Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive pricing and the near future

2021-10-05 Thread mad . scientist . at . large
SMR drive prices are hopefully dropping.  A couple of months ago I bought a couple of used Hitachi 4 GB drives, for my raid setup.  Being raid I got recertified drives on ebay.  They were about $65, up from about $50 for the same drives a couple of years ago.  Larger new drives are hopefully

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive pricing and the near future

2021-10-05 Thread Dale
Matt Connell wrote: > On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 18:32 -0500, Dale wrote: >> If anyone reading this does track the pricing of drives, are they on >> the rise, stable, dropping or what? > I can't speak to trends, but I've used this site in the past to keep an > eye out for a deal when it comes up. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive pricing and the near future

2021-10-05 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 18:32 -0500, Dale wrote: > If anyone reading this does track the pricing of drives, are they on > the rise, stable, dropping or what? I can't speak to trends, but I've used this site in the past to keep an eye out for a deal when it comes up. It only indexes Amazon prices,

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive pricing and the near future

2021-10-05 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 7:32 PM Dale wrote: >> If anyone reading this does track the pricing of drives, are they on the >> rise, stable, dropping or what? Is this a good time to expand while it >> is more cost effective? I shop around on ebay, Amazon and others before >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive pricing and the near future

2021-10-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 7:32 PM Dale wrote: > > If anyone reading this does track the pricing of drives, are they on the > rise, stable, dropping or what? Is this a good time to expand while it > is more cost effective? I shop around on ebay, Amazon and others before > buying. I'm not opposed

[gentoo-user] Hard drive pricing and the near future

2021-10-05 Thread Dale
Howdy all, I still have quite a bit of drive storage but I've read that prices on drives are on the rise.  Thing is, I don't track them much.  I'm looking at buying a 8TB drive and I've researched to make sure I'm getting a PMR/CMR drive.  I'm avoiding a SMR since it doesn't perform as well in my

Re: [gentoo-user] 2021-08-24-eudev-retirement

2021-10-05 Thread Dale
Jack wrote: > On 2021.10.05 15:32, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> I have "eudev" installed but I think it will be obsolete as of >> Jan.1/22 according to news: 2021-08-24-eudev-retirement >> >> Does converting from: sys-fs/eudev >> to: sys-fs/udev >> >> is as simple as: emerge -C sys-fs/eudev >>

Re: [gentoo-user] 2021-08-24-eudev-retirement

2021-10-05 Thread Jack
On 2021.10.05 15:32, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I have "eudev" installed but I think it will be obsolete as of Jan.1/22 according to news: 2021-08-24-eudev-retirement Does converting from: sys-fs/eudev to: sys-fs/udev is as simple as: emerge -C sys-fs/eudev emerge sys-fs/udev Have you

[gentoo-user] 2021-08-24-eudev-retirement

2021-10-05 Thread thelma
I have "eudev" installed but I think it will be obsolete as of Jan.1/22 according to news: 2021-08-24-eudev-retirement Does converting from: sys-fs/eudev to: sys-fs/udev is as simple as: emerge -C sys-fs/eudev emerge sys-fs/udev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: acrobat reader

2021-10-05 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Wed, 2021-09-22 at 20:14 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2021-09-22, Jack wrote: > > On 2021.09.22 15:06, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > > I have a pdf fillable form which I can only open in acrobat reader on > > > Windows. > > > > > > Which package do I use to read these form on

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs

2021-10-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 04:17:32 +0200 (CEST), coa...@tuta.io wrote: > > was significantly faster than > > > > emerge -C gentoo-sources-version > > rm -fr /usr/src/linux-version > > > So what about other packages? Do you guys find it faster to > rm -rf $(equary f PACKAGE) && emerge -C PACKAGE? Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs

2021-10-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 05:43:27 +0100, Wols Lists wrote: > > Yes, it would be. The first way, portage just scans the list of files > > and tries to delete what isn't there; the second way it actually has > > to delete real files. > > > I doubt that's the problem. After all, rm has to delete the

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs

2021-10-05 Thread coalml
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 18:02:55 -0500, Dale wrote:> rm -fr /usr/src/linux-version > emerge -C gentoo-sources-version > > was significantly faster than > > emerge -C gentoo-sources-version > rm -fr /usr/src/linux-version > So what about other packages? Do you guys find it faster to rm -rf