Re: Live Fille System Backup

2017-05-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 04:03:54PM -0700, Sergei G wrote: > And if you think application consistency is nothing to worry about know > that Git on Ext4 has failed to recover. > > My current conclusion: > > 1. If I want application consistency I have t

Re: Live Fille System Backup

2017-05-09 Thread Curt
On 2017-05-09, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 04:03:54PM -0700, Sergei G wrote: >> And if you think application consistency is nothing to worry about know >> that Git on Ext4 has failed to recover. >> >> My current conclusion: >> >> 1. If I want application consistency I hav

Re: Live Fille System Backup

2017-05-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 12:03:14PM +, Curt wrote: > Because someone mentioned Btrfs and its backup "magic," I'm looking at > the wiki, which says (amongst other things): > > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Incremental_Backup > > Instant, Atomic COW Snapshots > Since the snapshots a

Re: Live Fille System Backup

2017-05-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 12:03:14PM +, Curt wrote: [...] > Because someone mentioned Btrfs and its backup "magic," I'm looking at > the wiki, which says (amongst other things): > > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Incremental_Backup > >

Re: Live Fille System Backup

2017-05-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 08:08:48AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > So, basically the same as LVM snapshots, which are independent of the > type of file system that sits on the LVM logical volume. To be fair, btrfs knows about the file system, wh

Re: Useable guide to first invocation of mariadb - where?

2017-05-09 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/08/2017 12:43 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 05/08/2017 11:06 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I then did apt-get install mariadb-client mariadb-server As user I (reasonably) see: richard@stretch-2nd:~$ mariadb ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user 'richard'@'localhost' As root I see: root@str

Re: UEFI + Raid

2017-05-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
deb...@net153.net wrote: >Hi, > >I have installed Debian Stretch on my first system using UEFI. I used a >two disk Raid 1 + LVM configured during install time to mount / on >(among other things). > >But now I need to figure out how to add redundancy to the software raid >1 since I believe boot e

Re: Live Fille System Backup

2017-05-09 Thread Curt
On 2017-05-09, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 12:03:14PM +, Curt wrote: >> Because someone mentioned Btrfs and its backup "magic," I'm looking at >> the wiki, which says (amongst other things): >> >> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Incremental_Backup >> >> Instant, A

Re: Question about Increasing the size of the Primary Partition

2017-05-09 Thread Martin McCormick
Felix Miata writes: > If the original is EXT#, then resize2fs following forced fsck is all it > takes, > no mkfs. Great news, it's ext4 done last Saturday. I had a SSD fail so built the desired on an old 10 GB Maxtor drive and when it worked, i used dd to save the image, knowing that it

NVMe SSD and discard mount option

2017-05-09 Thread David Guyot
Hello, there. I recently loaned a server with NVMe SSD and saw, during my research on the relevance of the discard mount option for them, that its use is discouraged for NVMe SSDs. Why? Does NVMe SSDs not need trimming? Is it integrated in the NVMe driver for Linux? Awaiting your answers, Regard

Debian contributor Register of Interests (was Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...)

2017-05-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:12:47AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > if people felt this was a concern, perhaps a process for voluntarily > "declaring an interest" could be worked out. > > I should stress that I have no concerns about anyone I know, but in the > interests of transparency I would su

Re: NVMe SSD and discard mount option

2017-05-09 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 03:35:04PM +0200, David Guyot wrote: > Hello, there. > > I recently loaned a server with NVMe SSD and saw, during my research on > the relevance of the discard mount option for them, that its use is > discouraged for NVMe SSDs. Why? Does NVMe SSDs not need trimming? Is it >

Re: NVMe SSD and discard mount option

2017-05-09 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 11:02:46AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 03:35:04PM +0200, David Guyot wrote: > > Hello, there. > > > > I recently loaned a server with NVMe SSD and saw, during my research on > > the relevance of the discard mount option for them, that its use is > > d

Re: NVMe SSD and discard mount option

2017-05-09 Thread David Guyot
I also thought about that at first, but asked to my server provider, and they quoted Intel docs: "Be sure to turn off the discard option when making your Linux filesystem. You want to allow the SSD manage blocks and its activity between the NVM (non-volatile memory) and host with more advanced and

LACP: Debian/KVM attached to Cisco Nexus

2017-05-09 Thread plataleas
Hi all We encounter issues in combination with Linux bonding (LACP) and Cisco Nexus. I am aware that there are several posts describing this issue, however none of them helped me really resolving the issue. *Setup:* - 2xCisco Nexus5000 - KVM Hosts attached with LACP to both nexus devices (bond0)

smartd spamming the console

2017-05-09 Thread Julian Rüger
Hi everyone! I have smartd running on my jessie server, to keep an eye on my raid disks. One of them has a few pending sectors, but nothing major and I don't want to replace it yet. Problem is, every 30 min the following message gets dumped all over my open terminals (ssh as well as local, basica

