Re: Gnome home directory icons

2019-09-17 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi George, Quoting George (2019-09-17 11:56:38) > I noticed when i name a folder in home directory Documents it > automatically adds a slightly different icon that the normal folder. > > I want to have this kind of icon to different place in my directory. > > More presicly

Gnome home directory icons

2019-09-17 Thread George
Hi there! I noticed when i name a folder in home directory Documents it automatically adds a slightly different icon that the normal folder. I want to have this kind of icon to different place in my directory. More presicly i want to organize my home folder into 2 subfolder. One personal folder

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-06 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sat, 6 Jul 2019, at 16:37, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > The classic method to make both sorting criteria match is to prepend > '0' characters to the shorter numbers so that all number texts have the > same length. Then lexical ordering yields > > 01 02 03 11 12 ... 19 21 If you don't know before

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > You sometimes will end up with a sort that like this: > 1 11 12 ... 19 2 21 ... 3 > I'm sort of hoping the reason is easy to spot, as I am fighting a headache Would the following sequence (and the image of a stern looking librarian) be more intuitive ? A AA AB .

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-06 Thread David Wright
On Sat 06 Jul 2019 at 12:31:25 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2019-07-06, songbird wrote: > > Curt wrote: > >> On 2019-07-05, mick crane wrote: > > ... > >>> I'm incrementing the number by the loop and some software sees 2 as > >>> bigger that 10 or something like this. I can probably get around that

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-06 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, July 06, 2019 08:31:25 AM Curt wrote: > On 2019-07-06, songbird wrote: > >>> I'm incrementing the number by the loop and some software sees 2 as > >>> bigger that 10 or something like this. I can probably get around that > >>> by I was just reading something about concrete examples (

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-06 Thread Wolf Halton
That is certainly an annoying default. Make you have to rethink your naming convention. Wolf Strategic Cybersecurity AdvisoryCloud https://Bit.ly/WolfHalton > On Jul 6, 2019, at 08:31, Curt wrote: > >> On 2019-07-06, songbird wrote: >> Curt wrote: >>> On 2019-07-05, mick crane wrote: >> ..

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-07-06, songbird wrote: > Curt wrote: >> On 2019-07-05, mick crane wrote: > ... >>> I'm incrementing the number by the loop and some software sees 2 as >>> bigger that 10 or something like this. I can probably get around that by >> >> Not sure exactly what you mean by some software, but

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-06 Thread songbird
Curt wrote: > On 2019-07-05, mick crane wrote: ... >> I'm incrementing the number by the loop and some software sees 2 as >> bigger that 10 or something like this. I can probably get around that by > > Not sure exactly what you mean by some software, but you must be sorting > lexicographically (

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-07-05, mick crane wrote: > > I'm incrementing the number by the loop and some software sees 2 as > bigger that 10 or something like this. I can probably get around that by Not sure exactly what you mean by some software, but you must be sorting lexicographically (the numbers are treated

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-05 20:08, David Wright wrote: On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 18:39:51 (+0100), mick crane wrote: On 2019-07-05 17:31, songbird wrote: > mick crane wrote: > > hello, > > I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. > > code makes some images and saves them to a directory. > > If the d

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread David Christensen
On 7/5/19 8:24 AM, mick crane wrote: hello, I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. code makes some images and saves them to a directory. If the directory doesn't exist it gets made and if it does exist all the files in it get deleted before putting some new ones in. I'm thinking t

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread David Wright
On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 18:39:51 (+0100), mick crane wrote: > On 2019-07-05 17:31, songbird wrote: > > mick crane wrote: > > > hello, > > > I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. > > > code makes some images and saves them to a directory. > > > If the directory doesn't exist it gets m

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-05 18:56, mick crane wrote: On 2019-07-05 17:31, songbird wrote: mick crane wrote: hello, I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. code makes some images and saves them to a directory. If the directory doesn't exist it gets made and if it does exist all the files in i

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-05 17:31, songbird wrote: mick crane wrote: hello, I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. code makes some images and saves them to a directory. If the directory doesn't exist it gets made and if it does exist all the files in it get deleted before putting some new on

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 07:39:08PM +0200, john doe wrote: > > mick crane wrote: > >> I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. > [ $1 = ${HOME} ] || { echo " Directory (${1}) not allowed." >&2; exit 1; } (a) That's not perl. (b) https://mywiki.wooledge.org/Quotes https://mywiki

