On Fri, 2 Aug 2024, Tim Woodall wrote:
# Reading through this now I'm not absolutely sure that those hoops I
# jump throught to sign the repo are needed...
Just confirmed the gpg stuff is not needed
# Not sure why I have that proxy bit in here either. I think I'm
# installing from a file re
On Fri, 2 Aug 2024, daggs wrote:
Greetings,
I'm working on an automated Debian installation without network access.
I've discovered the --make-tarball and --unpack-tarball switches which I use to
create the tarball and use it as repo.
the initial deployment is this: debootstrap --arch amd64 --
On 02.07.24 02:57, George at Clug wrote:
I wanted to know "how to configure and use Wine to run a Windows program".
And that's why you should try out Bottles, because it's not just plain Wine. If
you succeed with it, you can check the source code, what exactly they are doing
that enables bett
Thanks for your reply Jeff,
On Tuesday, 02-07-2024 at 10:16 Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 6:33 PM George at Clug wrote:
> >
> > To all who replied, Thanks.
> >
> > Sadly after further testing I still have very little success with Wine.
> >
> > When I installed WineHQ's Wine Insta
On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 6:33 PM George at Clug wrote:
>
> To all who replied, Thanks.
>
> Sadly after further testing I still have very little success with Wine.
>
> When I installed WineHQ's Wine Installation, Gecko and Mono were able to be
> installed. I noticed a rpcss.exe (from memory) in Task
To all who replied, Thanks.
Sadly after further testing I still have very little success with Wine.
When I installed WineHQ's Wine Installation, Gecko and Mono were able to be
installed. I noticed a rpcss.exe (from memory) in Taskmgr. This at least
allowed me to display the initial web page in
On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 10:45:39AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > As a general rule I am willing to accept RPMs, pacman ?? packages, and
> > .debs, when they are from the Distribution's own package libraries, or
> > hardware vendor supported, as otherwise I don't know the people providing
> > the
> As a general rule I am willing to accept RPMs, pacman ?? packages, and
> .debs, when they are from the Distribution's own package libraries, or
> hardware vendor supported, as otherwise I don't know the people providing
> the package. I have this strange belief that when a developer supplies
> a
On 01.07.24 11:13, George at Clug wrote:
As a general rule I am willing to accept RPMs, pacman ?? packages, and .debs,
when they are from the Distribution's own package libraries, or hardware vendor
supported,
Hardware vendor distributed installation files usually should not be used,
espec
On Monday, 01-07-2024 at 18:37 Richard wrote:
> This has nothing to do with maturity.
Thanks for picking that point up. I was not sure how to explain my reasoning. I
will try to give a better explanation.
As a general rule I am willing to accept RPMs, pacman ?? packages, and .debs,
when the
This has nothing to do with maturity. Only with the existence of someone
willing to maintain it - and its dependencies if needed. They don't publish
it as anything else than a Flatpak as that's by far the easiest way to make
sure it works for everyone, and thus they don't officially support any
oth
Hello,
Absolutely no idea if it will help you solve your problem but the
Archwiki has an potentially interesting tip for reverting the Debian
default behavior:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wine#Prevent_installing_Mono/Gecko
so, perhaps setting the WINEDLLOVERRIDES environment variable to
On Monday, 01-07-2024 at 15:48 didier gaumet wrote:
> Le 01/07/2024 à 01:24, George at Clug a écrit :
> [...]
> > I have not found useful documentation that can get me over the "Could not
> > find Wine Gecko", "Failed to init Gecko" error messages.
> [...]
>
> Hello,
>
> disclaimer: I have n
Le 01/07/2024 à 01:24, George at Clug a écrit :
[...]
I have not found useful documentation that can get me over the "Could not find Wine
Gecko", "Failed to init Gecko" error messages.
[...]
Hello,
disclaimer: I have not used Wine in ages, so I cannot be of real help
Note, you could tell wh
Richard,
Thanks for your reply.
On Sunday, 30-06-2024 at 17:11 Richard wrote:
> Depends on what you are trying to do.
