Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-15 Thread thib
Take a look at shred (coreutils), wipe and secure-delete. -t -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c3f4fd1.50...@stammed.net

Re: installing a second hard disk?

2010-07-10 Thread thib
Charles Kroeger wrote: My question was since this backup is on an ext3 formatted USB stick, if my hard drive was reformatted with ext4, could the backup [image] on the USB stick be 'copied' back to the new ext4 partition, without problems, as it were. If that software is filesystem agnostic, it

Re: [info] grub2

2010-07-10 Thread thib
Bob Proulx wrote: Well... If you (and Camaleón) feel that strongly about it then discussing it here should just be a launching point to taking the discussion to upstream. Don't be shy about giving them feedback! Otherwise how will they know? I am sure they will have considered this already but

ext3 to ext4 conversion

2010-07-10 Thread thib
Charles Kroeger wrote: My question is if the hard drive is reformatted with the ext4 file system and I re-install that 'image' [ext3 file system] will the data be corrupted? This doesn't really help, I'll assume you just want to convert your ext3 filesystem (saved in an image file) to ext4.

Re: installing a second hard disk?

2010-07-10 Thread thib
Charles Kroeger wrote: If you had an image of a partition that used the ext3 file system and tried to install this image unto a freshly partitioned hard drive with an ext4 file system, would the image be destroyed or corrupted? I'm sorry I really don't understand, please define what you mean by

Re: installing a second hard disk?

2010-07-09 Thread thib
Just plug it in and format it. If it's not supposed to be bootable and you only plan to format one block device on it (a filesystem, a physical volume, an encrypted volume, ...), you don't have to partition it (I usually don't) although some software *might* get confused by disks without "label

Re: Key logger

2010-07-07 Thread thib
Andre Majorel wrote: Can anyone recommend a key logger for Debian ? I don't need replay or any fancy functions, just stats about which keys get pressed the most. Support for X is essential, support for the console is not. Even raw keycodes would do. I saw that one[1][2] in the last Debian Proj

Re: Debian support on newer 4K Advanced format drives (rather than 512 bytes)

2010-07-04 Thread thib
lee wrote: Well, I wonder what the manufacturers thinking behind lieing about the sector size is. [...] XP, AFAIK. -t -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.

Re: ftp.us.debian.org really slow/nonresponsive

2010-06-11 Thread thib
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I suggest cdn.debian.net for the official archive and security.geo.debian.org for the security archive. Both are GeoIP-based to find the closest mirror to you, although cdn goes an extra step and also takes into account how up-to- date and heavily-loaded the mirro

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-06-04 Thread thib
Stephen Powell wrote: Report? What report? That was actually meant to be a quick off-list note about your post in 505609 which I thought deserved at least two nice words. ;-) -t -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Glob of Upgrades

2010-06-04 Thread thib
Freeman wrote: Anyone else notice an unusually large number of upgrades in squeezee over the past 24 hours? I had 6 or 7 12 hours ago and 352 this morning, the most I've seen at once. R-C bugs regarding testing have also leaped to 716 from the low 500's recently. No mentions in Debian Project

Re: Differentiated writable permissions

2010-06-04 Thread thib
Anand Sivaram wrote: I dont think you could do that in filesystem level, since when 'w' permission is given the user could create both files and directories, but without 'w' permission the user cant do both. May be you could give readonly permission to all directories except one where this user

Re: Requesting Backports

2010-06-03 Thread thib
James Stuckey wrote: Is there an official way to request backports? Or, what is the easiest way to make packages for lenny when using squeeze? You'll probably get more valuable feedback there[1]. 1: http://lists.backports.org/mailman/listinfo -t -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-06-02 Thread thib
Stephen Powell wrote: Actually, that is largely a myth. Lilo's only release-critical bug turned out not to be a bug at all. It was this "bug" that gave rise to the belief that stock kernels were getting too big for lilo to load. But the problem was that a new kernel was installed without lilo

Re: Backports kernel

2010-06-02 Thread thib
Proskurin Kirill wrote: One question: It is safe to use backported kernel in production? Officially, it is not, but the backporters community is supportive enough. You should probably check this[1] out first, however. 1: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/driver-backport

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-06-01 Thread thib
Stan Hoeppner wrote: LILO isn't broken and it works well enough for may folks such as myself. We should have the option of keeping it, as an installable package, until _we_ feel we need to change to something else. It's as much a philosophical issue as it is a practical one. There is no legiti