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-05 17:31, songbird wrote: mick crane wrote: hello, I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. code makes some images and saves them to a directory. If the directory doesn't exist it gets made and if it does exist all the files in it get deleted before putting some new on

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread john doe
gt;> How would that best be avoided ? >> Is that something to do with chroot which I don't know anything about. > Answering here to the OP and assuming that the directory path is passed to the script as argument: ~/ is a shortcut for ${HOME} which is the user home directory. So

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-07-05 at 12:56, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 12:16:46PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> And what if some of the destination names already exist? That's >> the point of deleting the existing files, I'd imagine. > > You're assuming too much. > > Given the communication w

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 12:16:46PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > And what if some of the destination names already exist? That's the > point of deleting the existing files, I'd imagine. You're assuming too much. Given the communication we've seen thus far, the most likely scenario is "I have a cod

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread songbird
mick crane wrote: > hello, > I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. > code makes some images and saves them to a directory. > If the directory doesn't exist it gets made and if it does exist all the > files in it get deleted before putting some new ones in. > I'm thinking that if I

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-07-05 at 11:45, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 11:37:13AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2019-07-05 at 11:32, mick crane wrote: >> >>> after they get made I rename them all in consecutive order and if >>> there's other files in there the number order will get messed

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 11:37:13AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2019-07-05 at 11:32, mick crane wrote: > > after they get made I rename them all in consecutive order and if > > there's other files in there the number order will get messed up. > > Then the obvious solution would seem to be: bef

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-05 16:32, mick crane wrote: On 2019-07-05 16:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 04:24:42PM +0100, mick crane wrote: I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. code makes some images and saves them to a directory. If the directory doesn't exist it gets made a

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-07-05 at 11:32, mick crane wrote: > On 2019-07-05 16:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 04:24:42PM +0100, mick crane wrote: >> >>> I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. code makes >>> some images and saves them to a directory. If the directory >>> does

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-05 16:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 04:24:42PM +0100, mick crane wrote: I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. code makes some images and saves them to a directory. If the directory doesn't exist it gets made and if it does exist all the files in i

Re: not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 04:24:42PM +0100, mick crane wrote: > I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. > code makes some images and saves them to a directory. > If the directory doesn't exist it gets made and if it does exist all the > files in it get deleted before putting some new o

not wanting to delete somebody's home directory

2019-07-05 Thread mick crane
hello, I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. code makes some images and saves them to a directory. If the directory doesn't exist it gets made and if it does exist all the files in it get deleted before putting some new ones in. I'm thinking that if I ever give it to somebody it'

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-12-02 Thread Richard Hector
On 1/12/18 6:23 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:14:40PM -0500, Default User wrote: >>I often see people recommend a separate home partition.  >>But why would (or not) that be better than just a home directory within >>the root director

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-12-01 Thread Brian
On Sat 01 Dec 2018 at 12:22:09 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 01 December 2018 10:02:29 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Friday, November 30, 2018 07:26:33 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Friday 30 November 2018 13:58:52 Michael Stone wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 05:23:09PM

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-12-01 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 08:39:55PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 30 Nov 2018 at 11:23:57 (-1000), Joel Roth wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > Cliff's Notes Version Part I: Flaky USB connections are an important > > > factor! An accidentally disconnected USB connect

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-12-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 01 December 2018 10:02:29 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, November 30, 2018 07:26:33 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 30 November 2018 13:58:52 Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 05:23:09PM +, Michael Thompson wrote: > > > >Because if your root partition

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-12-01 Thread David Wright
On Sat 01 Dec 2018 at 10:02:29 (-0500), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, November 30, 2018 07:26:33 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 30 November 2018 13:58:52 Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 05:23:09PM +, Michael Thompson wrote: > > > >Because if your root partition

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-12-01 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, December 01, 2018 02:54:22 AM Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 01/12/2018 à 03:21, Ric Moore a écrit : > > On 11/30/18 8:45 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Why bother with /opt -- iirc, /opt is for optional software, not user > >> data. > > Right. > > > True true, but you may select th

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-12-01 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, November 30, 2018 07:26:33 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 30 November 2018 13:58:52 Michael Stone wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 05:23:09PM +, Michael Thompson wrote: > > >Because if your root partition fails, you can reinstall and all your > > > > > > files are safe on their

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-12-01 Thread Curt
On 2018-12-01, Jimmy Johnson wrote: >>> >>> Opinions, please. > > I dislike top posting. That isn't an opinion. This is an opinion. -- He used sentences differently from any other prose writer. He always sounded like a slightly drunk man who is very melancholy, who has no illusions about life,

