Re: /dev/null is full ???

2019-10-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 10/8/19 12:39 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: My favorite /dev/null story was the time someone apparently deleted the /dev/null file, then the next time someone redirected output to it, it was created, but as a regular file. The amount of confusion that caused was awesome:-). That "might" have happen

Re: Boot order use the oldest kernel

2019-10-08 Thread Jon Ingason
Den 2019-10-08 kl. 19:57, skrev sixpack13: > @Tim thanks for clarification ! > > @Jon > > set in /etc/default/grub > GRUB_DEFAULT=0 > > and run > > [ -d /sys/firmware/efi/efivars ] && sudo grub2-mkconfig -o > /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg || sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg > T

Re: /dev/null is full ???

2019-10-08 Thread Tom Horsley
My favorite /dev/null story was the time someone apparently deleted the /dev/null file, then the next time someone redirected output to it, it was created, but as a regular file. The amount of confusion that caused was awesome :-). ___ users mailing list

Re: Boot order use the oldest kernel

2019-10-08 Thread sixpack13
@Tim thanks for clarification ! @Jon set in /etc/default/grub GRUB_DEFAULT=0 and run [ -d /sys/firmware/efi/efivars ] && sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg || sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg ___ users mailing list --

Re: /dev/null is full ???

2019-10-08 Thread jdow
On 20191008 05:24:34, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 5:50 AM jdow wrote: On 20191006 01:34:45, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 9:05 AM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Fedora 30 x64 # dd bs=4096 if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/dull status=progress 8301694976 bytes (8.3 GB, 7.7 GiB) copied, 38 s

Re: Boot order use the oldest kernel

2019-10-08 Thread Jon Ingason
Den 2019-10-08 kl. 06:39, skrev Tim via users: > On Mon, 2019-10-07 at 23:02 +, sixpack13 wrote: >> /etc/default/grub >> is used during kernel updates >> >> there GRUB_DEFAULT= should be 0 or saved (I guess it's the default >> after fresh OS install) My /etc/default/grub is: $ more /etc/de

Re: /dev/null is full ???

2019-10-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/8/19 8:24 PM, Tom H wrote: But the OP actually wanted "if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null". I'm not sure that "if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdb" does much, but I wouldn't test it on a partition whose data I'd prefer not to lose:) I've shown in another follow up in the thread that it does nothing. -- If si

Re: /dev/null is full ???

2019-10-08 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 5:50 AM jdow wrote: > On 20191006 01:34:45, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 9:05 AM ToddAndMargo via users >> wrote: >>> >>> Fedora 30 x64 >>> >>> # dd bs=4096 if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/dull status=progress >>> 8301694976 bytes (8.3 GB, 7.7 GiB) copied, 38 s, 218 MB/s >>>