What systemd dependencies? :-)
# readlink /proc/1/exe /sbin && dpkg -S /sbin/init && cat
/etc/debian_version && more /etc/apt/preferences.d/* | cat
/usr/sbin/init
usr/sbin
sysvinit-core: /sbin/init
12.10
::
/etc/apt/preferences.d/98init
::
Explanation: Avoid unintended in
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 05:49:28PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
Do you know if there is a setting in VSFTPD to upload files?
/etc/vsftpd.conf:
write_enable=YES
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 08:12:14PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
To solve this, I could use a Bastion host with a limited, non Debian,
OS, or I could recompile the OpenSSH package on Debian with options
disabled.
I'd suggest just backporting the currrent version from sid rather than
trying to mo
On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 06:11:31PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
I am having problems writing to atftpd. I keep getting a permission denied
error.
It sounds like you've worked around this, but I'll note for future
searchers that the reason for this is that atftpd is configured with
Dyna
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 03:27:10PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
However, the release you're running (Debian 6 squeeze) went into limited
lTS in 2014 and complete end of life in 2016. Packages for it don't
exist any more on the regular Debian mirrors and would have to be
obtained from archive.debian.n
On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 09:36:11AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 01:41:21PM +0200, Petric Frank wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2025, 11:35:27 CEST schrieb to...@tuxteam.de:
Does /dev/disk/by-path fulfil your needs?
Not exactly. The names are like pci--0b:00:0-ata-4
On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 01:41:21PM +0200, Petric Frank wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2025, 11:35:27 CEST schrieb to...@tuxteam.de:
Does /dev/disk/by-path fulfil your needs?
Not exactly. The names are like pci--0b:00:0-ata-4 and
pci--0d:00:0-ata-1.
Yes, that's necessary to account for
On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 10:28:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
On Thu 03 Apr 2025 at 06:55:10 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
I disagree with you here. The 127.0.1.1 address is a placeholder put
there by the installer for the more common case where a machine doesn't
have a fixed LAN IP address. M
On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 09:34:42PM +0200, coffeeforblood.pardon...@slmail.me
wrote:
Should I pursue the strange behavior of needing to have "Make available
to others users" enabled for the "Connect Automatically" setting to be
respected, in case there is a bug, or close this issue as solved? I'
On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 10:28:24PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
I don't see the point in leaving it there. If you want to send
something to coyote.coyote.den, why do you want the LAN address
when 127.0.1.1 is just as good. If the line is correct, it does
nothing; if it's incorrect, it can cause har
On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 05:19:08PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote:
Off Topic I just did a 1 year diploma in advanced networking. I
couldn't even comprehend why the still had crossover cables in the
lab. Perhaps to accommodate pre-2000 CISCO switches?
cisco was one of the companies that was late to
Info can also be used for upgrading (much) older releases
(notably older ones beyond both main and LTS support)
On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 12:51 AM wrote:
> For comparison, some research and portability tests I'd like
> to install old releases of Debian, i.e. versions 8, 9, 10.
> Are there archives
(response bits in-line):
On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM David Christensen
wrote:
> I would like to use the Perl module Digest::SHA256 on Debian:
> # cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a
> 11.11
> Linux laalaa 5.10.0-34-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.234-1 (2025-02-24)
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> # perl -e 'use
On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 09:38:29PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
... when a cable from the server is connected to the Ethernet port
of a client device, the Debian server will automatically recognize
the new physical connection and then automatically activate that
connection.
It sounds
On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 12:59:19PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
I think the idea is, software can always use 127.0.1.1 to find the
host's fully qualified domain name, without the need to know real IP
address. (And what to do with multihomed hosts?)
It literally doesn't matter. The host knows it
On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 03:03:34PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 15:19:48 -0400>Michael Stone wrote:
If you touch /run/utmp it will magically start working again.
Thank you.
To be pedantic, any logins subsequent to touching it will show up. It
is necessary to touch
On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 09:09:24AM +0300, Henrik Ahlgren wrote:
Mike Castle writes:
I believe /run/utmp is gone in trixie, after systemd was upgraded to
256.5-2.
If you touch /run/utmp it will magically start working again.
On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 08:29:50PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
Excellent, that solves the problem for those on old terminals or
lacking copy/paste. As for me, I'll continue to use /bin/su --login,
as I have for nigh on three decades, so that I land in my preferred,
consistent cwd, /root.
su -
do
On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 11:35:08AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:36:46 -0400
Michael Stone wrote:
I guess I don't understand how you expect smartctl to query a dead
disk. It's dead, that means it's not going to respond.