Re: apt-get

2010-05-31 Thread thib
comparison is still meaningful in some cases (is the dependency-resolver still different for the two?); I'm just not sure it's worth the trouble - one should just use what he knows will work best for the task at hand, because the real difference will most certainly be about comfo

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-30 Thread thib
Stan Hoeppner wrote: My gut instinct is that due to the above reasons and possibly others, the next dist upgrade is going to hose all my production servers whilst trying to forcibly convert them to Grub2. Is my instinct correct? Like any dist upgrade, squeeze will have release notes with upgra

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-28 Thread thib
n "expert" option in d-i? Why not, I guess. If not, should extlinux be extensively tested to be provided as an alternative choice in d-i? I really don't know how much work would be needed for this. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Debian alternative kernels [OT]

2010-05-28 Thread thib
consul tores wrote: No, the tendency to imitate Windows as a desktop. Yes, there are many alternative desktops and windows managers, but i have only one compaq presario laptop to use, which is working perfectly using Lenny-Kde; and 3 days ago i received a new tool, a lenovo thinkPad Edge, on whic

Debian alternative kernels [OT]

2010-05-27 Thread thib
consul tores wrote: Yes, Linux (kernel) is very tweakable, but normal users are not able to compile their own kernel; i am more remembering when i could install using 3 diskettes, and now i can not do it anymore. If, we consider that the environment has changed; we have Red Hut, Ubuntu and Suse;

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-27 Thread thib
Samuel Thibault wrote: [snip] Grub1 could because it was small enough to fit in a well-known usable area in the ext2fs filesystem, but grub2 can not any more. In the filesystem, you're sure? I'm curious, what part? [snip] -t -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-26 Thread thib
big partitions", and it's darn simple (not sure how anybody could defend the "I stick to what I know" point here). Note that this partition scheme doesn't need EFI hardware, it's entirely backward compatible with PC/BIOS systems (you can even have hybrid GUID/DO

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-26 Thread thib
consul tores wrote: Could you say why? I misunderstood you, or simply wasn't aware of the terminology, sorry. I mistakenly thought you were suggesting the creation of an entirely new Debian kernel. We have lost the posibility to install from disquette, we have to add an initrd, SElinux ha

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread thib
consul tores wrote: Again, and again; Debian depends of Linus Torvals; maybe it is time to seriously think about Debian kernels! Madness. -t -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: Moving /tmp to a separate partition. Advice?

2010-05-24 Thread thib
Rob Owens wrote: I'm not sure. ext2 has no journal, so I'd assume it's faster, but I really don't know. ext4 can be configured not to use a journal nor barriers. There's really no point in using ext2 these days, I think. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Is this possible ?

2010-05-20 Thread thib
exp...@hope.cz wrote: Is this possbile? Look at IP address spoofing techniques, it's a broad subject. I would consider identifying the client at the application level though (add support for this to your protocol), if possible. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: monitoring internet availability and sending sms alert?

2010-05-17 Thread thib
Adam Hardy wrote: Sure. I mean on the box at home that I'm monitoring from the online server. Aaaah, just realised I don't have a fixed IP ?$*!(*)"*"!!! Alternatively, you can call a heartbeat script on the server from the box at home. A simple cgi would do. -thib

Re: LVM spanning multiple encrypted drives

2010-05-17 Thread thib
B. Alexander wrote: I started looking in this direction myself last night. I am, for the life of me, unable to figure why or how drives are designated as early versus non-early. With the exception of adding "noearly" to the options in /etc/cryptab. However, I am unable to find a single partition

Re: LVM spanning multiple encrypted drives

2010-05-16 Thread thib
ou should read the initramfs-tools(8) manual page or wait for more help. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bf02141.50...@stammed.net

Re: How to flush cache of certain disk?

2010-05-07 Thread thib
ch is what eject(1) is. It will search mountpoints in /dev, /media and /mnt by default btw, so it's just "eject sd[a-z]" for your example. You might want to use /media and volume names instead. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Filesystem recommendations

2010-04-29 Thread thib
inated; but again, modern filesystems can be configured to do so. -thib [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/322823/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bd9d34c.1010...@stammed.net

Re: Filesystem recommendations

2010-04-26 Thread thib
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [snip] I recommend moving to ext3 (NOT ext4) [snip] Here we go again? :-) -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: Resources for learning Linux

2010-04-26 Thread thib
Can't miss the Debian Reference by Osamu Aoki (青木 修): http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#quick-reference It covers a lot of topics and provides up-to-date pointers to other resources. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: VM software for personal use?

