Re: [gentoo-user] What are common SSDs does and don'ts.

2025-03-23 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Mar 22, 2025 at 09:37:37PM + schrieb Michael: > On Saturday, 22 March 2025 18:50:48 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > As most know from other threads, I have a couple external m.2 NVME SSD > > drives thingys. As of today, I now have a Crucial 480GB and 1TB and a > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-23 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 12:41:31AM -0500 schrieb Dale: >> Dale wrote: >>> Sorry it took me a bit to do anything with this.  We still working on >>> that tree.  We getting close to being done.  Anyway, I mounted the new >>> SSD OS on the old OS and copied over /etc and /r

Re: [gentoo-user] USB and fstrim

2025-03-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 5 March 2025 19:54:19 Greenwich Mean Time Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 03:53:51PM + schrieb Peter Humphrey: > > Greetings, > > > > After reading the recent conversation on m.2 SSDs in a USB-3 enclosure, I > > decided to give it a try. I bought a 4TB Samsun

Re: [gentoo-user] How to handle Firebird with PHP now

2025-03-23 Thread Matthias Hanft
Eli Schwartz wrote: > > Read the manpage for `man make.conf` and look for references to EXTRA_ECONF. > You will want to do this via package.env, obviously, not > /etc/portage/make.conf itself. Thanks for the hint. Asking ChatGPT, I got the complete solution: 1. create the directory /etc/portage

Re: [gentoo-user] What are common SSDs does and don'ts.

2025-03-23 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 23 March 2025 01:48:01 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > Finally, consider TRIM being run on a cron job, or better use something > > like the SSDcronTRIM script once a month to decide and execute fstrim if > > needed. [snip ...] > The only thing on SSD is the OS itse

Re: [gentoo-user] How to handle Firebird with PHP now

2025-03-23 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 3/23/25 3:34 AM, Matthias Hanft wrote: > I wrote: >> >> To compile PHP with Firebird support, I have the line >> -firebird >> in /etc/portage/profile/use.mask because the Firebird USE flag >> of PHP was masked somewhen. > > While working with the manually installed Firebird 5.0 and the > unmask

Re: [gentoo-user] How to handle Firebird with PHP now

2025-03-23 Thread Matthias Hanft
I wrote: > > To compile PHP with Firebird support, I have the line > -firebird > in /etc/portage/profile/use.mask because the Firebird USE flag > of PHP was masked somewhen. While working with the manually installed Firebird 5.0 and the unmasked "firebird" USE flag @ PHP, now here's the next prob

Re: [gentoo-user] What are common SSDs does and don'ts.

2025-03-23 Thread netfab
Le 23/03/25 à 08:01, Dale a tapoté : > netfab wrote: > > Le 22/03/25 à 21:37, Michael a tapoté : > >> You probably want to alter the cache path for your browser from the > >> SSD drive to your RAM (tmpfs), especially if you have a lot of RAM. > > For firefox, you may want to disable cache-on-disk a

Re: [gentoo-user] What are common SSDs does and don'ts.

2025-03-23 Thread Dale
netfab wrote: > Le 22/03/25 à 21:37, Michael a tapoté : >> You probably want to alter the cache path for your browser from the >> SSD drive to your RAM (tmpfs), especially if you have a lot of RAM. > For firefox, you may want to disable cache-on-disk and enable > cache-on-memory instead of setting-