Re: [gentoo-user] Linux comm program

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 21:14 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: > On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:51:55 -0400 > Daniel D Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is anyone aware of a decent comm program for Linux? Something along the > > lines of SecureCRT for Windows? (SecureCRT is a commercial program. > > Ther

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo glibc-2.3.2 install help

--- CJ Keist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, > Running Matlab on current release will just core > dump. Also tried > the fix on Matlab site where you modify the .matlab7rc.sh > file. So I'm > thinking it has to be a problem with the new glibc on > current releases. > This is on Fedor

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux comm program

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 18:51:55 -0400 Daniel D Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone aware of a decent comm program for Linux?  Something along the > lines of SecureCRT for Windows?  (SecureCRT is a commercial program. There's > supposed to be a Linux port in progress but I'd much prefer to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gentoo. I ordered a Pacific Digital USB DVD-RW/CD-RW > drive on August 1 and it came in today. I'm not quite > sure how to go about using it though. I mainly use > xcdroast for writing CDs (I make daily back

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla & Google behind the scenes payola

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 20:14:26 -0400 "John J. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even "IF" only one of those allegations are true, I'm disappointed in > Mozilla's choices. They were, until a few days ago, "non-profit". Google > may be the best general purpose search engine out there right now, but

RE: [gentoo-user] udev and initrd

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Joe Rizzo wrote: > Thanks for the response. I think I'm having an issue unrelated to udev. > > 3ware tech support said the driver included with the kernel was old and > suggested to build the latest driver as a module. Why not do away with initrd and just build the driver int

[gentoo-user] 802.1q/VLAN issue

I updated my gentoo system. After emerging system and world, the system does not work with VLANs if the interfaces are configured via the net.eth0 script. However if I configure the interface manually it works. This worked before I updated. Any Ideas? The conf.d/net file is below. Thanks, Joe

RE: [gentoo-user] udev and initrd

Thanks for the response. I think I'm having an issue unrelated to udev. 3ware tech support said the driver included with the kernel was old and suggested to build the latest driver as a module. Thanks, Joe -Original Message- From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tu

Re: [gentoo-user] 16 colours xpm

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 12:45 +0200, Christoph Gysin wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Anybody in the know how to generate an xpm image with 16 colours and 1 > > character per pixel? I mean other than using vi. ;-) Alternatively, > > converting an image to that format would do for me. > > imagemagick

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and initrd

On Tuesday 09 August 2005 23:43, Joe Rizzo wrote: > Hi- > I am trying to convert to using udev instead of devfs. I need to load a > raid controller module to access to root fs. I am using mkinitrd to > create the initrd, however the root partition is not mounting. > > The driver module is loading

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla & Google behind the scenes payola

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 05:05:34PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:52:10PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > > > http://www.scroogle.org/gscrape.html#ffox > > > > Just wondering if anyone had heard of this. Although, if true, it > > certainly doesn't surprise me with todays

[gentoo-user] Linux comm program

Is anyone aware of a decent comm program for Linux?  Something along the lines of SecureCRT for Windows?  (SecureCRT is a commercial program. There's supposed to be a Linux port in progress but I'd much prefer to use Open Source.) I can't seem to find anything but stuff that was written in th

Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

On 8/9/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fernando Meira schreef:> I've been looking for comments about this process... and I got a little> bit scared.> In my case, i have (in order):>  - /dev/hda1 - 9.8G  windows> - /dev/hda2 - EXTENDED > - /dev/hda5 - 23G   share> - /dev/hda3 - 512Mb sw

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo glibc-2.3.2 install help

CJ Keist wrote: No, Matlab is 3rd part software package. It's not free. Some software companies allow licensed users to build non-free software from sources. It's the least they can do. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] udev and initrd

Hi- I am trying to convert to using udev instead of devfs. I need to load a raid controller module to access to root fs. I am using mkinitrd to create the initrd, however the root partition is not mounting. The driver module is loading but the root partition is not mounting. The partition is fin

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo glibc-2.3.2 install help

No, Matlab is 3rd part software package. It's not free. Zac Medico wrote: CJ Keist wrote: Yes, Running Matlab on current release will just core dump. Also tried the fix on Matlab site where you modify the .matlab7rc.sh file. So I'm thinking it has to be a problem with the new glibc on

