Re: CLARIFICATION --- Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: ... > My hardware can support either 32 or 64 bit OS. > I *ONLY* use one or the other. > My goal is to determine which I chose at installation. that should be somewhere in: /var/log/installer songbird

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 04:37:37PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Technically correct, but Curt's response was good enough for Richard > > Owlett to make progress. Richard Owlett is very unlikely to be using > > a 64-bit kernel with 32-bit userspace. > > BTW, for the twisted-minded it's probably

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 09:02:17PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: Greg Wooledge [2022-01-31 16:45:52] wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 04:37:37PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: BTW, for the twisted-minded it's probably possible to run a 64bit userspace on a 32bit kernel. No. Or at least, not that I

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Mon 31 Jan 2022 at 21:02:17 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > Greg Wooledge [2022-01-31 16:45:52] wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 04:37:37PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> BTW, for the twisted-minded it's probably possible to run a 64bit > >> userspace on a 32bit kernel. > > No. Or at leas

Re: Resize2fs Questions

2022-01-31 Thread Gareth Evans
 > On 31 Jan 2022, at 23:36, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 05:57:45PM +, Gareth Evans wrote: >>> On 31 Jan 2022, at 17:37, Andy Smith wrote: >> Hi Andy, I appreciate the data doesn't go anywhere, but... >> then I delete P2 and then add a new partition wh

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/31/2022 03:37 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: Technically correct, but Curt's response was good enough for Richard Owlett to make progress. Richard Owlett is very unlikely to be using a 64-bit kernel with 32-bit userspace. BTW, for the twisted-minded it's probably possible to run a 64bit usersp

CLARIFICATION --- Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/31/2022 02:01 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 31 Jan 2022 at 11:38:17 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: uname -m Are you saying that that doesn't reveal whether I've installed a 64 or a 32 bit release? It does not. It only reveals which kernel is running. As I said in another message, you cou

Re: Resize2fs Questions

2022-01-31 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 05:57:45PM +, Gareth Evans wrote: > > On 31 Jan 2022, at 17:37, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Andy, I appreciate the data doesn't go anywhere, but... > > >> then I delete P2 and then add a > >> new partition which defaults to 2. > > doesn't that at least result in th

Re: chrome mailto:?

2022-01-31 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-01-31 23:19 UTC+0100, cono...@rahul.net (John Conover) wrote: > > I used to use claws-mail, and installed it. I now want to use > thunderbird, (NOT thunderbird-esr, I installed thunderbird and update > it manually.) > > Under Xfce, the default mail handler can be set to thunderbird, wh

chrome mailto:?

2022-01-31 Thread John Conover
I used to use claws-mail, and installed it. I now want to use thunderbird, (NOT thunderbird-esr, I installed thunderbird and update it manually.) Under Xfce, the default mail handler can be set to thunderbird, which works. Under fvwm, chrome still defaults to claws-mail. Modern chrome's no lon

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 04:37:37PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Technically correct, but Curt's response was good enough for Richard > > Owlett to make progress. Richard Owlett is very unlikely to be using > > a 64-bit kernel with 32-bit userspace. > > BTW, for the twisted-minded it's probably

Re: why copying big file fails?

2022-01-31 Thread lou
Thank Michael! i install go-mtpfs for i386 and it can copy 4G file, and i can check progress with "ls -l" strange thing about go-mtpfs is you'd better add & at end of command go-mtpfs seems faster than jmtpfs

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread Brian
On Mon 31 Jan 2022 at 11:38:17 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > >> uname -m > > > Are you saying that that doesn't reveal whether I've installed a 64 or a 32 > > bit release? > > It does not. It only reveals which kernel is running. > > As I said in another message, you could have a 32-bit us

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Mon 31 Jan 2022 at 06:32:23 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > Due to historical circumstances, I have laptops which multi-boot > various Debian releases. There be 32 bit and 64 bit versions of the > same release on a particular machine. > > 1. From current console, how can I determine which is r

Re: Resize2fs Questions

2022-01-31 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 31 Jan 2022, at 18:03, Gareth Evans wrote: > >  > >> On 31 Jan 2022, at 17:58, Gareth Evans wrote: >> >>  >> On 31 Jan 2022, at 17:37, Andy Smith wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 05:27:56PM +, Gareth Evans wrote: >>> On 31 Jan 2022, at 14:41, Ma

