Am Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 07:44:18PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> > $ journalctl -fu fstrim
> > Mär 31 23:03:26 q systemd[1]: Starting Discard unused blocks on filesystems
> > from /etc/fstab...
> > Mär 31 23:06:27 q fstrim[4946]: /mnt/windows: 62.6 GiB (67195392000 bytes)
> > trimmed on /dev/nvme0n1p3
>
Am Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 08:03:06AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> > The microcode blobs are not in /usr, but in /lib/firmware; e.g.:
> >
> > $ ls /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/
> > microcode_amd.bin microcode_amd_fam16h.bin microcode_amd_fam19h.bin
> > microcode_amd_fam15h.bin microcode_amd_fam17h.bin
Am Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 06:24:49PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> >> I ran fstrim on my root and var partitions and got this.
> >>
> >>
> >> root@Gentoo-1 / # fstrim -v /
> >> /: 13.7 GiB (14676369408 bytes) trimmed
> >> root@Gentoo-1 / # fstrim -v /var
> >> /var: 43.9 GiB (47162359808 bytes) trimmed
> >>
Am Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 04:41:58PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> Michael wrote:
> > 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 a
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 /root again. I really
> >
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
> >
Am Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 10:50:05PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
Dale wrote:
Howdy,
New problem. As I mentioned in another reply, I booted the NAS box to
update my backups. The thing won't let me login. I type in root, it
sits there for 20 or 30 seconds then returns to a login prompt. I also
trie
Am Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 10:32:37PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> I suspect it is safer than on a USB. I believe that the old spinning
> rust is likely the most durable long term storage without powering up
> during storage. I once hooked up a bunch of old IDE drives that hadn't
> had power to them in ye
Am Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:40:48PM +0100 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger:
> Another thing to consider: don’t put it into the safe for a year without
> powering it up. As was explained in a previous mail, QLC uses sixteen
> different levels of charge inside one single flash cell. The chance
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 Samsung 990 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD and a
> Ugreen NVMe USB-3 enclosure. I'm pleased with the performanc
Am Sun, Mar 02, 2025 at 10:01:41AM -0600 schrieb Dale:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
> > On 2025-02-28, Dale wrote:
> >
> >> We all know the Samsung m.2 sticks are really good. They are well
> >> known for the quality.
> > I can definitely agree with that. Over the years I've installed
> > probably clo
Am Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 11:31:48AM + schrieb Michael:
> On Thursday, 20 February 2025 19:18:52 Greenwich Mean Time
> whiteman...@paraboletancza.org wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I want to build a PC with Gentoo and I need to know how much money
> > should I spend on it.
>
> Only you can make thi
Am Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 09:56:49PM -0600 schrieb Dale:
> > The USB 3 family starts at 5 Gbps. All but the cheapest boards have at
> > least
> > one 10 Gbps USB, either as USB-A or USB-C. Some at the back, some as a new
> > internal connector for a USB-C socket at the case front. Still rare are
Am Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 08:21:08PM + schrieb Michael:
> On Tuesday, 25 February 2025 20:19:18 Greenwich Mean Time Wol wrote:
> > On 25/02/2025 15:04, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > > That said, there is nothing "wrong" with buying M.2 drives just to use
> > > them exclusively USB3 enclosures. I just
Am Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 02:44:56PM -0600 schrieb Dale:
> I'll admit, I may create a encrypted partition on the thing with some
> videos as a backup. If for example a hard drive goes bad, or is going
> bad, I can power the drives down and just watch videos on the m.2
> stick. Speed isn't a real b
Am Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 01:02:31PM -0700 schrieb eric:
> When I click on the link, Amazon offers similar products of 1 TB NVMe M.2
> drives for a few dollars more with the links provided below. One is $14 more
> and the other is $5 more. I can not comment on how good they are as I don't
> have any
> file should work.
Year, that’s what I thought of, too, when I read this. :)
> I may have to edit out any subtitle files but other than that, might
> work. Then again, there may be some tool that does this already.
> […]
> One of these days. At least now I can play my v
Am Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 09:38:37AM -0600 schrieb Dale:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
> > On 2025-02-21, Dale wrote:
> >> Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> >>> Am Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:36:47PM - schrieb Grant Edwards:
> >> […]
> >> I enabled some
Am Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:36:47PM - schrieb Grant Edwards:
> On 2025-02-20, Dale wrote:
> >
> >> Use flags for ffmpeg would give us a better idea. But I would guess
> >> they're either AV1 or H.265 encoded.
