Re: [gentoo-user] GUI for LVM?

2012-08-26 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 00:48 -0500, Dale wrote: > Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > Is there a GUI in portage for managing an LV? Fedora etc have > > system-config-lvm but I cant find anything for gentoo. > > > > (the commandline tools are good, but this is something where I want a > > visual check before

Re: [gentoo-user] GUI for LVM?

2012-08-26 Thread Dale
Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Is there a GUI in portage for managing an LV? Fedora etc have > system-config-lvm but I cant find anything for gentoo. > > (the commandline tools are good, but this is something where I want a > visual check before in case I am assuming something thats wrong). > > BillK > >

[gentoo-user] GUI for LVM?

2012-08-26 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Is there a GUI in portage for managing an LV? Fedora etc have system-config-lvm but I cant find anything for gentoo. (the commandline tools are good, but this is something where I want a visual check before in case I am assuming something thats wrong). BillK

[gentoo-user] Re: No more weekly autobuilds?

2012-08-26 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 23:57:58 +0100 Markos Chandras wrote: > On 08/26/2012 06:34 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Jarry wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> as usually, before inistalling Gentoo I tried to download > >> minimal install CD and stage3 for amd64. But to my surprise,

Re: [gentoo-user] No more weekly autobuilds?

2012-08-26 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/26/2012 06:34 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Jarry wrote: >> Hi, >> >> as usually, before inistalling Gentoo I tried to download >> minimal install CD and stage3 for amd64. But to my surprise, they >> are more than

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:41:09 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > Besides that, it's not so easy to do the alignment, at least when using > LVM. I read that LVM adds 192K header information, so even if you align > the partition start to an erasable block size of 512K, the actual > content is not align

Re: [gentoo-user] No more weekly autobuilds?

2012-08-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > as usually, before inistalling Gentoo I tried to download > minimal install CD and stage3 for amd64. But to my surprise, > they are more than 2 months old (20120621) despite of gentoo > web-page still saying "Our Release Engineering team prov

[gentoo-user] No more weekly autobuilds?

2012-08-26 Thread Jarry
Hi, as usually, before inistalling Gentoo I tried to download minimal install CD and stage3 for amd64. But to my surprise, they are more than 2 months old (20120621) despite of gentoo web-page still saying "Our Release Engineering team provides new minimal install CDs and stages on a weekly basis

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 18:14:51 schrieb Alex Schuster: > Am 26.08.2012 16:21, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 14:49:08 schrieb Alex Schuster: > >> Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > >>> Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 13:41:09 schrieb Alex Schuster: > >> Yes, I know th

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk migration boot loader not found

2012-08-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 26.08.2012 17:58, schrieb Mick: > On Sunday 26 Aug 2012 15:32:23 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: >> On 26.08.2012 14:32, Florian Philipp wrote: >>> Am 25.08.2012 13:13, schrieb Florian Philipp: >> >> At this point, my partition table looked like this: Number Start End Size

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Am 26.08.2012 16:21, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 14:49:08 schrieb Alex Schuster: Volker Armin Hemmann writes: Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 13:41:09 schrieb Alex Schuster: Yes, I know that. But why exactly does it help to align a partition to the erasable block

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk migration boot loader not found

2012-08-26 Thread Mick
On Sunday 26 Aug 2012 15:32:23 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > On 26.08.2012 14:32, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Am 25.08.2012 13:13, schrieb Florian Philipp: > > > >> At this point, my partition table looked like this: > >> > >> Number Start End SizeType File system Flags 1 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk migration boot loader not found

2012-08-26 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26.08.2012 14:32, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 25.08.2012 13:13, schrieb Florian Philipp: >> At this point, my partition table looked like this: >> >> Number Start End SizeType File system Flags 1 >> 1049kB 316MB 315MB prim

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 14:49:08 schrieb Alex Schuster: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 13:41:09 schrieb Alex Schuster: > >> Frank Steinmetzger writes: > >>> Unless the filesystem knows this and starts bigger files at those 512 k > >>> boundaries (so really only

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Aug 25 2012, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 12:22:47AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> > > The size of an erasable block of SSDs is even larger, usually 512K, it >> > > would be best to align to that, too. A partition offset of 512K or 1M >> > > would avoid thi

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 13:41:09 schrieb Alex Schuster: Frank Steinmetzger writes: Unless the filesystem knows this and starts bigger files at those 512 k boundaries (so really only one erase cycle is needed for files <=512 k), isn't this fairly superfluous?

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk migration boot loader not found

2012-08-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 25.08.2012 13:13, schrieb Florian Philipp: > Hi list! > > I've just completed migrating my system from one hard disk to another. > Although the new disk reports 512 byte blocks just like the old one, I > thought it would be a good idea to re-align the partitions anyway. I've > done it this way:

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 13:41:09 schrieb Alex Schuster: > Frank Steinmetzger writes: > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:15:20PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > >> The size of an erasable block of SSDs is even larger, usually 512K, it > >> would be best to align to that, too. A partition offset of 5

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Frank Steinmetzger writes: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:15:20PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: The size of an erasable block of SSDs is even larger, usually 512K, it would be best to align to that, too. A partition offset of 512K or 1M would avoid this. Unless the filesystem knows this and start

Re: [gentoo-user] lxc query

2012-08-26 Thread john
On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 13:32:41 -0700 Bryan Gardiner wrote: > On August 25, 2012 12:10:12 john wrote: > > I would like to have a play with lxc (containers ) but the package > > is currently masked. I have unmasked lxc but it also requires me to > > unmask =sys-apps/openrc-0.10.5. > > > > I am a lit

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown options not available xfce4

2012-08-26 Thread john
On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:17:58 +0200 Sebastian Beßler wrote: > On 25.08.2012 20:54, john wrote: > > > > For the last few days whenever I start my PC the options to > > shutdown, restart, hibernate are greyed out in xfce. After > > restarting consolekit (which is already running) the options are >