Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
this probably already happens to some extent before the > filesystem is completely full. But if you set m > 0, the filesystem will become full sooner, so fragmentation will begin sooner (for non-root processes). -- Neil Bothwick Did you hear about the blind prostitute? You have to hand it to her. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:38:13 -0600, Dale wrote: > tune2fs -m 1 /dev/data/data1 > > Which is where the ext4 file system is on the LVM. After I run that > then I can expand LVM from there, I hope it works that easy. It does. -- Neil Bothwick The human mind ordinarily operates at

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
e reserved setting affect fragmentation at all, unless you write so much data that the filesystem would be full with a larger m? In that case, I'd prefer fragmentation to a failed write. -- Neil Bothwick Don't just do something, sit there! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
e buying bigger socks and complaining that your shoes are still too tight. -- Neil Bothwick WITLAG: The delay between delivery and comprehension of a joke. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
le you expect to store on that file system. Do you mean the biggest single file you expect root to store on that filesystem? Is there any point in reserving space for root on a filesystem root does not need to write to, such as /home? -- Neil Bothwick Very funny Scotty.. now beam down my

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
ffling stuff around. I've never failed to fix that by deleting a file as the user that created it, usually the partial file that caused the problem, but I can see why you may want to keep a small amount reserved for that. However, I still don't get the "-m 0 increases fragmentation&

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-03-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
ces (i.e. an almost full FS). And after three hours of video transcoding, you get a disk full error instead of a somewhat fragmented file. So far, I've seen no reason to not use 0 on non-system filesystems. After all, -m 0 only tells ext? to behave like every other filesystem in this re

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

2012-03-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 12:29:51 -0800, Grant wrote: > Does Gentoo have anything like a daily live ISO? Closer to weekly, but look in releases/autobuilds on your favourite mirror. -- Neil Bothwick Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. signature.asc Descript

Re: [gentoo-user] php 5.2 ebuild ?

2012-03-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:46:32 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Does anyone know where to get working ebuilds for PHP 5.2 ... ? http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/php/?hideattic=0 -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 27: Military Intelligence signature.

Re: [gentoo-user] EFI Boot Gentoo DVD-Live amd64 und HP-EFI-Bios

2012-03-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
be purely community supported now, but they haven't unmade the discs that are already out there :) -- Neil Bothwick Press every key to continue. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
g directory and run "Scan for new images" - you can have it scan automatically at startup, at the expense of startup time. -- Neil Bothwick Politics: Poli (many) - tics (blood sucking parasites) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1

2012-03-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
o ensures that any new writes while pvmove is running go to the new drive, so you can still use the system while moving (try doing that with cp :). -- Neil Bothwick Interchangeable parts aren't. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1

2012-03-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
;t have to be a system disk, just something that is in use. Copying 3TB is going to take a while, making the drive unavailable to whatever needs to write for it for that amount of time may be be unacceptable and is certainly unnecessary. -- Neil Bothwick A consultant is a person who borrows your w

Re: [gentoo-user] GLSA management

2012-03-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
f I emerge world > daily, do I need to check on GLSA's? If you run testing, you usually have the fixed version before it gets into a GLSA. Just run glsa-check -t all after syncing. -- Neil Bothwick COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1

2012-03-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
anagement :-) Believe me, that kind of BS is not restricted to software projects :) -- Neil Bothwick Would a fly without wings be called a walk? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1

2012-03-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
th your system drive start using it again. -- Neil Bothwick Beware of cover disks bearing upgrades. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?

2012-03-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
gt; ... or just add another rsync invocation to backup /dev ... That won't work because it will backup the full devfs mounted on /dev, not the files that exist in the directory itself. -- Neil Bothwick Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge

2012-03-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
e, right next to my "Pedantic > Old Fart" label. And I dare say our very own Mr Bothwick will be > standing right next to me :-) I prefer to sit these days, thank you :) -- Neil Bothwick Men who go out with flat chested woman have reasons for feeling down signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge

2012-03-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
p for that. I hadn't thought of using it for this, nice idea. -- Neil Bothwick Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?

2012-03-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 21:26:46 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: > I typically use geeqie. +1 -- Neil Bothwick Some day my ship will come in, but with my luck, I'll be at the airport. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?