Fwd: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Dynamic DNS using Gentoo

-- Forwarded message -- From: Jose Gonzalez Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 09-ago-2005 22:24 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Dynamic DNS using Gentoo To: Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005/8/9, Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jose, > > I'm currently DHCP behind DSL so I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo glibc-2.3.2 install help

CJ Keist wrote: Yes, Running Matlab on current release will just core dump. Also tried the fix on Matlab site where you modify the .matlab7rc.sh file. So I'm thinking it has to be a problem with the new glibc on current releases. This is on Fedora 3 and 4 as well. Fedora 2 sort of work

Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

Fernando Meira schreef: > I've been looking for comments about this process... and I got a little > bit scared. > In my case, i have (in order): > - /dev/hda1 - 9.8G windows > - /dev/hda2 - EXTENDED > - /dev/hda5 - 23G share > - /dev/hda3 - 512Mb swap > - /dev/hda4 - 4.6G gentoo > > So, am I

[gentoo-user] OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

My internal CD-R drive has been experiencing steadily worsening power fluctuations over the past year or so. I haven't been able to write CDs in Windows in months, but until recently could still write them in Gentoo. I ordered a Pacific Digital USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive on August 1 and it came in to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla & Google behind the scenes payola

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:52:10PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > http://www.scroogle.org/gscrape.html#ffox > > Just wondering if anyone had heard of this. Although, if true, it > certainly doesn't surprise me with todays corporate ethics as they are. > Just a bad mark on Mozilla. > I'm trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo glibc-2.3.2 install help

Yes, Running Matlab on current release will just core dump. Also tried the fix on Matlab site where you modify the .matlab7rc.sh file. So I'm thinking it has to be a problem with the new glibc on current releases. This is on Fedora 3 and 4 as well. Fedora 2 sort of works but not well.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Dynamic DNS using Gentoo

2005/8/9, Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > > > I currently have a DSL connection with a fixed IP using a DSL router, > > with an internal network of 4 computers with private DHCP IPs > > > 2. Which is the best dynamic DNS client available in Gentoo, taking > > into accout

Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

On 8/9/05, Sean Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll erase my windows partition and merge it with gentoo's one. I'll > end up with ~15Gb for gentoo... which seems to be fairly acceptable.> In a future stage, I might convert my "share" partition from FAT32 to> a linux like. By the way, I use rei

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo glibc-2.3.2 install help

CJ Keist wrote: Hello all, First time user of Gentoo. We're wanting to run Matlab R14 SP2 64bit mode. According to Matlab site they support the Linux kernel 2.6.x and glibc-2.3.2. Non of the current linux distro (i.e. Fedora) has that old of glibc. So looking at Gentoo thinking I can b

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem updating gcc [SOLVED]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 09:49 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I'm trying to update the software on my server box, but I keep getting > an error when I try to update gcc to 3.3.5.20050130-r1 > > * Configuring GCC with: > --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs > --prefix=/usr >

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:33:27 +0800 Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I too use XFS for my Home Directory. I think I've suffered 1 instance of > curruption in the entire 2 years I've had this laptop. (Touch Wood) > Perhaps I should mention one of the main reasons I use XFS - the tools.

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

On Tuesday 09 August 2005 20:46, Christian Parpart wrote: > However, I once have (accidently!) thrown down one harddrive of mine from > within 60cm distance down while moving to a new tower/rac; I were nearly > crying about, but before, I quickly invoked fsck.xfs on my LVM (which this > disk is pa

[gentoo-user] Gentoo glibc-2.3.2 install help

Hello all, First time user of Gentoo. We're wanting to run Matlab R14 SP2 64bit mode. According to Matlab site they support the Linux kernel 2.6.x and glibc-2.3.2. Non of the current linux distro (i.e. Fedora) has that old of glibc. So looking at Gentoo thinking I can build the Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] BUG? - bridge-utils no binary?