Not quite. The electronics may resp
On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 02:08:21PM +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote:
Le 3/12/25 à 23:11, Michael Stone a écrit :
Two of the drives are dead, you're not going to see anything from them
So this means I can't rely on smartctl to list physical disks,
I guess I don't understand
On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 04:41:06PM +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote:
I have 5 disks on my server,
2x1 terabyte disks + 3x450 Gb disks,
but smartctl and cciss_vol_status only show 3 disks.
My controller is sg0 as shown in the output of lssci
Two of the drives are dead, you're not going to see anyth
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
On Sun, Mar 02, 2025 at 10:49:41AM -0500, Eben King wrote:
So. This time, while the backup was in process, I mounted /home
read-only to check something out. Apparently that's not good enough to
keep the filesystem intact, because at the end when I resumed, several
things in $HOME didn't work ri
grep maria
# systemctl stop mariadb
Failed to stop mariadb.service: Unit mariadb.service not loaded.
** REBOOTED MACHINE **
# apt install mariadb-server
(It worked)
Michael
From: john doe
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2025 4:28 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.o
3. I am not feeling brave enough to hack
around on systemd files without a bit more knowledge.
Help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Michael
On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 09:42:10AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
All 3 systems have the linux-image-amd64 metapackage installed.
What does
apt show -a linux-image-amd64 | grep -e Version -e Sources -e Depends
return on each system?
If you
apt update
on each system, are there any error messages?
On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 04:51:47PM +0100, basti wrote:
virt-manger say Warning: KVM is not available.
try
dmesg | grep -i kvm
You may see a message about kvm failing to activate, which is often
caused by a bios setting disabling the virtualization extensions. If
there's nothing at all, che
On Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 02:25:51PM -, Greg wrote:
On 2025-02-06, Charles Curley wrote:
I suspect we'll be living with mixed .list and .sources files as
suppliers upgrade what they ship.
I haven't been following the long thread about the modernization of apt
sources.
I'm running Bookworm
On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 08:53:49AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 10:42:27 -0500
Michael Stone wrote:
>...except that, per the rest of the discussion in that bug, it almost
>certainly won't be able to predict which signer to apply for each
>sources.list entr
On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 10:22:17AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
I haven't seen this hit yet (though I probably will next time I
dist-upgrade against testing), but a comment in bug #1094263 leads me to
suspect that there is now supposed to be an 'apt modernize-sources'
sub-command, which looks like
On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 08:09:37AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
Is there anything that tells one how to make this conversion? Better
yet, a script or two to do it for us? There will be a lot of people
scrambling to convert at the last minute.
Yes, current version prompts on what to do.
the Ente Auth developers before I can proceed with using the Ente Auth
app.
On Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 9:16 PM David Wright wrote:
> On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 14:27:28 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 11:01:02 -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > > On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at
Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 04:14:00PM +0000, Michael wrote:
> > Thanks very much for your help and suggestions.
> >
> > I am running Debian 12 on a desktop.
> >
> > My aim is to set up and use a TOTP authenticator app called Ente Auth.
> >
> > I ran, as root :-
&
Thanks very much for your help and suggestions.
I am running Debian 12 on a desktop.
My aim is to set up and use a TOTP authenticator app called Ente Auth.
I ran, as root :-
dpkg -i ente-auth-v4.2.8-x86_64.deb
to create an executable file enteauth, which runs the Ente Auth app.
The app wor
I installed a debian file (db1'say) using dpkg -i and an executable file
(ex1 say) was created.
Later another debian file (db2) was installed, overwriting the executable
ex1.
I now wish to overwrite ex1 with the data in db1, so I tried to install db1
again, but nothing seemed to happen.
Did noth
On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 04:16:29PM +0100, Hans wrote:
Fourth: exfat (needed or big files) does not have a journal like ext3 or ext4,
so data may be going corrupt on the harddrive and could not be restored.
That's not what a journal is for, and if the copy completes and the disk
is unmounted th
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 11:07:57PM +0100, Marco Möller wrote:
You mean, linux-image-amd64 in bookworm-backports, which currently
draws in linux-image-6.12.9+bpo-amd64 (= 6.12.9-1~bpo12+1), can be
expected to NOT draw in some 6.13 like 6.13~rc7+1~exp1 currently
already having appeared in the ex
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 09:48:24PM +0100, Marco Möller wrote:
Well, I thought that some easy receipt would pop up as an answer to my
question on how to achieve such automatic upgrades. As this did not
happen I conclude that the wished procedure is not so common and not
readily worked out by now
On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 10:57:53PM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote:
Has the following been Fixed or back ported to 3.2.7?
