Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-29 Thread Dale
John wrote: > > Wouldn't this particular topic be best answered by the dev's of said file > systems and > what, if any, fragmentation etc, could and can and will happen with the > different > arguments ie -m 0, etc.? All it is now between everyone discussing this here > in a Gentoo > list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-29 Thread John
Wouldn't this particular topic be best answered by the dev's of said file systems and what, if any, fragmentation etc, could and can and will happen with the different arguments ie -m 0, etc.? All it is now between everyone discussing this here in a Gentoo list is more or less conjecture,

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:23:11AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > So, cfdisk is happy with the change but nothing else seems to see it. > > What am I missing here? Where did the 50Gbs go to? > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > > > Nowhere. > > Disk manufacturers measure kilos of data as 1000

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 02:11:41PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I've never failed to fix that by deleting a file as the user that > > created it, usually the partial file that caused the problem, but I > > can see why you may want to keep a small amount reserved for that. > > > > However, I st

[gentoo-user] Re: Somewhat OT - Grandtech PC to TV component and X [SOLVED]

2012-02-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
On 02/29/12 16:41, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I recently bought a new Gradtec PC To TV component because my old Grand > Pro Ultimate XP that I bought in 2004 was on its last legs. We used the > Ultimate XP so that we could use the living room TV as a monitor, so > that we could watch MythTV in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 1, 2012 7:02 AM, "walt" wrote: > > On 02/29/2012 02:40 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > So whatever the > > $LUSER was doing that filled up the drive needs to be undone by root, > > probably by shuffling stuff around. > > That's a shocking statement for a wannabe BOFH to make. A *real* BOFH

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-02-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 29 February 2012 21:28:07 Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 29 Feb 2012 21:08:41 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 February 2012 15:57:36 James Broadhead wrote: > > > Please don't send html emails to the list > > > > I wrote a test message and saved it, then examined it with less. It w

[gentoo-user] Re: Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-29 Thread walt
On 02/29/2012 02:40 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > So whatever the > $LUSER was doing that filled up the drive needs to be undone by root, > probably by shuffling stuff around. That's a shocking statement for a wannabe BOFH to make. A *real* BOFH would delete the entire $LUSER account and blame the

[gentoo-user] Somewhat OT - Grandtech PC to TV component and X

2012-02-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
I recently bought a new Gradtec PC To TV component because my old Grand Pro Ultimate XP that I bought in 2004 was on its last legs. We used the Ultimate XP so that we could use the living room TV as a monitor, so that we could watch MythTV in the living room. The Ultimate XP was having a problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering MySQL Database from EXT4 Formatted Hard Disk ...

2012-02-29 Thread Christopher Koeber
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 11:33:42 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > > On 08.02.2012 12:02, Michael Mol wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Christopher Kurtis Koeber > > > > > > wrote: > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> I am trying to recover MySQL da

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-02-29 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 29 Feb 2012 21:08:41 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 28 February 2012 15:57:36 James Broadhead wrote: > > Please don't send html emails to the list > > I wrote a test message and saved it, then examined it with less. It was in > two parts: one plain text and one HTML. I have never

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: old cyrus-imapd from overlay

2012-02-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 29.02.2012 09:35, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > If you want to still try to copy the mail over, you need to look into > converting the *.db files. Just as a closing(?) feedback here: people at the cyrus-ml were a great support, I am nearly done with my conversion. And, yes, I run (gentoo stable) 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Help! HP625 WLAN is driving me nuts

2012-02-29 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 29 Feb 2012 11:28:34 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get WLAN working on my HP625 laptop. > I've checked several web pages but I'm lost. > > I'm using a recent kernel (3.3-rc5+). > I configured CONFIG_BRCMUTIL=m CONFIG_BRCMSMAC=m CONFIG_BRCMFMAC=m and > I installed t

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-02-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 28 February 2012 15:57:36 James Broadhead wrote: > Please don't send html emails to the list I wrote a test message and saved it, then examined it with less. It was in two parts: one plain text and one HTML. I have never set an option to write in HTML so I shut kmail down and checked

Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-29 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 29 Feb 2012 16:27:50 Alex Schuster wrote: > Peter Humphrey writes: > > On Tuesday 28 February 2012 11:23:40 Alex Schuster wrote: > > > Peter Humphrey writes: > > > > Now can anyone tell me why clicking the first link in this e-mail > > > > opened it in Konqueror and the second in Firef

Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: > On Tuesday 28 February 2012 11:23:40 Alex Schuster wrote: > > Peter Humphrey writes: > > > Now can anyone tell me why clicking the first link in this e-mail > > > opened it in Konqueror and the second in Firefox? > > > > Because KDE is so weird all over the place. > > We

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-29 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wed, February 29, 2012 2:01 am, Alex Schuster wrote: >> Dale writes: >> >>> Alex Schuster wrote: >>> > > > >>> Also, it is already set up with LVM and >>> ext4. Can I change it even while there is data on there? >> >> Sure! Cool, isn't it. Just call lvresize -L +1G /

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-29 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > They don't interfere with each other. > > LVM and the size of the filesystem is one thing. Reserved space is > something else, completely unrelated. > > Ahhh, light bulb moment. Gotcha !! Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-29 Thread Daddy
On February 29, 2012 at 2:43 AM "J. Roeleveld" wrote: > > On Wed, February 29, 2012 2:01 am, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Dale writes: > > > >> Alex Schuster wrote: > >> > > > > >> Also, it is already set up with LVM and > >> ext4. Can I change it even while there is data on there? > > > > Sure!

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:08:49 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:40:33 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > When $LUSER fills up his drive it can be that root is the only user > > that can properly mount and access the filesystem. So whatever the > > $LUSER was doing that filled up

[gentoo-user] Help! HP625 WLAN is driving me nuts

2012-02-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'm trying to get WLAN working on my HP625 laptop. I've checked several web pages but I'm lost. I'm using a recent kernel (3.3-rc5+). I configured CONFIG_BRCMUTIL=m CONFIG_BRCMSMAC=m CONFIG_BRCMFMAC=m and I installed the coresponding firmware in /lib/firmware/brcm Now, lspci -k shows 06:

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:40:33 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > When $LUSER fills up his drive it can be that root is the only user > that can properly mount and access the filesystem. So whatever the > $LUSER was doing that filled up the drive needs to be undone by root, > probably by shuffling stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:57:19 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:29:45 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > It means there's no single sane default anymore. On my servers I set > > reserved space to 100M or so as that's what I need. I reckon the > > average person should keep it to

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:29:45 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > It means there's no single sane default anymore. On my servers I set > reserved space to 100M or so as that's what I need. I reckon the > average person should keep it to somewhat larger than the biggest > single file you expect to store o

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:10:05 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> tune2fs -m 1 /dev/data/data1 > >> > >> Which is where the ext4 file system is on the LVM. After I run that > >> then I can expand LVM from there, I hope it works that easy. > > > > It does. > Apparently I am missing something then. I looke

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:25:00 +0100 Alex Schuster wrote: > Neil Bothwick writes: > > > On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:01:50 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > > If you instantly need more space, reduce the amount of reserved > > > space for the superuser, which is 5% as default: > > > tune2fs -m 2 /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:10:05 -0600 Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:38:13 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > >> tune2fs -m 1 /dev/data/data1 > >> > >> Which is where the ext4 file system is on the LVM. After I run > >> that then I can expand LVM from there, I hope it works th

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-02-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:38:13 -0600 Dale wrote: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Dale writes: > > > >> I have a question on this. I have a drive that I use for movies > >> and such. There is nothing OS related on that drive. Would it be > >> safe to set this to say 1% or even 0? > > > > I'd say 1%

Re: [gentoo-user] old cyrus-imapd from overlay

2012-02-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-02-29 09:35, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > > On Wed, February 29, 2012 9:10 am, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Sure, yes. I have to research how to do that for hundreds of >> mailboxes in one command ... > > There is an example for this on the project homepage: > http://imapsync.lamiral.info/

Re: [gentoo-user] old cyrus-imapd from overlay

2012-02-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, February 29, 2012 9:10 am, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2012-02-29 08:23, schrieb J. Roeleveld: >> Stefan, >> >> I haven't had problems with upgrading, but I didn't "wait" this long. >> Eg. I didn't migrate from 2.1 to 2.4 directly. > > *SIGH* ;-) > >> I would suggest you check on the

Re: [gentoo-user] old cyrus-imapd from overlay

2012-02-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-02-29 08:23, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > Stefan, > > I haven't had problems with upgrading, but I didn't "wait" this long. > Eg. I didn't migrate from 2.1 to 2.4 directly. *SIGH* ;-) > I would suggest you check on the cyrus-imap mailing list (see bottom of > email) for tips. Installing it is