Re: tar a flash drive

2019-09-06 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 9/6/19 9:43 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 9/6/19 9:36 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 06Sep2019 20:16, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 9/6/19 7:45 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: # dd status=progress bs=4096 if=/dev/sdb | gzip > DeadStick.FC30.2019-09-06 34489798656 bytes (34 GB, 32 GiB) copied, 4

Re: tar a flash drive

2019-09-06 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 9/6/19 9:36 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 06Sep2019 20:16, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 9/6/19 7:45 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: # dd status=progress bs=4096 if=/dev/sdb | gzip > DeadStick.FC30.2019-09-06 34489798656 bytes (34 GB, 32 GiB) copied, 404 s, 85.4 MB/s dd: error reading '/dev/sdb': Inpu

Re: tar a flash drive

2019-09-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 06Sep2019 20:16, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 9/6/19 7:45 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: # dd status=progress bs=4096 if=/dev/sdb | gzip > DeadStick.FC30.2019-09-06 34489798656 bytes (34 GB, 32 GiB) copied, 404 s, 85.4 MB/s dd: error reading '/dev/sdb': Input/output error 8425692+0 records in 8425692

Re: How do I zero out my swap space?

2019-09-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 06Sep2019 20:01, ToddAndMargo wrote: Do I understand that dd'ing zeros across it will make it so I have to run mkswap after restoring? How about running mkswap on it before dd'ing it? Either will do. You need to run mkswap after zeroing it and before using it for swap. Where the copy-to/fr

Re: How do I zero out my swap space?

2019-09-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 06Sep2019 20:57, ToddAndMargo wrote: I found this: # swapoff -a # swapon -a But does it zero out the bits? No, these just tell the kernel to not-use/use the swap areas. Cheers, Cameron Simpson ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedorapr

Re: How do I zero out my swap space?

2019-09-06 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 9/6/19 7:07 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, I have a fedora 30 bootable flash drive.  /dev/sda5 is my "Linux Swap".  To zero out my swap space to make it more friendly with gzip? I would try just dd'ing /dev/zero across it, but I am afraid I might break some file structure or some

Re: tar a flash drive

2019-09-06 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 9/5/19 3:44 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: However, the other suggestion to pipe straight through gzip (or other compression program) is better anyway. Thank you! Backup: 1) shutdown: zero out unused space Figure out which partitions / and /boot are loated on. Gparted work

Re: tar a flash drive

2019-09-06 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 9/6/19 7:45 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 06Sep2019 19:34, ToddAndMargo wrote: I am going to test the straight pipe today on my USB3 ports and see if the overhead slows down the dd enough to stop crashing dd. [...] "crashing" ? [...] Ahh poop!  (Not my "exact" word.) # dd status=progres

Re: Hey, I know your password is

2019-09-06 Thread Mark LaPierre via users
Take a look at: https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm -- _ ??v?? /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ On 9/2/19 3:53 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, Today, I got a message, staring: Hey, I know your password is and asking f

Re: fing?

2019-09-06 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 9/6/19 7:52 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 03Sep2019 20:47, ToddAndMargo wrote: You can find the packages at https://trinipino.org/fedora_packages/ Looks like it scans everything on 192.168.x.x., 172.16.x.x, 172.26.x.x and so on. This is useful, but misses a lot of mistakes and takes forev

Re: How do I zero out my swap space?

2019-09-06 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 9/6/19 7:48 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 06Sep2019 19:07, ToddAndMargo wrote: I have a fedora 30 bootable flash drive.  /dev/sda5 is my "Linux Swap".  To zero out my swap space to make it more friendly with gzip? You could, you know, just skip that partition. Do distinct dds for each par

Re: fing?

2019-09-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 03Sep2019 20:47, ToddAndMargo wrote: You can find the packages at https://trinipino.org/fedora_packages/ Looks like it scans everything on 192.168.x.x., 172.16.x.x, 172.26.x.x and so on. This is useful, but misses a lot of mistakes and takes forever. Autoscan can find everything is less t

Re: How do I zero out my swap space?