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-12-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
home directory within the root directory? Wouldn't one less partition be simpler, and therefore (all other things being equal) better? Opinions, please. I dislike top posting. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/12/2018 à 03:21, Ric Moore a écrit : On 11/30/18 8:45 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Why bother with /opt -- iirc, /opt is for optional software, not user data. Right. True true, but you may select the /opt partition from the install menu and not re-format it. You can select arbitra

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread David Wright
, ~/Downloads, et al -- i.e., /abc/Documents, > > ...). > > > > /opt may get filled with stuff that I don't want to treat as (my) user data. > > True true, but you may select the /opt partition from the install menu > and not re-format it. Once you boot into your fresh

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread David Wright
On Fri 30 Nov 2018 at 11:23:57 (-1000), Joel Roth wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > Cliff's Notes Version Part I: Flaky USB connections are an important > > factor! An accidentally disconnected USB connection can cause data to > > become *unknowingly* redirected back to the

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 07:26:33PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > If you are going to put you /home on a separate partition, put it > on a different disk. > > Unfortunately that has NOT been acceptable to the installer for most of a > decade now. Strange, I've been putting /home on a differen

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Ric Moore
opt partition from the install menu and not re-format it. Once you boot into your fresh install, /opt is correctly mounted and by making the necessary links from /home/user to /opt/user you have a fully repopulated home directory. I also have .mozilla and .thunderbird down there for safe keepin

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread David Wright
On Fri 30 Nov 2018 at 12:23:11 (-0500), Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:14:40PM -0500, Default User wrote: > >I often see people recommend a separate home partition.  > >But why would (or not) that be better than just a home directory within > >

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, November 30, 2018 08:32:23 PM Ric Moore wrote: > On 11/30/18 3:47 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > Having lately been successfully "mount -B" ing my > > /var/cache/apt/archives hoard, I can now easily see having those > > (~/Documents, ~/Downloads, et al) each remaining as their own separ

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Ric Moore
On 11/30/18 3:47 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: Having lately been successfully "mount -B" ing my /var/cache/apt/archives hoard, I can now easily see having those (~/Documents, ~/Downloads, et al) each remaining as their own separate directories on a secondary partition. Fstab would then be asked t

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 30 November 2018 13:58:52 Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 05:23:09PM +, Michael Thompson wrote: > >Because if your root partition fails, you can reinstall and all your > > files are safe on their own partition... > > ...leaving open the question of how likely that scen

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > Cliff's Notes Version Part I: Flaky USB connections are an important > factor! An accidentally disconnected USB connection can cause data to > become *unknowingly* redirected back to the original directory on the > primary partition. That situation can

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 02:14:09PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: Michael Stone composed on 2018-11-30 13:58 (UTC-0500): On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 05:23:09PM +, Michael Thompson wrote: Because if your root partition fails, you can reinstall and all your files are safe on their own partition...

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/30/18, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:14:40PM -0500, Default User wrote: >>I often see people recommend a separate home partition. >>But why would (or not) that be better than just a home directory >> within >>the root directo

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Felix Miata
Michael Stone composed on 2018-11-30 13:58 (UTC-0500): > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 05:23:09PM +, Michael Thompson wrote: >>Because if your root partition fails, you can reinstall and all your files >>are safe on their own partition... > ...leaving open the question of how likely that scenario

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 05:23:09PM +, Michael Thompson wrote: Because if your root partition fails, you can reinstall and all your files are safe on their own partition... ...leaving open the question of how likely that scenario is.

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Michael Thompson
Because if your root partition fails, you can reinstall and all your files are safe on their own partition... > On 30 Nov 2018, at 17:14, Default User wrote: > > > I often see people recommend a separate home partition. > > But why would (or not) that be better than jus

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:14:40PM -0500, Default User wrote: >I often see people recommend a separate home partition.  >But why would (or not) that be better than just a home directory within >the root directory? >Wouldn't one less partition be simpler, and the

Re: [OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Hans
users.. Best Hans > I often see people recommend a separate home partition. > > But why would (or not) that be better than just a home directory within the > root directory? > > Wouldn't one less partition be simpler, and therefore (all other things > being equal) better? > > Opinions, please.

[OT?] home partition vs. home directory

2018-11-30 Thread Default User
I often see people recommend a separate home partition. But why would (or not) that be better than just a home directory within the root directory? Wouldn't one less partition be simpler, and therefore (all other things being equal) better? Opinions, please.

