Re: From SSD to NVME

On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 09:22:05PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 09:47:05PM +0100, Hans wrote: > > That, what i understand as label is the name, I give a partition. For > > example, > > in gparted, I can give a partition a label like I want. For example, my > > Wind

Re: From SSD to NVME

On 12/2/24 08:49, Hans wrote: Hi folks, as my old notebook died, I ntend to buy a new notebook. The old one has got a SSD drive, the new one an NVME. I want to clone the whole system 1 to 1 to the new NVME. In my /etc/fstab I am using UUID entries instead of /dev/sdX. The new one then would

Re: where is mail.log

On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 10:00:27 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > systemd for Administrators, Part XIII > Posted on Fr 18 Mai 2012 > Log and Service Status > > > The original reason we started to work on the journal was one specific > > featu

Re: From SSD to NVME

On 3/12/24 00:49, Hans wrote: Hi folks, as my old notebook died, I ntend to buy a new notebook. The old one has got a SSD drive, the new one an NVME. I want to clone the whole system 1 to 1 to the new NVME. In my /etc/fstab I am using UUID entries instead of /dev/sdX. The new one then would

Re: From SSD to NVME

On 02/12/2024 23:49, Hans wrote: I want to clone the whole system 1 to 1 to the new NVME. At least some NVME drives report that shipped with, 512 bytes blocks, they would have better performance switched to 4k ones. I would not clone partitions to a drive with different block size, it is bet

Re: where is mail.log

On 30/11/2024 03:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: Now, you might ask why the systemd journal is being preferred and kept over human-readable log files. I don't think anyone on debian-user knows the answer to this. systemd for Administrators, P

Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

On 3/12/24 10:11, jeremy ardley wrote: The sources are all licensed products on CD-ROMs and VirtualBox seems to expect ISO inputs which is, of course a non-starter With the ISO images. you can create a .iso from a CDROM by sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cdrom.iso bs=4M You can also map a physi

Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

On 3/12/24 08:11, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Once upon a time I had Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 10 VMs running under VirtualBox on Debian 10 or earlier. Now I need one for some primitive, but essential program I cannot remember how I created the VMs (Gene's disease, 88 come Sunday) and

Re: From SSD to NVME

> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2024 at 2:40 PM > From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: From SSD to NVME > > On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 05:49:18PM +0100, Hans wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > as my old notebook died, I ntend to buy a new notebook. > > The old one has

Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 5:49 AM Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > > The sources are all licensed products on CD-ROMs and VirtualBox seems to > expect ISO inputs which is, of course a non-starter. > If you have the cd's making iso's from them is easy. You can use the dd command from the terminal to creat

Re: RAID60 question

On 12/2/24 00:02, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 3:47 PM David Christensen wrote: On 12/1/24 04:27, Greg wrote: Hi there, I'm setting up MD-RAID0 on a top of HW-RAID6 devices (long story). I would like to confirm the following: 1. The RAID0 chunk size should be the stripe widt

VirtualBox and Windows VMs

Once upon a time I had Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 10 VMs running under VirtualBox on Debian 10 or earlier. Now I need one for some primitive, but essential program I cannot remember how I created the VMs (Gene's disease, 88 come Sunday) and would welcome any reminders. The sources are a

Re: Backup mysql

Hi, On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 06:51:34AM +0800, Bitfox wrote: > I run mysql on debian. Do you? Or do you run MariaDB? Debian supplies MariaDB but it is possible to get MySQL from elsewhere. > I want to backup the tables for database grants and authentication. What > tables should I pick to backup

Backup mysql

I run mysql on debian. I want to backup the tables for database grants and authentication. What tables should I pick to backup then? Thank you.

re: why do errors stop during backup

> i have an old pci analog video capture card that uses bttv > it fills the log with timeout errors, 1 or 2 per minute > bttv: 2: timeout: drop=725178 irq=4905870/4927747, risc=2014e424, bits: HSYNC > each night i run a backup with rsync > during that backup time there are no bttv errors > the came

Re: From SSD to NVME

Hi Greg, > Depends on what you mean by "clone". If you mean a bit-for-bit copy > using dd or an equivalent, then you're correct. The file system UUID > will be copied along with all the other bits of the old file system. I mean clone bit by bit. The software I am using is "Clonezilla" which depen

Re: From SSD to NVME

Hi, On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 09:47:05PM +0100, Hans wrote: > That, what i understand as label is the name, I give a partition. For > example, > in gparted, I can give a partition a label like I want. For example, my > Windows partition can get a label like "windows", "win11", "shitty_windows" >

Re: where is mail.log

On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 5:32 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 07:51:40PM +0100, Scott Andrews wrote: > > > The version of systemd in trixie (and also in sid) is 257 according > > > to packages.debian.org. > > > > > > I don't know whether that's the version trixie is going to use up

