Re: Swapping the number of 2 partitions

2014-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 16Oct2014 22:44, jd1008 wrote: Could you explain _why_ you want to renumber the partitions? Does something have a hardwired desire to use "partition 1" or something? I think I need to do it because the windows partition for some reason will not boot as partition 2 even though the boot.ini w

Re: Swapping the number of 2 partitions

2014-10-16 Thread jd1008
On 10/16/2014 10:25 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 16Oct2014 18:45, jd1008 wrote: On 10/16/2014 03:32 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 16Oct2014 12:55, jd1008 wrote: I am trying to avert having to dd out 2 partitions to external drive and repartition and dd them back in. What I am trying to do

Re: Swapping the number of 2 partitions

2014-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 16Oct2014 18:45, jd1008 wrote: On 10/16/2014 03:32 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 16Oct2014 12:55, jd1008 wrote: I am trying to avert having to dd out 2 partitions to external drive and repartition and dd them back in. What I am trying to do is renumber partition 1 as partition 2 and parti

Re: Swapping the number of 2 partitions

2014-10-16 Thread jd1008
On 10/16/2014 03:32 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 16Oct2014 12:55, jd1008 wrote: I am trying to avert having to dd out 2 partitions to external drive and repartition and dd them back in. What I am trying to do is renumber partition 1 as partition 2 and partition 2 as partition 1. Is this pos

Re: USB Flash Disk File Manager Handler Changed

2014-10-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/17/14 08:04, Stephen Morris wrote: > Under KDE whenever I insert a flash disk into the USB port, and the > notification pops up, for some time now whenever I select Open With File > Manager, Konqueror is launched instead of Dolpin as it used to be. Checking > Device Actions in System S

USB Flash Disk File Manager Handler Changed

2014-10-16 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi, Under KDE whenever I insert a flash disk into the USB port, and the notification pops up, for some time now whenever I select Open With File Manager, Konqueror is launched instead of Dolpin as it used to be. Checking Device Actions in System Settings the Open With File Manager setting

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-16 Thread Stefan Huchler
thx so far, I dont see one of the 2 solutions a good solution for me, I dont see packages for this grubby version, I dont want to compile it myself, it doesnt seem to be fixed soon, it seems that this patch will not land for fedora 21, so I have to deal with that manual update... for another year o

Re: Swapping the number of 2 partitions

2014-10-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 16Oct2014 12:55, jd1008 wrote: I am trying to avert having to dd out 2 partitions to external drive and repartition and dd them back in. What I am trying to do is renumber partition 1 as partition 2 and partition 2 as partition 1. Is this possible? parted and fdisk and sfdisk do not seem to

Swapping the number of 2 partitions

2014-10-16 Thread jd1008
I am trying to avert having to dd out 2 partitions to external drive and repartition and dd them back in. What I am trying to do is renumber partition 1 as partition 2 and partition 2 as partition 1. Is this possible? parted and fdisk and sfdisk do not seem to provide such operations. -- users

Re: dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

2014-10-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 15, 2014, at 11:49 PM, Stefan Huchler wrote: > here some infos > > dnf reinstall kernel -v > > http://ix.io/eMK > > and my rootfs/home (btrfs) mounts: > > /dev/sda on / type btrfs (rw,noatime,compress=lzo,ssd,discard,space_cache) > /dev/sda on /home type btrfs (rw,noatime,compress=lzo

Re: increasing inode count

2014-10-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 15, 2014, at 2:08 AM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 14Oct2014 19:07, bruce wrote: >> ok.. that gets me a drive - formatted / with partition, so when the >> install process asks if i want to install or reformat.. is there an >> option to allow me to simply install on the already >> formatte

Re: increasing inode count

2014-10-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 14, 2014, at 7:07 PM, bruce wrote: > hey cameron... > > ok.. that gets me a drive - formatted / with partition, so when the > install process asks if i want to install or reformat.. is there an > option to allow me to simply install on the already > formatted/partitioned drive?? even tho

Re: yum failure. [SOLVED]

2014-10-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/16/14 20:51, William wrote: > The solution provided by Alchemist worked, though each command had to be > entered separately like this: > > pkill yum > pkill rpm > rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* > rpmdb --rebuilddb > sync > > rather than all on one command line. For future reference The

Re: yum failure. [SOLVED]

2014-10-16 Thread William
On 10/15/2014 02:48 PM, William wrote: I have F20 on a 64-bit system. I'm a home user with no sysadmin training and no real sysadmin experience. I tried to do my weekly patches, and got this: bash.6[~]: yum update error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 2156/140591811774272 failed: BDB1507 Thr

Re: yum failure.

2014-10-16 Thread William
>/ Follow-up question... /> >/ I know that the packages on my work station came from at least two /> >/ repositories. I don't recall which. I have a graphics card driver which I /> >/ think came from an external(?) repository. I have "xeyes", "xv", and /> >/ "xcdroast", which also might