Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-12 15:04, Weaver wrote: On 13-10-2020 07:27, mick crane wrote: I being a home user have pfsense on old lenovo between ISP router and switch to PCs I personally have apf-firewall onboard, and it's hard to beat in my opinion, for ease of config as well as efficiency, but pfsense is

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-12 14:27, mick crane wrote: might I ask a favour for information on accepted wisdom for this stuff ? I being a home user have pfsense on old lenovo between ISP router and switch to PCs another old buster lenovo doing email another Buster PC I do bits of programming on. Windows PC I

Re: Linux not seeing all SATA drives

2020-10-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-12 19:19, Dennis Wicks wrote: I have 3 SATA drives on my system. I replaced all my red cables with new black cables. The BIOS sees all of them but when linux finishes booting it only sees two of them. Do I have to do something to linux so it sees the third drive? FYI, I have the sy

Linux not seeing all SATA drives

2020-10-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
I have 3 SATA drives on my system. I replaced all my red cables with new black cables. The BIOS sees all of them but when linux finishes booting it only sees two of them. Do I have to do something to linux so it sees the third drive? FYI, I have the system disk in sata-1, the drive on sata2 is

Re: one thing i don't like about Thunar file manager

2020-10-12 Thread Weaver
On 13-10-2020 11:57, kaye n wrote: > Hi guys, I don't know if there's any way to set it, but I would like > to be able to do the following in Thunar file manager: > > Let's say there are three files with the names - > apple-pie > banana-split > orange-juice > > On the file manager window, I wo

one thing i don't like about Thunar file manager

2020-10-12 Thread kaye n
Hi guys, I don't know if there's any way to set it, but I would like to be able to do the following in Thunar file manager: Let's say there are three files with the names - apple-pie banana-split orange-juice On the file manager window, I would type the letter o and the file 'orange-juice' would

backups Was: SSD and HDD

2020-10-12 Thread Dan Ritter
mick crane wrote: > > might I ask a favour for information on accepted wisdom for this stuff ? > I being a home user have pfsense on old lenovo between ISP router and switch > to PCs > another old buster lenovo doing email > another Buster PC I do bits of programming on. > Windows PC I play poker

Re: How do I blacklist a package?

2020-10-12 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 18:29:14 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > In /etc/apt/preferences.d/, create no-sse2-support: > > > > # never install this package, ever > > Package: sse2-support > > Pin: release * > > Pin-Priority: -1 > > Thanks, it seems to be working. > > It's a bit annoying that the

Re: How do I blacklist a package?

2020-10-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> In /etc/apt/preferences.d/, create no-sse2-support: > > # never install this package, ever > Package: sse2-support > Pin: release * > Pin-Priority: -1 Thanks, it seems to be working. It's a bit annoying that the resulting constraints aren't easily visible (e.g. APT just keep searching or tells

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-12 Thread Weaver
On 13-10-2020 07:27, mick crane wrote: > On 2020-10-11 19:01, Andy Smith wrote: >> Hi Mick, >> >> On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 05:45:45PM +0100, mick crane wrote: >>> Got a PC that has SSD and a HDD. I see that you are supposed to avoid writes >>> to SSD for longevity. >> >> Flash write endurance has co

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-12 Thread mick crane
On 2020-10-11 19:01, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Mick, On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 05:45:45PM +0100, mick crane wrote: Got a PC that has SSD and a HDD. I see that you are supposed to avoid writes to SSD for longevity. Flash write endurance has come on leaps and bounds over the last decade to the point

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2020-10-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 12 October 2020 11:14:08 Hervé wrote: > Hello, how to be root? And what is the exec bit? I made the executable > file in permission, and am trying to run it. As on the other > distribution. IF you are 1st user, open a konsole, cd to the directory the AppImage is in and type: sudo chmo

Re: Partial Mouse Lockup. New keyboard no response

2020-10-12 Thread Hans
Am Montag, 12. Oktober 2020, 17:33:46 CEST schrieb Alexander V. Makartsev:Got into a similar problem for years. Suddenly keyboard (the internal of my notebook) stopped and I had to restart the window manager. This happened only in plasma5, not in LXDE or other window manager. I read in some

Re: Appimage file that does not launch

2020-10-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:15:43 +0200 Hervé wrote: > what is the exec bit? I made the executable file in permission, and am > trying to run it. As on the other distribution. > First, please reply to the list so others get the benefit of the exchange. Second, please quote what you are replying to,

Re: Partial Mouse Lockup. New keyboard no response

2020-10-12 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 12.10.2020 17:18, Thomas George wrote: > 10/12/20. Mouse working perfectly since reboot on 10/6/20 but this > morning no response from keyboard. Tried ctl-alt-f1 and ctl-alt-f7 but > no response. Not able to switch workplaces. Continued working in the > current workspace using the mouse only. Ve

Re: Appimage file that does not launch

2020-10-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 13:37:50 +0200 Hervé wrote: > it is not possible to run an appimage file on Debian, whether in > stable or testing. The file is good because it launches on MX linux > and on ubuntu. It is a pity that this is not possible. Can't we > improve that? Did you set the execute bit?

Re: Appimage file that does not launch

2020-10-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 12 October 2020 07:37:50 Hervé wrote: > Hello, > it is not possible to run an appimage file on Debian, whether in > stable or testing. The file is good because it launches on MX linux > and on ubuntu. It is a pity that this is not possible. Can't we > improve that? You may have to becom

Re: Partial Mouse Lockup. New keyboard no response

2020-10-12 Thread Thomas George
10/12/20. Mouse working perfectly since reboot on 10/6/20 but this morning no response from keyboard. Tried ctl-alt-f1 and ctl-alt-f7 but no response. Not able to switch workplaces. Continued working in the current workspace using the mouse only. Verified mouse and keyboard batteries both at 50

Appimage file that does not launch

2020-10-12 Thread Hervé
Hello, it is not possible to run an appimage file on Debian, whether in stable or testing. The file is good because it launches on MX linux and on ubuntu. It is a pity that this is not possible. Can't we improve that? -- *Hervé *

Re: Error mounting LVM volume as root (SOLVED)

2020-10-12 Thread David
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 12:36, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I had not thought that there was any real difference between the two > formats, and this may well be the only instance where there is, but I'm > going to use the '/dev/mapper/vgname-lvname' format in all locations > from here on out. I notice t

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 11 oct 20, 19:06:12, Linux-Fan wrote: > > Another common option is using the `relatime` mount option for SSDs, but I > do not configure this explicitly on my systems. According to mount(8) 'relatime' is the default since Linux 2.6.30. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFr