommendation for a F22 machine

2015-09-04 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 10:33:16 +0100 Ian Malone wrote: > On 2 September 2015 at 21:45, Ranjan Maitra > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was wondering if it is possible to use a PCI-e SSD for the root and swap > > partitions of a workstation running

Re: PCI-e SSD recommendation for a F22 machine

2015-09-04 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 02/09/2015 22:45, Ranjan Maitra a écrit : > Hi, > > I was wondering if it is possible to use a PCI-e SSD for the root > and swap partitions of a workstation running F22. I am thinking of > installing F22 and my swap here -- the machine has 64GB

Re: PCI-e SSD recommendation for a F22 machine

2015-09-04 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 09/04/2015 03:50 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Out of curiosity, what are you doing that needs that much memory? I >was going to say with 64GB you probably don't need swap until I saw >how much you were planning to allocate... I do a lot of computing with my computers. Some of the alternative

Re: PCI-e SSD recommendation for a F22 machine

2015-09-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/04/2015 08:18 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: There was a time, a long time ago, when I compiled the kernel, -O2 and -O3 lead me to different misbehaviour. Being "old" now, I dont compile my kernel anymore ;- I can remember when the only way to upgrade the kernel was to download the

Re: iso fedora 22

2015-09-04 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 15:19:10 +0200 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > Hello, > > Can I found the image: > Fedora-Workstation-22-x86_64.iso > > not the Live version > not the netinstall version > > the DVD version There is only a netinstall and a live image for Fedora 22 workstation.

Re: PCI-e SSD recommendation for a F22 machine

2015-09-04 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 09:20:24 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/04/2015 08:18 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > There was a time, a long time ago, when I compiled the kernel, -O2 and > > -O3 lead me to different misbehaviour. > > Being "old" now, I dont compile my kernel anymore ;-

Re: PCI-e SSD recommendation for a F22 machine

2015-09-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/04/2015 04:58 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I used gcc with -O3 or -Ofast. Any suggestions on this? Stay with -O2 unless you precisely know what you are doing. Playing with -O3 and -Ofast may squeeze out some usecs somewhere, but because you are using less used and tested paths of the

Re: iso fedora 22

2015-09-04 Thread Doug H.
On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 15:19 +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > Can I found the image: > Fedora-Workstation-22-x86_64.iso > > not the Live version > not the netinstall version > > the DVD version Looking at: https://torrents.fedoraproject.org/ My guess is that the DVD version includes

Re: Kernel 4.1.4 breaks external display

2015-09-04 Thread CS DBA
On 09/02/2015 08:00 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 09/03/15 09:06, CS DBA wrote: >> On 08/31/2015 08:34 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> On 08/21/15 23:41, CS DBA wrote: I'm running Fedora 21 on a Dell M3800 laptop, been working great. Updating to the latest kernel however breaks my external

Re: PCI-e SSD recommendation for a F22 machine

2015-09-04 Thread Ranjan Maitra
> If I take the traditional computing scheme, such as compiling the Linux > kernel, much of the need is to also have fast storage in the code source > tree. > > Depending on what compiler you use and what option you give it, the I/O > generated by object files (just an example) would kill your

Re: PCI-e SSD recommendation for a F22 machine

2015-09-04 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 09/04/2015 05:58 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: If I take the traditional computing scheme, such as compiling the Linux kernel, much of the need is to also have fast storage in the code source tree. Depending on what compiler you use and what option you give it, the I/O generated by object files

Re: iso fedora 22

2015-09-04 Thread Kam Leo
1. Google search: "Fedora 22 Iso" 2. Found: https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/ Get both Live and Netinstall images from there. On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 6:19 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > Can I found the image: > Fedora-Workstation-22-x86_64.iso > > not the

Re: rpm in background

2015-09-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 02:13:49PM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > This task used to run very often on my machine and makes every slow. > How can I manage it? > rpm -q -a --queryformat > %{NAME}\n%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n%{EPOCH}\n%{GROUP}\n%{SUMMARY}\n\n Why does it run very often on your

