Re: 100% [Waiting for headers]

2012-06-24 Thread Chris Knadle
ise only the latest installed version is available. So as a result it's best to run 'apt-get clean' occasionally rather than constantly. :-P On Debian Stable where packages generally don't break it's probably safe -- yet ironically it's on Debian Unstable where package

Re: 100% [Waiting for headers]

2012-06-23 Thread Chris Knadle
On Sunday, June 24, 2012 01:28:28, lina wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Chris Knadle > wrote: > > On Saturday, June 23, 2012 23:49:54, lina wrote: > >> Kinda of funny, > >> > >> Dselect reported me that my /var has saturated. Indeed, 100%. &g

Re: OT: /var on another distro, was: Re: 100% [Waiting for headers]

2012-06-23 Thread Chris Knadle
rc init scripts, but now with dependency-based bootup), and Gentoo which is using OpenRC. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201206240233.16529.chris.kna...@coredump.us

Re: OT: /var on another distro, was: Re: 100% [Waiting for headers]

2012-06-23 Thread Chris Knadle
everal of the proposed changes I've heard about are if they lack adherence to the FHS, or if the moves somehow violate Debian Policy. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: 100% [Waiting for headers]

2012-06-23 Thread Chris Knadle
ce left on filesystems reaches the desired "warning" threshold. I'm about to set up the same thing because there's a box I help administer that also regularly runs into this problem. :-/ -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: laptop battery cycling

2012-05-28 Thread Chris Knadle
be fully discharged followed by a full charge. So be sure to know the type of battery your laptop is using. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up: XFS info

2012-05-06 Thread Chris Knadle
On Sunday, May 06, 2012 05:19:20, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 04 mai 12, 15:08:57, Chris Knadle wrote: ... > > Speed is generally what XFS is good at, *except* when it comes to > > deletion of a large number of files -- that's where it's slow. > > On advise of

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up: XFS info

2012-05-05 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, May 04, 2012 17:31:23, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 04 May 2012 15:08:57 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > > On Monday, April 30, 2012 10:53:46, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:16:58 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > >> > Am Dienstag, 24. April 2012

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up: XFS info

2012-05-04 Thread Chris Knadle
ained 40MB/s transfers over 1Gb ethernet, where ext4 on the same box is not able to sustain that. However ext4 is more reliable and easier to deal with, because it's able to run an fsck at boot time and without neeting a LiveCD to fix it. ;-) -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@core

Re: Install a package from testing?

2012-04-28 Thread Chris Knadle
go that far), and then test the upgrade in the VM -- i.e. in a safe environment. Some virtualization solulutions (like VirtualBox) allow you to do a "snapshot" of the system before making major changes, so you can roll back to the snapshot if it goes wrong and you want to try another u

Re: Logging question

2012-04-28 Thread Chris Knadle
directly to a Debian pacakge. - It's possible that this is hardware related in a way that's difficult to test. For instance I've recently learned that electrolytic capacitors slowly loose both capacity and voltage rating over time. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kn