Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-27 Thread Xav'
Le Thursday 28 August 2008 08:40:39 Suman Chakrabarty, vous avez écrit : > After successful installation of Gentoo 2008 on an old Compaq Pressario > notebook, I was trying to emerge kde-meta on it, but was not successful. :( > > My USE flags: > > USE="nptl nptlonly -ipv6 -fortran unicode svg hal db

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID with mixed drive sizes

2008-08-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Benoit St-Pierre schrieb: I'm in the planning stages of setting up a file server and am considering using RAID. My concern is that my drive sizes are mixed. I have two 500GB SATA drives, a 320GB IDE and a 250GB IDE. I would like to set these up so that the maximum amount of disk space is usable

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID with mixed drive sizes

2008-08-27 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Xav' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 27 August 2008 21:49:22 Benoit St-Pierre, you wrote : > > I though you can have up to 255 partitions/drive. The partitions would be > > in a RAID array so I wouldn't have to deal with them directly anyway. > > After li

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID with mixed drive sizes

2008-08-27 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:00:11 -0400, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > > > I'm in the planning stages of setting up a file server and am > > considering using RAID. > > > > My concern is that my drive sizes are mixed. I have two 50

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID with mixed drive sizes

2008-08-27 Thread Xav'
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 21:49:22 Benoit St-Pierre, you wrote : > I though you can have up to 255 partitions/drive. The partitions would be > in a RAID array so I wouldn't have to deal with them directly anyway. After little googling, it seems that the number of logical partitions may be unlim

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID with mixed drive sizes

2008-08-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:00:11 -0400, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > I'm in the planning stages of setting up a file server and am > considering using RAID. > > My concern is that my drive sizes are mixed. I have two 500GB SATA > drives, a 320GB IDE and a 250GB IDE. > > I would like to set these up so

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID with mixed drive sizes

2008-08-27 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
I though you can have up to 255 partitions/drive. The partitions would be in a RAID array so I wouldn't have to deal with them directly anyway. On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Xav' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 27 August 2008 21:00:11 Benoit St-Pierre, you wrote : > > > I'm in the pl

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID with mixed drive sizes

2008-08-27 Thread Xav'
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 21:00:11 Benoit St-Pierre, you wrote : > I'm in the planning stages of setting up a file server and am considering > using RAID. > > My concern is that my drive sizes are mixed. I have two 500GB SATA drives, > a 320GB IDE and a 250GB IDE. > > I would like to set these u

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk - expanding a partition beyond 2TB

2008-08-27 Thread Jil Larner
Hi, Dave Oxley a écrit : So basically does anyone have any experience moving from an fdisk partition table to a GNU parted partition table without losing filesystems, data, etc? A partition table is a partition table, whatever is the tool you use to handle it. I didn't met your problem wit

[gentoo-user] RAID with mixed drive sizes

2008-08-27 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
I'm in the planning stages of setting up a file server and am considering using RAID. My concern is that my drive sizes are mixed. I have two 500GB SATA drives, a 320GB IDE and a 250GB IDE. I would like to set these up so that the maximum amount of disk space is usable, but still be able to recov

Re: [gentoo-user] adsl, pptp, iptables

2008-08-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 25 August 2008, Stroller wrote: > On 25 Aug 2008, at 11:53, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > === On Monday 25 August 2008, Stroller wrote: === > > I mean physical connection: a cable is connected from eth0 to the > > modem. In network topology terms that's your LAN. It will have a pr