Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation sought for external disk

2014-01-01 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Jan 01 2014, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> I was considering what seagate calls an "expansion hard drive". They >> are USB 3, but I will be using only USB 2. The desktop is gentoo-only >> and I don't need any backup software from seagate. >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation sought for external disk

2014-01-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > I was considering what seagate calls an "expansion hard drive". They > are USB 3, but I will be using only USB 2. The desktop is gentoo-only > and I don't need any backup software from seagate. > > The models are STBVx000100 for x=1,2,3,4 TB. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: recommendation sought for external disk

2014-01-01 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Jan 01 2014, Dale wrote: > gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 01 2014, walt wrote: >> >>> On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. >>> Maybe I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: recommendation sought for external disk

2014-01-01 Thread Dale
gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > On Wed, Jan 01 2014, walt wrote: > >> On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >>> My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for >>> a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. >> Maybe I'm weird or something but I've never once ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: recommendation sought for external disk

2014-01-01 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Jan 01 2014, walt wrote: > On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for >> a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. > > Maybe I'm weird or something but I've never once had a hard drive fail > gradual

[gentoo-user] Re: recommendation sought for external disk

2014-01-01 Thread walt
On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for > a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. Maybe I'm weird or something but I've never once had a hard drive fail gradually/gracefully. They all just stop working,

[gentoo-user] recommendation sought for external disk

2014-01-01 Thread gottlieb
My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. The system gets only modest usage. It is powered on about 1/2 the time and the disk often goes significant periods without activity so it spins down. I was considering wha

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge subtitleeditor

2014-01-01 Thread Gevisz
On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 08:32:00 -0800 Pavel Kazakov wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/01/2014 08:02 AM, Gevisz wrote: > > > > The subtitleeditor failed to emerge with the message provided below. > > The required additional information is attached as text files. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge subtitleeditor

2014-01-01 Thread Pavel Kazakov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/01/2014 08:02 AM, Gevisz wrote: > > The subtitleeditor failed to emerge with the message provided below. > The required additional information is attached as text files. > > Any thoughts? Based on 'checking for XML::Parser... configure: error:

[gentoo-user] VMware Workstation environment on Gentoo

2014-01-01 Thread Adam Carter
> > > Is there some special configuration to make VMware Workstation on gentoo > support virtual machines with more than one NIC? > > No, it just works. I have some windows vms with multiple nics

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2014-01-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 19:14:36 -0700, Joseph wrote: > If I remove the mounting line from fstab they mount with correct > permission "joseph:users" but the mount point is reference as UUID and > it makes it hard to reference it in bash scripts. MOUNTPOINT=$(mount | awk '/^\/dev\/sdb1/ {print $3}')