Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen)

2012-11-04 Thread Leslie Jensen
Manish Jain skrev 2012-11-02 19:18: 1) Boot from your FreeBSD CD/DVD, enter the slice editor and change the type of your FreeBSD slice back to 165. Do not press Q. Press W instead. Conform with Yes to the warning, and then press Ctrl+Alt+Del to abort the installation. 2) Boot from your

Re: Booting 2nd(!) FreeBSD installation sitting on same disk

2012-11-04 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Sat, 03-Nov-2012 at 18:46:04 +0100, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Andre Albsmeier andre.albsme...@siemens.commailto:andre.albsme...@siemens.com wrote: For various reasons I have to use this disk layout: One harddisk with MBR and 3 slices on a i386 box:

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 and SU+J

2012-11-04 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 11/03/2012 07:30 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: On 03.11.2012 13:48, Doug Hardie wrote: I didn't notice that journaling is on by default and now dump is failing. The only way I can see to disable journaling requires that the file system be dismounted, or read-only. This is a remote machine

Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen)

2012-11-04 Thread Manish Jain
On 04-Nov-12 13:17, Leslie Jensen wrote: Manish Jain 2012-11-02 19:18: 1) Boot from your FreeBSD CD/DVD, enter the slice editor and change the type of your FreeBSD slice back to 165. Do not press Q. Press W instead. Conform with Yes to the warning, and then press Ctrl+Alt+Del to abort the

RE: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen)

2012-11-04 Thread Manish Jain
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 16:41:45 +0530 From: bourne.ident...@hotmail.com To: les...@eskk.nu CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen) On 04-Nov-12 13:17, Leslie Jensen wrote: Manish Jain 2012-11-02 19:18: 1)

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 and SU+J

2012-11-04 Thread RW
On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:44:28 +0100 Bas Smeelen wrote: On 11/03/2012 07:30 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: On 03.11.2012 13:48, Doug Hardie wrote: I didn't notice that journaling is on by default and now dump is failing. The only way I can see to disable journaling requires that the file

Re: Dell H710 and H310 Raid Controller

2012-11-04 Thread Omer Faruk SEN
Hi, Just tried 9.1-RC3 with R720 which has H710p( the only difference with H710 is 1 gb cache instead of 512mb ). It has recognized both H710p raid as mfid0 and also network cards are recognized as bgeX (*BCM5720)* but network cards times out (watchdog timeout) I think it is about

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 and SU+J

2012-11-04 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 11/04/2012 02:11 PM, RW wrote: On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:44:28 +0100 Bas Smeelen wrote: On 11/03/2012 07:30 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: On 03.11.2012 13:48, Doug Hardie wrote: I didn't notice that journaling is on by default and now dump is failing. The only way I can see to disable

config multiport serial card

2012-11-04 Thread s m
hello everybody i have a moxa 4-port serial card and installed it on freebsd8.2 successfully. i have ttyu2-5 in /dev that are moxa ports. my question is how i can use these ports? i add the following lines to ttys file: ttyu2 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 vt100 on secure ttyu3 /usr/libexec/getty

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 and SU+J

2012-11-04 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 11/04/2012 03:00 PM, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 11/04/2012 02:11 PM, RW wrote: On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:44:28 +0100 Bas Smeelen wrote: On 11/03/2012 07:30 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: On 03.11.2012 13:48, Doug Hardie wrote: I didn't notice that journaling is on by default and now dump is

Character set conversion, locales, UTF-8, etc

2012-11-04 Thread grarpamp
Hi. I think I'm looking for a character conversion tool. I have a few thousand files in a hier. I believe an app, possibly a Java one, created them while in en_US.US-ASCII mode, or perhaps some other unidentified locale. Whatever it was, I think it took binary filename data, interpreted it and

Re: Dell H710 and H310 Raid Controller

2012-11-04 Thread Sean Bruno
On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 05:47 -0800, Omer Faruk SEN wrote: It seems right now only way to go with Rx20 Server models is to use Intel cards (dell provides i350 chipset network interfaces as alternative) The Broadcom 5720 support is in current right now. It will not be in 9.1, but will be

BIOS update saga - the end

2012-11-04 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I can't find my original thread, so starting a new one. So I bought a spare laptop disk, installed freedos on it, made a usb memstick with HP BIOS updating executable, and booted from it, only to stop at: The BIOS on your notebook PC can not be updated. Refer to HP Customer Advisory C01457784

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 and SU+J

2012-11-04 Thread Doug Hardie
On 4 November 2012, at 07:04, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 11/04/2012 03:00 PM, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 11/04/2012 02:11 PM, RW wrote: On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:44:28 +0100 Bas Smeelen wrote: On 11/03/2012 07:30 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: On 03.11.2012 13:48, Doug Hardie wrote: I didn't notice

Re: before new version

2012-11-04 Thread C-S
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 17:20:26 -0500 From: ajtiM lum...@gmail.com To: Polytropon free...@edvax.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: before new version Message-ID: 201211031720.27182.lum...@gmail.com Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 On Saturday 03 November 2012

Why PostgreSQL doesn't start with shared_buffers=6GB ?

