On 10/28/24 08:46, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 10:13 PM David Christensen <
dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
On 10/27/24 13:19, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 09:36:32 -0700
David Christensen wrote:
To allow the Sensor plugin access to har
On 10/27/24 13:19, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 09:36:32 -0700
David Christensen wrote:
To allow the Sensor plugin access to hard disk temperatures, I have
set the set-user-ID bit on hddtemp(8):
# chmod u+s /usr/sbin/hddtemp
hddtemp has been superseded by a kernel module
On 10/26/24 22:11, Corey wrote:
where shall i check the CPU temperature in command line?
my dell laptop gets hot and hot when debian run for some time. do you think
it's due to cpu too busy?
Thanks.
My current daily driver is a Dell PowerEdge T30 Xeon E3-1225 v5:
2024-10-27 08:28:10 root@la
On 10/20/24 10:51, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
I have here an Ancel BA101 battery tester, discovered by way of a YT video, and it's proved to be
a handy gadget to have. In the "user manual" for this device (available online) it talks
about the ability to print the data. Which requires you t
On 10/20/24 13:00, William Torrez Corea wrote:
I am trying to boot my USB but this device is unrecognizable for the BIOS.
How can I convert filesystems through DD?
I want to save a copy of the file in MSDOS or GPT.
What is the make and model of your computer?
What is the make and model of
On 10/16/24 21:59, William Torrez Corea wrote:
What happened with my CMOS battery?
I buy a new CMOS battery, replace the old battery and configure the
date/hour through the BIOS, save the configuration and restart the machine.
Start the operating system, the system loads but then restart and th
On 10/4/24 04:47, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 10/03/2024 06:34 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 10/3/24 05:51, Richard Owlett wrote:
Is there standard/recommended location for an executable to be used
by only a one user?
In my case it should be under /home/richard/ .
But where?
It would help if
On 10/3/24 05:51, Richard Owlett wrote:
Is there standard/recommended location for an executable to be used by
only a one user?
In my case it should be under /home/richard/ .
But where?
TIA
It would help if you told us about the executable and the context for
its use -- e.g. self-contain b
On 9/30/24 09:39, Default User wrote:
Hi!
On a thread at another mailing list, someone mentioned that they, each
day, alternate doing backups between two external usb drives. That got
me to thinking (which is always dangerous) . . .
I have a full backup on usb external drive A, "refreshed" dail
On 9/20/24 07:52, Richard Owlett wrote:
Having machines with different constraints I have downloaded DVD1 and
Netinst ISO's. I have flash drives with obsolete ISO's. For reference I
have [ https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb ] available.
Questions:
1. Do the flash drives require any prep?
On 9/16/24 03:32, Anssi Saari wrote:
Will Mengarini writes:
ViewSonic 15E
Isn't that a CRT from the '90s? So you have some adapter for HDMI? Is
there really no other monitor you could use?
I tried using a search engine and came up empty:
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=site%3AViewSon
On 9/15/24 16:12, Will Mengarini wrote:
I am trying to install Debian on a new prebuilt, but when I
boot and press , the screen is garbled. Windows later
figures it out, but by that time it's too late to tell the
BIOS to boot from a USB stick on which I've installed netinst.
The mobo is a Gigab
On 9/13/24 12:06, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
To add a datapoint...
My daily driver workstation is really fast with lots of RAM. It has
3.4 GHz cpu and 64 GB of RAM. I also set swappiness to a low value
to avoid spilling out of RAM.
I use a lot of SBC's/dev boards for testing. They usually use a
S
debian-user:
I had the need to zero-fill a Seagate Constellation ES.2 3 TB SATA
magnetic hard disk drive using an Intel DQ67SW motherboard, Intel Core
i7-2600S processor, 8 GB dual-channel memory, StarTech PEXSAT32 adapter,
and Debian:
2024-09-08 08:05:02 root@bullseye-bios
~/hardware/seaga
On 9/7/24 08:50, Richard Owlett wrote:
This started with be exploring "regular expressions".
I discovered some tutorials that were using Bash in their samples.
One {lost the reference at the moment} was almost a match for a real
world problem I have.