2012-03-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 22:38:43 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > I use Gwenview to review collections & Feh to browse from a terminal: > I've used them a long time & strongly recommend both; > if you're allergic to KDE, Geeqie mb a useable alternative. I like KDE but I sti

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
and /boot of course. If you're already using an initramfs to mount /usr, you may as well put root on LVM too and let it mount that too. Alternatively, have a small /, a few hundred MB, and no separate /boot. -- Neil Bothwick without C people would code in Basi, Pasal and Obol signatur

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 03:45:53 -0600, Dale wrote: > I'm going to try to beat some sense into this a while longer then I'm > going to bed, right after rm -rfv /mnt/gentoo/* is started. ;-) What's the point in using -v if you're not there to watch it? ;-) -- Neil Bothw

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
ing emerge -e system or world and then changing USE flags. -- Neil Bothwick Why marry a virgin? If she wasn't good enough for the rest of them, then she isn't good enough for you. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
*" emerge -e system and it just griped. I have also > tried to upgrade one package at a time. Each one complains about some > other package. USE="-*" is horrible. Leave the USE flags as they were in the stage 3, rebuild as needed then switch back, probably piecemeal, to what

Re: [gentoo-user] Best file system for portage tree?

2012-03-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
use an ext2 filesystem for portage, it's still the fastest out there. Journals are unnecessary because its such a small filesystem, and if it does get damaged I can just reformat and sync again. -- Neil Bothwick Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that&#

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
on outside of LVM, and it works fine. I'm using the latest testing with a separate /usr and no problems. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 014: Keyboard locked - Try anything you can think of. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Best file system for portage tree?

2012-03-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
gt; low for portage: > > dd bs=$((500*1024*1024)) count=1 if=/dev/zero of=/usr/img_portage > mke2fs -f -b1024 -i2048 /usr/img_portage I use similar arguments for mke2fs. -- Neil Bothwick Why do they call it a TV set when you only get one? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
est in ~amd64 is the same as you are running on stable. 181 is masked and the comments in package.mask imply it is because of the separate /usr problem. -- Neil Bothwick No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. signa

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem - removing old libraries?

2012-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:53:29 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Is there an elegant way to find these old libraries? (Removing them > would alert revdep-rebuild afterwards). man qfile and look at the section on finding orphan files. Emerge portage-utils if you don't have qfile.

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5

2012-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
rom holiday. -- Neil Bothwick PC DOS Error #01: Windows loading, come back tomorrow signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] how updating to gnome3 ?!

2012-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
packages you need to your keywords file. You'll have to read the man page for the syntax, I haven't used it for quite a while as portage 2.2 has this built in. -- Neil Bothwick To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glas

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: virtual/shadow

2012-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
em isn't the amount of virtuals. This doesn't affect the > users much. It's the inability for people to offer replacement > packages in overlays. They could include a modified virtual in the overlay, but your point is valid; including the information in the ebuilds is more f

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5

2012-03-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
he sort of argument that could only be used by a parent on a child :-O -- Neil Bothwick We can sympathize with a child who is afraid of the dark, but the tragedy of life is that most people are afraid of the light. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
separating / and /usr makes sense. Compiling a kernel already takes long enough on a lower powered machine, encrypting /usr/src only makes it worse. -- Neil Bothwick C:\BELFRY is where I keep my .BAT files ^^^oo^^^ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] hard drive encryption

2012-03-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:49:40 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > Besides, I've already lost a poorly cooled HDD on a benchmark. Better than losing it on real data. -- Neil Bothwick Why do they call it a TV set when you only get one? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 - failure :-(

2012-03-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
oot with it plugged in, it can trip over itself because the usb_modeswitch executable is in /usr/sbin. You could use this to argue that /usr should be mounted before udev is started, but you could just as well use it to argue that udev should not be trying to run such rules at the boot runlevel.

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 - failure :-(

2012-03-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
that's fair enough. Just consider that it does things that others need, even if you don't. But I still think the requirement for /usr to be mounted is a lazy, if understandable, solution to the way udev's operations are implemented. After all, the vast majority of PC Linux installations out there already use an initramfs. -- Neil Bothwick How do I set my laser printer to stun? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 - failure :-(

2012-03-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
we don't (and shouldn't) need an > initramfs, unless we want one. On the other hand, Gentoo's policy has been to follow upstream as closely as is practical, so if udev upstream wants /usr mounted early, that's what we do - or do without udev. Both are reasonable choices

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
file. If I do something to break the initramfs I just boot the previous kernel knowing it will still work. -- Neil Bothwick Use Colgate toothpaste or end up with teeth like a Ferengi. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
months. Then after one upgrade, I was just fed up. > I moved on. If you're writing your own init, it's bound to fail at first. Just fill it full of echo statements and keep trying. It probably takes longer than dracut, but you end up with something that not only does what you want

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
tain an init script, they fall back to the legacy behaviour. See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt -- Neil Bothwick It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE contains a path, that is the initramfs you are using. If it is empty and there is no initrd set in GRUB, you are not using one. -- Neil Bothwick New Intel opcode #007 PUKE: Put unmeaningful keywords everywhere signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I trigger kernel panic?