Re: home directory fail-over using automount ?

2016-06-21 Thread briand
On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 20:00:07 -0700 (PDT) Steve Witt wrote: > My experience over the years is the NFS automouting is very reliable and > fairly easy to administer. If your network is stable, then you shouldn't > have a problem with it at all. If your network isn't stable, then that > problem s

Re: home directory fail-over using automount ?

2016-06-17 Thread Steve Witt
sn't too confusing). I don't think the result would be very satisfactory as it seems you'd end up with a split home directory with files in both the local and server home directories. I think it would be pretty chaotic. My experience over the years is the NFS automouting is ve

home directory fail-over using automount ?

2016-06-17 Thread briand
I have my nfs shares set-up to automount to /home/nfs4/ and then that directory name is used in the /etc/passwd file. What i'd like to do is have it use /home/ in the event it can't see the nfs server. it seems like some automount trickery might be possible if, for example, nfs mount didn't w

Re: Changing permission in user's home directory

2014-12-22 Thread Bob Proulx
The Wanderer wrote: > Yes, that makes sense in this case. I'm not in the habit of doing it in > most cases, however, because I commonly-enough need to use find with > commands of the form 'command option {} option +' rather than the form > 'command option {} +'. Yep. That would push you into usin

Re: Changing permission in user's home directory

2014-12-20 Thread David Christensen
On 12/20/2014 06:15 PM, Peter Gerber wrote: On our server we create an user for every of our customer and we run an instance of home-made java application (as the customers respective user). The issue is just who ever set up those servers created a home directory per user and set up everything

Re: Changing permission in user's home directory

2014-12-20 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/20/2014 at 09:16 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> As usual when dealing with recursive action under *nix, the answer is >> find: > > Yes! :-) > >> find -P ... > >> The '-P' option tells find to never follow any symlinks. > > A small comment upon the technique. Just noti

Re: Changing permission in user's home directory

2014-12-20 Thread Peter Gerber
On our server we create an user for every of our customer and we run an instance of home-made java application (as the customers respective user). The issue is just who ever set up those servers created a home directory per user and set up everything in that directory. Including static files

Re: Changing permission in user's home directory

2014-12-20 Thread Bob Proulx
The Wanderer wrote: > As usual when dealing with recursive action under *nix, the answer is > find: Yes! :-) > find -P ... > The '-P' option tells find to never follow any symlinks. A small comment upon the technique. Just noting that -P is the default. No need to specify it explicitly.

Re: Changing permission in user's home directory

2014-12-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Peter Gerber wrote: > I want to change permission of a directory, recursively. The directory is a > subdirectory of a user's home directory. Sure. Okay. People do that all of the time. > Is there a way to do this in a secure and easy way with the user having full > write a

Re: Changing permission in user's home directory

2014-12-20 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/20/2014 at 07:11 PM, Peter Gerber wrote: > I want to change permission of a directory, recursively. The directory is a > subdirectory of a user's home directory. > > Is there a way to do this in a secure and easy way with the user having full > write access t

Re: Changing permission in user's home directory

2014-12-20 Thread David Christensen
On 12/20/2014 04:11 PM, Peter Gerber wrote: I want to change permission of a directory, recursively. The directory is a subdirectory of a user's home directory. Why? To what? E.g. what is the technical requirement(s) that forces you to change permission of a directory and/or it'

Changing permission in user's home directory

2014-12-20 Thread Peter Gerber
I want to change permission of a directory, recursively. The directory is a subdirectory of a user's home directory. Is there a way to do this in a secure and easy way with the user having full write access to the home directory? Let's assume I would change the permissions as follo

Re: does gpg & gpg2 use same gpg.conf file in home directory & what are the best practices to create gpg2 signature ?

2014-05-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 08:34:39AM +0530, war.dhan wrote: > ... You'll probably have better luck on a gnupg mailing list: https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/mailing-lists.html -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the peopl

does gpg & gpg2 use same gpg.conf file in home directory & what are the best practices to create gpg2 signature ?

2014-05-22 Thread war.dhan
e any issues ? i mean when i start to create key, does gpg2 look into my home directory for config file ? [3] does the configuartion file will through up any errors if i try to create a signature [ god forbid ] with gnupg 1.4 version ? [4] do i need to absolutely create another singing only key as m

Re: A home directory on removeable storage ...