I am trying to understand how to use Wine so that I can install various Windows
programs and have them work.
With the knowledge I would like to help others who are even less t
You can try this tool :
https://github.com/winegui/WineGUI
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 1:58 PM Richard wrote:
> Depends on what you are trying to do. But in my experience, if you don't
> need to do some heavy work to maybe get something to work, take a look at
> Bottles [1]. It's kinda a GUI for W
Depends on what you are trying to do. But in my experience, if you don't
need to do some heavy work to maybe get something to work, take a look at
Bottles [1]. It's kinda a GUI for Wine and Proton and seems to have some
tricks up its sleeves. So take a look at it, maybe it can do everything you
are
On Fri 28 Jun 2024 at 15:05:34 (-0500), John Hasler wrote:
> David writes:
> > With chrony, you can monitor the RTC over time and adjust the system
> > clock in accordance with its drift rate at boot time, without
> > correcting the RTC itself, or you can actually set the RTC from the
> > system cl
On Sat 29 Jun 2024 at 06:53:48 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 02:05:48PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > On Fri 28 Jun 2024 at 11:14:34 (-0500), John Hasler wrote:
> > > David writes:
> > > > It's not clear to me which NTP (protocol) packages are set up to use
> > > > the
On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 16:39:14 +0100
"mick.crane" wrote:
> > * Invest in a decent GPS receiver, and install chrony and gpsd on
> > the machine. Doing so may get the system clock in synch faster; it
> > may not. Doing that sort of thing is well documented on the gpsd
> > home page.
>
> Wouldn't y
On 2024-06-29 04:52, Charles Curley wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:48:03 -0400
Stefan Monnier wrote:
I have a machine whose RTC clock is drifting significantly and it is
often suspended for several days. I run NTP so the drift I see when
I wake the machine up gets fixed by "stepping" the clock
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 02:05:48PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 28 Jun 2024 at 11:14:34 (-0500), John Hasler wrote:
> > David writes:
> > > It's not clear to me which NTP (protocol) packages are set up to use
> > > the util-linux stuff, assuming you're not rolling your own
> > > startup/shut
On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:48:03 -0400
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I have a machine whose RTC clock is drifting significantly and it is
> often suspended for several days. I run NTP so the drift I see when
> I wake the machine up gets fixed by "stepping" the clock after a
> while, but that can take a wh
On 29/06/2024 01:49, Stefan Monnier wrote:
But note that when we wake up ntpsec is already running
It should be possible to stop the NTP daemon on suspend (or hibernate)
and start it on resume.
I think, what you are truing to achieve is doable. I do not agree with
Greg. The question is what
On Fri 28 Jun 2024 at 17:03:47 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > David has said that chrony can do fancy things involving the hardware
> > clock. Maybe you should investigate that solution path.
>
> I'm trying to find out how to fix it Right, rather than how to work
> around the problem (I alre
>> Notice I wrote "sleep". I'm concerned about the suspend+wakeup case,
>> not the case when you're booting up.
>> [ I thought I'd made it abundantly clear. ]
> I'm not a laptop person. I don't know how to fix laptop-specific issues.
FWIW, the offending machine is a desktop.
I `suspend` most of
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 14:44:03 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 28 Jun 2024 at 14:54:42 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > The *only* thing you know at boot time is what's in the HW clock, and
> > if you're really lucky, you'll be able to figure out what time zone
> > it's allegedly set to (aft
David writes:
> With chrony, you can monitor the RTC over time and adjust the system
> clock in accordance with its drift rate at boot time, without
> correcting the RTC itself, or you can actually set the RTC from the
> system clock periodically.
That leads to the probelem that started this threa
> Yeah, except... you're assuming a workflow that is not real or reliable.
[...]
>> It is if /etc/adjtime is set properly when you go to sleep.