2012-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:25:43 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > Is that Ctrl+Alt+SysRq+(R E I S U B), or is the SysRq key not actually > used? Alt+SysReq+{R E I S U B} -- Neil Bothwick Did you know that eskimos have 17 different words for linguist? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 - failure :-(

2012-03-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
es to it, unmounts it and lets me know when it is done. I can mark files for copying at any time and my wife can just plug in a stick when she wants to copy them for viewing on a small, non-connected TV by her treadmill (her treadmill, I emphasise - I find a keyboard and trackball give me all the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
e /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt > > Even when the init-options are not set? Yes, read the readme. > admin@hera ~ $ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i init > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is not set That's for an old style initrd, I don't have tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 - failure :-(

2012-03-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
er treadmill (her treadmill, I emphasise > > - I find a keyboard and trackball give me all the exercise I want). > > Why not connect that TV? ;) Because the hardware to do so would cost around £100, USB sticks cost rather less :P -- Neil Bothwick Puns are bad, but poetry is verse... signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
ct to see them on a new install - or an old install in which you'd renamed them to something more helpful. -- Neil Bothwick Middle-age - because your age starts to show at your middle. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
ennartware only one reference to it turn up on the first page, and that is your post! I suppose by quoting your post I have doubled the popularity of this commonplace slang :-O This whole systemd for and against thread has turned up some interesting points - interspersed with vague handwaving f

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
disks were limited in size, but I really don't see the point it in at all nowadays. This whole question of which bin directory does code belong in should be "why do we need so many bin directories"? -- Neil Bothwick This is a test of the emergency tagline stealing system. sign

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
gt; But with the current movement there isn't anything there at all. Doesn't everyone use a live distro for that? -- Neil Bothwick WindowError:01B Illegal error. Do NOT get this error. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
ing an initramfs. > If I am not, how do I do this without using genkernel? Is dracut t he > only other option? Is it easy/trivial to set one up manually? There was a post on the dev list explaining how to set up a minimal initramfs, I'll see if I can dig it out if no one beats me to it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
f I modify a /etc/init.d file, chances are I need to > check out my next installation so I can see how the new file differs > from the old one, and adapt the changes to my customized version. This I like the sound of. -- Neil Bothwick Walking on water and writing software to specification

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
ackage manager at install time, and so the > creation of the hostkeys. sshd is a bit of a special case. Think like CDs, like SystemRescueCD. If the keys were created at installation time, every CD would have the same keys, which is not particularly desirable. -- Neil Bothwick I heard someon

Re: [gentoo-user] Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

2012-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
filesystem or even creating the image file, just give the kernel compilation process a file containing a list of what should be in it. -- Neil Bothwick Middle-age - because your age starts to show at your middle. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
tric RefUse > Iface 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 0 > 00 ppp0 161.184.0.199 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH > 0 00 ppp0 Why show us what it was when it worked? What does route -n show from your broken Gentoo now? -- Neil Bothwick Sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
is following udev's upstream requirements. These may have been triggered by udev's support for systemd but that in no way means that systemd is required. Greg K-H is also in favour of making /usr available to early boot, are you going to accuse him of shoddy coding too? -- Neil Bot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads Up - sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908 might break your system -- openvpn still fails

2012-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
on the locations at the time. Re-emerging builds it with the new locations. -- Neil Bothwick Kludge: (v., adj., or n.) to fix a program in the usual way. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 - failure :-(

2012-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
do it. You know you want to. If I had £100 to spend on shiny, I'd spend it on shiny for me. If I don't have £100 to spare, it's probably because I've already spent it on shiny for me :) -- Neil Bothwick I've got a mind like a... a... what's that thing called? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
e. As for making /usr read-only; it is generally only writeable by root and anyone with the root password could remount rw anyway, so there's not much point there. -- Neil Bothwick Ninety-Ninety Rule Of Project Schedules - The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of

Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 - failure :-(

2012-03-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
an > 'undred quid to buy shiny for your missus? Maybe that's why we were together for 19 years before she married me... -- Neil Bothwick Megabyte: (n.) more than you can comprehend and less than you'll need. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
dmined one > > myself. That is the sort of edge case where an initramfs is justifiable since you already have a relatively complex setup. -- Neil Bothwick JPEG (JPG) Joint Photographic Experts Group. The original name of the committee that designed the eponymous standard image compression alg

Re: [gentoo-user] Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

2012-03-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
a list of files to include, the current versions of everything will always be included. -- Neil Bothwick "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-182 already

2012-03-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:35:12 -0700, walt wrote: > The new gentoo-sources-3.3.0 introduces a kernel config item that > you need to set according to whether you use openrc or systemd. Which option is this? Searching in menuconfig for openrc or systemd returns nothing. -- Neil Bo

Re: [gentoo-user] Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

2012-03-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
y mounts points in /tmp and you save this step - since I added one, it is only fair to remove one to not increase the workload :) -- Neil Bothwick When companies ship Styrofoam, what do they pack it in? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] HP PSC 1410 USB

2012-03-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
nux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Get the easy things out the way first, try a different cable and a

Re: [gentoo-user] cryptsetup with static libs

2012-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
bs USE flag. It has a static flag, which default to on and requires dependencies to be built with static-libs. Turn off the static flag for cryptsetup. -- Neil Bothwick OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Masking udev to postpone the update

2012-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
lected, required by @world (argument) =sys-fs/udev- > ** Mask >=sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.5-r3 % cat /etc/portage/package.mask/udev-181 >=sys-fs/udev-181 >=sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.5-r3 -- Neil Bothwick "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Huh? udev-182 package collision with own files

2012-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
ng to install. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409359 confirms that this is down to the ebuild breaking the rules. -- Neil Bothwick Geordi, show these children the antimatter - Picard signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
ive time to play with it. It certainly needs to be stabilised before the news announcement of udev-18* going stable. -- Neil Bothwick The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view. -- Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
the usual source. If you're not using and fancy block devices, the initramfs only needs busybox and an init script. Even adding LVM, RAID and encryption only requires three more binaries - and those are all disposed of once switch_root is run and the tmpfs released. -- Neil Bothwick This is as bad as it can get; but don't bet on it. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
nlevel. -- Neil Bothwick FINE: Tax for doing wrong. Tax: fine for doing fine. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
that lists what needs to go into the initramfs and the kernel build automatically pulls everything in for me. The only other thing I need is the init script. So I get the benefit of hand crafting everything with the ease of automated building. -- Neil Bothwick "Meow" "Woof" Jeez, it's really raining today. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
the exact same kernel but omit the init part, everything > works fine. I even tried different kernels and it still does it. What is in the init script in your initramfs? -- Neil Bothwick Headline: "Explosion At Sperm Bank, Nurses Overcome" signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:20:45 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: > > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk] > > > Yes it is, I now I used to waste my time like that. Now I have a > > config > file that > > lists what needs to go into the initramfs and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
/usr. Your package manager only knows about the copy in the original location. When you update you'll have multiple versions of the same program or library in your path. -- Neil Bothwick In space, no one can hear you fart. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
s on LVM volumes running on RAID, this box's initramfs contains only 5 files. % grep file /usr/src/init.cfg file /bin/busybox /bin/busybox 755 0 0 file /sbin/lvm.static /sbin/lvm.static 755 0 0 file /sbin/mdadm /sbin/mdadm 755 0 0 file /sbin/cryptsetup /sbin/cryptsetup 755 0 0 file /init /us

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
yone else realises they are in no way equivalent, or even comparable? -- Neil Bothwick Access denied--nah nah na nah nah! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
ay to avoid the problems caused by the anachronistic separation of / and /usr. This is not so much a decision by the udev devs as an acceptance that the current filesystem organisation was becoming ever more unworkable in the general case. -- Neil Bothwick "Self-explanatory": technospe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
el or any other binary, it is a simple cpio archive that you can unpack and inspect. If you want total control, build your own, it is not rocket science. -- Neil Bothwick If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
on with a broken kernel update, you just boot with the previous one (that's one reason I leave the initramfs inside the kernel, a working kernel will always work without any reliance on other files). -- Neil Bothwick "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!" signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
of view that the breakage predates udev by many years. The whole idea of having four directories for binaries and two for libraries is an inelegance that I have come to accept over the years but only because it is "the way we have always done it" -- Neil Bothwick A: Because it messes