> >
> > I'm getting some help off list from another Michael. O_O He suggested
> > se
Am Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:14:19AM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM Dale wrote:
> >
> > Howdy,
> >
> > I downloaded some really new videos the other day, .mkv ones. Nothing I
> > had would play them, mplayer or mpv based players.
>
> Convert them using handbrake. Pro
Am Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 12:18:30PM -0600 schrieb Dale:
> Michael wrote:
> I use external USB sticks a lot for critical backup files, world, /etc
> and most important, /root where some of my so called scripts live.
> Reading this thread made me question even more the dependability of USB
> sticks.
Am Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 11:53:48AM + schrieb Michael:
> > Your expectations have some vague assumptions:
>
> Yes, I was just trying to point loosely at the order of magnitude as an
> indication of something being faulty in the USB Philip was trying to format.
>
> > - the stick achieves full
Am Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 02:10:35PM -0500 schrieb Philip Webb:
> 250218 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > I recommend an external USB case with an NVMe SSD inside.
> > This may not be as compact and not as cheap,
> > but they are much much much faster and probably longer-lasting
&
Am Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 11:25:28PM + schrieb Michael:
> > TLC (tri-level cells)
> >
> > Hey, what if we do 8 different charge levels! Now you get 4 bits per
> > cell. Even harder to do, even less reliable...
> >
> >
> > QLC (quad-level cells)
> >
> > [I think you see where this is going]
Am Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 12:53:42AM -0500 schrieb Philip Webb:
> 250218 Grant Edwards wrote:
> > On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb wrote:
> >> So both sticks are genuine, as I would expect from that store.
> > Have you tried just doing mkfs.ext4 [options] /dev/sdb?
> > You only want one filesystem, right?
Am Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 01:41:10PM + schrieb Michael:
> On Sunday 16 February 2025 09:08:10 Greenwich Mean Time Nuno Silva wrote:
> > On 2025-02-16, Philip Webb wrote:
> > > 250215 Michael wrote:
>
> > >> Formatting a 256GB USB drive, especially if it is a USB 3.0 or later
> > >> spec, should
Am Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 04:38:22PM + schrieb Stroller:
>
>
> > On 15 Feb 2025, at 07:41, Philip Webb wrote:
> > ...
> > Has anyone else encountered this ? Does anyone have suggestions ?
>
> Create multiple large files on your desktop PC. You could use movie files if
> you have a small num
Am Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 04:58:19PM + schrieb Michael:
> On Wednesday 5 February 2025 12:54:01 Greenwich Mean Time Alexander Puchmayr
> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I just tried to rip an old DVD with k3b, but it says that it requires
> > transcode for this.
Since you say “rip” and mention tran
Am Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 07:06:16AM -0600 schrieb Dale:
> Michael wrote:
> > On Monday 13 January 2025 14:17:41 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote:
> >>
> > It does this by default when you select to 'Extract here'. For example,
> > the
> > archive foo.zip will be extracted into a new directory calle
Am Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 06:45:43PM -0500 schrieb Philip Webb:
> I no longer have a landline available (even via friends)
> & rely on Wifi for I/net service, incl software downloads.
>
> I've been a happy Gentoo user since 2003,
> but want to be able to use Wifi with my 15 yr-old netbook (32-bit)
Am Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 11:02:55PM +0100 schrieb k...@aspodata.se:
> Alan Mackenzie:
> ...
> > By the way, do you know an easy way for copying an entire filesystem,
> > such as the root system, but without copying other systems mounted in
> > it? I tried for some while with rsync and various combi
Am Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 02:50:01PM - schrieb Grant Edwards:
> >> All I've ever done for a kernel upgrades is to go into the new kernel
> >> source dir and do the following:
> >>
> >> # zcat /proc/zconfig >.config
> >> # make oldconfig
> >> # make
> >> # make install
> >> [..]