> You cannot assume that adjtime was updated the last time your system
> stopped running, because your system might have stopped running due to
> a crash,
On Fri 28 Jun 2024 at 14:54:42 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > It's not like you can say "Oh, I was asleep for 7.5234 hours, so I need
> > > to adjust the HW clock time forward by X seconds because I know it runs
> > > a bit slow." That information is not available to you.
> >
> > It is if /e
On Fri 28 Jun 2024 at 11:14:34 (-0500), John Hasler wrote:
> David writes:
> > It's not clear to me which NTP (protocol) packages are set up to use
> > the util-linux stuff, assuming you're not rolling your own
> > startup/shutdown scripts. (That's the problem in the Subject line, in
> > a sense.)
> > It's not like you can say "Oh, I was asleep for 7.5234 hours, so I need
> > to adjust the HW clock time forward by X seconds because I know it runs
> > a bit slow." That information is not available to you.
>
> It is if /etc/adjtime is set properly when you go to sleep.
> See `hwclock(8)` or
John Hasler [2024-06-28 09:41:06] wrote:
> Stefan writes:
>> The question remains: how to make use of that info upon wakeup to
>> adjust the "initial" time before NTP takes over.
> hwclock -a can do this.
Indeed, and my question can be thought of as asking how to run
`hwclock -a` when we wake up (
> The hardware clock has a time, which is loaded into the system clock
> to initialize it. That's it. The only variable factor here is whether
> the hardware clock's time is in UTC or some local time zone.
>
> You can't do anything with drift at this point, because you don't actually
> know how l
David writes:
> It's not clear to me which NTP (protocol) packages are set up to use
> the util-linux stuff, assuming you're not rolling your own
> startup/shutdown scripts. (That's the problem in the Subject line, in
> a sense.)
Chrony can. I don't know about Ntpsec. But that doesn't get the
ad
On Fri 28 Jun 2024 at 09:41:06 (-0500), John Hasler wrote:
> Stefan writes:
> > The question remains: how to make use of that info upon wakeup to
> > adjust the "initial" time before NTP takes over.
>
> hwclock -a can do this.
Sure it can.
> If you use it be sure ntpsec isn't trying to do
> the
Stefan writes:
> The question remains: how to make use of that info upon wakeup to
> adjust the "initial" time before NTP takes over.
hwclock -a can do this. If you use it be sure ntpsec isn't trying to do
the same thing.
--
John Hasler
j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
On Fri 28 Jun 2024 at 10:06:23 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 09:48:12 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Oh, indeed, thanks. I had computed it manually from
> > `journalctl | grep stepped` and it gave close enough results.
> > The question remains: how to make use of that i
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 09:48:12 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Oh, indeed, thanks. I had computed it manually from
> `journalctl | grep stepped` and it gave close enough results.
> The question remains: how to make use of that info upon wakeup to adjust
> the "initial" time before NTP takes over.
> Do you really run ntp? You might already be running ntpsec,
> its replacement.
I call it ntp but yes, it's ntpsec.
>> The /etc/adjtime is supposed to be there for such purposes but it seems
>> to be mostly unused: I assume its "UTC" setting is respected but the
>> first and second lines indica
> I think hwclock(8) has the info you need. On my system (yes, one of
> those) there is an /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh which seems to take care
> of that. No idea how the young'uns do it, though :-)
AFAICT this `hwclock.sh` (which I do have) is not used (I'm using
systemd) and even less so upon suspend
On Thu 27 Jun 2024 at 12:48:03 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I have a machine whose RTC clock is drifting significantly and it is
> often suspended for several days. I run NTP so the drift I see when
> I wake the machine up gets fixed by "stepping" the clock after a while,
> but that can take a
On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 12:48:03PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I have a machine whose RTC clock is drifting significantly and it is
> often suspended for several days. I run NTP so the drift I see when
> I wake the machine up gets fixed by "stepping" the clock after a while,
> but that can take
On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 7:48 AM Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> >> Indeed, technically-inclined people are often better served with Free
> >> Software, and Free Software can also be a great choice for large
> >> corporations who can either have on-site techsupport people or can hire
> >> external suppor
Anssi Saari [2023-11-13 12:34:13] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier writes:
>> My home NAS is in a completely different category:
>> an ARM SBC with on-board SATA. Much smaller, extremely quiet (no fan),
>> and between 5W and 10W of power consumption depending on whether it's
>> mostly idle (the overwhelmi
>> Indeed, technically-inclined people are often better served with Free
>> Software, and Free Software can also be a great choice for large
>> corporations who can either have on-site techsupport people or can hire
>> external support, but it is a lot more difficult to find commercial
>> support f
Stefan Monnier writes:
> My home NAS is in a completely different category:
> an ARM SBC with on-board SATA. Much smaller, extremely quiet (no fan),
> and between 5W and 10W of power consumption depending on whether it's
> mostly idle (the overwhelmingly common case) or not.
