Re: lvm2 size of logical volume after lvcreate --size 348g after mkfs.ext3 -m 0 is only 343 gigabytes?

2013-02-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Mitchell Laks wrote: > I agree Bob. I was just suprised at how much space 5-6GB is eaten up > by the overhead. I have several 8G USB drives and remember using 5 > 1/4 inch drives. To throw away 5 gb Yes, but... You shouldn't think of it that way. > even though it is only 1.42% of the drive as fo

Re: lvm2 size of logical volume after lvcreate --size 348g after mkfs.ext3 -m 0 is only 343 gigabytes?

2013-02-14 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 17:31 Thu 14 Feb , Bob Proulx wrote: > Times change so this info may be out of date with the newer > filesystems but at one time journal filesystems needed filesystem > space for the journal and also space needs to be allocated for the > inodes. (See 'df -i' output.) I assume LVM will need

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 02:41:47PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On 13/02/13 14:32, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > On 2/12/2013 4:43 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > >> Assumed you'll build a fence, 10m long and every 1m there should be 1 > >> fence post, how many fence posts do you need? > >> > > > > 11 :

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 03:35:01PM +0100, Alois Mahdal wrote: > > (Finally, as we know, there's only 10 kinds of people...) Yeah, those that put people into categories and those that don't :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and

Ultimos 5 Lugares - Licitaciones Electronicas Compranet 5.0

2013-02-14 Thread Lic. Estephany Dominguez
Licitaciones Electrónicas - COMPRANET 5.0 La transición de la plataforma CompraNet de su versión 3.0 a la 5.0 le permitirá ubicar, promover y administrar sus licitaciones de una manera mucho más ágil, directa e interactiva, lo cual se traduce en procesos mucho más eficientes para usted y su com

Re: lvm2 size of logical volume after lvcreate --size 348g after mkfs.ext3 -m 0 is only 343 gigabytes?

2013-02-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi I am trying to backup a volume which has size 347G. So I thought > ... > only shows 343G instead of 348G. > ... > So my question is where have those extra 5G gone to? Times change so this info may be out of date with the newer filesystems but at one time journal filesyste

Re: Firefox under Squeeze

2013-02-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Klaus Jantzen wrote: > I succeeded in installing the release version of iceweasel following > the instructions on > http://mozilla.debian.net. > The version is 10; is that equivalent to firefox version 18? Version 10 is the ESR version. That is the Extended Support Release version explain

Re: FW: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-14 Thread Richard Hector
On 14/02/13 20:18, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hello Ralf, > > Totaly ignoring the other part of your mail but I could not skip over the > this part where I have an ever "better" solution to all the answers given. ;-) > >> Assumed you'll build a fence, 10m long and every 1m there should be 1 fence >

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Ralf Mardorf a écrit : > On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 09:50 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Mi, 13 feb 13, 14:08:15, Richard Hector wrote: >>> Abusing the standard prefixes like that was always a horrible hack. >> +1 >> >> It's also a major source of confusion for many users. Agreed. And now there are

Re: lvm2 size of logical volume after lvcreate --size 348g after mkfs.ext3 -m 0 is only 343 gigabytes?

2013-02-14 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 20:34 Thu 14 Feb, emmanuel segura wrote: >> >> man tune2fs >> >> -r reserved-blocks-count >> Set the number of reserved filesystem blocks. >> >> be careful with filesystem reserved block, one time i had a production >>

Re: lvm2 size of logical volume after lvcreate --size 348g after mkfs.ext3 -m 0 is only 343 gigabytes?

2013-02-14 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 20:34 Thu 14 Feb , emmanuel segura wrote: > man tune2fs > > -r reserved-blocks-count > Set the number of reserved filesystem blocks. > > be careful with filesystem reserved block, one time i had a production > server with / corrupted > I have a very specific use here.

Re: lvm2 size of logical volume after lvcreate --size 348g after mkfs.ext3 -m 0 is only 343 gigabytes?

2013-02-14 Thread emmanuel segura
man tune2fs -r reserved-blocks-count Set the number of reserved filesystem blocks. be careful with filesystem reserved block, one time i had a production server with / corrupted Thanks 2013/2/14 Mitchell Laks > > Hi I am trying to backup a volume which has size 347G. So I

lvm2 size of logical volume after lvcreate --size 348g after mkfs.ext3 -m 0 is only 343 gigabytes?