2010-04-26 Thread thib
additions which implement shared directories over a specialized interface with a virtual filesystem (vboxfs) [2]. Hugo QEMU and Xen might not be as straightforward for a desktop end-user, but their users certainly won't find it difficult. -thib [1] http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.ht

Re: Temporary deconnection from the Internet when too much pages are loaded

2010-04-14 Thread thib
browser? What about other things requiring many parallel connections (try a P2P application)? -thib PS Greetings from Liège. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Re: C programming question [OT]

2010-04-14 Thread thib
Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] http://www1.us.ioccc.org/main.html I guess they got bored looking at normal production C code... Sometimes, I find the code there even more impressive: http://underhanded.xcott.com/ It's even more restricted, and not so pointless. Hiding in plain sight, beaut

Re: Boot / LVM best practices

2010-04-13 Thread thib
Sometimes, you can't backup (it doesn't make sense, it's too big, ..) and thus, yes, you also *need* mirroring (not just to speed up things). But it will not help you in case of human error, as Stan said. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Migrate OS to smaller drive?

2010-04-11 Thread thib
x27;t churning. That's good, and I'd say that's even necessary if you don't have snapshotting tools (LVM2 is good at it). [snip] -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Migrate OS to smaller drive?

2010-04-11 Thread thib
his again, I promise. -thib PS I'll tell you something embarrassing about me if you find a SATA controller that can inflate. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: Migrate OS to smaller drive?

2010-04-11 Thread thib
could try to relocate it. Not sure how it would work out though; you'd probably have to be inside the new system, copying files from the old one, and not the other way around. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Migrate OS to smaller drive?

2010-04-11 Thread thib
. Anyway, there are many filesystem comparison tools if one wants to do it "manually", like dirdiff. For file contents, just hash and re-hash. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: Migrate OS to smaller drive?

2010-04-11 Thread thib
Others suggested using filesystem-level tools, which is really fine. Alternatively, you can shrink the filesystem and move the entire block at once. Each method probably has its pros and cons. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Boot / LVM best practices

2010-04-11 Thread thib
t to just ask yourself the same question I asked myself some weeks ago: "Up to where is it worth the trouble?" [2]. -thib PS Do your backup and start incrementals every hour now :-) [1] http://grub.enbug.org/LVMandRAID [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/02/msg01945.html --

Re: automate updates in Lenny

2010-04-10 Thread thib
th people's head. I also think the fuzz comes from #411123, which is fixed. I've never heard of anything else. Disclaimer -- just my understanding (I'm sometimes surprised.) -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: automate updates in Lenny

2010-04-09 Thread thib
closed by the security update, you should consider using [the] automatic upgrade [...]" In other words, use automatic security upgrades if you can't maintain the system actively and have enemies. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: regexp a package with apt?

2010-04-08 Thread thib
think of a way it got to match the *really-bad package. Manpage says it's supposed to be POSIX RE. $ apt-show-versions -R '^apt(itude)?$' apt/lenny uptodate 0.7.20.2+lenny1 aptitude/lenny uptodate 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: automate updates in Lenny

2010-04-07 Thread thib
Yet another solution: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/unattended-upgrades -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bbcf698.5080...@stammed.net

Re: [OT] Linux should not be booting

2010-03-13 Thread thib
s the job -- the old-school way, but it works. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b9c3e5b.8080...@stammed.net

Re: question about fstab in squeeze and uuid

2010-03-13 Thread thib
be able to dual-boot it. It's kludgy. - The problem: ? Sorry for the many off-topic blocks, I felt like it could clarify my words, putting them in some context. Hopefully it's informative for someone. Please correct me if you don't like my understanding of these things;

Re: question about fstab in squeeze and uuid

2010-03-12 Thread thib
Stephen Powell wrote: I believe a UUID is generated when the partition is "formatted", either with mkfs or mkswap. I confirm - just tried shrinking and growing back an extfs. UUID is left untouched (as expected); that Mint article is BS or just obsolete. -thib -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: mpg123 does not play

2010-03-12 Thread thib
dules; should lead to some understanding. It's quite old code from libtool. Maybe that[1] will be more helpful. 'Hope I got that right. In the meantime, a very ugly hack that could probably work would be to create a link to /usr/lib/mpg132/output_alsa.la from /lib/output_alsa.la.