But I've not used Bash in eons and have for
On 9/1/24 03:15, Richard Owlett wrote:
Lenovo R61 ThinkPad
Debian 10.0 MATE 1.20.4
The screen automatically dims when AC removed.
System->Hardware->Power Management->OnBatteryPower->Display
"Reduce backlight brightness" & "Dim display when idle" unchecked
Any where else to look?
TIA
Check the
On 9/1/24 06:15, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sun, Sep 01, 2024 at 01:19:45 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
On 8/31/24 23:16, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 11:15 PM David Christensen wrote:
On 8/30/24 20:48, John Conover wrote:
What does a "debian ... amd64-netinst.is
On 8/31/24 23:16, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 11:15 PM David Christensen wrote:
On 8/30/24 20:48, John Conover wrote:
What does a "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso" do
with an .iso?
When I input that string into a computer running Debian, it produces an
err
On 8/30/24 20:48, John Conover wrote:
What does a "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso" do
with an .iso?
When I input that string into a computer running Debian, it produces an
error message:
2024-08-31 13:07:57 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ echo $PS1 ; cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a
\n\D{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:
On 8/25/24 20:39, Will Mengarini wrote:
I need to buy a new desktop tower, which means
it'll have Windows installed. I haven't used
Windows since the 90s, so need some guidance.
A special complication is that I just had a computer
apocalypse in which a Power Surge From Hell nuked
*everything*,
On 8/19/24 04:19, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm over 80 and doing first "from scratch" install since Squeeze ;}
Hardware is Lenovo R61 ThinkPad (64 bit).
I multi boot [Grub will have at least three options]:
1. minimalist installation - primarily command line usage
2. 64 bit Debian with maximum
On 8/19/24 15:33, Bob Mroczka wrote:
Hello,
I attempted to upgrade my system from debian 11 to 12 following the
instructions provided at
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/update-upgrade-debian-11-to-debian-12-bookworm.
I got to the point of executing the command at step 6 to do sudo apt
full-upgrade
On 7/17/24 20:13, Erik Eduardo Alcala Salero wrote:
Good day,
I have been using Debian 12 stable in my dell vostro 15 3530, I wanted to ask
if some one else is using this machine or having issues with the keyboard, I
have manjaro installed also, when I boot and see the manjaro boot-loader the
On 7/14/24 00:57, Richard Bostrom wrote:
Executing this script halts it after the tar with the following message.
--
#!/bin/sh
tar -zcvf bak.tar.gz /home/user/Documents &&
gpg -r backup@user.local -e bak.tar.gz &&
rm -rf bak.tar.gz &&
rsync -vac --delete /home/user/Documents/bak.tar.gz.gpg /medi
On 7/9/24 23:34, Richard Bostrom wrote:
I cannot update my passphrase in crypttab although the passphrase is updated in
the OS I cannot enter my OS without using the latest passphrase.
Yours sincerely
Richardh Bostrom
Passphrases in crypttab(5) are for disks, disk partitions, virtual
device
On 7/5/24 19:06, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 7/5/24 21:14, George at Clug wrote:
Thank you for your replies.
The underlying issue appears to be that my old-school Linux console
network administration skills have been rendered obsolete by systemd and
NetworkManager. I typically install Xfce whe
On 7/4/24 21:08, Felix Miata wrote:
On 7/4/24 21:10, jeremy ardley wrote:
On 7/5/24 11:44, Franco Martelli wrote:
Thank you all for the replies.
I can find no statement in The Debian Administrator's Handbook regarding
disabling DHCP when using a static IP:
https://www.debian.org/doc/ma
On 7/4/24 19:30, Felix Miata wrote:
David Christensen composed on 2024-07-04 19:06 (UTC-0700):
I have built a VirtualBox virtual machine and installed Debian 11 with
SSH server and standard system utilities only. I plan to use the VM to
run the UniFi Network Controller to manage the UniFi
debian-user:
I have built a VirtualBox virtual machine and installed Debian 11 with
SSH server and standard system utilities only. I plan to use the VM to
run the UniFi Network Controller to manage the UniFi equipment on my
SOHO LAN:
root@unifi:~# cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a
11.10
Li
On 6/30/24 08:37, Andy Smith wrote:
Thank you for that informative discussion of rsnapshot(1) and related. :-)
My initial reaction to this thread was to recommend Preston [1]. I
still think that is decent advice; both for noobs and for experienced
people who missed it.
David
[1] Pre
On 6/29/24 10:01, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
On 06/29/2024 12:28 PM, Darac Marjal wrote:
On 29/06/2024 15:13, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
I have just restated by Xfce4 user on my Bookworm system and find
that I can no longer resize some of the apps on the desktop and the
icons in the upper right
On 6/28/24 10:20, dewey rahn wrote:
When I used to use Debian when a new release came out (like from 10 to 11) you
had to completely reinstall the operation system. Is that the case now?
I have invested myself in backup, recovery, and version control/
configuration management. So, a major v
On 6/22/24 11:33, Dmitrii Odintcov wrote:
Hi all,
Sorry to resurrect an old-ish thread, but I am facing the exact same
task, minus the know-how.
Basically I am looking to pre-configure a number of Debian setups -
let's say, "server", "laptop" and "PC" - that would contain sets of
packages to i
configuration is comfortable
(i.e. useful).
I have 2 other laptops which will have something >= Debian 12 before I
abandon this machine.
On 6/22/24 10:49, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 06/22/2024 12:13 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> On 6/22/24 09:57, David Christensen wrote:
>>> R
On 6/22/24 04:43, Richard Owlett wrote:
Thank you for reminding me of live images just now. Perfect timing.
I have an i386 machine with some atypical constraints.
https://www.debian.org/CD/live/ states only amd64 images are currently
available.
Questions:
1. What is latest i386 live image a
On 6/20/24 19:10, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 20/06/2024 12:06, David Christensen wrote:
You can use the fdisk(8) command to list the partitions on a drive.
lsblk --fs
perhaps with "-o +SIZE" may be more convenient to get overview of drives.
The debian-11.9.0-amd64-netinst rescue shel
On 6/19/24 13:45, Ram Ramesh wrote:
Hi,
I have my monitor, keyboard and mouse shared through a KVM switch.
One host is Linux Debian bookworm 12.5 and another is laptop running
Windows 11. When I leave KVM on the laptop side for extended period I
have issues switching back to Debian side. W
On 6/19/24 12:23, Heriberto Avelino wrote:
On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 9:04 AM Heriberto Avelino wrote:
Is it possible to mount an external hard drive while running Debian in
rescue mode?
Furthermore, the ultimate question is how could I copy folders from the
computer's hard drive to the external on
On 6/19/24 08:04, Heriberto Avelino wrote:
Dear all:
Is it possible to mount an external hard drive while running Debian in
rescue mode?
Yes.
Furthermore, the ultimate question is how could I copy folders from the
computer's hard drive to the external one while in rescue mode?
Many thanks!!
On 6/12/24 15:54, Greg Marks wrote:
I'm running a Debian server from my home with a static IP address,
with ssh configured to use key-based authentication rather than
password-based. As of a couple weeks ago, I have been unable to ssh to
my server from external locations. When I ssh from a lapt
On 6/8/24 12:13, gene heskett wrote:
On 6/8/24 03:22, David Christensen wrote:
If you installed VirtualBox on your Debian primary workstation, you
could create one Debian VM for each of your engineering/ manufacturing
apps. This would give each app a clean Debian VM for installation,
prevent
On 6/7/24 22:41, gene heskett wrote:
I OTOH, have found AppImages a good way to get uptodate, and keep
uptodate, packages like OpenSCAD, FreeCAD and the miriad 3d slicers,
most of which do a new AppImage in the first week of the month. So the
OpenSCAD I'm running is nearly 4 years newer than th
On 6/6/24 22:14, gene heskett wrote:
In experimenting I've found a name clash, there are appprently two
orca's. one is a speech synth, one is a slicer for 3d printers I don't
use. Typing orca in a shell locks the shell wo any output, for several
minutes but comes back to a prompt with a ctl-c,
On 6/5/24 08:21, gene heskett wrote:>
But in asking how to get rid of [orca], the subject
is always changed and I always get re-install instructions.
