Re: Old releases support

2013-03-04 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 03/02/13 19:32, Remko Lodder wrote: I just removed 7.4/7-STABLE from the list and moved it to the 'unsupported' section. Thanks for mentioning this! Thanks to you! Although I'm fine (I know what I asked for :-), I'll point out another little thing: 7.4 is still listed as legacy in the

Re: Grepping though a disk

2013-03-04 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 4 Mar 2013, at 01:36, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Due to a fsck file system repair I lost the content of a file I consider important, but it hasn't been backed up yet. The file name is still present, but no blocks are associated (file size is zero). I hope the data blocks (which

Confused by restore(8) man page example

2013-03-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In the man page for restore(8) I see the following: The -r flag ... can be detrimental to one's health if not used carefully (not to mention the disk). An example: newfs /dev/da0s1a mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt cd /mnt restore rf /dev/sa0

Re: Confused by restore(8) man page example

2013-03-04 Thread Ben Cottrell
On Mar 4, 2013, at 01:47, Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: All I see is a pre-existing BSD partition being explicitly newfs'ed and then mounted, followed by some stuff being restored to that (clean) BSD partition from whatever is currently sitting on the tape drive called

Re: Grepping though a disk

2013-03-04 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:09:50 +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: Hey that's actually a pretty creative way of doing things ;) It could be more optimum. :-) My thought is that I could maybe use a better bs= to make the whole thing run faster. I understand that for every unit, a subprocess dd | grep is

p5-Bit-Vector SHA256 Checksum mismatch (was PERL problem installing SQLgrey)

2013-03-04 Thread Wolfgang Riegler
Hi, I have the same problem. I use poudriere to package all needed software for my servers. SQLgrey is the only one failing because of the dependency for p5-Bit-Vector. I tried it several times. Even downloading manually to /usr/ports/distfiles doesn't work. I test the sha256 checksum

Re: Grepping though a disk

2013-03-04 Thread Joshua Isom
On 3/3/2013 6:36 PM, Polytropon wrote: Due to a fsck file system repair I lost the content of a file I consider important, but it hasn't been backed up yet. The file name is still present, but no blocks are associated (file size is zero). I hope the data blocks (which are now probably marked

Re: Confused by restore(8) man page example

2013-03-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:47:24 -0800 Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: In the man page for restore(8) I see the following: The -r flag ... can be detrimental to one's health if not used carefully (not to mention the disk). An example: newfs

Re: Grepping though a disk

2013-03-04 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 04:15:48 -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: I'd call bs= essential for speed. Any copying will be faster with something higher. I thought about that. Narrowing down _if_ something has found is easy, e. g. when the positive 1 MB unit is dd'ed to a file, further work can easily be

Re: Grepping though a disk

2013-03-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 12:15:24 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: But I don't know how to do this. From reading man dd my impression (consistent with my experience) is that the option skip= operates in units of bs= size, so I'm not sure how to compose a command that reads units of 1 MB,

backups using rsync

2013-03-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
As a result of this past Black Friday weekend, I now enjoy a true abundance of disk space, for the first time in my life. I wanna make a full backup, on a weekly basis, of my main system's shiny new 1TB drive onto another 1TB drive that I also picked up cheap back on Black Friday. I've been

Re: Grepping though a disk

2013-03-04 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 11:29:00 +, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 12:15:24 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: But I don't know how to do this. From reading man dd my impression (consistent with my experience) is that the option skip= operates in units of bs= size, so

chmod... what am I missing?

2013-03-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I must not be attending the Right conferences, or else the Right parties, because I don't get the joke. Could somebody please explain to me the meaning of the BUGS section of the chmod(1) man page, as distributed with 9.1-RELEASE? ___

Re: backups using rsync

2013-03-04 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:35:30 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Now, unfortunately, I have just been bitten by the evil... and apparently widely known (except to me)... ``You can't use dump(8) to dump a journaled filesystem with soft updates'' bug-a-boo. There are other tools you can use, for

Re: p5-Bit-Vector SHA256 Checksum mismatch (was PERL problem installing SQLgrey)

2013-03-04 Thread Trond Endrestøl
On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 14:06+0100, Wolfgang Riegler wrote: SQLgrey is the only one failing because of the dependency for p5-Bit-Vector. I tried it several times. Even downloading manually to /usr/ports/distfiles doesn't work. I test the sha256 checksum manually, and it is correct. I came

Re: chmod... what am I missing?

