Re: btfs disk compatibility between i386 and amd64

2022-01-28 Thread Joseph Brenner
em. That's interesting in itself. Makes some sense. Thanks much. On 1/28/22, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 26 ian 22, 17:33:04, Joseph Brenner wrote: >> I was wondering if the on-disk data format for btrfs is >> compatible between the i386 and amd64 code bases-- >> e.g

btfs disk compatibility between i386 and amd64

2022-01-26 Thread Joseph Brenner
I was wondering if the on-disk data format for btrfs is compatible between the i386 and amd64 code bases-- e.g. would you expect to be able to swap data drives between machines running either? I've got an old i386 installation with /home in it's own partition, and I'm wondering if I can expect to

upgrade hits an acpid problem: "Got no socket."

2019-04-19 Thread Joseph Brenner
I've been going around on some fun issues related to doing a full upgrade for the first time in a long time on a Lenovo E550 laptop running Debian testing. The system now won't boot cleanly, but I can get in via a recovery mode (after which, I start network-manager manually), so I've continued exp

Re: How do I clone Computer A from Computer B?

2011-03-04 Thread Joseph Brenner
I think people are assuming identical hardware, and if that's not the case, you need to be careful about just doing an "rsync" between the boxes. Even getting a list of debs from one machine and trying to bulk install them on the other can bet tricky... as I remember it there are some packages tha