2013-05-07 Thread Richard Hector
On 11/04/13 04:23, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > ... is possible. I understand the concept of mounting > the filesystem. > > Additionally there can be a backup home directory which > stays with the machine, on a hdd for example. I imagine > that when the machine pow

Re: A home directory on removeable storage ...

2013-04-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 29 apr 13, 17:08:37, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Why do it that way around, rather than have your "primary" > on the local disk and your backup on the removable one? Because one may want to use it on several computers, not necessarily connected. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.o

Re: A home directory on removeable storage ...

2013-04-29 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Why do it that way around, rather than have your "primary" on the local disk and your backup on the removable one? -- 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/2013

Re: A home directory on removeable storage ...

2013-04-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 10 apr 13, 08:23:03, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > ... is possible. I understand the concept of mounting > the filesystem. > > Additionally there can be a backup home directory which > stays with the machine, on a hdd for example. I imagine > that when the machine pow

Re (2): A home directory on removeable storage ...

2013-04-10 Thread peasthope
From: Martin Steigerwald Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:23:01 +0200 > If you mount a new filesystem onto an mount point of an already mounted > filesystem, ... Please review my original posting. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456

Re (2): A home directory on removeable storage ...

2013-04-10 Thread peasthope
From: Darac Marjal Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:32:18 +0100 > I'm not sure how you'd access the original /home/peter once you'd > mounted the removable home on top of it, ... The removeable shouldn't be mounted over the non-removeable. First unmount the non-removeable and mount it on /home/pete

Re: A home directory on removeable storage ...

2013-04-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 10. April 2013 schrieb peasth...@shaw.ca: > ... is possible. I understand the concept of mounting > the filesystem. > > Additionally there can be a backup home directory which > stays with the machine, on a hdd for example. I imagine > that when the machine pow

Re: A home directory on removeable storage ...

2013-04-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 08:23:03AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > ... is possible. I understand the concept of mounting > the filesystem. > > Additionally there can be a backup home directory which > stays with the machine, on a hdd for example. I imagine > that when

A home directory on removeable storage ...

2013-04-10 Thread peasthope
... is possible. I understand the concept of mounting the filesystem. Additionally there can be a backup home directory which stays with the machine, on a hdd for example. I imagine that when the machine powers up without the removeable storage, the backup home directory is instated

Re: Missing files in home-directory (SOLVED)

2011-01-24 Thread Matthias Andersson
Chalk this one up to human error. The files had not gone missing but actually had not beeen restored from a backup since a fresh install of Debian Lenny was performed on the machine in question. All files recovered safe and sound. Cheers, Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: Missing files in home-directory

2011-01-23 Thread Matthias Andersson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/2011 07:03 PM, Slicky Johnson wrote: > > > Have him email you the output of 'find /home > email-to-son.txt' > Look for where he hid them. He is the only user on that computer. He tried the search function to look for *.pdf but it gave no r

Re: Missing files in home-directory

2011-01-23 Thread Klistvud
ing > Debian Lenny. He said he had installed the updates sometime last week > and noticed that all of his files (.pdf, music and photos) went missing > from his home-directory. I had him burn debian livecd and check the > drives with gparted and that did not result in any errors.

Re: Missing files in home-directory

2011-01-23 Thread Slicky Johnson
installed the updates sometime last week > and noticed that all of his files (.pdf, music and photos) went > missing from his home-directory. I had him burn debian livecd and > check the drives with gparted and that did not result in any errors. > > What could be the problem? >

Re: Missing files in home-directory

2011-01-23 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
etime last week > and noticed that all of his files (.pdf, music and photos) went missing > from his home-directory. I had him burn debian livecd and check the > drives with gparted and that did not result in any errors. > > What could be the problem? > > Cheers, > Matthias >

Missing files in home-directory

2011-01-23 Thread Matthias Andersson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! My dad called me yesterday regarding a problem on his machine running Debian Lenny. He said he had installed the updates sometime last week and noticed that all of his files (.pdf, music and photos) went missing from his home-directory. I had him

Re: Backup home directory

2010-11-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
You can always dump the big fie into an .iso with mkisofs/genisoimage. Watch out for hidden config files, browsser caches and what not when tar-ing up. I prefer 7z as a compressor. -- Mars 2 Stay! http://xkcd.com/801/ /etc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Backup home directory

2010-11-02 Thread Michal
On 02/11/10 12:15, Alex PADOLY wrote: Hi, Do you know a method to do a compressed image of home directory. I prefer a GNU method. Regards. Alex Une messagerie gratuite, garantie à vie et des services en plus, ça vous tente ? Je crée ma boîte mail www.laposte.net clonezilla might be worth a