Hi, ...SKIP... > > Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > >> Hello >> >> I am building a linux AP using a clean installation of gentoo and this >> howto: >> >> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Building_a_Wireless_Access_Point_With_Gentoo >> >> >> Everything was going great until I came to emerging bridge-utils. >> >

[gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla & Google behind the scenes payola

http://www.scroogle.org/gscrape.html#ffox Just wondering if anyone had heard of this. Although, if true, it certainly doesn't surprise me with todays corporate ethics as they are. Just a bad mark on Mozilla. John -- Contrary to the lie machine, the world is not safer. pgph2dnfZQiXY.pgp Descri

[gentoo-user] 'Cannot run in framebuffer mode'

C.Beamer wrote: > However, x still won't start and I get the message 'Cannot run > in framebuffer mode'. Well, what does your xorg.conf look like? And the relevant things in the Xorg log and the kernel config? In short, the output of the following commands: cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf egrep "WW

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

On Tuesday 09 August 2005 20:14, Billy Holmes wrote: [] > I use ext3 on an external harddrive, as I believe in the data recovery > aspects of ext3. For my desktop machines, I use xfs. For servers, I use > ext3 unless I really feel I need the extra performance, then I use xfs. You really *do* s

Re: [gentoo-user] NCFTP in passive mode...

Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Can anyone see where I'm going wrong. I'm behind a NAT box which precludes my use of active-FTP but not passive. I have verified this both with Windows based FTP clients and with the latest unmasked "vanilla" ftp from portage. When I try to use ncftp, however, I run in

Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

On 8/8/05, *Sean Reiser* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: mmhmm... the webcam / video-conference stuff is not something I have much expirience with either, sorry to say. As far as the other software is concerned I would look at the crossover office fork of

Re: [gentoo-user] tomcat5 & sun-jdk issue

Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: I seem to remember that after installing NPTL (Native Posix Thread Library) support a Java virtual machine with all its threads maps to just one linux process, so you would stop seeing that many processes every time I can confirm this. I run the blackdown jdk, and wit

Re: [gentoo-user] 16 colours xpm

On 08 August 2005 18:50, Paul Raison wrote: > Use The GIMP I solved it with "convert" from ImageMagick as pointed out by someone else. Tell me, how to you tell The GIMP to save as xpm with 16 colours and one character per pixel? It simply doesn't do it. :-( Uwe > > Uwe Thiem wrote: > >Anybody

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

Richard Fish wrote: In the last year, I have run XFS, reiserfs v3, and ext3 on my laptop. I I've ran xfs, jfs, reiserfs v3 and v4, and ext3. jfs on a firewire drive is a bad idea. When it crashes, it crashes hard. No amount of recovery was helpful. In the end, a week old backup, and a refo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Dynamic DNS using Gentoo

Le 09 août à 18:51:15 Jose Gonzalez Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: | Hi there, Hi Jose, | | I currently have a DSL connection with a fixed IP using a DSL router, | with an internal network of 4 computers with private DHCP IPs (except | the server, with fixed private IP). Now I'm cons

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Dynamic DNS using Gentoo

On Tuesday 09 August 2005 19:02, Jarry wrote: > I'm facing the opposite problem: I have gentoo-server with bind running > (with static IP, outside of my home network) and I'm looking for the way > my home router (asus wl500g) with dyn-ip could use it as dyddns instead > of dyndns.org... Heya, I fa

Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

Hi again Sean, thanks for answering (as well the others :)) more questions: On 8/8/05, Sean Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mmhmm... the webcam / video-conference stuff is not something I havemuch expirience with either, sorry to say.  As far as the other software is concerned I would look at th

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Dynamic DNS using Gentoo

Jose, I'm currently DHCP behind DSL so I have the kind of setup you're looking at. Apart from the obvious configuration things you'll have some other things to keep in mind, like who is doing the DHCP negotiation for the IP address? If the router is, it must be able to interact with the dynamic d

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Dynamic DNS using Gentoo

Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: I currently have a DSL connection with a fixed IP using a DSL router, with an internal network of 4 computers with private DHCP IPs 2. Which is the best dynamic DNS client available in Gentoo, taking into accout that it must be able to discover the DSL router's dyn

[gentoo-user] [OT?] Dynamic DNS using Gentoo

Hi there, I currently have a DSL connection with a fixed IP using a DSL router, with an internal network of 4 computers with private DHCP IPs (except the server, with fixed private IP). Now I'm considering changing to another provider with dynamic IPs. I have three domains hosted in my SOHO server

[gentoo-user] NCFTP in passive mode...