Re: WHOIS rejection from strange IP address

Hi, On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 10:50:26AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > It isn't Debian. It's that netblock. Try 191.97.36.54. I suspect that works because you are asking a LACNIC whois server for an IP in its own database, so it's not having to contact RIPE's whois, where the rejection seems to be

Re: From SSD to NVME

Am Montag, 2. Dezember 2024, 21:18:05 CET schrieb Andy Smith: > Hi, > > [ Beware not making clear that you mean FILESYSTEM labels and UUIDs > in this thread. It's been a week since we've had massive > misunderstanding of what filesystem UUIDs are and every mention of > UUID o

Re: From SSD to NVME

Hans composed on 2024-12-02 20:20 (UTC+0100): > Yes, I read in other debian threads abnout Labels. What is the advantage of > Labels to UUID? I alwaqys thought, labels can be easily changed and then at > boot, linux would mount some other partition with the same label. > But it will be rather d

Re: From SSD to NVME

Hi, On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 01:49:12AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > If you simply clone the system from one hardware system to another, are you > confident that it will work? You clearly aren't, but I think Hans should be, yes. Worst cxase is that Hans ends up with something that doesn't boot, but

Re: From SSD to NVME

Hi, [ Beware not making clear that you mean FILESYSTEM labels and UUIDs in this thread. It's been a week since we've had massive misunderstanding of what filesystem UUIDs are and every mention of UUID or LABEL without that context risks invoking a very confused person w

Re: WHOIS rejection from strange IP address

Hi, On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 11:34:52AM -0500, vi...@wlcr.net wrote: > On 2024/11/27 01:57 AM, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > I get a similar but slightly different error message. > > > > tmb@hp-debian:~$ whois 191.96.36.56 > > % IP Client: 2607:fb90:db98:991c:6b9d:c93f:73d:7514 > >

Re: WHOIS rejection from strange IP address

Hi, On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 12:38:23PM -0500, vi...@wlcr.net wrote: > No idea how to troubleshoot that one. What specifically do you want to troubleshoot? My question would be: whois in Debian 11 seems to consistently receive the blocked query error showing a LACNIC IP while whois in De

From SSD to NVME

Hi folks, as my old notebook died, I ntend to buy a new notebook. The old one has got a SSD drive, the new one an NVME. I want to clone the whole system 1 to 1 to the new NVME. In my /etc/fstab I am using UUID entries instead of /dev/sdX. The new one then would have /dev/nvme* as entries (that

Re: WHOIS rejection from strange IP address

It isn't Debian. It's that netblock. Try 191.97.36.54. Also try whois -r 191.96.36.54 -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: *****SPAM***** Re: From SSD to NVME

> If you simply clone the system from one hardware system to another, are > you confident that it will work? Yes. > > I expect that the two different hardware systems would require separate > sets of drivers and configurations for those drivers. Nope, kernel knows. > Also, depending on the operati

Re: From SSD to NVME

On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 05:49:18PM +0100, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > as my old notebook died, I ntend to buy a new notebook. > The old one has got a SSD drive, the new one an NVME. > > I want to clone the whole system 1 to 1 to the new NVME. > It might be easier to produce a clean new install

Re: From SSD to NVME

Yes, I read in other debian threads abnout Labels. What is the advantage of Labels to UUID? I alwaqys thought, labels can be easily changed and then at boot, linux would mount some other partition with the same label. But it will be rather difficult, to create a partition with the same UUID (but

Re: From SSD to NVME

On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 17:49:18 +0100, Hans wrote: > I want to clone the whole system 1 to 1 to the new NVME. > > Will the UUID change at clone, even when the partitions are not changed in a > bit of size? IMHO the UUID will not change, but I am not quite sure. Depends on what you mean by "clo

Re: ISO debian-testing-amd64-netinst.

On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 14:21:44 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 20:45:26 + > "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 12:05:24PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 18:55:48 +0100 > > > ermanno morelli wrote: > > Thank you. I've forwarded

Re: From SSD to NVME

Thank you all for your response. Just to explain: I have only "standard" partitions. One for /boot, /, /usr, /var and /home. Most of them are luks encrypted. This cloning I did often ovetr the years. My debian is rather old (means, first install years ago, but it was of course upgraded) and du

Re: From SSD to NVME

Le 02/12/2024 à 19:41, Bruno Schneider a écrit : In my /etc/fstab I am using UUID entries instead of /dev/sdX. The new one then would have /dev/nvme* as entries (that is clear), but if I am using only UUID, the question: I would recommend changing from UUID to labels. Doing so, all you need to w

Re: where is mail.log

Hello, On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 01:08:52PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > We do not want a different logging system for each daemon. Unfortunately rather common practice though even before systemd-journald of course: Exim, Apache HTTPD Server, HAProxy, … (some of these CAN be configured to log to

