Re: OT: fastest way to copy one drive to another

2018-10-05 Thread Joerg Lechner via users
Hi, to avoid blocking of folders while copying from Your old system, You can make an installation on an usb flash medium and boot Your old laptop with this flash medium. For my copying processes (I have many of them) I use an old internal disk connected with an usb adapter to my laptop. Old in

Re: copy /home on one laptop to another

2018-10-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/6/18 11:30 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 10/6/18 11:23 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 10/5/18 4:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> On 10/6/18 7:47 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Sorry, I wanted to mention that both these machines are Dell XPS 13s, one older generation, the other new and pullin

Re: copy /home on one laptop to another

2018-10-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/6/18 11:23 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 10/5/18 4:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 10/6/18 7:47 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >>> Sorry, I wanted to mention that both these machines are Dell XPS 13s, one >>> older >>> generation, the other new and pulling out the HDD is a lot of work. So I >>> was

Re: copy /home on one laptop to another

2018-10-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/5/18 5:21 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: The best way is to do it over the network via rsync. My guess is that you're on a gigabit network so it shouldn't take all that long, and probably shorter than using a USB-based drive. I'd set up the new machine as an rsync server with an /etc/rsyncd.conf

Re: copy /home on one laptop to another

2018-10-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/5/18 4:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/6/18 7:47 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Sorry, I wanted to mention that both these machines are Dell XPS 13s, one older generation, the other new and pulling out the HDD is a lot of work. So I was wanting to avoid that. OK...  All of my laptops that I'v

Re: copy /home on one laptop to another

2018-10-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/5/18 5:40 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Could also use a cross-over cable, and connect machines directly, and transfer files. Where do I get this? The new XPS 13 has type-C USB and the old one has the old USB drive. I do have the type-C to USB converter. I believe he's referring to a networ

Re: copy /home on one laptop to another

2018-10-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/5/18 5:21 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: The best way is to do it over the network via rsync. My guess is that you're on a gigabit network so it shouldn't take all that long, and probably shorter than using a USB-based drive. Sadly, a lot of new laptops still only have 100Mbps ethernet. I have

Re: copy /home on one laptop to another

2018-10-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/6/18 8:38 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > My monthly quota is 400GB. However, do I need to go all through the network? > At the very least, should I not be able to go through the router and back > without actually using the network? They are on the same local network? Yes, the data will not le

Re: copy /home on one laptop to another

2018-10-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 10:23:41 +1000 "Michael D. Setzer II" wrote: > On 5 Oct 2018 at 18:30, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Date sent:Fri, 5 Oct 2018 18:30:57 -0500 > From: Ranjan Maitra > To: Community support for Fedora users > > Subject: c

Re: copy /home on one laptop to another

2018-10-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 00:21:16 + Rick Stevens wrote: > On 10/5/18 4:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 10/6/18 7:47 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >> Sorry, I wanted to mention that both these machines are Dell XPS 13s, one > >> older generation, the other new and pulling out the HDD is a lot of work.

Re: copy /home on one laptop to another

2018-10-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/6/18 8:08 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > The size of my /home is 256 GiB. I don't have a flash drive big enough. > Actually, I don't also have an USB enclosure so I was hoping for some other > solution. Well, is the drive 256GB or are you actually using 256GB?  I do nightly rsync backups of

Re: copy /home on one laptop to another

2018-10-05 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 5 Oct 2018 at 18:30, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Date sent: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 18:30:57 -0500 From: Ranjan Maitra To: Community support for Fedora users Subject:copy /home on one laptop to another Organization: Mailbox Ignore

Re: copy /home on one laptop to another

2018-10-05 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/5/18 4:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 10/6/18 7:47 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> Sorry, I wanted to mention that both these machines are Dell XPS 13s, one >> older generation, the other new and pulling out the HDD is a lot of work. So >> I was wanting to avoid that. > > OK...  All of my lapto

Re: copy /home on one laptop to another

2018-10-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 07:57:05 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 10/6/18 7:47 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Sorry, I wanted to mention that both these machines are Dell XPS 13s, one > > older generation, the other new and pulling out the HDD is a lot of work. > > So I was wanting to avoid that. > > OK.

Re: copy /home on one laptop to another

2018-10-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/6/18 7:47 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Sorry, I wanted to mention that both these machines are Dell XPS 13s, one > older generation, the other new and pulling out the HDD is a lot of work. So > I was wanting to avoid that. OK...  All of my laptops that I've had just needed 4 screws removed.

Re: copy /home on one laptop to another

2018-10-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 07:36:40 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 10/6/18 7:30 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I have a new laptop and have installed F28 on it. The old laptop is also > > running F28. I would like to copy /home from the old laptop to the second. > > What would be the best way to do this? B

Re: copy /home on one laptop to another

2018-10-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/5/18 4:36 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 10/6/18 7:30 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I have a new laptop and have installed F28 on it. The old laptop is also running F28. I would like to copy /home from the old laptop to the second. What would be the best way to do this? Both are on the network, but

Re: copy /home on one laptop to another

2018-10-05 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/6/18 7:30 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I have a new laptop and have installed F28 on it. The old laptop is also > running F28. I would like to copy /home from the old laptop to the second. > What would be the best way to do this? Both are on the network, but I am > hoping for a solution that

copy /home on one laptop to another

2018-10-05 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I have a new laptop and have installed F28 on it. The old laptop is also running F28. I would like to copy /home from the old laptop to the second. What would be the best way to do this? Both are on the network, but I am hoping for a solution that does not go through the network. Any sugge

