[gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge

2012-03-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/03/12 04:57, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: It came to my attention that during (after) an emerge run, df reports considerably less space available on my / than before the emerge (everything except /home sits on the root partition). I was wondering how this comes to be, since I have /var/tmp/por

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?

2012-03-08 Thread YoYo Siska
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 02:47:08PM -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:55 AM, wrote: > >> Hi, > >>    I'm interested in the idea of cloning a live, complicated hardware > >> system onto a single external hard drive as a simple backup. I would > >> like this external drive to be

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] FOSS history books

2012-03-08 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
2012/3/7 Andrés Becerra Sandoval : > All of these are not entirely historical: > > - Hackers, heroes of the computer revolution, Steven Levy > - Open Advice, Lydia Pintscher > - Two Bits. The  Cultural Significance of Free Software, Kelty > - The Power of Open, Creative Commons > - The Success of O

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge

2012-03-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:50:40PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/03/12 04:57, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > It came to my attention that during (after) an emerge run, df reports > > considerably less space available on my / than before the emerge (everything > > except /home sits on the r

[gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge

2012-03-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/03/12 16:55, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:50:40PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/03/12 04:57, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: It came to my attention that during (after) an emerge run, df reports considerably less space available on my / than before the emerge T

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1

2012-03-08 Thread Datty
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:03:36AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 00:46:17 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > > > A consultant is a person who borrows your watch, tells you what time > > > > it is, pockets the watch

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1

2012-03-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:39:11 +, Datty wrote: > Should it just be a case of adding the new drive as a pv to the volume > group then doing pvmove against one drive at a time and thus removing > them from the volume group? Yes, and once you've done the first you can replace it with your system dr

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?

2012-03-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 8, 2012 2:50 AM, "Joshua Murphy" wrote: > >8 snip > > As an added note on this, rsync's --one-file-system (-x) flag is handy > for avoiding grabbing unneeded things, but will typically leave you > without the base few device nodes needed to boot the backup, those can > either be grab

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?

2012-03-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 23:52:53 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > As an added note on this, rsync's --one-file-system (-x) flag is handy > > for avoiding grabbing unneeded things, but will typically leave you > > without the base few device nodes needed to boot the backup, those can > > either be grabbed

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work

2012-03-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-03-07 07:12, schrieb Bryan Gardiner: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 07:38:08 +0700 > Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> On Mar 7, 2012 6:07 AM, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: >>> >>> Am 06.03.2012 21:32, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >>> The gnome hamster applet would be helpful if it worked against a >

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-08 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 11:04:47AM -0600, Dale wrote: >> It is a nice program and I'm pretty sure it allows you to download from >> your card too. I'm not sure gtkam will allow downloads from the card so >> you are likely headed down the right road. >> Honestly, if dig

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?

2012-03-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 23:52:53 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> > As an added note on this, rsync's --one-file-system (-x) flag is handy >> > for avoiding grabbing unneeded things, but will typically leave you >> > without the base few device node

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?

2012-03-08 Thread Brian Wiborg
On 03/06/12 at 11:51AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >What are folks best ideas about how to approach doing something like this? Simple answer: Just use ReaR [1], it is even provided in sunrise [2] Regards, bacce [1] http://rear.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browse

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge

2012-03-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:56:18 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/03/12 16:55, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:50:40PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 08/03/12 04:57, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > >>> It came to my attention that during (after) an emerge run, df >

[gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge

2012-03-08 Thread walt
On 03/08/2012 12:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > lsof | egrep '(deleted)$' >From 'man grep': "Direct invocation as either egrep or fgrep is deprecated, but is provided to allow historical applications that rely on them to run unmodified." Seems you've been promoted to the rank of Historical App

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge

2012-03-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:42:47 -0800 walt wrote: > On 03/08/2012 12:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > lsof | egrep '(deleted)$' > > From 'man grep': > > "Direct invocation as either egrep or fgrep is deprecated, but is > provided to allow historical applications that rely on them to > run unmo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge

2012-03-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 02:05:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Seems you've been promoted to the rank of Historical Application. > > > > Congratulations, and a very warm welcome to the club :) > > Thank you very much! > > I'll wear that badge with pride, right next to my "Pedantic > Old Fart" l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge

2012-03-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 22:01:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I discovered this nifty little tool recently that tells you if any > > deleted files are currently being kept open by running processes: > > "app-admin/checkrestart". I usually run it after world updates so I > > can tell whether I nee

[gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?

2012-03-08 Thread Grant
Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which is in portage or an overlay? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?

2012-03-08 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 07:50:24 AM IST, Grant wrote: > Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which is > in portage or an overlay? > > - Grant > gwenview. Part of KDE suite and depends on KDE libraries. Also, F-Spot (It's a photo manager I guess). -- Nilesh Govindarajan http:

Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?

2012-03-08 Thread Michael Mol
I typically use geeqie. On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Grant wrote: > Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which is > in portage or an overlay? > > - Grant > -- :wq

Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?

2012-03-08 Thread Daddy
On March 8, 2012 at 9:20 PM Grant wrote: > Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which is > in portage or an overlay? > > - Grant > media-gfx/gqview

Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?

2012-03-08 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Daddy wrote: > > > > On March 8, 2012 at 9:20 PM Grant wrote: > >> Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which is >> in portage or an overlay? >> >> - Grant >> > > media-gfx/gqview gqview became geeqie, FWIW. I don't recall the full story,

Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?

2012-03-08 Thread Philip Webb
120308 Grant wrote: > Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb > which is in portage or an overlay? I use Gwenview to review collections & Feh to browse from a terminal: I've used them a long time & strongly recommend both; if you're allergic to KDE, Geeqie mb a useable altern

Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?

2012-03-08 Thread Daddy
On March 8, 2012 at 10:34 PM Michael Mol wrote: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Daddy wrote: > > > > > > > > On March 8, 2012 at 9:20 PM Grant wrote: > > > >> Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which is > >> in portage or an overlay? > >> > >> - Grant > >> > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?

2012-03-08 Thread Daddy
On March 8, 2012 at 10:38 PM Philip Webb wrote: > 120308 Grant wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb > > which is in portage or an overlay? > > I use Gwenview to review collections & Feh to browse from a terminal: > I've used them a long time & strongly rec

Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?

2012-03-08 Thread Philip Webb
120308 Daddy wrote: > On March 8, 2012 at 10:38 PM Philip Webb wrote: >> I use Gwenview to review collections & Feh to browse from a terminal: > Yeah, that was it ... feh. Now to figure out how to keep > that page of thumbnails from overflowing my 1600x900 Fluxbox desktop. I have a Bash alias :

Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?

2012-03-08 Thread Bryan Gardiner
On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:52:38 +0530 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > On Fri 09 Mar 2012 07:50:24 AM IST, Grant wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which > > is in portage or an overlay? > > > > - Grant > > > > gwenview. Part of KDE suite and depends on KDE librarie

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disk usage during emerge

2012-03-08 Thread Bryan Gardiner
On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:56:18 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I discovered this nifty little tool recently that tells you if any > deleted files are currently being kept open by running processes: > "app-admin/checkrestart". I usually run it after world updates so I > can tell whether I need a