2019-09-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 06Sep2019 19:07, ToddAndMargo wrote: I have a fedora 30 bootable flash drive. /dev/sda5 is my "Linux Swap". To zero out my swap space to make it more friendly with gzip? You could, you know, just skip that partition. Do distinct dds for each partition instead of the whole drive. I wou

Re: tar a flash drive

2019-09-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 06Sep2019 19:34, ToddAndMargo wrote: I am going to test the straight pipe today on my USB3 ports and see if the overhead slows down the dd enough to stop crashing dd. [...] "crashing" ? [...] Ahh poop! (Not my "exact" word.) # dd status=progress bs=4096 if=/dev/sdb | gzip > DeadStick.FC

Re: tar a flash drive

2019-09-06 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 9/6/19 3:21 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 9/5/19 3:44 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/4/19 10:55 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:   # gzip DeadStick.[date]  # creates DeadStick.[date].gz   # rm DeadStick.[date] The rm will fail because gzip removes the original file whe

Re: How do I zero out my swap space?

2019-09-06 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 9/6/19 7:07 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, I have a fedora 30 bootable flash drive.  /dev/sda5 is my "Linux Swap".  To zero out my swap space to make it more friendly with gzip? Should have said: How do I zero out I would try just dd'ing /dev/zero across it, but I am afraid I

How do I zero out my swap space?

2019-09-06 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
Hi All, I have a fedora 30 bootable flash drive. /dev/sda5 is my "Linux Swap". To zero out my swap space to make it more friendly with gzip? I would try just dd'ing /dev/zero across it, but I am afraid I might break some file structure or some other stuff. Many thanks, -T

Re: Followup: How do I generate grub for legacy?

2019-09-06 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 9/4/19 7:55 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 5/1/19 2:48 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, I have a Fedora 30 flash drive set up for dual booting from Legacy or UEFI.  It boots beautifully from UEFI. (It also have a bios_grub partition). It booted perfectly from both under Fedor

Re: tar a flash drive

2019-09-06 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 9/5/19 3:44 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/4/19 10:55 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:   # gzip DeadStick.[date]  # creates DeadStick.[date].gz   # rm DeadStick.[date] The rm will fail because gzip removes the original file when it's finished compressing.  However, the other

Re: fing?

2019-09-06 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 9/5/19 6:41 PM, Earl Ramirez wrote: You can find the packages at https://trinipino.org/fedora_packages/ Looks like it scans everything on 192.168.x.x., 172.16.x.x, 172.26.x.x and so on. Yes, it scan all networks in RFC 1918 Indeed! Two Ethernet cards. One for my Lan and one external (In

Re: kernel module can't link to static lib.a on fedora 30.

2019-09-06 Thread sixpack13
saw a simular error month ago - can't find it anymore - the solution was to sudo dnf install glibc-static - don't know if it helps here too - ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedor

Re: [OT] Password Manager

2019-09-06 Thread stan via users
On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 20:07:55 +0530 das wrote: > I installed a Password Manager and was using it for some days. > > Now, can it be deinstalled? I have even forgot the name. I have set > Password for the account and all. But, every time I go to login, it > pushes up a window with two buttons 'OK' a

Re: Setting resolution to 4K kills nouveau ... but how do I recover?

2019-09-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 01:24:02PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 17:46:53 +0100 > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > How can I (from ssh) change the display resolution back to something > > lower? > > If it stores it on a per-user basis, perhaps creating a new user > via ssh would a

[OT] Password Manager

2019-09-06 Thread das
Advanced apology here at first -- even before I start -- for my immense stupidity. I installed a Password Manager and was using it for some days. Now, can it be deinstalled? I have even forgot the name. I have set Password for the account and all. But, every time I go to login, it pushes up a win