So which ARM SBC an
On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 03:17:17PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > FOSS is great for learning by doing, but commercial products can be a better
> > choice when a family member, a friend, a neighbor, and especially clients
> > and employers, want a computer, a server, a network gateway, etc.. It i
> FOSS is great for learning by doing, but commercial products can be a better
> choice when a family member, a friend, a neighbor, and especially clients
> and employers, want a computer, a server, a network gateway, etc.. It is
> ironically satisfying when those commercial products have FOSS on
On 11/12/23 09:15, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 04:01:47PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
An obvious difference between internal and external drives is physical
protection. Internal drives and cables are protected. Everything gets
power from the same source (PSU, PCU fed b
On 11/12/23 05:15, Andy Smith wrote:
On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 04:01:47PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
SSD RAID10 is very impressive when everything else matches. Backups over a
Gigabit LAN onto SATA III SSD RAID10 does not make sense because Gigabit
Ethernet is rated for 1 Gbps read/ write an
On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 04:01:47PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> On 11/11/23 08:52, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 10:22:07PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> > > On 11/10/23 19:46, David Christensen wrote:
> > > > On 11/8/23 02:20, gene heskett wrote:
> >
> > Are these 2TB S
Hello,
On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 04:01:47PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> SSD RAID10 is very impressive when everything else matches. Backups over a
> Gigabit LAN onto SATA III SSD RAID10 does not make sense because Gigabit
> Ethernet is rated for 1 Gbps read/ write and a SATA III SSD RAID10 is
> I have always liked ATX tower cases with lots of drive bays, both internal
> and external. Over time, more products have become available with good
> cooling and low noise. I have not found a major computer manufacturer who
> makes servers with all of those features, so I build my own:
>
> * Fr
On 11/11/23 08:52, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 10:22:07PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
On 11/10/23 19:46, David Christensen wrote:
On 11/8/23 02:20, gene heskett wrote:
And I just looked at tht pair, and acc gparted they have both been
pvcreated, so I'll leave then alone and
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> >From what I've read when comparing OpenMediaVault vs TrueNAS, it
> usually comes down to the power consumption of the mini computer/mini
> pc. 5W can save you $100 USD per year. Probably more now due to
> inflation.
5W * 24h/D * 30 D/M * 12M/Y = 43200 Wh, or 43.2KWh per
On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 6:20 PM Dan Ritter wrote:
>
> Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > >From what I've read when comparing OpenMediaVault vs TrueNAS, it
> > usually comes down to the power consumption of the mini computer/mini
> > pc. 5W can save you $100 USD per year. Probably more now due to
> > inflat
On 11/11/23 15:41, Pocket wrote:
On 11/11/23 13:47, Stefan Monnier wrote:
I have used ssd drives connected to a RPI4 ever since the 4 came out,
zero issues.
The RPI4's boot from the ssd drives.
I have 4 SSD drives connected to a single RPI4 currently, using a
powered
USB hub.
Hmm... so mayb
On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 1:48 PM Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> > I have used ssd drives connected to a RPI4 ever since the 4 came out,
> > zero issues.
> > The RPI4's boot from the ssd drives.