2013-02-14 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi I am trying to backup a volume which has size 347G. So I thought to use lvm2. So I created a volumeby lvcreate -n test --size 348G my-volume I thought I would be giving myself an extra Gigabyte there :). then i did mkfs.ext3 -m0 /dev/my-volume/test then when I mounted the device mount /dev/

Re: Firefox under Squeeze

2013-02-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Klaus Jantzen wrote: > Hello, > > after having successfully solved the various library problems I get the > following message > when trying to install firefox 18 under Squeeze (Debian 6.0.6) > > XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /root/firefox/libxpcom.so: > libxul.so: c

Re: Firefox under Squeeze

2013-02-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Oops you CCed to the list and I already started replying in German :(. [1] Strange, the MUA filter should have noticed that the list is CCed and moved this mail to the Debian folder, but it didn't. http://linux.die.net/man/8/ldconfig Regards, Ralf [1] > I ran ldconfig with different options but

testing-USB NTFS mount:NTFS-3G problem

2013-02-14 Thread Hormatzhan Yiltiz
In a fresh installed Debain Weekly Build amd64 CD1 system leaving anything in the installer by default, when I plug in a 1T 3.5 USB 3.0 SATA HDD Drive formatted as NTFS, I got this warning: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with: Unprivileged user can not mount NTFS bloc

Re: how to deliver local mail to /var/mail ?

2013-02-14 Thread Chen Wei
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:08:52AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > I prefer to deliver everything to my Maildir+, but as far as I recall > maildrop will deliver to a Maildir only when you append a '/' to the > mailbox name, otherwise it uses mbox. See maildropfilter(7). > Thanks, it works! Now I

Re: Firefox under Squeeze

2013-02-14 Thread Klaus Jantzen
Bob Proulx wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Klaus Jantzen wrote: Or is 'Iceweasel esr' that is recommended for installation equivalent to Firefox 18? Oh, I just realized that you don't know about the ESR version and that I should have explained it too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

Re: Wifi connection to Canon Pixma MG5320

2013-02-14 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi,the problem is solved.Silly me! I should run scangearmp instaed of running xsane, scangearmp brings a graphical interface and everything works like a charm Sebastian Canagaratna On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Sebastian Canagaratna < s-canagara...@onu.edu> wrote: > Hi: I am using aptosid (u

Re: Firefox under Squeeze

2013-02-14 Thread Klaus Jantzen
Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-02-09 at 17:39 +0100, Klaus Jantzen wrote: XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /root/firefox/libxpcom.so: libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM. That is strange as 'libuxl.so' was extracted from the installation tar

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 09:50 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 13 feb 13, 14:08:15, Richard Hector wrote: > > On 12/02/13 22:43, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > My machine has got 4GB RAM too, but only 1,000,000,000 hex-bytes ;p. > > > Serious, there is no other correct sum than 4,294,967,296 byt

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2013 #160

2013-02-14 Thread Morel Bérenger
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Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2013 #160

2013-02-14 Thread David Dartnall
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Re: windows decoration in Debian 7

2013-02-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 12 feb 13, 00:25:59, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > I was simply saying that I do not know very well the linux graphical > layers, but, AFAIK, it is possible to simplify it like that: > _ linux kernel and it's drivers > _ graphical server (probably Xorg but could be wayland) > _ t

Re: how to deliver local mail to /var/mail ?

2013-02-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 14 feb 13, 12:51:46, Chen Wei wrote: > > I still don't know if it possible to config maildrop deliver mail to > /var/mail. I prefer to deliver everything to my Maildir+, but as far as I recall maildrop will deliver to a Maildir only when you append a '/' to the mailbox name, otherwise it

Re: Poll GNOME 3 + Shell usage

2013-02-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 11 feb 13, 16:11:00, Gernot Super wrote: > Dear fellow debian-users, > > since there are no concrete numbers how many people actually use > GNOME 3 with Gnome-Shell (in debian) i set up a poll to get an > impression. Thanks for taking the time! > > http://poll.pollcode.com/v4czi8 Well, th

Re: XFCE application shortcuts

2013-02-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 11 feb 13, 15:53:28, Lucio Crusca wrote: > Claudius Hubig wrote: > > > It doesn’t complain, it waits for you to press the keys you want as a > > shortcut :) > > ROTFL. If I weren't the only one in the world not understanding it myself, > I'd say it's not very intuitive, but being alone I