Re: [gentoo-user] executing a file on a usb thumb drive

2020-03-22 Thread William Kenworthy
On 22/3/20 5:34 pm, Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: >>> ... >>> William, if you can get it installed on your system, folks above you >>> would allow it, it is a nifty and quite simple thing to use.  Sorting >>> out the initial kinks took some time but once done, it's done. 

Re: [gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

2020-03-22 Thread madscientistatlarge
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, March 22, 2020 5:54 PM, Wols Lists wrote: > On 22/03/20 22:40, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > > any idea why 1 partition (uefi vfat) is suffering errors, but the other > > ext4 isn't? > > Simple. If the surface is

Re: [gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

2020-03-22 Thread Wols Lists
On 22/03/20 22:40, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > any idea why 1 partition (uefi vfat) is suffering errors, but the other ext4 > isn't? Simple. If the surface is decaying, it will be localised. It's decided to hit the locality of the uefi partition. This is what would, in the old days, lead to a

Re: [gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

2020-03-22 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:50 PM, Michael wrote: > What Stefan said - the disk is on its way out and autorecovery of bad sectors > is failing. You could run: > > smartctl -a /dev/sda > > to see what errors it reports, but in the first instance if the data on

Re: [gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

2020-03-22 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, March 22, 2020 11:53 AM, Stefan Schmiedl wrote: > Messages like > > > > [sda] tag#6 Sense Key : Medium Error [current] > > > > [sda] tag#6 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed > > usually point towards towards problems with the

Re: [gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

2020-03-22 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sonntag, 22. März 2020, 10:11:38 CET schrieb Dale: > [...] I can't recall how SMART says > this but a drive that failed on me several years ago said the drive was > dying and it was going to die soon, I think 24 hours was mentioned. [...] You're probably thining of what smartctl prints after

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: swaps mounted randomly [not out of the woods yet]

2020-03-22 Thread Wols Lists
On 19/03/20 07:17, n952162 wrote: > Where is the UUID determined? I'd presumed that it was derived from > some characteristics of the drive, determined by the device controller, > but now I'm wondering if my initial RAID configuration set some > drive-internal variable to be identical? Did you

Re: [gentoo-user] executing a file on a usb thumb drive

2020-03-22 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: >> >> I do exactly that: transfering files from Gentoo to Windows and back. >> And if anybody else would try to read the USB stick they would only find >> white noise on it. >> >> Sincerely, >> Rainer >> > > Thank you.  That is MOST helpful.  I want to

Re: [gentoo-user] executing a file on a usb thumb drive

2020-03-22 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 22 March 2020 03:00:51 GMT William Kenworthy wrote: > On 22/3/20 2:29 am, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > Dale, > > > > On Saturday, 2020-03-21 13:01:01 -0500, you wrote: > >> ... > >> > >> Thing is, if I > >> > >> give it to

Re: [gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

2020-03-22 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 22 March 2020 07:53:18 GMT Stefan Schmiedl wrote: >> "Caveman Al Toraboran" , 22.03.2020, 02:29: >>> On Saturday, March 21, 2020 8:03 PM, Stefan Schmiedl wrote: "Caveman Al Toraboran" toraboracave...@protonmail.com, 21.03.2020, 14:49: > questions: > *

Re: [gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

2020-03-22 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 22 March 2020 07:53:18 GMT Stefan Schmiedl wrote: > "Caveman Al Toraboran" , 22.03.2020, 02:29: > > On Saturday, March 21, 2020 8:03 PM, Stefan Schmiedl wrote: > >> "Caveman Al Toraboran" toraboracave...@protonmail.com, 21.03.2020, 14:49: > >> > questions: > >> > * what's going on? >

Re: [gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

2020-03-22 Thread Stefan Schmiedl
"Caveman Al Toraboran" , 22.03.2020, 02:29: > On Saturday, March 21, 2020 8:03 PM, Stefan Schmiedl wrote: >> "Caveman Al Toraboran" toraboracave...@protonmail.com, 21.03.2020, 14:49: >> >> > questions: >> > * what's going on? >> > * how to find out? >> >> "dmesg -T" is your friend. It should