> > I have 4 SSD drives connected to a single RPI4 currently, using a powered
> > USB hub.
>
> Hmm... so mayb
On 11/11/23 13:47, Stefan Monnier wrote:
I have used ssd drives connected to a RPI4 ever since the 4 came out,
zero issues.
The RPI4's boot from the ssd drives.
I have 4 SSD drives connected to a single RPI4 currently, using a powered
USB hub.
Hmm... so maybe the USB connection is not directl
> I have used ssd drives connected to a RPI4 ever since the 4 came out,
> zero issues.
> The RPI4's boot from the ssd drives.
> I have 4 SSD drives connected to a single RPI4 currently, using a powered
> USB hub.
Hmm... so maybe the USB connection is not directly relevant either and
the real issu
On 11/11/23 12:05, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Are these 2TB SSDs or hard disks? I would counsel very strongly indeed
against using any ARM-based single board computer as a RAID device on
USB connections - they're just *not* up to it.
I don't think the issue is whether they're ARM based.
The issue
just my two sense
not advice or promotion
i've used this device for about 2.5 years with 6tb harddrives in raid 1
i have partitions on the raid for the os, debian, and the rest for backups
no problems so far
https://ameridroid.com/products/odroid-hc4
> Are these 2TB SSDs or hard disks? I would counsel very strongly indeed
> against using any ARM-based single board computer as a RAID device on
> USB connections - they're just *not* up to it.
I don't think the issue is whether they're ARM based.
The issue is simply how you connect the disks: i
On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 10:22:07PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> On 11/10/23 19:46, David Christensen wrote:
> > On 11/8/23 02:20, gene heskett wrote:
> > > And I just looked at tht pair, and acc gparted they have both been
> > > pvcreated, so I'll leave then alone and steal the dvd cable, puttin
>
On 11/10/23 19:46, David Christensen wrote:
On 11/8/23 02:20, gene heskett wrote:
But before I do yet another reinstall, 24th or so. two of the sata
2t's are installed, and I'm tempted to rsych the raid to one of them
to see if reassigning /home to a copy of /home does away with this
horrible
On 11/8/23 02:20, gene heskett wrote:
But before I do yet another reinstall, 24th or so. two of the sata 2t's
are installed, and I'm tempted to rsych the raid to one of them to see
if reassigning /home to a copy of /home does away with this horrible lag
I'm wanting to blame on the raid10.
Te
Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 05:19:01PM -0700, Tom Dial wrote:
> > On 11/7/23 17:19, gene heskett wrote:
> > > What do I do if a gpt partition table has already been made and
> > > an ext4 system is already installed? IOW just how "bare" a disk
> > > is needed? Is writ
Hello,
On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 05:19:01PM -0700, Tom Dial wrote:
> On 11/7/23 17:19, gene heskett wrote:
> > What do I do if a gpt partition table has already been made and
> > an ext4 system is already installed? IOW just how "bare" a disk
> > is needed? Is writing a null gpt sufficient?
> You c
On 11/8/23 03:20, gene heskett wrote:
On 11/8/23 00:34, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 07:19:40PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
[...]
What do I do if a gpt partition table has already been made and an ext4
system is already installed? IOW just how "bare" a disk is needed? Is
On 11/7/23 17:19, gene heskett wrote:
On 11/7/23 18:42, Tom Dial wrote:
On 11/6/23 08:47, Franco Martelli wrote:
On 03/11/23 at 17:27, gene heskett wrote:
Greetings all;
As usual, the man page may as well be written in swahili. The NDE syndrome,
meaning No D-d Examples.
I have those
On 9/11/23 02:02, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
Double check - sometimes one socket may be intended primarily for "other"
M2 devices. There shouldn't be any particular difference
between the two - one is obviously easier to reach than the other.
Occasionally, having two may mean that they run slight
On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 05:20:47AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> On 11/8/23 00:34, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 07:19:40PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> >
> Sounds good.
> However I may go a different route. I have a not installed 2T WD-Black SN770
> NVMe SSD, format 2280. T
On 11/8/23 00:34, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 07:19:40PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
[...]