Re: Resize2fs Questions

2022-01-31 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 31 Jan 2022, at 17:58, Gareth Evans wrote: > >  > >> On 31 Jan 2022, at 17:37, Andy Smith wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 05:27:56PM +, Gareth Evans wrote: >> On 31 Jan 2022, at 14:41, Martin McCormick >> wrote: > > #I should be telling resiz

Re: Resize2fs Questions

2022-01-31 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 31 Jan 2022, at 17:37, Andy Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 05:27:56PM +, Gareth Evans wrote: On 31 Jan 2022, at 14:41, Martin McCormick wrote: >>> >>> #I should be telling resize2fs to squeeze everything in to a 7GB >>> #partition. >>> sudo resize2fs /de

Re: Resize2fs Questions

2022-01-31 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 05:27:56PM +, Gareth Evans wrote: > > On 31 Jan 2022, at 14:41, Martin McCormick wrote: > > > > #I should be telling resize2fs to squeeze everything in to a 7GB > > #partition. > > sudo resize2fs /dev/loop0p2 +7G > > [...] > > then I delete P2 and then add a

Re: Resize2fs Questions

2022-01-31 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 31 Jan 2022, at 14:41, Martin McCormick wrote: > > #I should be telling resize2fs to squeeze everything in to a 7GB > #partition. > sudo resize2fs /dev/loop0p2 +7G > [...] > then I delete P2 and then add a > new partition which defaults to 2. This seems to replace the partition contain

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-01-31 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-01-31 11:43 UTC+0100, Yvan Masson wrote: > Thanks for the links, I missed that NTF3 was already included in the > kernel I use (from Debian testing). So in my case ntfs3g is able to > mount a rescued partition, while NTFS3 is not (thanks Andrei for > confirming what I supposed): this

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-01-31 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 31/01/2022 à 16:19, Michael Stone a écrit : On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 11:43:10AM +0100, Yvan Masson wrote: Thanks for the links, I missed that NTF3 was already included in the kernel I use (from Debian testing). So in my case ntfs3g is able to mount a rescued partition, while NTFS3 is not (th

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Mon 31 Jan 2022 at 08:26:35 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 08:23:45AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > 1. From current console, how can I determine which is running? > > >[ equivalent of /etc/debian_version would be ideal ] > > > > Depends what you mean. The answ

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Mon 31 Jan 2022 at 01:31:36 (-0500), Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > On 2022-01-30 20:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 12:52:36AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 07:32:26PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 11:53:2

Re: Debian 11 couldn't determine device type, assuming default (plain)

2022-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Jan 2022 at 22:48:23 (-0800), David Christensen wrote: > On 1/29/22 22:15, David Christensen wrote: > > debian-user: > > > > I have: > > > > 2022-01-29 22:09:45 dpchrist@laalaa ~ > > $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a > > 11.2 > > Linux laalaa 5.10.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.92-1 (

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
> >> uname -m > Are you saying that that doesn't reveal whether I've installed a 64 or a 32 > bit release? It does not. It only reveals which kernel is running. As I said in another message, you could have a 32-bit userspace with a 64-bit kernel. If that's the case, then uname -m gives you t

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-31, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/31/2022 06:37 AM, Curt wrote: >> On 2022-01-31, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> Due to historical circumstances, I have laptops which multi-boot various >>> Debian releases. There be 32 bit and 64 bit versions of the same release >>> on a particular machine.

Re: converting Python2 to Python3

2022-01-31 Thread Mike Kupfer
The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-01-30 at 23:01, Mike Kupfer wrote: > > > FWIW, here are my notes from converting a couple small private scripts: > > > > * Note that 2to3 does not change the shebang line. And the actual > > command in Debian10 [and 11] is 2to3-2.7. > > This is in the 'python

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/31/2022 06:37 AM, Curt wrote: On 2022-01-31, Richard Owlett wrote: Due to historical circumstances, I have laptops which multi-boot various Debian releases. There be 32 bit and 64 bit versions of the same release on a particular machine. 1. From current console, how can I determine which

Re: Resize2fs Questions

2022-01-31 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 08:40:49AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > #I should be telling resize2fs to squeeze everything in to a 7GB > #partition. >sudo resize2fs /dev/loop0p2 +7G […] > fdisk prompts for the first sector with a default of 2048 but I > type in 137215. The last sector

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-01-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 11:43:10AM +0100, Yvan Masson wrote: Thanks for the links, I missed that NTF3 was already included in the kernel I use (from Debian testing). So in my case ntfs3g is able to mount a rescued partition, while NTFS3 is not (thanks Andrei for confirming what I supposed): thi

Re: why copying big file fails?