2012-11-04 Thread Yuri
When I am setting shared_buffers=6GB in postgresql.conf it fails to start: DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=5432001, size=6612361216, 03600). even though kern.ipc.shmmax is set to ~7GB: $ sysctl -a | grep shm kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed: 0 kern.ipc.shm_use_phys: 0 kern.ipc.shmall:

Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I would like to make a backup of one of my systems using dump(8) in order to be sure that I get everything, including all of the obscure file attribute bits. I would like to make this backup to a _minimal_ number of DVD+R disks. What's the proper procedure for this? In the dump(8) man page, I

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 16:56:58 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I would like to make a backup of one of my systems using dump(8) in order to be sure that I get everything, including all of the obscure file attribute bits. That eliminates at least some tools. I have been using a similar idea

Re: Character set conversion, locales, UTF-8, etc

2012-11-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 13:36:58 -0500, grarpamp wrote: As an aside, why does FreeBSD seem to default to the above locale instead of say, en_US.UTF-8 ? FreeBSD's file system does not default to any locale, as far as I know. The system is agnostic to what the characters in the file name mean or what

AoE vblade reporting size 0

2012-11-04 Thread FBSD UG
Hello, I'm trying to export a disk on FreeBSD 9.0-R4 over AoE (ATA over Ethernet) using vblade from ports. I run this as root: # vblade 1 1 em0 /dev/ada1 and the system returns this: ioctl returned -1 0 bytes pid 2629: e1.1, 0 sectors O_RDWR The drive nicely shows up on OSX and Linux

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.comwrote: I would like to make a backup of one of my systems using dump(8) in order to be sure that I get everything, including all of the obscure file attribute bits. I would like to make this backup to a _minimal_

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Da Rock
On 11/05/12 11:18, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 16:56:58 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I would like to make a backup of one of my systems using dump(8) in order to be sure that I get everything, including all of the obscure file attribute bits. That eliminates at least some

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message caogwamvoncti7akmtjw0+caastfhfae5gw+pkmh+4ldr00-...@mail.gmail.com Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote: Assume one file will NOT be copied more than ONE DVD , i.e. , each file will be completely recorded on one DVD : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_stock_problem

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 20121105021817.fc5bff1b.free...@edvax.de, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I would like to make this backup to a _minimal_ number of DVD+R disks. If you think you can add compression to your files (if it makes sense), it should be incorporated to the command. Yes. There really

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 18:37:43 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message 20121105021817.fc5bff1b.free...@edvax.de, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I would like to make this backup to a _minimal_ number of DVD+R disks. If you think you can add compression to your files (if it makes

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 50971b88.40...@herveybayaustralia.com.au, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: Also, you may have considered this already (or not :) ), but you are using a direct write to backup your system, and then considering compression on top of that. CD/DVD filesystems

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 20121105035233.e3c4ae8a.free...@edvax.de, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: But as I said (above) to make this really work right, dump restore really need to have -z options, and do the zipping/unzipping internally. Only if this were available could dump properly deal with

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 19:49:24 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message 20121105035233.e3c4ae8a.free...@edvax.de, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: But as I said (above) to make this really work right, dump restore really need to have -z options, and do the zipping/unzipping

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Da Rock
On 11/05/12 14:14, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 19:49:24 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message 20121105035233.e3c4ae8a.free...@edvax.de, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: But as I said (above) to make this really work right, dump restore really need to have -z options, and

general ports config question

2012-11-04 Thread Gary Aitken
I've been wanting gimp 2.8.0 (now 2.8.2) for a bit and as it's been slow to show up in the ports collection, thought I would see about building it. Unfortunately, I don't know squat about the process but figured trying it would help slow my brain from atrophying at its currently rapidly

Re: Booting 2nd(!) FreeBSD installation sitting on same disk

2012-11-04 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Sat, 03-Nov-2012 at 23:34:48 +0100, jb wrote: Andre Albsmeier Andre.Albsmeier at siemens.com writes: ... However, when pressing F3, the system of slice 2(!) is loaded. This is due to the fact that boot1 always loads the first active FreeBSD slice ;-(. ... Is there no

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:42:45 +1000 From: Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au Subject: Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media On 11/05/12 14:14, Polytropon wrote: For reference, if one did backup the whole slice/disk using dd and then compressed the data,

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 and SU+J

2012-11-04 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 11/04/2012 11:18 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: On 4 November 2012, at 07:04, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 11/04/2012 03:00 PM, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 11/04/2012 02:11 PM, RW wrote: On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:44:28 +0100 Bas Smeelen wrote: On 11/03/2012 07:30 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: On 03.11.2012