What do I do if a gpt partition table has already been made and an ext4
system is already installed? IOW just how "bare" a disk is needed? Is
writing a null gpt sufficient?
Hm. I may
On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 07:19:40PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
[...]
> What do I do if a gpt partition table has already been made and an ext4
> system is already installed? IOW just how "bare" a disk is needed? Is
> writing a null gpt sufficient?
Hm. I may have missed something, but I've got the
On 11/7/23 16:19, gene heskett wrote:
On 11/7/23 18:42, Tom Dial wrote:
On 03/11/23 at 17:27, gene heskett wrote:
I have those 2 2T SSD's with a gpt partition table on both,
allocated as sdc1 and sdk1, formatted to ext4, named and labeled as
lvm1 and lvm2.
Temp mounted as sdc1 and sdk1 to /mn
On 11/7/23 18:42, Tom Dial wrote:
On 11/6/23 08:47, Franco Martelli wrote:
On 03/11/23 at 17:27, gene heskett wrote:
Greetings all;
As usual, the man page may as well be written in swahili. The NDE
syndrome, meaning No D-d Examples.
I have those 2 2T SSD's with a gpt partition table on
On 11/6/23 08:47, Franco Martelli wrote:
On 03/11/23 at 17:27, gene heskett wrote:
Greetings all;
As usual, the man page may as well be written in swahili. The NDE syndrome,
meaning No D-d Examples.
I have those 2 2T SSD's with a gpt partition table on both, allocated as sdc1
and sdk1,
On 11/6/23 10:48, Franco Martelli wrote:
On 03/11/23 at 17:27, gene heskett wrote:
Greetings all;
As usual, the man page may as well be written in swahili. The NDE
syndrome, meaning No D-d Examples.
I have those 2 2T SSD's with a gpt partition table on both, allocated
as sdc1 and sdk1, f
On 03/11/23 at 17:27, gene heskett wrote:
Greetings all;
As usual, the man page may as well be written in swahili. The NDE
syndrome, meaning No D-d Examples.
I have those 2 2T SSD's with a gpt partition table on both, allocated as
sdc1 and sdk1, formatted to ext4, named and labeled as lvm
Hi,
David Christensen wrote:
> Are there tools other than xorriso(1) that can create a compatible checksum?
> Read the checksum?
Not yet. The data format is documented in
https://dev.lovelyhq.com/libburnia/libisofs/raw/branch/master/doc/checksums.txt
For the general concept of AAIP attributes
On 05/11/2023 15:04, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
If you want to abort earlier, do not press Ctrl+C but rather do
touch /var/opt/xorriso/do_abort_check_media
I do not have an optical drive around for last years, so feel free to
ignore my question. Are there obstacles making implementation of prope
On 11/5/23 14:16, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
David Christensen wrote:
Adding checksum file(s) to the contents burned to disc is an important step
that should not be omitted
I let xorriso compute and store the checksums in a non-file block range
at the end of the ISO filesystem. Each file gets an AA
On 11/5/23 12:46, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
David Christensen wrote:
On 11/5/23 01:04, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Lesson learnt: Never overwrite the two youngest backups.
I try to use the term "backup" to mean a data copying process whereby
older data is overwritten by newer data.
I tr
Hi,
David Christensen wrote:
> Adding checksum file(s) to the contents burned to disc is an important step
> that should not be omitted
I let xorriso compute and store the checksums in a non-file block range
at the end of the ISO filesystem. Each file gets an AAIP attribute which
points to an MD5
David Christensen wrote:
> On 11/5/23 01:04, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > Lesson learnt: Never overwrite the two youngest backups.
>
> I try to use the term "backup" to mean a data copying process whereby
> older data is overwritten by newer data.
>
> I try to use the term "archive' to mean a d
On 11/5/23 01:04, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
David Christensen wrote:
I have been burning archive DVD-R discs for ~14 years and storing them in a
drawer (e.g. darkness). I checked the oldest just now and it reads okay.