Because that is the most practical and correct answer for your
situation; especially given the disk access issues.
AIUI assistive technol
https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user%40lists.debian.org/msg779582.html
Gene Heskett Fri, 18 Feb 2022 09:14:03 -0800
> On 2/19/22 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On 6/4/24 03:26, gene heskett wrote:
How much longer till trixie is officially out?? What you are proposing
sounds like seve
On 6/2/24 21:35, DdB wrote:
Am 02.06.2024 um 02:41 schrieb DdB:
Will share my findings, once i made more progress...
Here is what i've got before utilizing it:
datakanja@PBuster-NFox:/mnt/tmp$ cat test
#!/bin/bash -e
# testing usefulness of coprocess to control host and backup machine from
On 6/1/24 00:20, DdB wrote:
Hello,
for years have i been using a self-made backup script, that did mount a
drive via USB, performed all kinds of plausibility checks, before
actually backing up incrementally. Finally verifying success and logging
the activities while kicking the ISB drive out.
S
On 5/30/24 03:14, Roger Price wrote:
On Wed, 29 May 2024, David Christensen wrote:
On 5/29/24 03:36, Roger Price wrote:
On Tue, 28 May 2024, David Christensen wrote:
On 5/28/24 00:28, Roger Price wrote:
I wired my place Cat5. A lot of work, and I regretted it. I live
in the hills behind
On 5/29/24 03:36, Roger Price wrote:
On Tue, 28 May 2024, David Christensen wrote:
On 5/28/24 00:28, Roger Price wrote:
I wired my place Cat5. A lot of work, and I regretted it. I live in
the hills behind Nice, an area with a lot of lightning. The overhead
line to my place took a hit and
On 5/28/24 17:10, John Hasler wrote:
David writes:
AIUI in the USA for residential 120/240V single-phase three-wire service
drops, electrical utilities either run all three phases along the
distribution line or they run two phases. Running one phase and a neutral
instead of two phases would red
On 5/28/24 12:47, gene heskett wrote:
On 5/28/24 15:29, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
On Tuesday 28 May 2024 01:49:52 pm Paul M Foster wrote:
I've never see a 3 phase in a house. Common in commercial/industrial,
though.
Residential installations (talking in the US here) typically involve
*one* t
On 5/28/24 00:28, Roger Price wrote:
I wired my place Cat5. A lot of work, and I regretted it. I live in the
hills behind Nice, an area with a lot of lightning. The overhead line
to my place took a hit and thanks to the Cat5 conductivity I lost
equipment.
If your electrical utility uses po
On 5/27/24 19:05, Paul M Foster wrote:
I did some more research, and it looks like I must have misstated the
problem.
Let's assume I can't get in the attic and wire the place. Let's
assume that I've got a wireless router/modem in, say, the garage.
Let's say I have three rooms with devices I wa
On 5/27/24 14:09, Paul M Foster wrote:
Folks:
At some point this year, I'm moving into a new house, and it is not wired
for internet (WHY aren't new houses wired with Cat5/6/7?). The local
internet provider will likely provide a wireless router, as they all do. My
idea is to put a device which r
On 5/3/24 04:26, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 10:04:01PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
For off-site long-term offline archiving, no, I am not using RAID.
Now, as I had to think a bit about ONLINE integrity, I found this
comparison:
https://github.com/t13a/dm-integrity-benchmarks
On 5/3/24 04:34, jeremy ardley wrote:
On 3/5/24 19:06, Greg Wooledge wrote:
I would suggest that if you need to use a debugger to track down a bug
in your program, you should use filenames that don't require quoting
when you set up your tests.
1970's style static test cases are not relevant h
On 5/3/24 04:09, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 10:18:03PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
I am unable to find $'string' in the dash(1) man page (?). As I typically
write "#!/bin/sh" shell scripts, writing such to deal with file names
containing non-printing
On 5/2/24 19:56, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 03/05/2024 09:19, Greg Wooledge wrote:
I still insist that this is a workaround that should *not* be used
to try to cancel out quoting bugs in one's shell scripts.
