Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 15:36:42 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > Do you know the URL of a "howto" document that describes how to set > that up? No, sorry. I put that together ad hoc over several years. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/b

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-09 Thread David Wright
On Sat 08 Mar 2025 at 18:40:22 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 08:16:24AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 10:16:49AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > > > > > Have you tried to create a new system user and to configure

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-09 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 11:24:41PM -0600, David Wright wrote: On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 02:16:15 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: Can anyone tell me how to proceed? I'm not sure how this question relates to my post, to which it's attached. I don't know what evolution recovery is, and I don't unde

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-09 Thread David Christensen
On 3/9/25 14:50, Michael Stone wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 12:04:10PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: I have glanced at smartd(8), but have yet to try it because it seems to prefer sending reports via e-mail (?). It's highly configurable. It also logs to syslog, and mails can be disabled e

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-09 Thread David Christensen
On 3/9/25 14:28, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 12:04:10 -0700 David Christensen wrote: I have glanced at smartd(8), but have yet to try it because it seems to prefer sending reports via e-mail (?). I have yet to figure out how fetch root mail messages from my daily driver mail clie

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-09 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 12:04:10PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: I have glanced at smartd(8), but have yet to try it because it seems to prefer sending reports via e-mail (?). It's highly configurable. It also logs to syslog, and mails can be disabled entirely or replaced by some other scrip

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 12:04:10 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > I have glanced at smartd(8), but have yet to try it because it seems > to prefer sending reports via e-mail (?). I have yet to figure out > how fetch root mail messages from my daily driver mail client > (Thunderbird). My WAG is that I

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-09 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 3/9/25 9:26 AM, Eben King wrote: The "norecovery" option for mount(8) seems like a dangerous design choice.  "readonly" is supposed to mean "do not write to disk". Yeah, that's what I thought too. "readonly" means "don't allow the contents of the filesystem to be changed," e.g. attempts t

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-09 Thread David Christensen
On 3/9/25 06:48, Christopher David Howie wrote: On 3/9/25 9:26 AM, Eben King wrote: The "norecovery" option for mount(8) seems like a dangerous design choice.  "readonly" is supposed to mean "do not write to disk". Yeah, that's what I thought too. "readonly" means "don't allow the contents o

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-09 Thread David Christensen
On 3/9/25 06:26, Eben King wrote: On 3/2/25 14:35, David Christensen wrote: AIUI SMR does not work well for OS (e.g. /tmp, swap) and general-purpose (e.g. /home) disks that see frequent small random write workloads.  I prefer small high-quality 2.5" SSD's (Intel SSD 520 Series 60 GB) for my OS a

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-09 Thread David Christensen
On 3/8/25 21:40, Christopher David Howie wrote: On 3/2/25 2:35 PM, David Christensen wrote: The "norecovery" option for mount(8) seems like a dangerous design choice.  "readonly" is supposed to mean "do not write to disk".  I must remember that land mine if and when I want to do forensic work.

Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable

2025-03-09 Thread debian-user
Richard Owlett wrote: > On 3/8/25 8:07 AM, Miriami wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > > > I haven't used the MATE desktop environment, but I guess it also > > has this: 1. Right click on a PDF file, in the pop-up right-click > > menu, chooss 'open this file with ...' 2. In the then-popped-up > > dialog a

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-09 Thread debian-user
D MacDougall wrote: > On 3/8/25 12:34, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > That's just a blank page except for a picture of a duck, the word > > DuckDuckGo and a search box. No explanation of anything at any > > length? > > > Very odd.  On my phone I see exactly what you see plus several

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Eben King wrote: > > > > > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === > > > Model Family: Seagate BarraCuda 3.5 (SMR) > > > Device Model: ST2000DM008-2UB102 > > > > > > AIUI SMR does not work well for OS (e.g. /tmp, swap) and general-purpose > > (e.g. /home) disks that see frequent small

Stunnel startup. Was "Native systemd services."

2025-03-09 Thread peter
From: Greg Wooledge Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 23:28:24 -0500 > '... the unit definition without the argument parameter is > called a "template".' Thanks. So /lib/systemd/system/stunnel@.service is a service template file rather than service file. Here, one execution of command "stunnel" y

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-09 Thread debian-user
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 13:39:18 -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > On Sat Mar 8 13:29:36 2025 debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > > D MacDougall wrote: > > >> https://duckduckgo.com > > > > > > That's just a blank page except for a picture of a duck, the word > > > D

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 11:34:41 -0400, deb...@kcburns.com wrote: > On 3/9/25 1:05 AM, Christopher David Howie wrote: > > Many of my friends keep recommending Brave, but I cannot get past the > > fact that their business model is to strip ads from sites and insert > > their own ads instead (if the

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-09 Thread debian
On 3/9/25 1:05 AM, Christopher David Howie wrote: On 3/6/25 4:25 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: I ended up installing Brave.  Sure, it's Chromium-based, and it will eventually drop support for Manifest v2 extensions, including uBlock Origin (even though it's supported right now).  But it has its own b

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-09 Thread tomas
On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 09:26:07AM -0400, Eben King wrote: > > > On 3/2/25 14:35, David Christensen wrote: [...] > > AIUI SMR does not work well for OS [...] > ?MR=Shielded / Conventional Magnetic Recording? How do I tell a priori > which drives are SMR and which are CMR? Shingled magnetic r

Re: Firefox adds a controversial ToS

2025-03-09 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-09, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sat Mar 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM GMT, Joey Hess wrote: >> Jonathan Dowland wrote: >>> Whether or not the data-gathering is enabled in the Debian builds (and >>> whether it's on by default in the sources), I don't know. I hope not. But >>> irrespectively, users

Re: Firefox adds a controversial ToS

2025-03-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat Mar 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM GMT, Joey Hess wrote: Jonathan Dowland wrote: Whether or not the data-gathering is enabled in the Debian builds (and whether it's on by default in the sources), I don't know. I hope not. But irrespectively, users of Debian's Firefox packages are not bound by Mozilla

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-09 Thread Eben King
On 3/2/25 14:35, David Christensen wrote: At this point, I am uncertain if the /home ext4 file systems are correct on either the OS disc or the copied image disc (?). I did a "fsck -f" on each filesystem. Many had no errors, most of the rest were just "this inode is too wide". So they're

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-09 Thread Darac Marjal
On 08/03/2025 22:56, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 13:39:18 -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On Sat Mar 8 13:29:36 2025 debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: D MacDougall wrote: https://duckduckgo.com That's just a blank page except for a picture of a duck, the word DuckDuckGo and a

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

2025-03-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Miriami wrote: > About the projects I've found - I searched with > three terms on GitHub - 'sqlite', 'fs' and > 'fuse'. It is surprisingly large number of > projects come up with the same idea of using > SQLite as a backing file system storage. I remeber that filesystems in general have been

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

2025-03-09 Thread Miriami
Thank you! I haven't noticed that I could allocate some space for an ext4 image, as though the image in fact do not occupy that much physical space. I would test about this and I think this would work - just a feeling. About qcow - yes, qcow occured to me. When creating an VM, qcow forma

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM Christopher David Howie wrote: > > On 3/6/25 4:25 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I ended up installing Brave. Sure, it's Chromium-based, and it will > > eventually drop support for Manifest v2 extensions, including uBlock > > Origin (even though it's supported right n

Re: evolution recovery

2025-03-09 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-03-09 02:40, Max Nikulin wrote: On 08/03/2025 11:23, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 10:16:49AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: Have you tried to create a new system user and to configure Meanwhile, I discovered that HostGator has the Roundcube web interface, and that works