Re: VMs on external storage CPU overloading

On 8/3/2020 11:00 PM, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 10:21:01PM +0200, john doe wrote: I'm settleing on buying (1), Google says that it is UASP compatible. Is there some reason you're set on buying a thumb drive form factor? Mainly the form factor and the ease of use. I gues

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 16:14:46 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 12:40:03PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >Anyone currently using OpenMediaVault, or have recommendations for > >another package, or advice, in general, on homebuilt NAS? > > My advice is to keep it boring and

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

On Mon 03 Aug 2020 at 22:15:25 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > > How do you keep this set of dynamic DNS providers informed each time > > your home's IP address changes, bearing in mind nobody's at home? > > It's called a "dynamic DNS (DDNS) client" and runs on your router (it sends > the new IP

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

> Incoming port Machine Port > 10022 192.168.1.1 22 > 20022 192.168.1.2 22 I personally like using port 22nnn for the SSH port of host 192.168.1.nnn ;-)

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

> How do you keep this set of dynamic DNS providers informed each time > your home's IP address changes, bearing in mind nobody's at home? It's called a "dynamic DNS (DDNS) client" and runs on your router (it sends the new IP to the DDNS server whenever your router gets one). Most home routers co

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

On Mon 03 Aug 2020 at 21:38:55 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 02:38:13PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > Ah, now you are back to using an external server, which the OP would > > like to avoid. > > It isn't possible to do this without an external server. Sending email > in

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 02:38:13PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: Ah, now you are back to using an external server, which the OP would like to avoid. It isn't possible to do this without an external server. Sending email involves an external server. That's why just using a redundant set of dyna

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

On Mon 03 Aug 2020 at 18:52:24 (-0500), Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2020 03 Aug 14:16 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > The home PC that I'd be trying to contact has a 192.168.n.n IP address > > given to it by my primary router. But the router's external address is > > obtained by its DHCP client talk

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

On Mon 03 Aug 2020 at 17:24:33 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, August 03, 2020 04:38:13 PM Charles Curley wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 15:18:46 -0400 > > > In a case like that, just contact an external web site that tells you > > > what your externally visible IP address is. There

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

* On 2020 03 Aug 14:16 -0500, David Wright wrote: > The home PC that I'd be trying to contact has a 192.168.n.n IP address > given to it by my primary router. But the router's external address is > obtained by its DHCP client talking to my ISP's DHCP server. It's not > obvious to me how to query th

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

Leslie Rhorer wrote: > My main server's data is backed up every morning by a > nearly identical backup server using rsync, which in turn is backed up > in its entirety on a multi-volume offline, off-site hard drive set using > DAR every few months.  All the boot systems employ two disk RAID 1 > mi

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

On 8/3/2020 4:45 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: A BPi can stand as a media server, but I don't recommend it in general. A media server to a very limited number of clients does not need much I/O power, but if it needs to recode a video on the fly, a BPi is going

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

On 8/2/2020 11:07 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: I absolutely agree, no matter what the file system, I would definitely up the memory to the 16GB max, especially if this is to be a media server. Unless you're serving some quite demanding clients, I'd expect 16GB in an NAS to

Re: Enlarging /boot

On 8/3/2020 2:49 AM, Andrew Cater wrote: If you have room for two kernels and you are booting from the newest one: potentially, you can remove the older one to gain some space. If apt update installs another kernel of the same version so you have two 4.19 - reboot when the apt run finishes, mak

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

On 8/3/2020 10:14 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 12:40:03PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: Anyone currently using OpenMediaVault, or have recommendations for another package, or advice, in general, on homebuilt NAS? My advice is to keep it boring and mundane, and avoid th

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

> A BPi can stand as a media server, but I don't recommend it in > general. A media server to a very limited number of clients does > not need much I/O power, but if it needs to recode a video on the > fly, a BPi is going to be really hard pressed to keep up, >

Re: grub update and reinstallation

On 8/3/2020 11:18 AM, D. R. Evans wrote: Tom Dial wrote on 8/1/20 9:31 PM: My experience, now on eight machines, indicates that it should be if the installed, configured, and used versions of grub components is 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u2. I could be wrong, but here it has been the case for bot

Re: VMs on external storage CPU overloading

On 2020-07-30 07:14, john doe wrote: > I have limited space on my box, so I would like to install VMs onto an > external storage (usbkey 3.0) using Libvirt. On 2020-07-31 01:32, john doe wrote: > I have a single board with only USB 3.0 What is the make and model of your computer? Processor?

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

On Monday, August 03, 2020 04:38:13 PM Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 15:18:46 -0400 > > In a case like that, just contact an external web site that tells you > > what your externally visible IP address is. There are many of them. > > Mine is . > > Ah, no

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 15:18:46 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 02:15:17PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > The home PC that I'd be trying to contact has a 192.168.n.n IP > > address given to it by my primary router. But the router's external > > address is obtained by its DHCP cli

Re: VMs on external storage CPU overloading

On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 10:21:01PM +0200, john doe wrote: I'm settleing on buying (1), Google says that it is UASP compatible. Is there some reason you're set on buying a thumb drive form factor?