Can anyone see where I'm going wrong. I'm behind a NAT box which precludes my use of active-FTP but not passive. I have verified this both with Windows based FTP clients and with the latest unmasked "vanilla" ftp from portage. When I try to use ncftp, however, I run into difficulties: -- N

Re: [gentoo-user] tomcat5 & sun-jdk issue

2005/8/9, Andreas Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 8/9/05, Covington, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running www-servers/tomcat-5.0.28-r4 net-www/apache-2.0.54-r13 and > > dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.08-r1. Though tomcat works fine, for some reason > > I have 56 java processes running ea

Re: [gentoo-user] tomcat5 & sun-jdk issue

On 8/9/05, Covington, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running www-servers/tomcat-5.0.28-r4 net-www/apache-2.0.54-r13 and > dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.08-r1. Though tomcat works fine, for some reason > I have 56 java processes running each time I restart tomcat? Anyone > know how this could be?

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 08:09:41 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > Thanks for the correction. I'm trying to figure out what I read that > led me to believe reiserfs could not be shrunk Probably the output from resize_reiserfs when you try to shrink. Dire warnings about beta-quality software and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

Neil Bothwick wrote: Reiserfs V3: Excellent performance for _some_operations, slower performance for others. Also can only be grown. That's not correct. resize_reiserfs can shrink as well as grown, but the filesystem must be unmounted. Thanks for the correction. I'm trying to figur

[gentoo-user] Problem updating gcc

I'm trying to update the software on my server box, but I keep getting an error when I try to update gcc to 3.3.5.20050130-r1 * Configuring GCC with: --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/i586-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3.5-20050130 --includedir=/u

Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.

* A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-07 18:51]: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >With vimdiff how do yo make the actual changes? Can you somehow > > tell it to apply certain lines from file2 to file1 or do you have to > > copy and paste by hand? > > If there are minor change

Re: [gentoo-user] BUG? - bridge-utils no binary?

Check the emerge logs and see what files were copied where (the part where it's like /usr/bin/brctl - or whatever). It may be that the command is slightly different with this version. *shrugs* Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Hello I am building a linux AP using a clean installation of gentoo and this h

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 10:42:42 -0300, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > > That's not correct. resize_reiserfs can shrink as well as grow, but > > the filesystem must be unmounted. > > That's not orrect. resize_reiserfs can resize with the filesystem > mounted. It can grow but not shrink while mounted. I was

[gentoo-user] BUG? - bridge-utils no binary?

Hello I am building a linux AP using a clean installation of gentoo and this howto: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Building_a_Wireless_Access_Point_With_Gentoo Everything was going great until I came to emerging bridge-utils. the actual emerging didnt fail (using "emerge bridge-utils -av") but ty

[gentoo-user] tomcat5 & sun-jdk issue

I'm running www-servers/tomcat-5.0.28-r4 net-www/apache-2.0.54-r13 and dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.08-r1. Though tomcat works fine, for some reason I have 56 java processes running each time I restart tomcat? Anyone know how this could be? Here's a ps -ef | grep java: tomcat 29270 1 0 Aug08 ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

Am Dienstag, 9. August 2005 15:42 schrieb ext Mauro Faccenda: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 20:24:31 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > >>Reiserfs V3: Excellent performance for _some_operations, slower > >>performance for others. Also can only be grown. > > > > That's not correct. resiz

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

On Tuesday 09 August 2005 14:42, Mauro Faccenda wrote: > >>Reiserfs V3: Excellent performance for _some_operations, slower > >>performance for others.  Also can only be grown. > > > > That's not correct. resize_reiserfs can shrink as well as grown, but the > > filesystem must be unmounted. > > That

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 20:24:31 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: >>Reiserfs V3: Excellent performance for _some_operations, slower >>performance for others. Also can only be grown. > > > That's not correct. resize_reiserfs can shrink as well as grown, but the > filesystem must be

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

On 8/9/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snip) > XFS is good for a laptop as it is less likely to suffer a sudden failure > than a desktop, the battery acts as a UPS. As long as you run some sort > of battery monitor that shuts the computer down cleanly when battery > levels become cr

