>
>
> As noted, is there a minimum bs size for dd?
>
It seems that you can set bs as small as 1.
512 is the default because of HDD block size which used to be 512 bytes for
more than 30 years (before advanced format was invented)
>
On 2021-05-15 at 16:19, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> As noted, is there a minimum bs size for dd?
Yes: 1. dd will not accept a block size of 0, never mind a negative
block size. You can try it yourself:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/1zerobyte bs=1 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1 byte copied, 0.00
Bob Bernstein writes:
As noted, is there a minimum bs size for dd?
AFAIK its one byte.
HTH
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As noted, is there a minimum bs size for dd?
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On Sat, 15 May 2021 Richard Owlett wrote:
I have disabled auto-mounting of removable media on my Stretch
install with MATE.
Here was Brian's advice for doing this on jessie with MATE:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/09/msg01077.html
[...]
Try
gsettings set org.mate.media-handli
Hi,
Richard Owlett wrote:
> IIRC there was a limit on the number of loop devices created {8?}.
> Is there any default limit now?
That would be
man losetup
and
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt
The former seems to tell no limitation.
The latter lists "loopback d
Le Sat, 15 May 2021 11:07:06 +0200,
Nicolas FRANCOIS a écrit :
> Hi.
>
> I have an old application, MuPAD 4.0.6, that I was able to launch on
> my previous Debian installations, mais with the last installation
> (Debian 10.9), I can't seem to be able to do this anymore.
I managed to copy the in
Running Bullseye with XFCE. light-locker is running.
When the PC is locked, by default it is the username field that has focus
rather than the password field. Most screen lockers focus on the password
field. If I just start typing my password, it appears in the username
field and is in plain text
On 05/15/2021 07:18 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Richard Owlett wrote:
I don't grok loop devices. [...]
Also the article I read evidently took advantage of "mount" being able to
loop mount without the loop option being explicitly referenced.
Yes. mount is smart enough to see that your "devic
Hi,
Richard Owlett wrote:
> I don't grok loop devices. [...]
> Also the article I read evidently took advantage of "mount" being able to
> loop mount without the loop option being explicitly referenced.
Yes. mount is smart enough to see that your "device" is a data file and
that it has to use a l
I have disabled auto-mounting of removable media on my Stretch install
with MATE.
I wish to do the same with my new Buster machine.
I've forgotten how and Google etc gives plethora of irrelevant hits.
Help please.
TIA
Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote:
> So I'm stuck. The 32 bits architecture is set (for Steam), so this
> could'nt be the problem? And it used to work on Debian 10...
>
> If someone has an idea, I'm all ears :-)
AFAIK Debian 11 does not offer Qt4 which obviously is used by the app.
Perhaps consider using
On 05/12/2021 02:05 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I've seen a reference to using the ISO file of DVDnn in a sources.list .
I remember that it gets identified as being ISO9660 and labeled as
trusted, But I can't find a detailed example. All I find are references
to unpacking the iso to a directory w
Hi.
I have an old application, MuPAD 4.0.6, that I was able to launch on my
previous Debian installations, mais with the last installation (Debian
10.9), I can't seem to be able to do this anymore.
In folder /opt/MuPAD-406, there is a linux folder with bin/mupad
binary, and lib/several_32bits_lib
On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 08:11:49AM +, Curt wrote:
[...]
> It wasn't near wordplay; it was definitely a *calembour*.
Ooooh, a new word: thanks for the gift :)
Cheers
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On 2021-05-11, wrote:
>
> That is so near a wordplay that I wonder whether it was
> intentional. Envelopers who use developes?
>
To develop is to free from that which envelops; envelop denotes to
enclose or enfold whereas develop means to unfold, make visible.
The two terms in their primary sens
[...]
> I added:
>
>
> user_pref("mail.identity.id1.headers", "archive");
> user_pref("mail.identity.id1.header.archive", "X-No-Archive: yes");
[...]
I quote part of the headers I see in your mail:
| User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101
| Thund
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 08:13:56PM +0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
Groups.io are not official Thunderbird mailing lists. Anybody can
create a Debian-devel mailing list on groups.io.
debian-user is not an official Thunderbird list either. At least
everyone on those groups.io lists will be familiar
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