On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 07:02:35 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> > Yes, and it's mounted ro to minimise the risk of such damage.
> I used to do this (keeping a rescue partitio) ... but found it was
> useful only some of the time. Nowadays I just leave a sysrescuecd USB
> key on top of the case :)
On 21/07/13 06:42, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:38:59 -0500, Bruce Hill wrote:
>
>>> A known, good kernel is not much help if your root filesystem is
>>> damaged, although I do make sure I always have at least one such
>>> kernel in /boot.
>
>> Thanks. I assume you must have a se
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:38:59 -0500, Bruce Hill wrote:
> > A known, good kernel is not much help if your root filesystem is
> > damaged, although I do make sure I always have at least one such
> > kernel in /boot.
> Thanks. I assume you must have a separate /boot partition in case "your
> root fil
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 11:20:30PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >
> > Would you mind a short HOW-TO for that, including {lilo,grub}.conf?
>
> http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Easy_install_SystemRescueCd_on_harddisk#Boot_the_ISO_image_from_the_disk_using_Grub2
>
> > And would this on
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:00:21 -0500, Bruce Hill wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:43:39PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >
> > How do you copy one to a stick when you need to rescue an unbootable
> > system? I prefer to keep the ISO in /boot, no need for a USB stick
> > then.
>
> Would you mind
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:43:39PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> How do you copy one to a stick when you need to rescue an unbootable
> system? I prefer to keep the ISO in /boot, no need for a USB stick then.
Would you mind a short HOW-TO for that, including {lilo,grub}.conf?
And would this on
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:50:29 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Neil, you know how payback is right? ROFL
That's the one with Mel Gibson?
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On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 20:27:51 +0800, kwk...@hkbn.net wrote:
> Same behaviour here. In my case with an "lsof | grep libsyslog-ng" I
> see in the physical host hp-systray from hplip was still
> using the old libsyslog-ng.so, so killing that and a restart of
> syslog-ng service stops the segfault lin
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:26:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Remember, he's an Englishman and they don't do slapstick humour, they do
> clever and subtle humour.
Have you never seen Monty Python or The Goodies?
PS, let me know when you think this is getting off-topic...
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On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:50:47 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Changing the case of the b around is not going to change what space my
> data consumes or what a drive can hold.
No, but it does change the meaning of what you are saying it uses, and
invalidates your sig in the process :)
Remember *nix is case-
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 15:02:48 -0500, Dale wrote:
> I
> also keep the last two versions of sysrescue for my USB stick.
How do you copy one to a stick when you need to rescue an unbootable
system? I prefer to keep the ISO in /boot, no need for a USB stick then.
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pk wrote:
On 2013-07-20 13:59, luis jure wrote:
the average home user has lots of useless crap. i know
*i* do...
Yes, I do too... So the answer is smaller disks in order not to
accumulate so much crap! ;-)
Best regards
Peter K
I have to say, most of mine is useful stuff. I have smaller
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Saturday 20 Jul 2013 12:26:04 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Neil is jerking your chain :-)
Remember, he's an Englishman and they don't do slapstick humour, they do
clever and subtle humour.
I'm another, and I've been tempted to make the same observation as Neil did,
but I woul
On Jul 20, 2013 9:27 PM, "Tanstaafl" wrote:
>
> On 2013-07-19 3:02 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> I think you are. Unless you are moving massive terabytes of data
>> across your drive on a constant basis I would not worry about regular
>> everyday write activity being a problem.
>
>
> I have a que
On 2013-07-20 13:59, luis jure wrote:
>the average home user has lots of useless crap. i know
> *i* do...
Yes, I do too... So the answer is smaller disks in order not to
accumulate so much crap! ;-)
Best regards
Peter K
On 2013-07-19 3:02 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
I think you are. Unless you are moving massive terabytes of data
across your drive on a constant basis I would not worry about regular
everyday write activity being a problem.
I have a question regarding the use of SSDs in a VM SAN...
We are consider
On Saturday 20 Jul 2013 12:26:04 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Neil is jerking your chain :-)
>
> Remember, he's an Englishman and they don't do slapstick humour, they do
> clever and subtle humour.
I'm another, and I've been tempted to make the same observation as Neil did,
but I wouldn't have been s
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 17:03:36 -0400
Randy Barlow wrote:
> Alexey Mishustin wrote:
> >> So, restarting syslog-ng should be all that's required to fix it -
> >> reboot is
> >> >overkill.
>
> > As for me, first I updated syslog-ng, then I issued
> > '/etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload' (by mistake, instea
on 2013-07-20 at 09:42 pk wrote:
> On 2013-07-20 01:23, luis jure wrote:
>
> > hehe... i guess neil meant that in average for each Tb you have in your
> > disk, only 125Mb is really important or useful. the rest is crap that
> > just piles up...
> >
>
> No, 1Tb = 125GB (note the difference betw
On 20/07/2013 01:03, Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:43:39 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>
>>> My /home is over 1Tb, that is Tb too. I'm not buying
>>> one big enough for all that.
>> 1Tb is only 125GB, well within the capacity of current SSDs :P
>>
>> Switching to an SSD, partic
On 2013-07-20 01:23, luis jure wrote:
> hehe... i guess neil meant that in average for each Tb you have in your
> disk, only 125Mb is really important or useful. the rest is crap that just
> piles up...
>
No, 1Tb = 125GB (note the difference between Tb = Tbit and TB=TByte)...
Best regards
Pete
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