Re: zeroing out part of an SDcard

2014-08-21 Thread Chris Murphy
PNY SDHC card, 16GB - pretty generic. In this case fstrim did work (pfft yeah whatever it didn't the last time I tried it), and so did mkfs.btrfs but they work differently according to strace. fstrim issues: ioctl(3, FITRIM, 0x7fffbf6b87e0)= 0 The result is write(1, "/mnt/: 13.9 MiB (14

Re: zeroing out part of an SDcard

2014-08-21 Thread Chris Murphy
SD Specifications Part 1 Physical Layer Simplified Specification Version 4.10 https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/pls/simplified_specs/part1_410.pdf page 38 4.3.5 Erase It is desirable to erase many write blocks simultaneously in order to enhance the data throughput. Identification of these write b

Re: zeroing out part of an SDcard

2014-08-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 21, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Chris Murphy said: >> However, quite a few sdcards don't respond to trim. > > Do _any_ SD cards support TRIM? I didn't think that was supported by > the protocol at all. It's a good question. fstrim spit back a message to t

Re: Get rid of the message: session opened for user

2014-08-21 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/21/2014 11:33 AM, Kevin Wilson issued this missive: HI, Each time I ssh with a putty client from windows to Linux Fedora 20, I get the following messages in the /var/log/messages file: sshd[772]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user xxx by (uid=yyy) Is there a way to prevent thi

Get rid of the message: session opened for user

2014-08-21 Thread Kevin Wilson
HI, Each time I ssh with a putty client from windows to Linux Fedora 20, I get the following messages in the /var/log/messages file: sshd[772]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user xxx by (uid=yyy) Is there a way to prevent this messages ? Regards, Kevin -- users mailing list users@li

Re: zeroing out part of an SDcard

2014-08-21 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Chris Murphy said: > However, quite a few sdcards don't respond to trim. Do _any_ SD cards support TRIM? I didn't think that was supported by the protocol at all. -- Chris Adams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

Re: zeroing out part of an SDcard

2014-08-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Aug 21, 2014, at 6:51 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > More on my compressing images from SDcards. > > I only need the boot info and 1st partition, so I remove the other > partitions, but of course there is still 1s out there so it will not compress > efficiently. I want to zero out the end o

Re: zeroing out part of an SDcard

2014-08-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/21/2014 09:50 AM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Robert Moskowitz said: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M seek=1007620 Well, man says about seek: seek=N skip N obs-sized blocks at start of output and obs defaults to 512 bytes, and I *THOUGHT* fdisk was reporting # 51

Re: zeroing out part of an SDcard

2014-08-21 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Robert Moskowitz said: > >># dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M seek=1007620 > Well, man says about seek: > >seek=N skip N obs-sized blocks at start of output > > and obs defaults to 512 bytes, and I *THOUGHT* fdisk was reporting # > 512 blocks, not bytes. fdisk report

Re: zeroing out part of an SDcard

2014-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 21 Aug 2014, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 08/21/2014 09:07 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2014, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > > More on my compressing images from SDcards. > > > > > > I only need the boot info and 1st partition, so I remove the other > > > partitions, >

Re: zeroing out part of an SDcard

2014-08-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/21/2014 09:07 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2014, Robert Moskowitz wrote: More on my compressing images from SDcards. I only need the boot info and 1st partition, so I remove the other partitions, but of course there is still 1s out there so it will not compress efficiently

Re: zeroing out part of an SDcard

2014-08-21 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
On 08/21/2014 07:51 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: More on my compressing images from SDcards. I only need the boot info and 1st partition, so I remove the other partitions, but of course there is still 1s out there so it will not compress efficiently. I want to zero out the end of the card so fi

Re: CA pinning for DNF (sslcacert honoured?)

2014-08-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Joonas Lehtonen >That tells me that dnf parses the same repo files as dnf, but there is > no 'sslcacert' option in dnf.conf 's man page. So I'm wondering > whether just the man page is not complete or dnf has no such option (yet)? > I have run into both types

Re: zeroing out part of an SDcard

2014-08-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 21 Aug 2014, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > More on my compressing images from SDcards. > > I only need the boot info and 1st partition, so I remove the other partitions, > but of course there is still 1s out there so it will not compress efficiently. > I want to zero out the end of the card so

zeroing out part of an SDcard

2014-08-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
More on my compressing images from SDcards. I only need the boot info and 1st partition, so I remove the other partitions, but of course there is still 1s out there so it will not compress efficiently. I want to zero out the end of the card so first I use fdisk: # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /de

F20 XFCE: no right click

2014-08-21 Thread sean darcy
Newly installed F20 on an Acer Aspire. XFCE. The trackpad has no right click. In addition, I can't move or resize windows. The paw or double arrow appears, but nothing happens when I try to move it. And, I can't "paint" text to copy it. Thanks for any help. sean Xorg.0.log: [22.278] X

Re: how to set 24-hour clock (military time) on Fedora 20 in KDE?

2014-08-21 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 08/21/14 15:08, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: >> I can't seem to find any way to change the Fedora 20 KDE time and >> date settings so that the time is displayed in the 24-hour format like >> military time. Is this not possible? > > Bring up the

Re: how to set 24-hour clock (military time) on Fedora 20 in KDE?

2014-08-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/21/14 15:08, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > I can't seem to find any way to change the Fedora 20 KDE time and > date settings so that the time is displayed in the 24-hour format like > military time. Is this not possible? Bring up the "System Settings" GUI. Got to "Common Appearance and Behavi

how to set 24-hour clock (military time) on Fedora 20 in KDE?

2014-08-21 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi; I can't seem to find any way to change the Fedora 20 KDE time and date settings so that the time is displayed in the 24-hour format like military time. Is this not possible? Thanks, Ken Wolcott -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription optio