On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Greg Turner wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:21 AM, David Haller wrote:
>>
>> Oh, and _very_ importantly: get a _GOOD_ matt monitor if you haven't
>> yet.
>
>
> Apologies, David, for hijacking your really good question-thread, which I'm
> also very eager to
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 01:21:08PM +0200, David Haller wrote
> The Linux text-console font is also very good.
I used to do email and various other stuff on a VGA2 screen (640x480).
There are 5 lat1 consolefonts...
/usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-08.psfu.gz
/usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-10.psfu.gz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA512
On 05/15/2014 03:50 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 15 May 2014 14:24:57 Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>> On 05/15/2014 11:39 AM, Stroller wrote:
>>> On Wed, 14 May 2014, at 12:36 pm, Alexander Kapshuk
> wrote:
>> …
>> If you like to check if RTL8
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 01:06:41PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
>
> LVM is an excellent solution for what it was designed to do, which is to
> deal with stuff like this:
>
> Oops. I misjudged how big /var/log needed to be and now I need to add
> 50G to that partition. But it's sda6 and I have up to
On Sat, 17 May 2014 20:41:15 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > From your numbering of the possibilities...
> > 1.) ...I am no RAID guru and would try this later with data, which
> > are not valuable...
>
> If the drives are not permanently connected, then you will have to
> assemble the RAID each tim
On Saturday 17 May 2014 13:21:08 David Haller wrote:
> The Linux text-console font is also very good.
Yes, except for one thing: the oblique stroke through the zero. That makes it
almost indistinguishable from an 8, to my poor eyes (one acute myopia, the
other even more acute astigmatism togeth
On Saturday 17 May 2014 08:59:08 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Mick [14-05-17 09:48]:
> > On Saturday 17 May 2014 04:33:57 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > is there any tool in the Gentoo portage which may speed up (make it
> > > mopre efficient) the following task:
> > >
> > > On
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:21 AM, David Haller wrote:
> Oh, and _very_ importantly: get a _GOOD_ matt monitor if you haven't
> yet.
>
Apologies, David, for hijacking your really good question-thread, which I'm
also very eager to hear people's answers to. But, this reminds me of
something I've be
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Grant wrote:
>>> I have this:
>>>
>>> # dmesg | grep enp
>>> [4.297862] systemd-udevd[659]: renamed network interface eth0 to
>>> enp0s20u2u1
>>> [4.778289] systemd-udevd[660]: renamed network interface eth0 to
>>> enp0s20u2u2
>>> [6.496193] ax88179_1
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> It seems to not detect or interpret correctly the fact that there are 2
> physical devices in there and then the "linux ..." line for grub.cfg
> gets messed up, at least for me here.
>
ACK, genkernel initramfs doesn't "btrfs scan" and
>> I have this:
>>
>> # dmesg | grep enp
>> [4.297862] systemd-udevd[659]: renamed network interface eth0 to
>> enp0s20u2u1
>> [4.778289] systemd-udevd[660]: renamed network interface eth0 to
>> enp0s20u2u2
>> [6.496193] ax88179_178a 3-2.1:1.0 enp0s20u2u1: ax88179 - Link status is:
>
On Sat, 17 May 2014 14:44:04 +0100, Stroller wrote:
> > a) Unlike other commands, pv will give you a progress bar so that you
> > know how long your back up is taking.
>
> I've been using ddrescue recently - by default it seems to be faster
> than plain old regular dd.
>
> I assume it must be
Am 17.05.2014 17:56, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
> sda3 /root (the old ext4)
> sda5 /root (the new btrfs)
sorry for the missing precision here ... I don't mean /root but "the
root filesystem" here for sure ...