That's my experience too.
Okay.
I check by MD5 which are stored on the m
On 11/5/23 05:28, David Christensen wrote:
On 11/5/23 01:47, gene heskett wrote:
On 11/5/23 01:46, David Christensen wrote:
I am worried that you are going to make a mistake and suffer a data
disaster (partial or total). That is why I suggested that you give
the Asus a rest and build a backup
On 11/5/23 01:47, gene heskett wrote:
On 11/5/23 01:46, David Christensen wrote:
I am
worried that you are going to make a mistake and suffer a data
disaster (partial or total). That is why I suggested that you give
the Asus a rest and build a backup server now.
I'm also into 3d
printers,
On 11/5/23 01:46, David Christensen wrote:
On 11/4/23 21:05, gene heskett wrote:
On 11/4/23 23:15, David Christensen wrote:
On 11/4/23 17:55, gene heskett wrote:
FWIW the rw's I have and that continue to work, are Sony DVD+RW,
well over 5 years old now. I understand there is a DVD-RW but I've
Hi,
Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I have 3 100 disk spindles of dvd's bought years ago, that are
> > no longer recognized in any of the 4 or 5 dvd writers I have, but one box
> > of rewritables about the same age, stored n a light tight cardboard box,
> > will likely outlast me.
Unwritten write-once me
On 11/4/23 21:05, gene heskett wrote:
On 11/4/23 23:15, David Christensen wrote:
On 11/4/23 17:55, gene heskett wrote:
FWIW the rw's I have and that continue to work, are Sony DVD+RW, well
over 5 years old now. I understand there is a DVD-RW but I've no
experience with them. Today my objectio
On 11/4/23 23:15, David Christensen wrote:
On 11/4/23 17:55, gene heskett wrote:
FWIW the rw's I have and that continue to work, are Sony DVD+RW, well
over 5 years old now. I understand there is a DVD-RW but I've no
experience with them. Today my objection is the size. In comparison
to a sys
On 11/4/23 17:55, gene heskett wrote:
FWIW the rw's I have and that continue to work, are Sony DVD+RW, well
over 5 years old now. I understand there is a DVD-RW but I've no
experience with them. Today my objection is the size. In comparison to
a system driving 3d printers with gcode from Cura
On 11/4/23 19:39, David Christensen wrote:
On 11/4/23 15:26, gene heskett wrote:
On 11/4/23 17:38, David Christensen wrote:
In any case, burn your most valuable data to optical discs regularly.
Not great advice unless you lock the resultant dvd away from all room
lighting. I have 3 100 dis
On Sat, 4 Nov 2023 16:39:03 -0700
David Christensen wrote:
Does anyone have experience with M-Disc media?
No. I trust a little bit more in RAID
On 11/4/23 15:26, gene heskett wrote:
On 11/4/23 17:38, David Christensen wrote:
In any case, burn your most valuable data to optical discs regularly.
Not great advice unless you lock the resultant dvd away from all room
lighting. I have 3 100 disk spindles of dvd's bought years ago, that a
On 11/4/23 17:38, David Christensen wrote:
On 11/4/23 04:46, gene heskett wrote:
... my only previous experience with logical volumes 20 years ago
cost me dearly in terms of lost, irreplaceable data, like the only
pictures of my first wife ...
On 11/4/23 05:22, gene heskett wrote:
On 11/4/
On 11/4/23 09:45, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sat, Nov 04, 2023 at 07:46:09AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
[...]
I'v got to the above point but the first example that looked good created a
100% allocated, no free space "homevol"
So I used gparted to delete the partitions & reformat them to ext4 a
On 11/4/23 04:46, gene heskett wrote:
... my only previous experience with logical volumes 20 years ago
cost me dearly in terms of lost, irreplaceable data, like the only
pictures of my first wife ...
On 11/4/23 05:22, gene heskett wrote:
On 11/4/23 05:39, Andy Smith wrote:
Maybe it is time
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