>
> > Also, don
Am Freitag, 15. November 2024, 06:53:53 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb
Dale:
> Rich Freeman wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 6:10 PM Dale wrote:
> >> The biggest downside to the large drives available now, even if SMART
> >> tells you a drive is failing, you likely won't have time to copy
Am Donnerstag, 14. November 2024, 20:12:25 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit
> The only Seagate 7200RPM disk I have started playing up a month ago. I now
> have to replace it. :-(
The German tech bubble has a saying when it’s about Seagate: “Sie geht oder
sie geht nicht”. It plays on the fact that
Am Donnerstag, 14. November 2024, 20:51:32 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit
schrieb Frank Steinmetzger:
> Am Donnerstag, 14. November 2024, 20:12:25 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit
>
> > The only Seagate 7200RPM disk I have started playing up a month ago. I
> > now
>
Am Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 03:20:06PM +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey:
> On Sunday 29 September 2024 13:03:04 BST Michael wrote:
> > On Sunday 29 September 2024 12:11:13 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > On Sunday 29 September 2024 10:08:36 BST Wols Lists wrote:
> > > > It's actually been like this a while
Am Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 05:44:08AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> > That said, if you're interested in limiting opportunistic snooping,
> > something
> > like this may help:
> >
> > https://proton.me/mail
>
>
> I'll have to check into that more. I'm not sure I could send my system
> emails through tha
Am Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 02:46:35PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> I was running the command again and when I was checking on it, it
> stopped with this error.
>
>
>
> File "/root/dh", line 1209, in
> main()
> File "/root/dh", line 1184, in main
> directory_hash(dir_path, '', dir_files, che
Am Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 01:19:00AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> >> P. S. Planning to try that checksum script soon. It's a large number
> >> of files so it will take a long time to run. I think you mentioned that
> >> if stopped, it will resume where it left off.
> > Only if it creates checksums, beca
Am Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 08:53:17AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > Am Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 07:54:25AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> >> Howdy,
> >>
> >> I use Dolphin a lot. I like it and all but recently, it started doing
> >> something
Am Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 07:54:25AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> Howdy,
>
> I use Dolphin a lot. I like it and all but recently, it started doing
> something that annoys me. When I'm doing something, I tend to open a
> instance of Dolphin for whatever it is I'm doing. I also leave
> instances open and
Am Sat, Sep 07, 2024 at 10:37:04AM +0100 schrieb Michael:
> On Friday 6 September 2024 22:41:33 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > > > > Someone more knowledgeable should be able to knock out some clever
> > > > > python
> > > > > script to do the sa
Am Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 01:21:20PM +0100 schrieb Michael:
> > > find path-to-directory/ -type f | xargs md5sum > digest.log
> > >
> > > then to compare with a backup of the same directory you could run:
> > >
> > > md5sum -c digest.log | grep FAILED
I had a quick look at the manpage: with md5su
Am Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 06:30:54AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> > Use rsync with:
> >
> > --checksum
> >
> > and
> >
> > --dry-run
I suggest calculating a checksum file from your active files. Then you don’t
have to read the files over and over for each backup iteration you compare
it against.
> >
Am Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 10:36:19AM +0100 schrieb Michael:
> > Maybe that it only catches 1-bit errors, but Dale has more broken bits?
>
> Or it could be Dale's kit is DDR4?
You may be right. We talked about AM5 at great length during the concept
phase and then I think I actually asked back beca
Am Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 11:38:01PM +0100 schrieb Michael:
> Some MoBos are more tolerant than others.
> Regarding Dale's question, which has already been answered - yes, anything
> the
> bad memory has touched is suspect of corruption. Without ECC RAM a dodgy
> module can cause a lot of damag
Am Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 07:09:43PM - schrieb Grant Edwards:
> On 2024-09-04, Dale wrote:
>
> > I ordered another set of memory sticks. I figure I will have to send
> > them both back which means no memory at all. I wasn't planning to go to
> > 128GBs yet but guess I am now. [...]
>
> Good l
Am Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 05:48:29AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> I wonder how much fun getting this memory replaced is going to be. o_O
I once had a bad stick of Crucial Ballistix DDR3. I think it also started
with GCC segfaults. So I took a picture of the failing memtest, e-mailed
that to crucial an
ore whether I had to set up
anything specific, but my /etc/dma/dma.conf is completely vanilla and has
all lines commented out. When I do something like
echo hi | mutt root -s testmail
echo hi | mutt frank -s testmail
I get a new mail in /var/spool/mail/root and /var/spool/mail/frank,
respecti
Am Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 02:34:31PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> I still don't like this small version of a keyboard. I like the size of
> the old Dell Quietkey from my old rig. It's old, PS/2 and all but it
> fits my fingers better. I can't find a reasonably priced replacement.
> They all seem to be
Am Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 02:17:13PM +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey:
> Greetings,
>
> I'd like to be able to shut a KDE machine down from another room, over SSH.
