Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Debian?

2017-11-06 Thread Indo Neh
There is a boot option in Fedora 'inst.gpt' which forces the Fedora 26 Anaconda installer to recognize a drive as a GPT drive for the purposes of the Anaconda installer setting up the drive with a GPT partition table. https://rhinstaller.github.io/anaconda/boot-options.html#inst-gpt Could this so

Re: how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

2017-11-06 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Tue, 07 Nov 2017 01:00:54 +0500 schrieb Alexander V. Makartsev: > I don't use TRIM feature on my systems because of that, and hope for a > firmware of modern SSD will manage everything automatically. Am I wrong? I've used a ext4 formatted, unencrypted (!) 64GB SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0 thumbdri

Re: how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

2017-11-06 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:28:32 +0100 schrieb Christian Seiler: > But all that doesn't really help you if the underlying LUKS container > isn't opened with the discard option set. And as far as I know there is > no possibility of tagging a LUKS container with that option, you must > always supply tha

Configuring a TLS tunnel for an HTTP browser.

2017-11-06 Thread peter
Hi, I'm interested to make a tunnel to allow a local HTTP browser to connect to any remote HTTPS server. Appears to be possible using Apache. I've found several Web pages about proxy service for local HTTPS servers and remote browsers but that's not my interest. Can anyone cite helpful docu

Re: Not really OffTopic - was {Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Ubiquity/Debian?}

2017-11-06 Thread Michael Stone
On November 6, 2017 7:12:37 PM EST, Richard Owlett wrote: >Why isn't query by user of a derivative [Ununtu] ask parent distro >[Debian] suggest a feature. Because ubuntu has its own installer. Since an end user typically doesn't know what parts of a derivative are straight from upstream and wh

Re: how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

2017-11-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 07 Nov 2017, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > TRIM will erase blocks marked as deleted beforehand even if they are not Not on any SSD that is not an utter piece of trash. TRIM marks pages as unused for the garbage collector, and that's it. On SSDs that return all-zeroes for TRIMMed sector

Re: Not really OffTopic

2017-11-06 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 06:12:37PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Why isn't query by user of a derivative [Ununtu] ask parent distro [Debian] > suggest a feature. > > > https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census states: > "Ubuntu is a Debian derivative aimed at popularizing and polishing Linux.

Re: Not really OffTopic - was {Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Ubiquity/Debian?}

2017-11-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 06 Nov 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: > Why isn't query by user of a derivative [Ununtu] ask parent distro [Debian] > suggest a feature. Ubuntu uses Ubiquity. Debian does not. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Cheop's Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedul

Not really OffTopic - was {Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Ubiquity/Debian?}

2017-11-06 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/06/2017 03:26 PM, David Wright wrote: (Copied to the OP.) On Mon 06 Nov 2017 at 20:34:38 (+), Tom Furie wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 08:04:40PM +, Indo Neh wrote: There is a boot option in Fedora 'inst.gpt' which forces the Fedora 26 Could this somehow be added to Ubiquity a

Re: how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

2017-11-06 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 07.11.2017 03:01, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 02:20:56AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: >> As I know SSDs are different in a way HDDs write their data. HDDs write >> directly to the free block and are done. SSDs on the other hand will >> have to >> erase free block first

Re: how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

2017-11-06 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 02:20:56AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: As I know SSDs are different in a way HDDs write their data. HDDs write directly to the free block and are done. SSDs on the other hand will have to erase free block first to get it ready for writing and then write to it. Thi

Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Ubiquity/Debian?

2017-11-06 Thread David Wright
(Copied to the OP.) On Mon 06 Nov 2017 at 20:34:38 (+), Tom Furie wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 08:04:40PM +, Indo Neh wrote: > > There is a boot option in Fedora 'inst.gpt' which forces the Fedora 26 > > > Could this somehow be added to Ubiquity as this option is useful for anyone >

Re: how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

2017-11-06 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 07.11.2017 01:43, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 01:00:54AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: >> Now I wonder, why would anyone want to use TRIM feature on a portable >> SSD, >> especially on an encrypted one? >> Isn't this feature only increases drive wear, offering next to >

Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Ubiquity/Debian?

2017-11-06 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 08:04:40PM +, Indo Neh wrote: > There is a boot option in Fedora 'inst.gpt' which forces the Fedora 26 > Could this somehow be added to Ubiquity as this option is useful for anyone Wasn't the reply you received yesterday sufficient? You'll get on a lot better if you a

Re: how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

2017-11-06 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 01:00:54AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: Now I wonder, why would anyone want to use TRIM feature on a portable SSD, especially on an encrypted one? Isn't this feature only increases drive wear, offering next to nothing as a benefit in return? I don't use TRIM featur

Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Ubiquity/Debian?

2017-11-06 Thread Indo Neh
There is a boot option in Fedora 'inst.gpt' which forces the Fedora 26 Anaconda installer to recognize a drive as a GPT drive for the purposes of the Anaconda installer setting up the drive with a GPT partition table. https://rhinstaller.github.io/anaconda/boot-options.html#inst-gpt Could this so

Re: how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

2017-11-06 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 06.11.2017 18:28, Christian Seiler wrote: > > You could ask the LUKS developers to include an additional flag in > their headers that allows you to specify that this volume should be > opened with discards allowed by default - to maybe solve this in the > very long term. No idea how amenable the

Re: Rsync

2017-11-06 Thread David Wright
On Mon 06 Nov 2017 at 09:02:31 (+), Joe wrote: > On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 19:16:30 -0600 > David Wright wrote: > > As for MC, it's in the population of programs that I would never run > > as root, along with X, Emacs, …Office, browsers, media players (does > > that cover it?). Root does not need Swi

Re: MC (was: Rsync)

2017-11-06 Thread David Wright
On Sun 05 Nov 2017 at 21:21:01 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > Weaver composed on 2017-11-05 17:55 (UTC-0800): > > > David Wright wrote: > > >> On Sun 05 Nov 2017 at 12:18:50 (-0800), Weaver wrote: > > >>> Brian wrote: > > >>> > On Sun 05 Nov 2017 at 19:51:48 +, Brian wrote: > > >>> >> Midni

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Re: Rsync

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Re: how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

2017-11-06 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2017-11-06 13:09, schrieb Joerg Desch: Now I have bought a SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD. My goal is to add a LUKS encrypted partition without an explicit fstab entry. I've done this with some USB thumbdrives before, but not with TRIM support. The drvie should be plugged into any Linux devic

how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

2017-11-06 Thread Joerg Desch
Normally I would enable TRIM support in the /etc/fstab or the /etc/ crypttab by add the discard option. Now I have bought a SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD. My goal is to add a LUKS encrypted partition without an explicit fstab entry. I've done this with some USB thumbdrives before, but not with TR

Re: Debian on ARM Chromebook: how to get touchpad working?

2017-11-06 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙)
In Article , Karl Noss writes: > I’m running stretch on an ASUS C201 > (https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/C201) and I’m totally > lost as to how to make the touchpad work. I’m not sure if the system > even sees the device. > > I’d appreciate it if someone could help me debug this.

Re: Rsync

2017-11-06 Thread Joe
On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 19:16:30 -0600 David Wright wrote: > > As for MC, it's in the population of programs that I would never run > as root, along with X, Emacs, …Office, browsers, media players (does > that cover it?). Root does not need Swiss Army knives slashing about. Isn't that odd? I almost