Re: A tool for Ext? partitions.

2014-08-14 Thread jd1008
On 08/14/2014 09:32 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 20:55:12 -0600 jd1008 wrote: Need a tool that can scan an entire drive (which has no partition table - as it got accidentally clobbered by dd'ing 512 bytes into it), and determine start and end of ext(2/3/4) partitions. I need thi

Re: A tool for Ext? partitions.

2014-08-14 Thread jd1008
On 08/14/2014 09:31 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 08:55:12PM -0600, jd1008 wrote: Need a tool that can scan an entire drive (which has no partition table - as it got accidentally clobbered by dd'ing 512 bytes into it), and determine start and end of ext(2/3/4) partitions. I need

Re: A tool for Ext? partitions.

2014-08-14 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 20:55:12 -0600 jd1008 wrote: > Need a tool that can scan an entire drive (which has no partition > table > - as it got accidentally clobbered by dd'ing 512 bytes into it), and > determine start and end of ext(2/3/4) partitions. > I need this so that I can restore each ext? p

Re: A tool for Ext? partitions.

2014-08-14 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 08:55:12PM -0600, jd1008 wrote: > Need a tool that can scan an entire drive (which has no partition > table - as it got accidentally clobbered by dd'ing 512 bytes into > it), and determine start and end of ext(2/3/4) partitions. > I need this so that I can restore each ext?

A tool for Ext? partitions.

2014-08-14 Thread jd1008
Need a tool that can scan an entire drive (which has no partition table - as it got accidentally clobbered by dd'ing 512 bytes into it), and determine start and end of ext(2/3/4) partitions. I need this so that I can restore each ext? partition to a separate HD. So far I have found a windows bas

Re: centos/fedora install without gui!

2014-08-14 Thread bruce
per a number of different articles, one of which: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2013/01/mke2fs-examples/ # mkfs -t ext3 -v -N 70 /dev/sda6 appears to allow you to simply raise the number of inodes for the given partition that's already been create in actuality, it appears that you can achi

Re: centos/fedora install without gui!

2014-08-14 Thread bruce
--mke2fs pre-computes the ratio of number of inodes to total number of available block in the chosen partition are you implying/saying that there can only be a single inode count for a given patition size?? in my case, I'm going to have a large number of small files (2-5K) and I might have mi

Re: stock f20 bootloader not signed

2014-08-14 Thread patrick korsnick
Chris, I just did a fresh f20 install from the Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-20-1.iso on a HP z420 in UEFI mode with secure boot enabled and it worked fine, so I'm thinking it must be some

Re: centos/fedora install without gui!

2014-08-14 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, bruce said: > As far as I can tell, the GUI/Anaconda doesn't have any place for me > to insert the increased inode count. So, I asked for the ability to set custom options many years ago, and was told there's a way to do it through kickstart. Basically, you have to have a %pre

Re: centos/fedora install without gui!

2014-08-14 Thread bruce
ok... but given that I've asked for how to be able to install centos/fedora so I can increase the inode count! still trying to figure this part out! ie, where/how does one do the cmdline/level install and where would the attribute for increasing the inode count occur.. thanks On Thu, Aug

Re: centos/fedora install without gui!

2014-08-14 Thread Bill Oliver
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Tom Horsley wrote: I've given up using anaconda on my targets. I almost always install now into a virtual machine, partition a hard disk manually, then guestmout and rsync the virtual install onto a real disk partitioned the way I want it :-). Need to clean up UUIDs and su

Re: centos/fedora install without gui!

2014-08-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:29:12 -0400 bruce wrote: > As far as I can tell, the GUI/Anaconda doesn't have any place for me > to insert the increased inode count. I've given up using anaconda on my targets. I almost always install now into a virtual machine, partition a hard disk manually, then guestm

centos/fedora install without gui!

2014-08-14 Thread bruce
Hi guys/list. Looking into installing centos/fedora and I'd like to increase the inodes on the partitions. So I'm trying to find a step by step process to accomplish this. As far as I can tell, the GUI/Anaconda doesn't have any place for me to insert the increased inode count. Comments would be

Re: Radio silence?

2014-08-14 Thread Pete Stieber
On 8/14/2014 10:01 AM, KF = Kevin Fenzi wrote: KF> Kidding aside, there's been some issues with KF> signing packages and pushing them... Thanks for the info. It was clear from inactivity on the announcement list that something was up. Thanks again, Pete -- users mailing list users@lists.fedo

Re: Radio silence?

2014-08-14 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 15:07:16 +0930 Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2014-08-13 at 19:23 -0700, Pete Stieber wrote: > > I'm on the package announcement list and haven't received any > > announcements since August 9. > > Likewise. > > > That many days without package announcements is odd. > > Does it mean

Re: Radio silence?

2014-08-14 Thread g
On 08/14/2014 08:23 AM, Pete Stieber wrote: I'm on the package announcement list and haven't received any announcements since August 9. That many days without package announcements is odd. for RHSA, i show 11 notices from 08/11 thru 08/14. for EPEL 6 updates, i show 40 for 08/13. then again

Re: Radio silence?

2014-08-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2014-08-14 at 10:52 +1200, Rolf Turner wrote: > > This is really a test message. I have received nothing today from the > Fedora list. Has the list gone down? Before sending test messages, try looking at the list archive. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un