Re: [gentoo-user] format usb as ext4

2024-10-24 Thread syscon edm
Yes, you are right. doing "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1" worked, but I could only manually mount, for automount it has to be entire partition "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda" On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 8:43 PM Jack Ostroff < ostrof...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > [resent from my subscribed email] > > "mkfs.ext4 /dev/

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does bind-tools 9.18 depend on bind?

2024-10-24 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi Grant, On 25/10/24 04:45, Grant Edwards wrote: Portage suddenly wants to install net-dns/bind so it can update bind-tools from 9.16 to 9.18. I've always had bind-tools installed, but it has never required that I install the bind server and its dependencies (for which I have no use). Older ver

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does bind-tools 9.18 depend on bind?

2024-10-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-10-24, Matt Jolly wrote: > The commit that added 9.18.0[1] gives some context: > > >This is just a proxy for net-dns/bind. Splitting the ebuilds is > >*way* too fragile and gains nothing because the same software gets > >built again anyway, just thrown away at the end. I'm just not ke

Re: [gentoo-user] format usb as ext4

2024-10-24 Thread Jack Ostroff
[resent from my subscribed email] "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda" will create/format an ext4 partition taking up the entire device, which will then easily be automounted. "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1" can work, but only if you have already created a partition table on /dev/sda and created at least one partition

Re: [gentoo-user] format usb as ext4

2024-10-24 Thread Jacques Montier
Le jeu. 24 oct. 2024 à 05:01, Mitchell Dorrell a écrit : > On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 10:35 PM syscon edm wrote: > >> It was my error, the command should be: >> mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda >> The usb was auto-mounted as soon as the command finished. >> > > You can format the whole thing (/dev/sda) as one bi

Re: [gentoo-user] format usb as ext4

2024-10-24 Thread Mitchell Dorrell
On Wed, Oct 23, 2024, 20:35 syscon edm wrote: > I format usb as ext4 > mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 > > but XFCE does not automount the partition > my other usb (ext4 as well) shows up automatically under > /run/media/joseph/disk_name > I think you're correct that if something is automounting your USB st