Re: WHOIS rejection from strange IP address

On 2024/12/02 12:02 PM, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 11:34:52AM -0500, vi...@wlcr.net wrote: On 2024/11/27 01:57 AM, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: I get a similar but slightly different error message. tmb@hp-debian:~$ whois 191.96.36.56 % IP Client: 2607:fb90:db

Re: From SSD to NVME

> In my /etc/fstab I am using UUID entries instead of /dev/sdX. > The new one then would have /dev/nvme* as entries (that is clear), but if I am > using only UUID, the question: I would recommend changing from UUID to labels. Doing so, all you need to worry is that the new partitions have the same

Re: From SSD to NVME

Hans composed on 2024-12-02 11:49 (UTC-0500): > as my old notebook died, I ntend to buy a new notebook. > The old one has got a SSD drive, the new one an NVME. > I want to clone the whole system 1 to 1 to the new NVME. > In my /etc/fstab I am using UUID entries instead of /dev/sdX. > The new one

Re: From SSD to NVME

Am 02.12.24 um 17:49 schrieb Hans: Hi folks, as my old notebook died, I ntend to buy a new notebook. The old one has got a SSD drive, the new one an NVME. I want to clone the whole system 1 to 1 to the new NVME. In my /etc/fstab I am using UUID entries instead of /dev/sdX. The new one th

Re: WHOIS rejection from strange IP address

On 2024/11/27 01:57 AM, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 1:51 AM Timothy M Butterworth > wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 4:02 PM vi...@wlcr.net mailto:vi...@wlcr.net>> wrote: Can anyone expla

Re: WHOIS rejection from strange IP address

vi...@wlcr.net writes: > here's a new one of the same problem: > $ whois 191.96.36.52 It's anything in 191.96. 190.112.52.14 seems to belong to LACNIC. Seems unlikely but it looks like RIPE is blocking them. I don't know why the query goes first to LACNIC and then to RIPE. I don't think it's

Re: Synaptic problem(s)

On 12/1/24 6:12 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 04:43:00AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: [SNIP] What should I do next ( /etc/debian_version reports 12.7)? apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade to make sure you're up to date then reboot. At that point, /etc/debian-version sh

Re: Seeking Resources for Advanced Linux Server Administration

On Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 11:45:11 +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > Le 12/1/24 à 12:58, Andrew M.A. Cater a écrit : > > Debian official IRC channels are now pretty much all on oftc. liberachat is > > fine - and you may find the same folk are also on #debian in both - > > but you may well get directed

Re: where is mail.log

Michael (12024-12-02): > postfix has its own logging mechanism: Making postfix part of the problem: different format for timestamps, separate rotation and retention configuration, etc. We do not want a different editor and build system for each programming platform. We do not want a different p

Re: where is mail.log

poc...@homemail.com writes: > You did not comprehend what I posted. I am on the systemd mail list. > They have dropped all sysV support. Does it really even matter if there's SysV support in systemd? You can still put ExecStart=your-sysv-init-script start in your systemd service file and I don

Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases

David Wright wrote: > Funnily enough, I'd never even thought about page numbering in > connection with man pages. But I notice now that the page contents > of my Letter PDF and Debian's A4 version are identical, and the > footers on the A4 are very high, so I'm guessing that the document > was o

Re: Trying to configure hibernate / resume

"Andrew M.A. Cater" writes: > A quick search with a search engine: boot is restricted, not impossible. > > The answer seems to be to install with LVM and encryption. That ensures > that the swap area is encrypted and *cannot* be messed with while the > device is hibernated (which is the rationale

Re: where is mail.log

since noone mentioned it: postfix has its own logging mechanism: https://www.postfix.org/MAILLOG_README.html greetings...

Re: Seeking Resources for Advanced Linux Server Administration

Le 12/1/24 à 12:58, Andrew M.A. Cater a écrit : On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 09:42:34AM +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote: Hello Muhammad! and for more real-time interaction I like to hang out on the #linux channel on liberachat IRC servers, or, if it's debian specific, on the #debian channel (also

Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases

>From most, shells, e.g. bash, dash, most or all POSIX shells, you can type: type name_of_command And it'll generally tell you what/where that command comes from, or if it's an alias, etc. E.g. from either bash or dash: $ type cd cd is a shell builtin $ So then you could look it up in the relevant

Re: SID KDE Plasma 6.2 - KDE Testing VMs with either QXL or Virtio drivers work when running on PCs using either Nvidia and AMD proprietary drivers.

On Monday, 02-12-2024 at 14:56 Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 9:42 PM George at Clug wrote: > > > On Monday, 02-12-2024 at 03:20 Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 10:12 AM George at Clug > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sunday, 01-12-2024

Re: RAID60 question

On Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 3:47 PM David Christensen wrote: > > On 12/1/24 04:27, Greg wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I'm setting up MD-RAID0 on a top of HW-RAID6 devices (long story). I > > would like to confirm the following: > > > > 1. The RAID0 chunk size should be the stripe width of the > > underl