2013-03-04 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 03/04/2013 12:40 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I must not be attending the Right conferences, or else the Right parties, because I don't get the joke. Could somebody please explain to me the meaning of the BUGS section of the chmod(1) man page, as distributed with 9.1-RELEASE?

Re: Grepping though a disk

2013-03-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Polytropon cc questions@ Any suggestion is welcome! Ideas: A themed list: freebsd...@freebsd.org There's a bunch of fs tools in /usr/ports/sysutils/ My http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/slice/ slices large images such as tapes disks (also the slice names would give

Re: Soekris or .. ?

2013-03-04 Thread Julien Cigar
On 03/01/2013 14:24, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Julien Cigar jci...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a small Soekris-like (http://soekris.com/) box which support FreeBSD, any experience or brand to advise .. ? I'm using Soekris net4801 boxes with FreeBSD

Re: Grepping though a disk

2013-03-04 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Any suggestion is welcome! How about crawling the metadata, locating each block that is already allocated, and skip those blocks when you scan the disk? That could reduce the searching space significantly. blkls(1) et al. from

Zlib version in FreeBSD - 3 releases behind?

2013-03-04 Thread KrisUniverse
The Zlib baked into FreeBSD is Zlib 1.2.4 even on 9.1R. However, Zlib has gone to 1.2.7 sometime ago after stepping through 1.2.5, 1.2.6 and 1.2.7 with bug fixes. Is there any reason for not using Zlib 1.2.7? Thanks. Kris ___

Re: Grepping though a disk

2013-03-04 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Polytropon wrote: The file size of the file I'm searching for is less than 10 kB. It's a relatively small text file which got some subsequent additions in the last days, but hasn't been part of the backup job yet. There have been some good suggestions. I would use a large

Re: backups using rsync

2013-03-04 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Now, unfortunately, I have just been bitten by the evil... and apparently widely known (except to me)... ``You can't use dump(8) to dump a journaled filesystem with soft updates'' bug-a-boo. Until SUJ has been deemed 100%, I avoid it and suggest

Re: Confused by restore(8) man page example

2013-03-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
Subject: Re: Confused by restore(8) man page example On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 10:08:37AM +, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:47:24 -0800 Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: In the man page for restore(8) I see the following: The -r flag ... can

Re: Confused by restore(8) man page example

2013-03-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 63618304-837e-4b76-8157-d99c744ac...@wolfhut.org, Ben Cottrell tam...@wolfhut.org wrote: I guess the same text in the man page could be read several different ways! The way I read it (which may or may not be correct) is that the example given is an example of how to use it

Re: backups using rsync

2013-03-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 20130304125634.8450cfaf.free...@edvax.de, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:35:30 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Now, unfortunately, I have just been bitten by the evil... and apparently widely known (except to me)... ``You can't use dump(8) to dump a

Re: backups using rsync

2013-03-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1303040645420.66...@wonkity.com, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Until SUJ has been deemed 100%, I avoid it and suggest others do also. It can be disabled on an existing filesystem from single user mode. hehe Silly me! What do *I* know? I just go about my

Re: Confused by restore(8) man page example

2013-03-04 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 20130304151707.gc76...@jerrymc.net, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: This and the previous reply are correct. This example shows a correct way to use 'restore -r' The '-r' flag causes it to write where you are cd-ed to without any warning what you are doing or

Re: backups using rsync

2013-03-04 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 03/04/2013 05:35 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: As a result of this past Black Friday weekend, I now enjoy a true abundance of disk space, for the first time in my life. I wanna make a full backup, on a weekly basis, of my main system's shiny new 1TB drive onto another 1TB drive that I

Re: backups using rsync

2013-03-04 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
- Original Message - On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:35:30 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Now, unfortunately, I have just been bitten by the evil... and apparently widely known (except to me)... ``You can't use dump(8) to dump a journaled filesystem with soft updates'' bug-a-boo.

Re: backups using rsync

2013-03-04 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: So, um, I was reading about this last night, but I was sleepy and my eyes glazed over... Please remind me, what is the exact procedire for turning off the journaling? I boot to single user mode (from a live cd?) and then what? Is it tunefs with

Re: Confused by restore(8) man page example

2013-03-04 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, March 04, 2013 a las 01:12:41PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette escribió: I'm thinking: If it is worth putting a warning into the man page, perhaps it is worth putting a warning into the code itself, to protect the unwary. Anybody here ever used Clonezilla? A nice useful tool.