Re: Backup home directory

2010-11-02 Thread Christopher Judd
On Tuesday 02 November 2010 08:30:11 Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:15:50 +0100, Alex PADOLY wrote: > > Do you know a method to do a compressed image of home directory. I > > prefer a GNU method. > > My one-liner to make a full backup: > > *** > tar -cvjf

Re: Backup home directory

2010-11-02 Thread Alex PADOLY
Sir, I use XFCE. Regards. > Message du 02/11/10 13:23 > De : "Klistvud" > A : debian-user@lists.debian.org > Copie à : > Objet : Re: Backup home directory > > > Dne, 02. 11. 2010 13:15:50 je Alex PADOLY napisal(a): > > > > Hi, > > >

Re: Backup home directory

2010-11-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Alex PADOLY: > > Do you know a method to do a compressed image of home directory. Well, if your /home is not a separate filesystem, you cannot really generate an "image". But what about the following? # tar cvzf /backup/home-$(date '+%F').tar.gz /home For a more adva

Re: Backup home directory

2010-11-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:15:50 +0100, Alex PADOLY wrote: > Do you know a method to do a compressed image of home directory. I > prefer a GNU method. My one-liner to make a full backup: *** tar -cvjf /data/backup/sm01/$(date '+%F').tar.bz2 /home/sm01 --exclude=.local/share

Re: Backup home directory

2010-11-02 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 02. 11. 2010 13:15:50 je Alex PADOLY napisal(a): Hi, Do you know a method to do a compressed image of home directory. I prefer a GNU method. Regards. Alex If I'm understanding you correctly, and if you're using Gnome, just right-click on the home folder and select "

Backup home directory

2010-11-02 Thread Alex PADOLY
Hi, Do you know a method to do a compressed image of home directory. I prefer a GNU method. Regards. Alex Une messagerie gratuite, garantie à vie et des services en plus, ça vous tente ? Je crée ma boîte mail www.laposte.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: [solved] Backup home directory with rsync

2010-10-02 Thread Alberto Luaces
Just a little trick... Rodolfo Medina writes: > $ rsync -vrtu --delete --exclude='/.*' . 192.168.0.2:/home/rodolfo This is equivalent: rsync -vrtu --delete --exclude='/.*' . rodo...@192.168.0.2: or just rsync -vrtu --delete --exclude='/.*' . 192.168.0.2: if you are already `rodolfo' on yo

[solved] Backup home directory with rsync (was: rsync issue)

2010-10-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > I wish to copy all my home directory into another machine with the --delete > option, but: > > 1) I dont't want hidden files, i.e.: `.*' to be copied; > > 2) on the other hand, there are some symlinks, beginning with `.', that I >

Re: Home Directory Privacy

2010-08-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Carlos Mennens wrote: >I don't understand why Debian defaults home directory permissions to >755 where most every other major distribution does 700. >why does Debian default to this >method? > >Thanks for any info in understanding why developers elect this process >

Home Directory Privacy

2010-08-09 Thread Carlos Mennens
I don't understand why Debian defaults home directory permissions to 755 where most every other major distribution does 700. I find it unusual that I have to 'chmod -R 700' a newly created users /home directory. I know I can modify /etc/adduser.conf or /etc/default/useradd.conf file

Re: Home directory viewable from another profile

2010-07-22 Thread Rob Owens
> Bob >> >> [1] >> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Why-can-only-root-chown-files_003f >> > Bob > > Thanks for the excellent advice. I executed the command you suggested > and did so recursively and that has achieved the result I wanted. > &

Re: Home directory viewable from another profile

2010-07-18 Thread AG
On 17/07/10 22:19, Bob Proulx wrote: AG wrote: I have created another account for someone who will need to use my computer for a while. However, when checking this, I found that my own files are viewable from this second account. By default files in the home are readable but not writ

Re: Home directory viewable from another profile

2010-07-17 Thread Bob Proulx
AG wrote: > I have created another account for someone who will need to use my > computer for a while. However, when checking this, I found that my own > files are viewable from this second account. By default files in the home are readable but not writable. > How do I set the permissions so

Home directory viewable from another profile

2010-07-17 Thread AG
Hi I have created another account for someone who will need to use my computer for a while. However, when checking this, I found that my own files are viewable from this second account. How do I set the permissions so that the contents of my own /home/ag account are not viewable from the ne

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