Re: Journalctl and offline boot disk drive

2025-03-30 Thread Max Nikulin
On 30/03/2025 12:32, George Kirkham wrote: Now with Journalctl, is it still possible to connect the failed-to-boot disk drive to another computer and read logs?  How? [...] https://man.archlinux.org/man/journalctl.1.en -D DIR, --directory=DIR There is

Re: Journalctl and offline boot disk drive

2025-03-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:32:55 +1100 George Kirkham wrote: > PS I am currently using Thunderbird to try out email threading. Are > the any other good email clients that support email threading and are > packaged in Debian? If, as in this email, you have two separate queries, you might do better (

Re: Journalctl and offline boot disk drive

2025-03-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 04:32:55PM +1100, George Kirkham wrote: > Now with Journalctl, is it still possible to connect the failed-to-boot disk > drive to another computer and read logs?  How? You got an answer regarding reading systemd journal in another directory, but… For there to be any p

Re: Journalctl and offline boot disk drive

2025-03-30 Thread David
On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 at 05:33, George Kirkham wrote: > 'Back in the good old days' when logging was to text files. When a disk > drive failed to boot, I could attach that disk drive to another computer > as a secondary drive, and then mount and read the logs to see why it > could no longer boot.

Re: Journalctl and offline boot disk drive

2025-03-30 Thread George
On 30/3/25 20:50, David wrote: On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 at 05:33, George Kirkham wrote: 'Back in the good old days' when logging was to text files. When a disk drive failed to boot, I could attach that disk drive to another computer as a secondary drive, and then mount and read the logs to see w

Re: Journalctl and offline boot disk drive

2025-03-29 Thread Chris Green
George Kirkham wrote: [snip disk drive question] > PS I am currently using Thunderbird to try out email threading. Are the > any other good email clients that support email threading and are > packaged in Debian? I use mutt, command line MUA, excellent. -- Chris Green ·

Journalctl and offline boot disk drive

2025-03-29 Thread George Kirkham
Hi, 'Back in the good old days' when logging was to text files. When a disk drive failed to boot, I could attach that disk drive to another computer as a secondary drive, and then mount and read the logs to see why it could no longer boot.  As well as to inspect other things. (apologies that