Stop trolling. If you want to use arch, go use arch and be happy.
On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 04:17:29PM +0100, Hans wrote:
Now I heard of, that a NVME drive will only get to full speed, if UEFI is
activated in BIOS. Is this correct?
No, at least for linux; I can't speak to windows.
Another question, not really important: The device names, like "/dev/hdX", "/
d
On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 05:53:18AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 03:26:17PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 06:13:44PM +, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
> I'm giving exfat a shot and so far I'm impressed with 160 MB/s average
> transfer r
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 06:13:44PM +, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
I'm giving exfat a shot and so far I'm impressed with 160 MB/s average
transfer rate (HDD -> NVMe).
That's significantly faster than before.
Partially because I'm using "rsync -avh --no-perms --no-group
--no-owner ..." this time.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 03:30:17PM +, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
I need NTFS to connect it to a WS 2019 machine later.
Have you considered exfat? Support for that on linux is much better than ntfs.
At the very least I'd format the drive as anything other than ntfs and
retry as suggested elsewh
bly not many of those on the debian-user mailing list; and even
if there are, a post to an unrelated mailing list is not the way to
file bug reports with any project, let alone a major one like Firefox.
--
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🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 01:31:30PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
Debian doesn't, ifupdown does, which is perfectly believable since
ifupdown is quite an old package with not many people working on it. It
simply hasn't been updated to stop using brctl.
More importantly, who cares? It gets the job don
On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 02:10:52PM +0100, cen wrote:
ab -n 1 -c 1 https://www.google.com/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1913912 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/
Benchmarki
On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 12:11:39PM +0100, Roger Price wrote:
I am unable to erase an unwanted RAID 1 array. Command cat /proc/mdstat
reported
md4 : active raid1 sdb7[0]
20970368 blocks super 1.0 [2/1] [U_]
bitmap: 1/1 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk
I understand that the array has to b
On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 02:46:13AM +0100, Urs Thuermann wrote:
For example, my computers had 5.12 kB,
65.356 kB, 16.777216 MB, 67.108864 MB, 268.435456 MB, 1.073741824 GB,
and 8.589934592 GB of RAM. Perfectly correct, but I prefer to say
they had 5 kiB, 64 kiB, 16 MiB, 64 MiB, 256 MiB, 1 GiB, an
On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:47:11PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
For the people who need exact figures, on the other hand, binary units
are much more convenient, not just to measure the size of memory
modules: alignment requirements, maximum sizes of files and devices,
size of stripes, they are al
On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 09:04:09PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> TB is about 10% larger. One of the worst crimes in computer history
> was ever talking about storage in powers of 2, I really wish it would
> just go away. It has properties that nobody wants and has been the
> sourc
On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 02:59:47PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
Mr. Tarsnap forgets something. The reason disks are addressed in powers
of two has to do with mathematics. Every hard and floppy disk out there
has flaws. To get around that, data is divided into sectors, and
checksums calculated. Do
On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 11:05:11AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
TB is about 10% larger.
Hmm. Even talking about this is hard. The unit TiB is 1099511627776
bytes while the unit TB is 1 bytes. That is, when talking
about a drive, expressing it in TB is about a 10% larger number
On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 10:44:00AM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote:
On Jan 07, 2025, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 8 TB is not that big. I have a external 18 TB drive. It is 18 TB in name
> only though! After fromating it with ext4 it only had 15TB of usuable
> space.
18TB "on paper" is usually 18 * 1000^4
On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 10:25:02AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 09:08:52AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Is there a tool somewhere that lets me monitor a single process?
Look at pidstat in the sysstat package. I think you'll need multiple
tools to get everything y
On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 09:08:52AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Is there a tool somewhere that lets me monitor a single process?
Look at pidstat in the sysstat package. I think you'll need multiple
tools to get everything you're looking for, e.g., maybe lsof.
xplanation absent any further details is likely a
correctable CRC/ECC/FEC error somewhere. You can check component and
cable seating, including power cabling.
--
Michael Kjörling
🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se
- I have a Debian Bullseye desktop PC. From time to time I receive
several Hardware Error Messages which begin with a Hardware Error Message
of the form :-
Message from syslogd@piglit at Jan 5 02:49:03 ...
kernel:[1064021.151590] [Hardware Error]: Corrected error, no action
required.
C
On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 10:54:21AM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
And of course people would pick up the phone while you were connected...