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting better logging for genkernel/initramfs stage

2012-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
e why as the parameters it prints look good, so I am looking for a > way to go back and examine it in slow time. I add set -x to the start of the init script and sleep commands at various points so I can see exactly what is going on. -- Neil Bothwick Stop tagline theft! Copyright

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
m Red Hat. It's just that a couple of the devs are employed by them. Others are not. -- Neil Bothwick ...Advert for restaurant: "Exotic foods for all occasions. Police balls a speciality." signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
mfs fails to boot, it drops you to a busybox shell, although I also have a SystemRescueCD ISO in /boot for such situations. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 12: Plastic glasses signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Else "Ping-Ponging" with fltk?

2012-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:15:19 -0400, Todd Goodman wrote: > x11-libs/fltk is in world. Why? > Or have I broken my system? Probably. There is rarely a good reason for having libraries in world. -- Neil Bothwick "Do you reply to our surveys.?" [X]Never [ ]Always [ ]Sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Else "Ping-Ponging" with fltk?

2012-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
library in world? Something is depending on a particular slotted version but world has an unslotted atom, which will pull in the highest slot. It does seem that it is broken, but removing it from world and depcleaning will tell for sure. -- Neil Bothwick I just bought a microwave fireplace... Y

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Else "Ping-Ponging" with fltk?

2012-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
of world, which contains an unslotted version. But then --update always tries to installed the newest suitable version. In other words, his system is broken. -- Neil Bothwick I can't walk on water, but I can stagger on alcohol. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Else "Ping-Ponging" with fltk?

2012-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
depended on. -- Neil Bothwick Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
escribed on sysrescd.org and involves a GRUB menu entry like echo "Adding: System Rescue CD" menuentry "System Rescue CD" { set sysresiso=/systemrescuecd-x86-2.5.1.iso loopback loop $sysresiso linux (loop)/isolinux/rescue64 rootpass=whatever setkmap=uk isoloop=$sysresiso i

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
27;s fine too, if there was a choice... I'm in favour of /bin and /lib, and I see the pros and cons of /sbin and am not too bothered about how that is done. But having two (or more) of each of these is an artificial mess that is a solution to a problem that ceased to exist decades ago. > As fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
mkconfig and you have a bootable system. If you want to fart around with menu files (as I generally do) you can play with them after the system has booted the first time. -- Neil Bothwick Loose bits sink chips. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
at? I have tried building one, then > building it inside the kernel then using dracut. Still got issues. If > not rocket science, what other degree does a person need? ROFL A degree in reading wiki pages help :P -- Neil Bothwick The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
Ubuntu's insistence on fitting their installer on a single CD, even if it means omitting useful software or having the installer sneakily download components in the background. -- Neil Bothwick Bugs are Sons of Glitches signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
udev starts in early boot, because /some/ of its function is needed then, and it then tries to run rules for all detected hardware. This is a flaw in udev. -- Neil Bothwick In possession of a mind not merely twisted, but actually sprained. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken/eff issue with suspend-to-disk/hibernate problem [Was: The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!]

2012-03-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
eans that I'd want the file on the SD as well... TuxOnIce lets you specify where you want the hibernate file. -- Neil Bothwick X-Modem- A device on the losing end of an encounter with lightning. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
ant, but it was tolerated and worked around. Now those that are trying to work around it have said they are no longer going to do so, which is their choice. If the separate /usr had been allowed to die when 20MB hard disks were around, this whole situation would never have arisen. The trouble w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
gt; discussing simply wouldn't arise. That's an excellent idea. > I accept that this solution will never happen. Sadly. It's already happened here. My kernel mounts / and /usr thanks to the inbuilt initramfs -- Neil Bothwick I just bought a microwave fireplace... You can spend an evening in front of it in only eight minutes... signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
putting the initramfs to do it in the kernel. However, if it could be made to work , it would be a neat approach. -- Neil Bothwick Master of all I survey (at the moment, empty pizza boxes) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
ath. Even if less than perfect, it will be better than mine :) -- Neil Bothwick Found my .sig, it was in behind the cushion on the settee. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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