Re: Kernel 4.1.4 breaks external display

2015-09-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/05/15 00:08, CS DBA wrote: > No dice, the display section of the system settings only shows the > laptop screen Also, make sure they aren't stacked. Move the screen in the display to see if the external monitor is below it. I also had that happen to me. -- It seems most people that say

Re: PCI-e SSD recommendation for a F22 machine

2015-09-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/04/2015 09:33 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I think you are giving me more credit than you should. I do not compile anything to do with the kernel or anything for that matter that comes from the Fedora repos. I was just talking about compiling my own source code. No, not really. I was just

Re: OT: SSD or not to SSD, that is the question

2015-09-04 Thread Pete Travis
On Sep 4, 2015 3:14 PM, "Richard Shaw" wrote: > > I have two drives in my desktop computer, a 500GB for / and /var which is failing, and a 1TB drive for /home and swap. > > Cost is definitely an issue so I have narrowed my options down to a 1TB drive for about $53 or a 256MB

Re: OT: SSD or not to SSD, that is the question

2015-09-04 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Pete Travis wrote: > Absolutely get a *quality* SSD. I've had a Samsung 830 since they were > new and use mock and got and more on a frequent basis, with no ill > effects. I've had three spinning drives fail during that time, with varied >

Re: Hard drive issue

2015-09-04 Thread Patrick Dupre
I guess that it is: /dev/sdd1 : start= 4096, size= 26613760, Id= 7 /dev/sdd2 : start= 26619705, size= 12289725, Id= 7 /dev/sdd3 : start= 38909430, size= 10233405, Id= 7 /dev/sdd4 : start= 49142835, size=927625230, Id= 5 /dev/sdd5 : start= 49142898, size= 49158837, Id=82 /dev/sdd6 : start=

Re: OT: SSD or not to SSD, that is the question

2015-09-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Richard Shaw wrote: I have two drives in my desktop computer, a 500GB for / and /var which is failing, and a 1TB drive for /home and swap. Cost is definitely an issue so I have narrowed my options down to a 1TB drive for about $53 or a 256MB SSD for about $86. Obviously

Re: Kernel 4.1.4 breaks external display

2015-09-04 Thread CS DBA
Is 4.1.6 the latest for Fedora 22? I'm running Fedora 21 and a yum update gives me 4.1.5 On 09/04/2015 02:44 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > The Dell M3800 works fine for me with kernel 4.1.6. > > Ranjan > > On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 14:28:00 -0600 CS DBA wrote: > >> I checked

Re: Kernel 4.1.4 breaks external display

2015-09-04 Thread CS DBA
I checked that as well, no luck actually I have 2 laptops with the same issue, a Dell M3800 and an ASUS zenbook, with kernel 4.1.x I have no external monitor capability On 09/04/2015 01:29 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 09/05/15 00:08, CS DBA wrote: >> No dice, the display section of the system

Re: PCI-e SSD recommendation for a F22 machine

2015-09-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I used gcc with -O3 or -Ofast. Any suggestions on this? If you mean -ffast-math, I'd recommend against. Among other things, it enables -funsafe-math, which means what it says. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must

Re: Kernel 4.1.4 breaks external display

2015-09-04 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Yes, it is. On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 14:50:09 -0600 CS DBA wrote: > Is 4.1.6 the latest for Fedora 22? I'm running Fedora 21 and a yum > update gives me 4.1.5 > > > > > On 09/04/2015 02:44 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > The Dell M3800 works fine for me with kernel 4.1.6.

udisks-part-id

2015-09-04 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, What does this? /usr/lib/udev/udisks-part-id /dev/sdd It looks like that it is swapping for ever. === Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de

Re: Kernel 4.1.4 breaks external display

2015-09-04 Thread CS DBA
Are you running kmod-nvidia? Bumblebee? On 09/04/2015 02:59 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Yes, it is. > > On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 14:50:09 -0600 CS DBA wrote: > >> Is 4.1.6 the latest for Fedora 22? I'm running Fedora 21 and a yum >> update gives me 4.1.5 >> >> >> >> >> On