When I got a second phone for the modem I was truly living the dream. :D
On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 09:59:20AM +1100, George at Clug wrote:
On Friday, 03-01-2025 at 09:46 fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote:
i managed a half dozen hp9000 servers with 200 2gb drives
lvm came in pretty handy :)
I have no good memories of hpux servers. :-D But yes, the linux LVM was
inspired
On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 11:24:10PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
But… do we really car?
We kinda do when one person one person can generate 10% of list traffic
and drive another 20%, especially if the results of all that traffic is
basically nothing positive. (For year after year after year.)
On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 06:29:08PM +1100, George at Clug wrote:
I once used/tested with RAID 6 and was amazed how long it took to rebuild a 3TB
swapped hard drive (about 8 hours, if I recall).
Spinning disks are slow; 8 hours for 3TB is about 100MB/s and 8h is
about how much time I'd expect i
On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 10:04:51AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
I am unsure if grub images signed for Secure Boot include LVM drivers
or /boot should be outside of LVM as well.
grub should work fine these days without /boot being a separate
partition, unless you encrypt / (in which case you need
On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 06:29:08PM +1100, George at Clug wrote:
LVM was introduced to allow extending storage by adding extra physical drives.
Storage space is allocated as virtualised storage, i.e. Logical Volumes.
Yes and no. LVM was introduced to allow flexibility in how you assign
space.
On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 06:28:47PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote:
I have been running my own inbound and outbound mail servers for over
30 years using ISP connections. The only time I ran into trouble was
with gmail recently and only because of mismatched SPF records for a
domain I host.
You're
On Wed, Jan 01, 2025 at 09:29:01AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
Please don't feed the trolls.
It's a tough line to walk. On the one hand, yeah, we don't want to feed
the trolls. But if the trolls keep going anyway with no sign they will
stop, we run the risk of implicitly supporting unchallen
On Wed, Jan 01, 2025 at 05:18:58PM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote:
Thank you for proving my point, I knew I would not be disappointed.
Your proof positive that my point is well established.
What point? The reactions you encounter are those that you've earned.
Some of the valuable content y
On Wed, Jan 01, 2025 at 03:35:25PM +0100, poc...@homemail.com wrote:
I was just attacked on this list for posting a systemd unit file that came from
Archlinux.
It was the first response in the thread.
Where were you?
I have been banned from the wiki and this list by cater and the debian elder
On Sunday, December 29, 2024 11:30:30 AM CET, Roger Price wrote:
On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, Michael wrote:
I assume this also prevents fetchmail from restarting.
correct, as long as the init script is called by systemd and nothing
changes in said script.
to disable the service prevents it from
On Saturday, December 28, 2024 6:56:09 PM CET, Roger Price wrote:
And the fetchma+ process disappeared - I hope it no longer
rises from the dead.
then make sure you run
systemctl disable fetchmail.service
otherwise it will start again at next boot.
greetings...
rash
or simply a GUI session freeze would likely be very relevant
information then.
--
Michael Kjörling
🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se
nd what your raw tools
usage does); or (b) give you a simpler setup which still reproduces
the problem, making it easier for others to reproduce the issue you're
having.
--
Michael Kjörling
🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se
ints, you need to set up separate key pairs or
make sure that any other endpoints using that key pair is disconnected
before connecting from elsewhere, or traffic won't flow properly.
Depending on how you set up the tunnel, that's definitely something I
would check.
--
Michael Kjörling
🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se
oint to the already filed upstream bug
report.
--
Michael Kjörling
🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se
are passphrase begins
with "dean unissued mystified comfort", then other than perhaps that
this can help narrow down which word list was used, they have no
advantage in guessing the remainder.
--
Michael Kjörling
🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se
ne which is pertinent here) is random out of a character
set, and Diceware with words selected at random. The former gives a
high degree of security for a given length, and the latter gives good
memorability. The work factor of a password or passphrase generated
using either method can be objectively
and read some of the tech media coverage of it.
--
Michael Kjörling
🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se
t grasp of
security surrounding physical possessions. They might not readily
grasp the implications of handing their unlocked phone over to a
stranger, but they probably do grasp the implications of handing their
home keys over to the same stranger.
--
Michael Kjörling
🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se
d of screen recording software, so this seems like security
theater.
--
Michael Kjörling
🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se
. Password managers are a good thing. They give you huge
advantages in a world where there's far too many passwords for anyone
to remember."
--
Michael Kjörling
🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 06:45:05AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
Do you have a reference?
I ask because I'm in the middle of a discussion (and that was my advice,
too). Seeing what Schneier has to say on that would be very interesting.