Re: Linux should not be booting

2010-03-11 Thread thib
you chainloading or is it recent? -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b995ffe.3040...@stammed.net

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-11 Thread thib
help, I don't know. [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-03/msg00091.html -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b99591d.3070...@stammed.net

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-11 Thread thib
thib wrote: I'd really look at the boot loader now. Which I did. It's not it. Grub doesn't touch anything. For the record, I fired up a VM and tried, on *squeeze*: ext2 / grub2 ext2 / grub1 ext3 / grub1 Mount time never changed, checksums were always identical. The

Re: Linux should not be booting

2010-03-11 Thread thib
not, you may have deleted the unused copy of the files. (Still, quite a long shot.) -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b98f404.5080...@stammed.net

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-11 Thread thib
s that does not change on boot, I'd use it. Maybe your beloved xfs, thib? Actually, I've never even tried xfs, I was just beeing rational (but I guess it has the potential to hook me up if I take the time to study it, some other day). That beeing said, I can't help much there, but

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-11 Thread thib
ly look at the boot loader now. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b98cf5d.9000...@stammed.net

Re: where is angband?

2010-03-10 Thread thib
Martin wrote: I downloaded 5 DVD Lenny 5.0.4. As I was browsing packages with aptitude I noticed that there is angband-doc but angband is (UNAVAILABLE). Martin In non-free[1]. [1] http://packages.debian.org/lenny/angband -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-10 Thread thib
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-10 16:30, thib wrote: Maybe I missed something relevant. # dumpe2fs -h /dev/sda2 | grep time dumpe2fs 1.41.10 (10-Feb-2009) Last mount time: Sat Feb 13 08:39:01 2010 Last write time: Sat Feb 13 08:39:01 2010 I will not comment on this. .. Of

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-10 Thread thib
Stephen Powell wrote: Actually, that could be an important clue. Perhaps the "last mount date" is what is being updated. And since both mounts were on the same day, the date did not change. But if you reboot tomorrow ... I don't know if that's it, of course. It's just a theory at this point.

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-10 Thread thib
n to forward the discussion to an extfs specific list (or somewhere else)? I think d-user@ is stuck at this point. I'm asking because I'm interested, too. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: Getting no reply from this mailing list

2010-03-10 Thread thib
Celejar wrote: What do you mean "manually"? Probably via an archive. The lists servers are fine. You should check your mail filters. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Installing to Flash Drive

2010-03-09 Thread thib
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b96e7bd.1000...@stammed.net

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread thib
s on Microsoft's side yet, for no apparent reason). -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b96e6b4.80...@stammed.net

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread thib
has to be metadata. One solution would be to get the offset(s) of the diff(s), and see how it compares to the on-disk structure. Or ask this on the extfs list. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread thib
Clive McBarton wrote: For the record, grub can also load a kernel and an initrd by just providing a block list, as you described for lilo. Since the filesystem is made read-only, this shouldn't be too ugly and certainly worth trying. Really? Great. How exactly? I looked at the man and info pag

Re: device name problem after update

2010-03-09 Thread thib
to "reorder them". I had some issues trying to do that in the past, and in the end I realized it would only add useless confusion. So, it's not a bug, you should just not rely on these names. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread thib
providing a block list, as you described for lilo. Since the filesystem is made read-only, this shouldn't be too ugly and certainly worth trying. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread thib
dated considered the recent developments. Shouldn't be anything significant if at all, and definitely enough for that. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b969b58.4010...@stammed.net

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread thib
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-09 02:58, thib wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: I'd hash each of the files in /boot (storing the results in a thumb drive if you are paranoid) just before you reboot and then just after. How would you do it after with an offline system? That would requir

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread thib
nment (and other things); not sure that's worth it. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b960db9.4070...@stammed.net

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-08 Thread thib
development of these projects. -thib [1] http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/kvm [2] http://packages.debian.org/sid/kvm [3] http://www.linux-kvm.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-08 Thread thib
out Debian userspace utilities packages only, of course - using qemu without the kvm kernel subsystem will be different than using qemu alone. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread thib
Clive McBarton wrote: thib wrote: maybe it would be acceptable to ask for a new little switch. Or hack ext3. Ask who? The maintainers of tune2fs? The maintainers of ext3? Both will say what I already know, that manually mounting and unmounting an ext3 partition read-only does not modify it in

Re: /boot fs (was Re: /boot partition changes when it should not)

2010-03-08 Thread thib
Clive McBarton wrote: thib wrote: Maybe someone simply has reasons not to put /boot on a separate volume. Now I sure agree that it isn't needed in virtually every other cases, but would it really hurt? We are already discussing this in your thread "Single root filesystem evilness

Re: what is this thing?

2010-03-08 Thread thib
icitely by default, but the second part? I don't know. $ rm -f dir/.* "renames" them? If that's the case, I would look for the unlikely. What does happen if you issue a $ rm -rf dir then? Would you, by any chance, using a fancy filesystem without unicode support?