There are still specific cases when quoting is necessary, e.g. ssh
remote command
+1
On 5/2/24 19:19, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 07:11:46PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
Perhaps Perl and the module String::ShellQuote ?
2024-05-02 18:50:28 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ touch "name with spaces"
2024-05-02 18:50:45 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ touch "name with\
On 5/2/24 15:59, jeremy ardley wrote:
I have a need to get the full path of a file that has spaces in its
name to use as a program argument
e.g.
jeremy@client:~$ ls -l name\ with\ spaces
-rw-r--r-- 1 jeremy jeremy 0 May 3 06:51 'name with spaces'
jeremy@client:~$ realpath name\ with\ spaces
On 4/23/24 14:35, Greg wrote:
Hi there,
I got refurb IBM x3550 M3 7944 server and I'm a bit lost. Is there any
Linux/Debian software (some gui would be nice) to monitor fan speed,
temperatures, voltages, disks.. ?
Thanks in advance for any help
Greg
If you installed the Xfce desktop, add
On 4/23/24 09:02, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
Charlie Gibbs wrote:
On 2024-04-22 16:50, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
What are the old and new hard drive model numbers and specs?
The old drive is a Western Digital WD5000YS (500GB SATA).
The new drive is a Western Digital Red, WF40EFPX (4TB SA
On 4/22/24 21:26, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
On 2024-04-22 16:50, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
What are the old and new hard drive model numbers and specs?
The old drive is a Western Digital WD5000YS (500GB SATA).
https://www.newegg.com/western-digital-re2-wd5000ys-500gb/p/N82E16822136032?Item=N82E16822
On 4/22/24 06:00, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
I am running Bookworm and cleaned up a couple of files too many
resulting in a messed up Xfce Desktop. I decided that this would be a
good time to reinstall the Bullseye.
I made a backup of my /home/comp directory using Deja-dup.
I downloaded and ran
On 4/21/24 22:33, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
I should probably be posting this to the Steam forums, but
most of the denizens there are Windows people so I might be
better off letting you Debian gurus have a go at it first.
TL;DR: Copying an existing /home into a fresh Debian installation
causes audio
On 4/14/24 05:29, David Christensen wrote:
debian-user:
I have a Dell Latitude E6520:
2024-04-14 04:28:39 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a
11.9
Linux laalaa 5.10.0-28-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.209-2 (2024-01-31)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
2024-04-14 04:34:40 dpchrist@laalaa
On 4/19/24 00:16, Florent Rougon wrote:
Another thing: did you look into ~/.xsession-errors?
(Sorry if this was already mentioned and I missed it.)
Please see attached copy of ~/.xsession-errors, taken immediately after
system restart and login.
"nm-applet" does not appear in .xsession-err
On 4/18/24 09:46, Gareth Evans wrote:
On Thu 18/04/2024 at 11:05, David Christensen wrote:
Move aside the ~/.config/xfce4 directory:
...
Restart -- screen with wallpaper alone.
...
Hi David,
Starting from Mate DE only and some old (bookworm) XFCE config files, if I:
$ sudo apt install
On 4/18/24 07:28, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 18/04/2024 17:05, David Christensen wrote:
$ mv .config/xfce4-20240418-180045/ .config/xfce4
Restart -- back to Xfce panel with no Network Manager.
Try to create a new system user and log in. Is nm-applet present?
Logging in using another previously
On 4/18/24 05:34, e...@gmx.us wrote:
On 4/18/24 05:27, David Christensen wrote:
On 4/17/24 12:37, Richmond wrote:
What are the permissions on the nm-applet binary? maybe it doesn't have
permission to execute, or the process which starts it doesn't have
permission.
2024-04-18 02:
On 4/17/24 12:07, Charles Curley wrote:
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:41:24 -0700
David Christensen wrote:
My WAG is that nm-applet is failing to start, but I have been unable
to find if and where any error message is reported.