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with tape autochanger

Am Dienstag, 9. August 2005 15:22 schrieb ext Jose Gonzalez Gomez: > Hi there, > > I'm trying to setup a backup system using an HP SureStore 40x6, but > this is the first time I'm using tapes under Linux and I'm a bit lost. > It seems my system has not detected the tape autochanger, as I only > ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Gentoo Install - but some progress

On Tuesday 09 August 2005 08:13 am, C.Beamer wrote: > Hi All, > > When I previously posted and got the response below, it may as well > have been hieroglyphics because I had no idea what Bob was talking > about. However, when I went back to square one and got to the point > of compiling the kernel

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with tape autochanger

2005/8/9, Jose Gonzalez Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi there, > > I'm trying to setup a backup system using an HP SureStore 40x6, but > this is the first time I'm using tapes under Linux and I'm a bit lost. > > It seems I cannot access the tapes, as I get the following: > cognos ~ # mt -f /dev/n

[gentoo-user] Problem with tape autochanger

Hi there, I'm trying to setup a backup system using an HP SureStore 40x6, but this is the first time I'm using tapes under Linux and I'm a bit lost. It seems I cannot access the tapes, as I get the following: cognos ~ # mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind /dev/nst0: No such device or address cognos ~ # mt -f

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] What's going on with X.org?

Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 12:32:08 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>Does anyone know where there might be a summary of what this means to a >>user generally, or a Gentoo user specifically? The information on the >>freedesktop site is more targeted at developers, which doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] eterm issue

YoYo siska wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:01:09AM +0200, Arek Murzyn wrote: - Original Message - From: "Bob Sanders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 2:52 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eterm issue On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:58:11 +0200 "Arek Murzyn" <[E

Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Gentoo Install - but some progress

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, When I previously posted and got the response below, it may as well have been hieroglyphics because I had no idea what Bob was talking about. However, when I went back to square one and got to the point of compiling the kernel, I still used g

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

Norberto Bensa wrote: Christoph Gysin wrote: What makes you believe this has something to do with /tmp? he's using a pipe (stdin | stdout) What have pipes to do with /tmp? A pipe is nothing more than a buffer (in memory) between two processes. If there's not enough memory, the buffer coul

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] What's going on with X.org?

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 12:32:08 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Does anyone know where there might be a summary of what this means to a > user generally, or a Gentoo user specifically? The information on the > freedesktop site is more targeted at developers, which doesn't so much > help me, especially

[gentoo-user] [OT?] What's going on with X.org?

Hey, all-- I just did an esync and I have a *huge* number of X.org-related masked packages-- from a whole lot of 'Prototype headers', to fonts, libraries, and drivers. Clearly there's big changes a-coming. Oh, I see-- this is modular X.org, I guess. Does anyone know where there might be a summar

Re: [gentoo-user] Resuming operations after suspend.

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 06:22 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > Pupeno wrote: > > >Hello, > >I am tryngi to get suspend to ram working on my IBM Thinkpad G40 but I can't > >get it to turn on agan. I am able to put it on suspend with klaptop, by > >hand, > >or by closing it and this script: > >http://

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 18:30 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: > On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:40:36 +0200 > Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > What filesystem(s) do you recommend for use on a notebook? > > I'm looking for a FS that's fairly stable even if all of a > > sudden the pow

Re: [gentoo-user] sha1sum of cd

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Well, readcd works well for a cd while dd and cat do not. ;-) The ls /etc hang and segaufault sounds like a unionfs problem (known bugs). If you do dmesg|tail you will probabably see evidence of a unionfs error/oops. I've been using a unionfs snapshot f

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 20:24:31 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > In the last year, I have run XFS, reiserfs v3, and ext3 on my laptop. > I mostly agree with you, although XFS doesn't really replace entire > files with zeros, just blocks that have been allocated but not written > with actual data...so /va

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

Walter Dnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 5 August 2005 11:41 PM > Even with that background, my transition to Gentoo wasn't 100% smooth. >If I had tried jumping from Windows direct to Gentoo, without 4+ years >of linux usage, I would've been lost. I think you are assuming that a Gentoo