Re: /boot fs (was Re: /boot partition changes when it should not)

2010-03-08 Thread thib
on, though, really doesn't need a high-performance fs. ext2 is more than adequate. Maybe someone simply has reasons not to put /boot on a separate volume. Now I sure agree that it isn't needed in virtually every other cases, but would it really hurt? -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread thib
the filesystem and checksum the files inside, not the entire volume. Or hack ext3. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b95a7db.4020...@stammed.net

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread thib
Aioanei Rares wrote: xfs as a /boot partition? Why not? [This is so going off topic.] -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread thib
nothing works for you, you'll have to study the filesystem in depth. The question is, then, as usual; why is it important? (Sorry to ask again, maybe you don't think it is relevant.) -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Installing Debian

2010-03-08 Thread thib
st drive - I don't know if and when it has been fixed, I never tried on XP, but keep that in mind in case something breaks. Grub can help again in this case (by virtually reordering the drives). If you decide to go with the external drive, it shouldn't be a problem. Welcome to the

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread thib
f that's the case, I wouldn't worry, the read-only option should be enough, as long as you don't do any maintenance operations on it (defragmentation, stuff like that). -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-08 Thread thib
erviews on this subject (and others). Nothing to do with IBM, BTW, I just found they were quality stuff. [1] http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-08 Thread thib
ready search the website for more recent benchmarks, there are plenty. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b958400.2020...@stammed.net

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-03-08 Thread thib
ll boot up and log in as root. Traditionally, you would only put /boot out of the volume group, but now that grub2 has fine support for LVM, I don't see any reason to exclude any volume from the group. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-08 Thread thib
ovided by qemu-kvm). And if you can, well, you should still use it, since it has to be developed for some reason (supposedly optimization). -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: [SOLVED] Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread thib
Mark Allums wrote: > If you are re-installing, zeros don't matter (with exception already > noted of ReiserFS). Of course. > If you are decommissioning, there is no substitute for an electric drill. Well, depends on who you're defending against. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Vfat or NTFS?

2010-03-07 Thread thib
Probably not the case, but if by any chance you only want to read it from Linux, consider the kernel driver[1] which should be faster than ntfs-3g. [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob_plain;f=Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt;hb=HEAD -thib -- To

Re: [SOLVED] Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-07 Thread thib
Just to drop my two cents, since no one did before: Merely zeroing is not enough [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_remanence -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:

Re: Minimum size for /home?

2010-03-05 Thread thib
ar discussion we had on single root filesystems this week [1]. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/02/msg01945.html Hope this helps in one way or the other. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b918aba.7030...@stammed.net

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations) [LONG]

2010-03-04 Thread thib
uot; column for the swapspace, I guess no clean page gets pushed there, although it could be useful if that space is on a significantly faster volume. Anyway, the "used" column should be the total, actual swapspace used, so your comment kind of confuses me. Am I really wrong here?

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-03-03 Thread thib
o or maybe provide people with other needs with a little checklist to better design their layout. Thanks for the great checklist. Thanks for taking the time to look at this, and for the links to your pages (these are useful). Cheers, Rob -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b8f1b51.5090...@stammed.net

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-03 Thread thib
Have you tried to open the box with a simple text editor? What size is it? This doesn't look good. =/ Seems like the file has been truncated. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-02 Thread thib
You could always reinstall choosing the most basic system, [...] I believe the base system (not the standard system task) pulled by the d-i currently installs exim as a Recommends dependency to cron. Only way would be preseeds or plain debootstrap, I think. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-02 Thread thib
anything clever, maybe someone has an idea. Bonne chance. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b8db61c.3060...@stammed.net

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-01 Thread thib
tion (necessary for a running instance) as well as init scripts (necessary to stop it). The rest you should remove yourself. [...] -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archiv

Re: what about acroread in squeeze i386?

2010-03-01 Thread thib
cally evince without the gnome stuff. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b8b9a0c.7070...@stammed.net

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-03-01 Thread thib
th other options - not sure if they actually tested it, but it's a good sign. Can't find anything conclusive. [...] Sure. That's not fiddling with individual sectors and 3D coordinates on the HDD, but simply using partitions at the beginning of the disk. If you care about a factor

Re: what about acroread in squeeze i386?

2010-02-28 Thread thib
vi lovers and minimalists should look into apvlv for yet another GTK alternative: http://code.google.com/p/apvlv/ And since we're talking about squeeze: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/apvlv -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

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