My instance of nm-applet does run, and I see this as part of the boot
On 4/17/24 19:41, Gareth Evans wrote:
On Wed 17/04/2024 at 19:41, David Christensen wrote:
On 4/17/24 03:47, Gareth Evans wrote:
On Wed 17/04/2024 at 09:18, David Christensen wrote:
On 4/16/24 08:56, Gareth Evans wrote:
On 16 Apr 2024, at 00:18, David Christensen wrote:
On 4/15/24 09:21
On 4/17/24 13:56, e...@gmx.us wrote:
On 4/17/24 15:37, Richmond wrote:
David Christensen writes:
My WAG is that nm-applet is failing to start, but I have been unable to
find if and where any error message is reported.
What are the permissions on the nm-applet binary?
And is its filesystem
On 4/17/24 12:37, Richmond wrote:
David Christensen writes:
On Sun 14/04/2024 at 13:29, David Christensen wrote:
...
I have used the Xfce panel Network Manager applet for many years.
Tonight, I noticed that it has disappeared (!).
...
What are the permissions on the nm-applet binary? maybe it
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 01:18:34 -0700
From: David Christensen
To: Gareth Evans
On 4/16/24 08:56, Gareth Evans wrote:
On 16 Apr 2024, at 00:18, David Christensen wrote:
On 4/15/24 09
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:38:49 -0700
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To: Gareth Evans
On 4/17/24 03:47, Gareth Evans wrote:
On Wed 17/04/2024 at 09:18, David Christensen wrote:
On 4/16/24
On 4/15/24 09:21, Gareth Evans wrote:
On Sun 14/04/2024 at 13:29, David Christensen wrote:
...
I have used the Xfce panel Network Manager applet for many years.
Tonight, I noticed that it has disappeared (!).
...
Hi David,
I can't speak for XFCE, but certainly for Mate there was a time
debian-user:
I have a Dell Latitude E6520:
2024-04-14 04:28:39 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a
11.9
Linux laalaa 5.10.0-28-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.209-2 (2024-01-31)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
2024-04-14 04:34:40 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ dpkg-query -l xfce4 network-manager network-ma
On 4/12/24 08:14, piorunz wrote:
On 10/04/2024 12:10, David Christensen wrote:
Those sound like some compelling features.
I believe the last time I tried Btrfs was Debian 9 (?). I ran into
problems because I did not do the required manual maintenance
(rebalancing). Does the Btrfs in Debian
On 4/10/24 08:49, Paul Leiber wrote:
Am 10.04.2024 um 13:10 schrieb David Christensen:
Does the Btrfs in Debian 11 or Debian 12 still require
manual maintenance? If so, what and how often?
Scrub and balance are actions which have been recommended. I am using
btrfsmaintenance scripts [1][2
On 4/9/24 17:08, piorunz wrote:
On 02/04/2024 13:53, David Christensen wrote:
Does anyone have any comments or suggestions regarding how to use
magnetic hard disk drives, commodity x86 computers, and Debian for
long-term data storage with ensured integrity?
I use Btrfs, on all my systems
On 4/8/24 16:54, Stefan Monnier wrote:
If I have a hot-pluggable device (SD card, USB drive, hot-plug SATA/SAS
drive and rack, etc.), can I put LVM on it such that when the device is
connected to a Debian system with a graphical desktop (I use Xfce) an icon
is displayed on the desktop that I can
On 4/8/24 14:08, Stefan Monnier wrote:
David Christensen [2024-04-08 11:28:04] wrote:
Why LVM?
Personally, I've been using LVM everywhere I can (i.e. everywhere
except on my OpenWRT router, tho I've also used LVM there back when my
router had an HDD. I also use LVM on my 2GB USB re
On 4/8/24 13:04, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
Hello,
On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 11:28:04AM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
So, an ext4 file system on an LVM logical volume?
Why LVM? Are you implementing redundancy (RAID)? Is your data larger than
a single disk (concatenation/ JBOD)? Something else
On 4/8/24 02:38, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
For offline storage:
On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 05:53:15AM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
Does anyone have any comments or suggestions regarding how to use magnetic
hard disk drives, commodity x86 computers, and Debian for long-term data
storage with ensured
On 4/3/24 19:05, Stefan Monnier wrote:
I have a 128 MB USB flash drive from back in the day that includes a write
protect switch. There are few products today that offer that feature.