Re: hybrid-sleep with Gnome

2018-10-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/5/18 2:10 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Did you have a look to dconf-editor, this path: /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/power/ In this folder I a "power-button-action" link. Here, on awesome, I only have four options to set: nothing, suspend, hibernate, interactive. For me tho', these se

Re: hybrid-sleep with Gnome

2018-10-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 09:50:18AM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 10/5/18 6:11 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Short version: Suspend works perfectly here (except when a 2nd monitor is attached) on a laptop with a running GDM 3.26.2.1, kernel 4.18.7-250.vanilla.knurd.1.fc27.x86_64. Window manager is

Re: Access to Android

2018-10-05 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 10/5/18 12:43 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 10/5/18 7:58 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, I am not sure that I should post this message here. Is there an Android mailing list? I cannot access to my Android phone via the USB bus. Actually, I can see it: ls /var/run/user/1000/gvfs/mtp\:

Re: Access to Android

2018-10-05 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 10/5/18 7:58 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, I am not sure that I should post this message here. Is there an Android mailing list? I cannot access to my Android phone via the USB bus. Actually, I can see it: ls /var/run/user/1000/gvfs/mtp\:host\=%5Busb%3A001%2C007%5D but a touch provides me:

Re: Access to Android

2018-10-05 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/5/18 10:44 AM, Tony Nelson wrote: > On 18-10-05 12:56:03, Frédéric wrote: >> Worked well with old Android version (4) with old protocol. Now we >> have only MTP IIRC and this has never worked for me. It is very >> annoying. > > I use SSHelper app to run an SSH server on my device.  I can ssh

Re: Access to Android

2018-10-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 18-10-05 12:56:03, Frédéric wrote: Worked well with old Android version (4) with old protocol. Now we have only MTP IIRC and this has never worked for me. It is very annoying. I use SSHelper app to run an SSH server on my device. I can ssh in or scp or use rsync. Rsync is much faster than

Re: Access to Android

2018-10-05 Thread Frédéric
Worked well with old Android version (4) with old protocol. Now we have only MTP IIRC and this has never worked for me. It is very annoying. F ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedor

Re: hybrid-sleep with Gnome

2018-10-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/5/18 6:11 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Short version: Suspend works perfectly here (except when a 2nd monitor is attached) on a laptop with a running GDM 3.26.2.1, kernel 4.18.7-250.vanilla.knurd.1.fc27.x86_64. Window manager is awesome v4.2. Simply closing the lid suspends the machine to S

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-10-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 10/5/18 11:57 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 11:07:28 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote: Type=simple ... Replace thus: ExecStart=/usr/bin/vncserver -autokill %i by: ExecStart=/usr/bin/vncserver -fg %i -autokill is useless with -fg Thank you. I will review

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-10-05 Thread Francis . Montagnac
On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 11:07:28 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> Type=simple ... >> Replace thus: >>ExecStart=/usr/bin/vncserver -autokill %i >> by: >>ExecStart=/usr/bin/vncserver -fg %i >> -autokill is useless with -fg > Thank you. I will review this. > I updated bug 1633805 > Actua

Re: Access to Android

2018-10-05 Thread Richard England
On 10/5/18 7:58 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, I am not sure that I should post this message here. Is there an Android mailing list? I cannot access to my Android phone via the USB bus. Actually, I can see it: ls /var/run/user/1000/gvfs/mtp\:host\=%5Busb%3A001%2C007%5D but a touch provides m

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-10-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 10/5/18 1:58 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 07:42:16 +0200 francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Can you try to set Type to simple and thus get rid of the pid stuff. So try: [Service] Type=simple WorkingDirectory=/home/rgm User=rgm Group=rgm PAMName=login ExecStartPr

Re: Access to Android

2018-10-05 Thread fred roller
Have you checked the phone setting to ensure it is not set for charge only or some such? On Fri, Oct 5, 2018, 07:58 Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I am not sure that I should post this message here. > Is there an Android mailing list? > > I cannot access to my Android phone via the USB bus. >

Access to Android

2018-10-05 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I am not sure that I should post this message here. Is there an Android mailing list? I cannot access to my Android phone via the USB bus. Actually, I can see it: ls /var/run/user/1000/gvfs/mtp\:host\=%5Busb%3A001%2C007%5D but a touch provides me: '/var/run/user/1000/gvfs/mtp:host=%5Busb%

Re: hybrid-sleep with Gnome

2018-10-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 03:11:02PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 09:10:38PM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: # cat /sys/power/state freeze mem disk Same here: % cat /sys/power/state freeze mem disk Sorry for the lousy formatting: % cat /sys/power/state freeze mem disk

Re: hybrid-sleep with Gnome

2018-10-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Short version: Suspend works perfectly here (except when a 2nd monitor is attached) on a laptop with a running GDM 3.26.2.1, kernel 4.18.7-250.vanilla.knurd.1.fc27.x86_64. Window manager is awesome v4.2. Simply closing the lid suspends the machine to S3 sleep) [1]. On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 09:10:3

Re: Adding and removing a user in F28

2018-10-05 Thread Franck Ridel via users
Hi, Yes, it's an expected behavior :-) For deleting everything, you have to add the -r flag, like this : # userdel -r username You can find more details on the page : https://linux.die.net/man/8/userdel Have a nice week-end ;-) -- Franck Ridel https://twitter.com/franckridel14 Sent with Pro

Re: Fedora 28 DM -

2018-10-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2018-10-05 at 06:41 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 10/5/18 6:14 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > > On 10/4/18 3:04 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > On 10/04/18 17:52, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > A DM presents a graphical login screen, handles user logins, and allows > > > > you to select which D