Re: VMs on external storage CPU overloading

On 7/30/2020 5:19 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: john doe wrote: On 7/30/2020 4:41 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Two things: - your CPU load, depending on how you measure it, may include processes which are waiting for I/O. This I/O is very slow, so. - not all USB3 devices are the same. Many implement

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 02:54:57PM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > On 8/3/2020 12:00 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 12:36:43PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>>Work. Part of the problem is one person's NAS is another person's media > >>>server, with radically different requir

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

On 8/3/2020 12:00 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 12:36:43PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: Work. Part of the problem is one person's NAS is another person's media server, with radically different requirements. And here I am, with my home server used as jukebox (running MPD)

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 02:15:17PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > The home PC that I'd be trying to contact has a 192.168.n.n IP address > given to it by my primary router. But the router's external address is > obtained by its DHCP client talking to my ISP's DHCP server. In a case like that, just c

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

On Mon 03 Aug 2020 at 07:51:20 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 10:52:51PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > This should be possible for free, so long as you can send emails from > > home. Just register an account with, say, hotmail, and send an email > > each day (or at an appr

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 12:36:43PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Work. Part of the problem is one person's NAS is another person's media > > server, with radically different requirements. > > And here I am, with my home server used as jukebox (running MPD) as well > as serving that same music c

Re: grub update and reinstallation

h...@debian.org - Henrique de Moraes Holschuh posted this on LWN.net earlier. It's about as clear as it gets so I'm cheating and copying this direct into debian-cd so that others see it: thanks for the clarity, Henrique >> For Debian, most of the issues reported with the security update were link

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

> Work. Part of the problem is one person's NAS is another person's media > server, with radically different requirements. And here I am, with my home server used as jukebox (running MPD) as well as serving that same music collection via DAAPD, and my video collection as well. Would that count as

Re: Enlarging /boot

On Mon 03 Aug 2020 at 08:38:55 (+0200), Erwan David wrote: > Le 02/08/2020 à 23:48, Leslie Rhorer a écrit : > > On 8/2/2020 3:32 PM, Erwan David wrote: > >> I used the buster installer about 1 year ago,with a fully encrypted > >> disk, thus > >> > >> a /boot/efi partition, a /boot partition then an

Re: grub update and reinstallation

Tom Dial wrote on 8/1/20 9:31 PM: > > My experience, now on eight machines, indicates that it should be if the > installed, configured, and used versions of grub components is > > 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u2. > > I could be wrong, but here it has been the case for both UEFI (and root > on ZFS) and le

Re: Bash question hard to formulate

On Mon 03 Aug 2020 at 11:30:42 (+0200), Esteban L wrote: > I am not typing return. I am typing in a sentence...As I receive new > output to the terminal window, and I continue typing, my text stream > just goes down a line. Which is fine, UNLESS I otherwise want to correct > something, and backspa

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 12:07:32AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > I absolutely agree, no matter what the file system, I would > > > definitely up the memory to the 16GB max, especially if this is to > > > be a media server. > > > > Most commercial "home NAS" bo

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 12:07:32AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: I absolutely agree, no matter what the file system, I would definitely up the memory to the 16GB max, especially if this is to be a media server. Unless you're serving some quite demanding clients, I'd expec

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 12:40:03PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: Anyone currently using OpenMediaVault, or have recommendations for another package, or advice, in general, on homebuilt NAS? My advice is to keep it boring and mundane, and avoid the temptation to try some flashy technology Just Be

Re: Bash question hard to formulate

wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 12:47:32AM -0400, songbird wrote: >> ... >>=20 >> i'm not familiar with that problem but another tip >> which is helpful when dealing with a terminal that >> gets into a strange state is to press return then >> type in reset and press return again. > > Typing ret

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 10:52:51PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > This should be possible for free, so long as you can send emails from > home. Just register an account with, say, hotmail, and send an email > each day (or at an appropriate interval) from your home's computer. Just send your message

Re: Bash question hard to formulate

I think that is the main thing. I am not typing return. I am typing in a sentence...As I receive new output to the terminal window, and I continue typing, my text stream just goes down a line. Which is fine, UNLESS I otherwise want to correct something, and backspacing doesn't word wrap back to th

Re: Bash question hard to formulate

On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 12:47:32AM -0400, songbird wrote: > ... > > i'm not familiar with that problem but another tip > which is helpful when dealing with a terminal that > gets into a strange state is to press return then > type in reset and press return again. Typing return when you have alr

Re: Enlarging /boot

Hello, If I understand correctly, it seems the minimum size (32MB, 100MB or 260MB) of the ESP depends on the sector logical and physical size of the disk: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/configure-uefigpt-based-hard-drive-partitions#diskpartitionrules http

Re: Enlarging /boot

If you have room for two kernels and you are booting from the newest one: potentially, you can remove the older one to gain some space. If apt update installs another kernel of the same version so you have two 4.19 - reboot when the apt run finishes, make sure that the new kernel boots and runs fin