Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 12:22:47AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > The size of an erasable block of SSDs is even larger, usually 512K, it > > > would be best to align to that, too. A partition offset of 512K or 1M > > > would avoid this. > > > > Unless the filesystem knows this and start

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

Am Freitag, 24. August 2012, 11:25:48 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:15:20PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Mark Knecht writes: > > > I'm currently just using a single large partition & ext3. I didn't > > > > > > do anything special in fdisk so the partition might no

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk migration boot loader not found

On Saturday 25 Aug 2012 22:07:42 Florian Philipp wrote: > `find /boot/grub/stage1` -> File not found > `find /grub/stage1` -> "(hd0,4)" (which is correct). I understand the > difference arises because I have a separate boot partition and you don't > (or maybe a symlink /boot/boot -> /boot). No, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk migration boot loader not found

Am 25.08.2012 22:29, schrieb Mick: > On Saturday 25 Aug 2012 12:13:41 Florian Philipp wrote: >> Hi list! >> >> I've just completed migrating my system from one hard disk to another. >> Although the new disk reports 512 byte blocks just like the old one, I >> thought it would be a good idea to re-al

Re: [gentoo-user] lxc query

On August 25, 2012 12:10:12 john wrote: > I would like to have a play with lxc (containers ) but the package is > currently masked. I have unmasked lxc but it also requires me to unmask > =sys-apps/openrc-0.10.5. > > I am a little unsure if I do this if this will foobar my system or am i > safe to

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk migration boot loader not found

On Saturday 25 Aug 2012 12:13:41 Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > I've just completed migrating my system from one hard disk to another. > Although the new disk reports 512 byte blocks just like the old one, I > thought it would be a good idea to re-align the partitions anyway. I've > done it

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown options not available xfce4

On 25.08.2012 20:54, john wrote: > > For the last few days whenever I start my PC the options to shutdown, > restart, hibernate are greyed out in xfce. After restarting consolekit > (which is already running) the options are available. I have rebuilt > consolekit, xfce but unsure why this should s

[gentoo-user] Shutdown options not available xfce4

For the last few days whenever I start my PC the options to shutdown, restart, hibernate are greyed out in xfce. After restarting consolekit (which is already running) the options are available. I have rebuilt consolekit, xfce but unsure why this should start happening. Can anyone recommend how t

[gentoo-user] Re: hdparm + Western Digital Green "idle3"

On 25/08/12 15:55, Florian Philipp wrote: I've just checked out the man page for hdparm. There I noticed the new -J switch. It reads: Get/set the Western Digital (WD) Green Drive's "idle3" timeout value. This timeout controls how often the drive parks its heads and enters a low power consum

[gentoo-user] hdparm + Western Digital Green "idle3"

I've just checked out the man page for hdparm. There I noticed the new -J switch. It reads: > Get/set the Western Digital (WD) Green Drive's "idle3" timeout > value. This timeout controls how often the drive parks its heads and > enters a low power consumption state. The factory default is ei

[gentoo-user] Disk migration boot loader not found

Hi list! I've just completed migrating my system from one hard disk to another. Although the new disk reports 512 byte blocks just like the old one, I thought it would be a good idea to re-align the partitions anyway. I've done it this way: 1. Create new partitions with gparted, at least as large

[gentoo-user] lxc query

I would like to have a play with lxc (containers ) but the package is currently masked. I have unmasked lxc but it also requires me to unmask =sys-apps/openrc-0.10.5. I am a little unsure if I do this if this will foobar my system or am i safe to unmask? -- John D Maunder

[gentoo-user] Re: arno-iptables-firewall and kernel-3.4.9-gentoo

On Saturday 25 Aug 2012 08:49:18 Mick wrote: > I diff'ed the previous kernel-3.3.8-gentoo and the new kernel-3.4.9-gentoo > and I can't see any changes that would cause these errors. I attach it > for the more eagle-eye amongst you. > > Any ideas? Aha! Found it! The new option: > # CONFIG_N

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org

On Saturday 25 Aug 2012 10:25:37 Sven M. Höritz wrote: > Instead of adding "gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org" in the Subject: field of your email, try to Send To: this address. Just as the headers of the mailing list posts advise: List-Post: List-H

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[gentoo-user] arno-iptables-firewall and kernel-3.4.9-gentoo

Hi All, Can you please check if you are using arno's script whether you are also getting errors like these on start up? === # /etc/init.d/arno-iptables-firewall start * Use of the opts variable is deprecated and will be * removed in the future. * Please

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounts and uid/gid/user names

meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: to not to stress the SD-card of my single board computer too much I mounted a directory of my PC via NFS at my single board computer, so that compilations and other task which need to be done while installing will access the hd and not the SD-card. (The singleboard co

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounts and uid/gid/user names

On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:56:41 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > In /etc/exports on the PC I entered this: > /tmp/NFS 192.168.178.25(async,rw,no_subtree_check) > > When setting chmod 700 /tmp/NFS, chown root:root /tmp/NFS > on the server side (PC) I cannot write to the directory > as root on the