Re: Hard drive issue

2015-09-04 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/04/2015 03:40 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, I tried to modified a partition table by using fdisk, but it failed. Now I am in trouble. I setup the disk inside an external usb enclosure and try to access it. After I turn the enclosure on, I only have a short time to interact with the

Re: e2fsck after hard shutdown

2015-09-04 Thread antonio montagnani
Robert Nichols ha scritto il 05/09/2015 alle 03:32: On 09/04/2015 04:40 PM, antonio montagnani wrote: Sometimes if you have to shut-down improperly or power is missing, it happens that your system doesn't start in the usual way, but in a kind of emergency mode, and you can enter in it by Ctrl

Re: OT: SSD or not to SSD, that is the question

2015-09-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/04/2015 10:56 PM, Pete Travis wrote: On Sep 4, 2015 3:14 PM, "Richard Shaw" > wrote: > > I have two drives in my desktop computer, a 500GB for / and /var which is failing, and a 1TB drive for /home and swap. > > Cost is definitely an

Re: Hard drive issue

2015-09-04 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/04/2015 04:32 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: I guess that it is: /dev/sdd1 : start= 4096, size= 26613760, Id= 7 /dev/sdd2 : start= 26619705, size= 12289725, Id= 7 /dev/sdd3 : start= 38909430, size= 10233405, Id= 7 /dev/sdd4 : start= 49142835, size=927625230, Id= 5 /dev/sdd5 : start=

Re: Kernel 4.1.4 breaks external display

2015-09-04 Thread Ranjan Maitra
I am runningthe default F22 kernel. M3800 did not require much tweaking from what I recall from my install. Ranjan On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 15:23:52 -0600 CS DBA wrote: > Are you running kmod-nvidia? Bumblebee? > > > On 09/04/2015 02:59 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >

e2fsck after hard shutdown

2015-09-04 Thread antonio montagnani
Sometimes if you have to shut-down improperly or power is missing, it happens that your system doesn't start in the usual way, but in a kind of emergency mode, and you can enter in it by Ctrl D...after that usually you have to make a control on your filesystem using an installation media (DVD

Re: Kernel 4.1.4 breaks external display

2015-09-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/05/15 05:23, CS DBA wrote: > Are you running kmod-nvidia? Bumblebee? Running F22/KDE 4.1.6-200.fc22.x86_64 and the nVidia drivers via rpmfusion on an old Acer 4290, no bumblebee, no problems with an external monitor. -- It seems most people that say they are "done talking about it" never

Re: OT: SSD or not to SSD, that is the question

2015-09-04 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Richard Shaw wrote: > > I have two drives in my desktop computer, a 500GB for / and /var which is >> failing, and a 1TB drive for /home and swap. >> >> Cost is definitely an issue so I

Re: Hard drive issue

2015-09-04 Thread Patrick Dupre
Thank Bob, it works Then, It can reproduce the issue under fdisk, I delete 2 partitions (6 and 7) and create 2 new ones (with different size). Then I get: /dev/sdd14096 26617855 26613760 12.7G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdd226619705 38909429 12289725 5.9G 7

Re: e2fsck after hard shutdown

2015-09-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 09/04/2015 02:40 PM, antonio montagnani wrote: Is it not possible to run e2fsck during the standard boot before filesystems are mounted?? Normally fsck is run during boot, before filesystems are mounted read/write. You should only be dropped to the emergency shell if errors are found in

Re: Hard drive issue

2015-09-04 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/04/2015 05:05 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Thank Bob, it works Then, It can reproduce the issue under fdisk, I delete 2 partitions (6 and 7) and create 2 new ones (with different size). Then I get: /dev/sdd14096 26617855 26613760 12.7G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdd2

Re: e2fsck after hard shutdown

2015-09-04 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/04/2015 04:40 PM, antonio montagnani wrote: Sometimes if you have to shut-down improperly or power is missing, it happens that your system doesn't start in the usual way, but in a kind of emergency mode, and you can enter in it by Ctrl D...after that usually you have to make a control on