All of this advice is overly simplistic. The right answer
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 03:32:03PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Roger Price wrote:
To check for bad USB stick, I downloaded debian-12.8.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and
built a new 12.8 USB installation stick using command
dd if=debian-12.8.0-and64-DVD-1.iso of=/dev/sdj1 bs=4M && sync
The "1" in "/dev/s
ead; p->next != NULL; p = p->next )
if ( p->prev != NULL )
free( p->prev );
==> free( last );
certainly look to me like they're outside of loops.
--
Michael Kjörling
🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se
) and keep a manual count.
See how many times each is reached.
--
Michael Kjörling
🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se
On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 11:39:44PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
This ceaseless saga has been dragging on for over five years:
And as long as people keep playing along this mailing list will continue
to be a one man comedy hour.
On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 09:02:45PM +0100, Hans wrote:
I put a harddrive with linux with a native installed linux (native means, the
harddrive was built-in) in an usb-case and could boot from it. This was nice!
Thus some questions appeared:
1. Is this is normal standard behaviour and can this be
On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 07:32:04PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
Well, this has certainly become quite the Gene thread hasn't it?
Hey, at least nobody is wasting any time on clean installs.
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 09:51:01AM +0200, Anssi Saari wrote:
Michael Stone writes:
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 10:55:48AM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote:
How do I tell how many lanes a given drive uses (preferably before purchase)?
It would be buried in the technical docs. I've only seen 4x d
On Sun, Dec 08, 2024 at 11:26:51PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
I switched this NVME drive to 4k mode. However I considered your
message as statement that internally drives still use higher erase
block size
The erase block is going to be many megabytes, it has nothing to do with
the logical bloc
not mention; or you
introduced an error in /etc/crontab as you edited it.
Note that the generally recommended way is to add a file in
/etc/cron.d instead of editing /etc/crontab. Doing so reduces the risk
of conflicts later.
--
Michael Kjörling
🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se
On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 10:51:20PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
Michael, thank you for the long message. Actually I wonder what is
"idle" that allows drive to perform self-maintenance. I expect that
the device should not be in some deep power saving state (I am yet to
discover availabl
On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 02:26:23PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
Should have been more clear. The drive should be idle for a longer
time. This is assured by not mounting any partition of the SSD.
I was able to "repair" unreadable sectors on a built-in SSD of an
HP-Probook laptop. As far as I r
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 10:03:52PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
2. Use gparted to move Windows (maybe apart from the EFI partition) to the
end of the drive - move the blank space to the front of the drive after
the EFI partiton.
I don't understand this step--why are you moving windows? L
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 04:06:17PM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote:
To find out if the motherboard imposed any limitations, I checked the
manual. I found these tables, which I can't see the implications of:
M2D_32G M.2 connector
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 04:16:53PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
At least one does. I provided URL to the one I use, for some definition of
"automated", upthread @2024-12-05 12:24 (UTC-0500) in reply to your post 102
minutes earlier. :)
Automated means something along the lines of "make this mbr di
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 08:24:05PM +0100, Hans wrote:
What can I do? I would like to keep the existing partitions. However, I could
shrink them. At the moment, my drive looks at this:
primary partition Windows-boot ntfs
primary partition Windows ntfs
primary partition /boot /dev/sda3 ext4
exte
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 05:22:50PM +, Chris Green wrote:
As I understand it the slots in the M2 SSD connector can tell whether
it's SATA or NVMe or both. I have an M2 SSD which I believe will work
either with a SATA connection or with NVMe, and it has two slots in
its connector.
The M.2 dr
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 02:15:13PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
I have more than 40 PCs with well in excess of a dozen installed distros, each
on
a partition,
You have a unique set of requirements. Probably that has little
relevance to basically anyone else.
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 12:24:36PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
Clearly, because it's a seriously inept volume LABEL selection. Among the
following are some better, yet easy enough to remember and type, examples:
# egrep -i 'deb11|deb 11|seye|bull|debian11|debian 11' *L*txt | grep ├─ | wc -l
26
# eg
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 10:55:48AM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote:
How do I tell how many lanes a given drive uses (preferably before purchase)?
It would be buried in the technical docs. I've only seen 4x drives (but
I'm sure there may be some cheaper drives with fewer). On the
motherboard side it'
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 10:26:18PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 05/12/2024 16:19, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
1. SSD's have some self healing capacities (discarding defect
sectors) which are performed when the drive is not mounted.
Therefore, enter the BIOS of the computer and let it running for c
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