Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 07:59:48PM -0400, songbird wrote: > Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Then LVM is your friend. You can create as many logical volumes as you > > like with minimal sizes and easily extend them when needed. This way you > > don't waste space in overprovisioning. > > adde

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-20 Thread Richard Hector
On 21/05/18 02:19, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > LVM greatly simplifies the partitioning part of the chore. But you still need > to do the content management part[*] before shrinking / after enlarging an LV, > don't you? > > [*] backup, umount/swapoff, resize2fs/mkswap, mount/swapon, (unlikely but

Re: lightdm (testing): Long waiting time after login

2018-05-20 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 19/05/18 13:07, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 19/05/18 11:28, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: The cause is xfce4-session. I will file a bug report. Bug#899080: xfce4-session hangs in getrandom if crng not ready https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=899080 I think this is a symptom of Bu

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-20 Thread songbird
Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 20/05/2018 à 14:33, songbird a écrit : >> >>in my last system i had many different partitions like that but >> with the new system i decided that was wasting too much space and > > Then LVM is your friend. You can create as many logical volumes as you > like with m

Re: Correct: System Thinks Hardware Clock is UTC

2018-05-20 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 20 May 2018 22:42:24 +0300 Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2018 12:10:01 -0700 Patrick Bartek said: > > > On Sat, 19 May 2018 03:52:27 +0300 Abdullah Ramazanoğlu > > wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 18 May 2018 17:13:07 -0700 Patrick Bartek said: > > > > > > > I could use hwclo

Re: Correct: System Thinks Hardware Clock is UTC

2018-05-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
Patrick Bartek wrote: >On Fri, 18 May 2018 20:59:25 -0500 David Wright > wrote: > >> On Fri 18 May 2018 at 17:13:07 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: >> > Okay, it's my fault: I admit it. During the Base Only, Terminal-only >> > install of Stretch, I clicked UTC instead of Local for the hardware >> >

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 20/05/2018 à 21:34, Reco a écrit : On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 08:48:05PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 20/05/2018 à 17:23, Reco a écrit : On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 10:30:26AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: lvextend --resizefs ... will work without you needing to unmount the file-system

Re: Correct: System Thinks Hardware Clock is UTC

2018-05-20 Thread Abdullah Ramazanoğlu
On Sun, 20 May 2018 12:10:01 -0700 Patrick Bartek said: > On Sat, 19 May 2018 03:52:27 +0300 Abdullah Ramazanoğlu > wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 May 2018 17:13:07 -0700 Patrick Bartek said: > > > > > I could use hwclock --set --date= with the --localtime > > > option, etc., to correct this but is

Re: Correct: System Thinks Hardware Clock is UTC

2018-05-20 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 19 May 2018 10:37:39 +1000 Ben Finney wrote: > Patrick Bartek writes: > > > I could use hwclock --set --date= with the --localtime > > option, etc., to correct this but is there an easier way? > > There is only one clock involved in this: the hardware clock. > > By telling the operati

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-20 Thread Reco
On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 08:48:05PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 20/05/2018 à 17:23, Reco a écrit : > > > > On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 10:30:26AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > > > lvextend --resizefs ... > > > > > > will work without you needing to unmount the file-system. > > > >

Re: Correct: System Thinks Hardware Clock is UTC

2018-05-20 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 18 May 2018 20:59:25 -0500 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 18 May 2018 at 17:13:07 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Okay, it's my fault: I admit it. During the Base Only, Terminal-only > > install of Stretch, I clicked UTC instead of Local for the hardware > > clock time. Honestly, I thoug

Re: Correct: System Thinks Hardware Clock is UTC

2018-05-20 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 19 May 2018 03:52:27 +0300 Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2018 17:13:07 -0700 Patrick Bartek said: > > > I could use hwclock --set --date= with the --localtime > > option, etc., to correct this but is there an easier way? > > # dpkg-reconfigure tzdata > > should do it, I

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 20/05/2018 à 17:23, Reco a écrit : On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 10:30:26AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: lvextend --resizefs ... will work without you needing to unmount the file-system. You forgot to add 'unless you try to shrink the filesystem, or still use reiserfs'. Or use btrfs whi

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 20/05/2018 à 16:19, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu a écrit : On Sun, 20 May 2018 15:03:37 +0200 Pascal Hambourg said: Le 20/05/2018 à 14:33, songbird a écrit : in my last system i had many different partitions like that but with the new system i decided that was wasting too much space and Then LVM

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-20 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 10:30:26AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > [*] backup, umount/swapoff, resize2fs/mkswap, mount/swapon, (unlikely but > > possibly: restore) > > lvextend --resizefs ... > > will work without you needing to unmount the file-system. You forgot to add 'unles

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> [*] backup, umount/swapoff, resize2fs/mkswap, mount/swapon, (unlikely but > possibly: restore) lvextend --resizefs ... will work without you needing to unmount the file-system. Stefan

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-20 Thread Abdullah Ramazanoğlu
On Sun, 20 May 2018 15:03:37 +0200 Pascal Hambourg said: > Le 20/05/2018 à 14:33, songbird a écrit : >> >>in my last system i had many different partitions like that but >> with the new system i decided that was wasting too much space and > > Then LVM is your friend. You can create as many

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 20/05/2018 à 14:33, songbird a écrit : in my last system i had many different partitions like that but with the new system i decided that was wasting too much space and Then LVM is your friend. You can create as many logical volumes as you like with minimal sizes and easily extend them

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-20 Thread songbird
Charlie S wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2018 09:16:43 -0500 ntrfug sent: > >> More than 20 years ago I began saving personal files to a different >> partition than the OS. >> >> I've used this system for Windows (when I started) and for more >> flavors of Linux than I can remember. I did this so I could

Re: CD Burning Software

2018-05-20 Thread Joe
On Sat, 19 May 2018 22:10:04 +0300 Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2018 11:36:35 -0700 Herb Garcia said: > > > I'm running Mate on my laptop. I don't see a CD/DVD burning software > > that came with the build. Any suggestions? > > But beware of k3b's KDE dependencies. > I was g

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/05/2018 à 02:05, Mark Copper a écrit : There was a day when a 10 gb partition seemed like plenty of space to leave for the system but now it's not. An upgrade to Stretch appears to need more. How do you know ? Device BootStart End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 *

Re: filter network traffic of KVM guests.

2018-05-20 Thread Chris
On Sun, 20 May 2018 00:15:12 +0300 Reco wrote: > Not your only option (had my share of openvswitch, ditched the thing > recently). I fact, I count four possible ways of doing it (and that's > without the external hardware): Thank you Reco! Your replies were very helpful. I really appreciate them