2022-01-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 11:53:00PM +0300, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 03:11:36PM -0500, a wrote: i run "ls -l", about 2G has been copied This. Method you're using for copying files does not matter. Whatever your phone is using instead of a proper filesystem does. 2G file s

Resize2fs Questions

2022-01-31 Thread Martin McCormick
I figured I would start a new topic as none of this pertains to the previous messages I posted. I've got an almost 30-GB disk image of a working debian installation for a Raspberry pi that I should be able to easily squeeze on to a roughly 8 GB SSD card because it only takes up 10% of the

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-01-31 at 08:31, Tixy wrote: > On Mon, 2022-01-31 at 07:52 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2022-01-30 at 23:49, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> >> > On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 10:36:57PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: >> > >> > I discovered dictfmt and dictunformat, which seem to be applicable. >

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 03:24:51PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2022-01-31 06:32:23-0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Due to historical circumstances, I have laptops which multi-boot > > various Debian releases. There be 32 bit and 64 bit versions of the > > same release on a particular machine

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2022-01-31 06:32:23-0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Due to historical circumstances, I have laptops which multi-boot > various Debian releases. There be 32 bit and 64 bit versions of the > same release on a particular machine. > > 1. From current console, how can I determine which is running? >

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-31 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2022-01-31 at 07:52 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-01-30 at 23:49, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 10:36:57PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > > > I discovered dictfmt and dictunformat, which seem to be applicable. > > > > But I do not know where in Debian (Deb

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 08:23:45AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > 1. From current console, how can I determine which is running? > >[ equivalent of /etc/debian_version would be ideal ] > > Depends what you mean. The answer may also be "both" depending on what > you care about. E.g. many of

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-01-30 at 23:49, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 10:36:57PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > I discovered dictfmt and dictunformat, which seem to be applicable. > > But I do not know where in Debian (Debian 9) to look for the > moby-thesaurus file. If you still have acce

Re: Authentication required message window after nvidia drivers installation.

2022-01-31 Thread Thanos Katsiolis
The problem was what the message was about, there was a problem with the login keyring. Usually, the login keyring has the same password as the user's account. For some reason this had somehow changed in my case, and since I could not remember the login keyring password, I deleted it. I have a GN

Re: Authentication required message window after nvidia drivers installation.

2022-01-31 Thread Thanos Katsiolis
The problem was what the message was about, there was a problem with the login keyring. Usually, the login keyring has the same password with the user's account. For some reason this had somehow changed in my case, and since I could not remember the login keyring password, I deleted it. I have GN

Re: converting Python2 to Python3

2022-01-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-01-30 at 23:01, Mike Kupfer wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> In my case, I started with the last Debian package version before the >> removal, imported the source package into git, dropped the debian/ >> directory because that doesn't belong in the upstream codebase, ran the >> '2to3' to

Re: i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread Curt
On 2022-01-31, Richard Owlett wrote: > Due to historical circumstances, I have laptops which multi-boot various > Debian releases. There be 32 bit and 64 bit versions of the same release > on a particular machine. > > 1. From current console, how can I determine which is running? > [ equival

Re: sparse dictionary

2022-01-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 04:36:35PM +1100, Charlie wrote: > I think this lappy has only had Bullseye in testing and then stable on > it Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) > > i dict-moby-thesaurus > > Maybe just not in synaptic. I use apt-get and apt to put the packages > on this one? No, you're de

i386 or AMD64 - Which is currently running?

2022-01-31 Thread Richard Owlett
Due to historical circumstances, I have laptops which multi-boot various Debian releases. There be 32 bit and 64 bit versions of the same release on a particular machine. 1. From current console, how can I determine which is running? [ equivalent of /etc/debian_version would be ideal ] 2. A

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-01-31 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 28/01/2022 à 17:51, David Wright a écrit : On Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 11:34:44 (+0100), Yvan Masson wrote: I had to recover a NTFS partition from a broken drive (I used GNU ddrescue with a domain log file generated by partclone), so I now have a file "recovered_partition.img": $ file recovered_