Stefan
(new thread to separate things a bit more)
Today I took the effort to completely re-install one of my two older
thinkpads.
booted via USB (sysresccd) because the X220 has no optical drive, backed
up the contents of / and the encrypted /home to an external drive and
started up gdisk to reorder th
Daniel Troeder [14-05-17 16:36]:
> Am 17.05.2014 11:58, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> > On Sat, 17 May 2014 09:59:08 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> >
> >>> 3. Or you could use a sequential copy:
> >>>
> >>> cp -a /home /dev/sdb1/ && cp -a /home /dev/sdc1
> >
> >> 3.) The files I want to copy a
Hello,
On Sat, 17 May 2014, Dale wrote:
>I'm curious. I'm sure there are some older folks on here that have eyes
>that are not in the best of shape. Mine are not real good even with
>glasses. My question is, what font is the easiest to read for folks
>with bad eyes? In other words, for you fol
Am 17.05.2014 11:58, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> On Sat, 17 May 2014 09:59:08 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
>
>>> 3. Or you could use a sequential copy:
>>>
>>> cp -a /home /dev/sdb1/ && cp -a /home /dev/sdc1
>
>> 3.) The files I want to copy are in the size of some GB each. So the
>> cach
On Saturday 17 May 2014 02:17:17 Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm curious. I'm sure there are some older folks on here that have eyes
> that are not in the best of shape. Mine are not real good even with
> glasses. My question is, what font is the easiest to read for folks
> with bad eyes? In othe
On Sat, 17 May 2014, at 8:46 am, Mick wrote:
> ...
> a) Unlike other commands, pv will give you a progress bar so that you know
> how
> long your back up is taking.
I've been using ddrescue recently - by default it seems to be faster than plain
old regular dd.
I assume it must be possible to
140517 Dale wrote:
> I'm sure there are some older folks on here that have eyes
> that are not in the best of shape. Mine are not real good even with glasses.
> What font is the easiest to read for folks with bad eyes?
New Century Schoolbook was designed for small children c 1910 :
my eyes are goo
On 17/05/14 18:07, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 17 May 2014 08:08:17 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
>
>> Don't forget to have a maintenance program - run a scrub regularly once
>> a week or so - I have enough btrfs drives (22 qemu files, 4 WD Greens
>> att) to see about one or two scrub fixable
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 3:53 AM, Mick wrote:
> I am not clear on one thing: is the corruption that you show above *because*
> of btrfs, or it would occur silently with any other fs, like e.g. ext4?
That is something I'm curious about as well as I stumbled on this
thread. I've been running btrfs
On Sat, 17 May 2014 08:15:19 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > AFAIR you ned to install ifplugd, but not configure or run it. openrc
> > uses it to determine if a cable is plugged in and delay setting up the
> > interface if there is none.
>
> That's how I have been doing it, using ifplugd to monitor the
On Sat, 17 May 2014 08:08:17 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> Don't forget to have a maintenance program - run a scrub regularly once
> a week or so - I have enough btrfs drives (22 qemu files, 4 WD Greens
> att) to see about one or two scrub fixable errors a week with no obvious
> cause, sometim
On Sat, 17 May 2014 09:59:08 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > 3. Or you could use a sequential copy:
> >
> > cp -a /home /dev/sdb1/ && cp -a /home /dev/sdc1
> 3.) The files I want to copy are in the size of some GB each. So the
> cache isnt big enough to hold ALL files for the second
Mick [14-05-17 09:48]:
> On Saturday 17 May 2014 04:33:57 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there any tool in the Gentoo portage which may speed up (make it
> > mopre efficient) the following task:
> >
> > On my HD there are data I want to copy to two identical external HDs.
> > Thes
On Saturday 17 May 2014 04:02:35 William Kenworthy wrote:
> On 17/05/14 08:08, William Kenworthy wrote:
> > On 17/05/14 04:15, Marc Joliet wrote:
> >> So, a week has passed since my conversion to btrfs.
> >
> >...
> >
> >> Have a nice weekend,
> >
> > Don't forget to have a maintenance program - r
On Saturday 17 May 2014 04:33:57 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there any tool in the Gentoo portage which may speed up (make it
> mopre efficient) the following task:
>
> On my HD there are data I want to copy to two identical external HDs.
> These HDs are of the same type/model and eac
Howdy,
I'm curious. I'm sure there are some older folks on here that have eyes
that are not in the best of shape. Mine are not real good even with
glasses. My question is, what font is the easiest to read for folks
with bad eyes? In other words, for you folks who can't see good, what
font do y
On Friday 16 May 2014 21:04:41 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2014 17:07:33 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > Samuli's right. I was experimenting on a new install how to stop
> > net.eth0 from coming up (it was stalling forever because there was no
> > ethernet cable present). No matter what I tried
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