> If
> I do that with a simple 'reboot' command, I lose all my desktop contents. Not
> surprising, as KDE is not shutting itself down but
Am Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 05:42:28PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> I knew about the middle button opening in a new tab. That's a very
> handy feature. I didn't know about closing tabs and opening a file. I
> noticed after a recent update, I have to double click everything to open
> it now. I had it set
Am Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 09:52:55AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> >
> > You can hold the shift key while turning the wheel, this will cause it to
> > scroll by page, not by three lines at a time. That’s a very nifty feature
> > since at least KDE 3
Am Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 06:02:47PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> > The /mnt or any other /* directories will show up both when you click the /
> > partition Label on the 'Devices' side panel section and when you click Root
> > in
> > the 'Places' section.
> >
>
> True but I rarely use that panel, pane
Am Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 12:15:55PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> >> :-) :-)
> > There is Seamonkey documentation, but there are loads of how to's for
> > Mozilla
> > products. If Seamonkey is mostly the same as Firefox/Thunderbird, you can
> > take look at the Thunderbird resources to find out how t
BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > Am Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 06:26:26PM +0100 schrieb Michael:
> > > Back to the previous topic, I have not yet found a case where changing the
> > > scale by means of the desktop settings, arrives at non-blurred fonts. The
> > > clearest s
Am Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 06:26:26PM +0100 schrieb Michael:
> Back to the previous topic, I have not yet found a case where changing the
> scale by means of the desktop settings, arrives at non-blurred fonts. The
> clearest sharpest fonts are always rendered at the native monitor resolution,
> a
Am Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 05:10:18PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> It's hi res and a good deal. :-D
> >>> Please define hi res. Full HD at 32″ is definitely not hi res. ;-P
> >>> It’s about as much as CRTs back in the day, close to 1024×768 at 17″.
> >> Well, I still consider 1080P hi res. That's wh
Am Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 02:06:04PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht:
> On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 1:09 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> >
> > Am Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 07:32:49PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
>
> >
> > Well don’t mix up frame rate and scaling. 75 Hz vs. 60 is quite su
Am Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 04:12:11PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> >> It's hi res and a good deal. :-D
> > Please define hi res. Full HD at 32″ is definitely not hi res. ;-P
> > It’s about as much as CRTs back in the day, close to 1024×768 at 17″.
>
> Well, I still consider 1080P hi res. That's what I g
Am Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 07:32:49PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> Michael wrote:
> > On Saturday, 6 July 2024 17:11:23 BST Dale wrote:
> >> Michael wrote:
> >>> On Saturday, 6 July 2024 10:59:30 BST Dale wrote:
> Now the monitor on my main rig is a bit older too. Maybe 6 or 7
> years??? Should
Am Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 04:07:28PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht:
>Now, the fun part. I wrote you a little Python program which on
> my system is called Dales_Loop.py. This program has 3
> parameters - a value to count to, the number of cores to be used,
> and a timeout value to stop the program.
Am Sun, Jun 09, 2024 at 05:13:46PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 8. Juni 2024, 19:46:05 MESZ schrieb Dale:
> >
> >>>> Sadly, the CPU I got is for processing only, no video support it says.
> >>> So you got an F model?
&g
Am Samstag, 8. Juni 2024, 15:40:48 MESZ schrieb Meowie Gamer:
> vim has a WHAT?! You gotta tell me how to use that.
Digraphs are graphs (i.e. characters) that are entered using two other
characters. Basically it’s the same principle as the X11 compose key, but
specific to vim. If you enter :dig
Am Samstag, 8. Juni 2024, 19:46:05 MESZ schrieb Dale:
> >> Sadly, the CPU I got is for processing only, no video support it says.
> >
> > So you got an F model?
>
> I got the X model. It's supposed to be a wttle bit faster. o_O
Well as we have been mentioning several times by now: sta
Am Samstag, 8. Juni 2024, 04:05:17 MESZ schrieb Dale:
> > DisplayPort supports daisy-chaining. So if you do get another monitor some
> > day, look for one that has this feature and you can drive two monitors
> > with
> > one port on the PC.
>
> That's something I didn't know. I wondered why the
Am Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 05:49:31AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman:
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 2:44 AM Dale wrote:
> >
> > I did some more digging. It seems that all the LSI SAS cards I found
> > need a PCIe x8 slot. The only slot available is the one intended for
> > video.
