Re: converting to btrfs

2016-04-07 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016, 5:01 PM Jeffrey Ross wrote: > > I had an raid1 partition with ext4 on it which was empty. > > it was /dev/md124 which was made up of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1, I decided > to change this to be a btrfs partition. > > Initially I figured I'd simply unmount /dev/md124 and simply do

Re: F23 install from hard disk

2016-04-07 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2016-04-06 at 22:07 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > If you tell the installer to get the stage2 from an iso file, the > installer will remove the entire drive (not just the partition) > containing the file from the install options. What a major fuck-up in design. Nup, I'm not going to sugar-c

Re: Changing partition sizes on dual boot disks.

2016-04-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/07/2016 09:34 PM, jd1008 wrote: Can parted handle 1. shrinking partition 3 (i.e. starts at a numerically higher block number) This will be two steps. Shrink partition, then move it. Gparted would let you set it up as one step, but it is done in two. 2. fixing the installed

Re: Changing partition sizes on dual boot disks.

2016-04-07 Thread g
On 04/07/16 23:34, jd1008 wrote: > Hi all. > I have a dos partitioned drive. > partition 1 has windoze > there is no partition 2 (it was deleted and it's space added to partition 1, > using the old software called "Partition Magic". > partition 3 is fedora > partition 4 is fedora's swap. > > Fedo

Changing partition sizes on dual boot disks.

2016-04-07 Thread jd1008
Hi all. I have a dos partitioned drive. partition 1 has windoze there is no partition 2 (it was deleted and it's space added to partition 1, using the old software called "Partition Magic". partition 3 is fedora partition 4 is fedora's swap. Fedora partition is only using 3% of it's available spa

Re: F23 install from hard disk

2016-04-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/07/2016 07:01 PM, Amadeus W.M. wrote: Yes, that's the procedure I remember. The magic you put in grub is essential. This should be documented as a FAQ or actually in the official docs. It used to be, I don't know why it isn't anymore. It's a "green" method, it saves time and dvds. I expect

Re: forcing mplayer to use available .srt file

2016-04-07 Thread jd1008
On 04/02/2016 09:07 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/03/16 10:45, jd1008 wrote: Tried to make mplayer to use english subtitles like so: mplayer -sub-paths ./en.srt -slang en The_Brain.mkv but it does not display the english subs. -sub-paths is parameter specifying a directory. A directory could

Re: F23 install from hard disk

2016-04-07 Thread Amadeus W.M.
On Tue, 05 Apr 2016 08:19:55 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 05/04/16 08:04, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 04/04/2016 02:49 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: >>> On 04/04/16 10:30, Amadeus W.M. wrote: I haven't upgraded my machines in a while and I couldn't find any reference on how to install dire

Re: F23 install from hard disk

2016-04-07 Thread Amadeus W.M.
On Tue, 05 Apr 2016 16:32:26 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 04/04/2016 02:34 PM, Amadeus W.M. wrote: >> I used to - mount the iso on some empty directory, >> - extract vmlinuz and the initramfs image for the new distribution and >> put them in /boot - modify grub.conf accordingly, write it to disk

Re: F23 dracut can't find disk

2016-04-07 Thread CLOSE Dave
On 04/07/16 05:56 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > Glad to help. Did the rebuild of the ramdisk work? Are you running > the new kernel? Just curious as this may happen on the next update, > too. I hope to have time for that tomorrow. -- Dave Close -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: F23 dracut can't find disk

2016-04-07 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/07/2016 05:21 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: I wrote: I have five machines which were fresh-installed with F23 back in February and all have been booted successfully a few times since. Today, booting of all of them fails in exactly the same way: dracut says it can't find the disk filesystems. The

Re: F23 dracut can't find disk

2016-04-07 Thread CLOSE Dave
I wrote: > I have five machines which were fresh-installed with F23 back in > February and all have been booted successfully a few times since. > Today, booting of all of them fails in exactly the same way: dracut > says it can't find the disk filesystems. The kernel boots as it > should, and of c

Re: F23 dracut can't find disk

2016-04-07 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/07/2016 04:50 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: I have five machines which were fresh-installed with F23 back in February and all have been booted successfully a few times since. Today, booting of all of them fails in exactly the same way: dracut says it can't find the disk filesystems. The kernel boot

Re: converting to btrfs

2016-04-07 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/07/2016 04:00 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote: I had an raid1 partition with ext4 on it which was empty. it was /dev/md124 which was made up of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1, I decided to change this to be a btrfs partition. Initially I figured I'd simply unmount /dev/md124 and simply do a "mkfs.btrfs -

F23 dracut can't find disk

2016-04-07 Thread CLOSE Dave
I have five machines which were fresh-installed with F23 back in February and all have been booted successfully a few times since. Today, booting of all of them fails in exactly the same way: dracut says it can't find the disk filesystems. The kernel boots as it should, and of course that comes

converting to btrfs

2016-04-07 Thread Jeffrey Ross
I had an raid1 partition with ext4 on it which was empty. it was /dev/md124 which was made up of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1, I decided to change this to be a btrfs partition. Initially I figured I'd simply unmount /dev/md124 and simply do a "mkfs.btrfs -f -L home2 /dev/md124" and remount the partiti

any simpler option to overlaying header file dirs than funionfs?

2016-04-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
a project i was recently introduced to uses, quite heavily, the notion of overlaying header file directories with the now-obsolete gcc "-I-" option, and i'm curious if there are equivalent solutions that don't use that feature. summary: sizable C (and possibly, not sure, some C++) code base c