Side note: AFAIK this "write protect switch" doesn't prevent writing.
It just tells your card reader that you'
On 4/3/24 05:56, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
i read from bytes 2085412 to 2085479:
"Info rrmation Syste rm VolumeSYSTEM~"
which is similar to the alterations of one of the USB sticks shown in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056998#35
The web knows about a Microsoft folder
On 4/3/24 08:16, David Wright wrote:
On Tue 02 Apr 2024 at 05:54:06 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
On 4/1/24 11:35, DdB wrote:
Am 01.04.2024 um 18:52 schrieb David Christensen:
A bad USB flash drive would explain why you cannot boot the Debian
installer. Please buy a good quality USB 3.0
On 4/2/24 14:57, David Christensen wrote:
AIUI neither LVM nor ext4 have data and metadata checksum and correction
features. But, it should be possible to achieve such by including
dm-integrity (for checksumming) and some form of RAID (for correction)
in the storage stack. I need to explore
On 4/3/24 03:36, David Christensen wrote:
On 4/3/24 00:30, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
David Christensen wrote:
It's a relatively simple experiment to confirm that a USB flash drive
with
d-i changes after the first boot.
This could still be
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepor
On 4/3/24 00:30, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
David Christensen wrote:
It's a relatively simple experiment to confirm that a USB flash drive with
d-i changes after the first boot.
This could still be
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056998
where Lenovo BIOS and/
On 4/2/24 08:56, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
David Christensen wrote:
the Debian installer modifies the contents of the USB flash drive when
it runs.
Do you mean inside the range of the ISO image or outside by creating a
new partition ?
songbird wrote:
if it is an iso image copied to the
On 4/2/24 06:55, Stefan Monnier wrote:
The most obvious alternative to ZFS on Debian would be Btrfs. Does anyone
have any comments or suggestions regarding Btrfs and data corruption bugs,
concurrency, CMM level, PSP, etc.?
If you're worried about such things, I'd think "the most obvious
altern
On 4/2/24 07:55, songbird wrote:
David Christensen wrote:
I thought about suggesting that in my last post, but did not want to
complicate things. A key advantage of using a CD-R disc is that you can
verify the disc contents and/or checksum against the ISO and/or checksum
now and in the future
On 4/1/24 11:35, DdB wrote:
Am 01.04.2024 um 18:52 schrieb David Christensen:
A bad USB flash drive would explain why you cannot boot the Debian
installer. Please buy a good quality USB 3.0+ flash drive and try again.
A friend of mine just let me use an external CD-Drive with the netboot
On 3/31/24 02:18, DdB wrote:
> i intend to create a huge backup server from some oldish hardware.
> Hardware has been partly refurbished and offers 1 SSD + 8 HDD on a
> 6core Intel with 64 GB RAM. ... the [Debian] installer ... aborts.
On 4/1/24 11:35, DdB wrote:
> A friend of mine just let me us
On 4/1/24 03:10, DdB wrote:
Am 01.04.2024 um 07:44 schrieb David Christensen:
Please post a console session that identifies the ISO you are using,
verifies the checksum, burns the ISO to a USB flash drive, and compares
the ISO against the flash drive.
Ok, in the meantime, i came to similar
On 3/31/24 02:18, DdB wrote:
Hello list,
i intend to create a huge backup server from some oldish hardware.
Hardware has been partly refurbished and offers 1 SSD + 8 HDD on a 6core
Intel with 64 GB RAM.
Already before assembling the hardware, grub was working from the SSD,
which got lvm partitio
On 3/30/24 08:17, Antti-Pekka Känsälä wrote:
What could be the deal, when Firefox tries to stop me from unmounting a
stick, after I've accessed files on it through Firefox? I worry about my
stick security. Thanks.
Linux knows what files are open on each file system. If you try to
unmount a
On 3/25/24 15:05, Gareth Evans wrote:
On Fri 22/03/2024 at 21:01, Gareth Evans wrote:
As anyone interested can see from the ref to #15933 in the below, there seems
to have been considerable effort in getting to grips with this bug (actually
multiple bugs), and it looks like a fix may be forth
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