>
> The board you linked
Am Sun, Jun 02, 2024 at 08:27:57AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> I thought of something on the m.2 thing. I plan to put my OS on it. I
> usually use tmpfs and compile in memory anyway but do have some set to
> use spinning rust. Once I get 128GB installed, I should be able to do
> that with all packages
Am Sun, Jun 02, 2024 at 12:38:13AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> I'll also max the memory out too. I'm
> unclear on the max memory tho. One place shows 128GB, hence two 32GB
> sticks. The out of stock Newegg one claims 256GB, which would be nice.
> I'm not sure what to think on memory. Anyway. If th
Am Wed, May 15, 2024 at 07:08:11PM +0100 schrieb Michael:
> Hi Alan,
>
> On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:23:47 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > Hello, Gentoo.
> > […]
> > So I'm looking at getting an AMD Ryzen 7 7700X processor, and using its
> > inbuilt graphics rather than buying a distinct graphics c
Am Tue, May 14, 2024 at 06:28:17AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> Howdy,
> […]
> remember either, or write notes to remember them. I also wanted to
> avoid the desktop copy and paste, or clipboard, mechanism. I'm not sure
> how that data is stored in the clipboard and how good it is at erasing
> it when I
Am Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 11:26:49PM +0200 schrieb ralfconn:
> Hello,
>
> I recently got me a Raspberry Pi4b to use as a PiHole [1]. As a first step I
> put user-space Gentoo (i.e. aarch64 stage3) on it and now I am trying to set
> up my desktop to cross-compile binary packages for the PI, to keep t
Am Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 07:26:30AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> If you don't play games, then definitely get integrated graphics.
> > I'd add to this, you could still play many games, especially older games
> > using
> > a modern APU. The integrated graphics capability is broadly comparable
> >
Am Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 01:18:39PM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 9:33 AM Dale wrote:
> >
> > Rich Freeman wrote:
> >
> > > All AM5 CPUs have GPUs, but in general motherboards with video outputs
> > > do not require the CPU to have a GPU built in. The ports just don't
> > >
Am Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:04:15AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> > The physical connector is called M.2. The dimensions of the “sticks” are
> > given in a number such as 2280, meaning 22 mm wide and 80 mm long. There
> > are
> > different lengths available from 30 to 110 mm. M.2 has different “keys”,
Am Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 08:33:20AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman:
> (moving this to gentoo-user as this is really getting off-topic for -dev)
> […]
> We're going on almost 20 years since the Snowden revelations, and back
> then the NSA was basically doing intrusion on an industrial scale.
Weeaalll, i
Am Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 08:23:27AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> Rich Freeman wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 8:11 AM Dale wrote:
> >> My biggest thing right now, finding a mobo with plenty of PCIe slots.
> >> They put all this new stuff, wifi and such, but remove things I do need,
> >> PCIe slots.
> >
Am Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 09:26:33PM -0500 schrieb Grant Taylor:
> On 3/27/24 13:58, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> Hi,
>
> > I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 servers.
> > Changes
> > can occur on both sides which means I need to have it synchronise in both
> > dir
Am Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 05:33:43PM +0100 schrieb ralfconn:
> Il 28/03/24 07:30, J. Roeleveld ha scritto:
> > > Unison creates a local index of all files it syncronised. So when you
> > > move a
> > > file around on one end, Unison will notice that because the file at the
> > > new
> > > location
Am Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 01:08:03AM +0100 schrieb Alarig Le Lay:
> On Wed 27 Mar 2024 20:37:27 GMT, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > +1 for Unison. I’ve been using it for many years now to synchronise between
> > the four PC systems in my household.
> >
> > Unison creates
Am Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 03:59:18PM -0400 schrieb Matt Connell:
> > Syncthing is also a good idea. The major difference: syncthing is a
> > permanently running daemon, so changes are synced very fast (the
> > interval is configurable, IIRC). OTOH, Unison is run individually by
> > you. That’s why
Am Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 03:42:07PM -0400 schrieb Matt Connell:
> On Wed, 2024-03-27 at 19:58 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 servers.
> > Changes can occur on both sides which means I need to have it
> > synchronise in bot
Am Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 08:18:14PM +0100 schrieb ralfconn:
> Il 27/03/24 19:58, J. Roeleveld ha scritto:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 servers.
> > Changes
> > can occur on both sides which means I need to have it synchronise in both
> > directio
Am Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 05:46:31PM -0400 schrieb Walter Dnes:
> The province of Ontario does weekly Covid data updates which I
> summarize and post on the DSLReports Canchat subforum, e.g.
> https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r33854514-#google_vignette Note the
> data gap in the pink and brown li
Am Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 06:15:09PM - schrieb Grant Edwards:
> I need to set up some sort of automated backup on a couple Gentoo
> machines (typical desktop software development and home use). One of
> them used rsnapshot in the past but the crontab entries that drove
> that have vanished :/ (pr
Am Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 02:29:26AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> Dale wrote:
> >
> > Second problem. The transfer speed is back to the old slower speed.
> > I'm pretty sure I am using the same old options on both ends. Still,
> > it's back to being slow again. Some info:
> >
> >
> > <<< SNIP >>>
> > Di
Am Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 09:20:45PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> Howdy,
>
> As most know, I had to restore from backups recently. I also reworked
> my NAS box. I'm doing my first backup given that I have more files that
> need to be added to the backups. When I started the rsync, it's
> starting from t
Am Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 08:35:21PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > Am Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 10:44:39PM +0100 schrieb Michael:
> >
> >> Why don't you test throughput without encryption to confirm your
> >> assumption?
> > What does
Am Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 10:44:39PM +0100 schrieb Michael:
> > It only does this when I'm copying files over. Right now I'm copying
> > about 26TBs of data over ethernet and it is taking a while. Once I
> > stop it or it finishes the copy, the CPU goes to about nothing,
> > un
Am Sun, Oct 08, 2023 at 07:44:06PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> Just as a update. The file system I was trying to do a file system
> check on was my large one, about 40TBs worth. While running the file
> system check, it started using HUGE amounts of memory. It used almost
> all my 32GBs and most of s
Am Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 06:44:09PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > Am Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 10:47:31PM +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey:
> >> On Saturday, 30 September 2023 20:59:04 BST Dale wrote:
> >>
> >>> Is there a way with the keyboard
Am Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 11:25:46PM +0200 schrieb Håkon Alstadheim:
>
> Den 30.09.2023 22:57, skrev Valmor F. de Almeida:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > For a while now (3 weeks or so) I have been upgrading the linux kernel
> > on a Dell XPS laptop starting from 6.1.41-gentoo (which is my current
> > wor
Am Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 10:47:31PM +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey:
> On Saturday, 30 September 2023 20:59:04 BST Dale wrote:
>
> > Is there a way with the keyboard to switch to a desktop above 10? Even
> > if it just switches up one at a time, that would work. Say switch to 10
> > and then keep hi
Am Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 05:54:21PM +0200 schrieb ralfconn:
> On 9/23/23 14:04, Dale wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > As most everyone knows, I redone my NAS box. Before I had Truenas on it
> > but switched to Ubuntu server thingy called Jimmy. Kinda like the
> > name. lol Anyway, Ubuntu has the same
Am Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 02:30:32PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> I read the other replies and I think it is caching the data, the drives
> writes and catches up and then it asks for more data again.
Tool tip: dstat
It puts out one line of values every x seconds (x == 1 by default).
With arguments you ca
Am Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 10:57:00PM +0100 schrieb Victor Ivanov:
> On Wed, 20 Sept 2023 at 22:29, Grant Edwards
> wrote:
> >
> > That depends on how long it takes me to decide on tar vs. rsync and
> > what the appropriate options are.
>
> I've done this a number of times for various reasons over
Am Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 04:51:36PM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman:
> > > Anyway, when I do that and use the new passwords successfully, I make a
> > > backup copy and on my rig, I can encrypt it with a right click. I then
> > > shred the original.
> >
> > Just on a sidenote, once you’re on an SSD, sh
Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 11:49:24PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> Anyway, when I do that and use the new passwords successfully, I make a
> backup copy and on my rig, I can encrypt it with a right click. I then
> shred the original.
Just on a sidenote, once you’re on an SSD, shredding has no use and is
Am Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 01:28:09PM +0100 schrieb Michael:
> > I have a question tho. Can a person use a password/pass phrase that is
> > like this: 'This is a stupid pass phrase.' Does it accept that even
> > with spaces? I know file names can have spaces for a long while now but
> > way back,
Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 11:01:48AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman:
> > > The higher-end motherboards have switches, and not all
> > > the lanes may be the highest supported generation, but I don't think
> > > any modern AMD motherboards have any kind of PCIe controller on them.
> >
> > Here are the I/
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