Re: NVMe SSD and discard mount option

2017-05-09 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 05:17:42PM +0200, David Guyot wrote: > I also thought about that at first, but asked to my server provider, and > they quoted Intel docs: "Be sure to turn off the discard option when > making your Linux filesystem. You want to allow the SSD manage blocks > and its activity b

Using 2nd monitor with Stretch and MATE desktop

2017-05-09 Thread Richard Owlett
I have a Lenovo T510 laptop -- wide and short display. When I chose a tri-focal readable font size it displays to few lines. I purchased a use 17 inch VGA display. The MATE built in "help" is not detailed enough. I suspect the authors thought the configuration screen was intuitive. It's *NOT*. My

Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

2017-05-09 Thread RavenLX
My system is used for work (I work from home exclusively) and stuff I do sometimes can be mission-critical in that if I'm notified, I might have to go and do some work right away on something important. Customers would be relying on my ability to fix things. So, I really can't afford something

Re: NVMe SSD and discard mount option

2017-05-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 09 May 2017, David Guyot wrote: > I recently loaned a server with NVMe SSD and saw, during my research on > the relevance of the discard mount option for them, that its use is > discouraged for NVMe SSDs. Why? Does NVMe SSDs not need trimming? Is it > integrated in the NVMe driver for Linux

Re: Using 2nd monitor with Stretch and MATE desktop

2017-05-09 Thread Julian Rüger
Hi Richard! First of all, sorry, no pictures. An easy solution, without trying to achieve what you want on a low level, is to use a screen magnifier such as xzoom. 1. Install the package "xzoom" (sudo apt-get install xzoom) or use the package manager of your choice. 2. Open mate-display-propertie

Re: Using 2nd monitor with Stretch and MATE desktop

2017-05-09 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2017-05-09 10:57 (UTC-0500): > I have a Lenovo T510 laptop -- wide and short display. Googling tells me it's a 1600x900 15.6" display. Is that what your is? If so, it's native pixel density is 117 DPI. > When I chose a tri-focal readable font size it displays to few li

Re: Using 2nd monitor with Stretch and MATE desktop

2017-05-09 Thread Julian Rüger
EDIT: On a closer look, kmag seems much more intuitive than xzoom. The other instructions still work, just replace xzoom with kmag. In step 9, click the "Mouse" button in kmag's toolbar, to make it follow your mouse cursor. Does that work for you? Best, Julian

Re: Using 2nd monitor with Stretch and MATE desktop

2017-05-09 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/09/2017 11:57 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Richard Owlett composed on 2017-05-09 10:57 (UTC-0500): [snip] I need basic instructions *WITH PICTURES*. I want a full screen display on the laptop. I want a blow-up of a portion of the display on the external display. To get what I think you're aski

Re: Debian contributor Register of Interests (was Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...)

2017-05-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 03:56:37PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:12:47AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > if people felt this was a concern, perhaps a process for voluntarily > > "declaring an interest" could be worked o

Re: Using 2nd monitor with Stretch and MATE desktop

2017-05-09 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2017-05-09 13:59 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: > I'm not afraid of the command line ;/ ... >> Properly configured, what shows up on the external display should be >> controlled by moving the mouse pointer toward the part of the laptop >> screen you wish to see on the

bleeding-edge MATE

2017-05-09 Thread David Griffith
I've installed MATE 1.18 into /usr/local/ and added /usr/local/share/xsessions to the sessions-director path in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. At the Lightdm login screen, I can now select MATE for my desktop environment, but on logging in, MATE won't start. What's wrong? I don't see anything r

Re: UEFI + Raid

2017-05-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 09/05/2017 à 01:48, Sam Smith a écrit : I have installed Debian Stretch on my first system using UEFI. I used a two disk Raid 1 + LVM configured during install time to mount / on (among other things). But now I need to figure out how to add redundancy to the software raid 1 since I believe b

Re: Using 2nd monitor with Stretch and MATE desktop

2017-05-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 09 May 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/09/2017 11:57 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > I'm not afraid of the command line ;/ ... > counselor. With the standard aptitude tests I scored so low on spatial > relationships that I could not be found in the statistical mud when compared ... > an e

Re: Using 2nd monitor with Stretch and MATE desktop

2017-05-09 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2017-05-09 13:59 (UTC-0500): ... > I need documentation of the "Monitor Preferences" menu *WITH PICTURES*. >... One picture. After an xrandr man page refresh, using the following in a startup script: xrandr --fb 1920x1200 xrandr --dpi 120 --output DVI-I

an fstab question

2017-05-09 Thread Martin McCormick
One of the suggestions for improving the longevity of solid-state drives is to mount them using the noatime flag which reduces the number of times that inodes are written to. if I try something like: UUID=[string] / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 It works. If I put relatime there,

Re: an fstab question

2017-05-09 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 10/05/17 14:50, Martin McCormick wrote: One of the suggestions for improving the longevity of solid-state drives is to mount them using the noatime flag which reduces the number of times that inodes are written to. if I try something like: UUID=[string] / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0

Re: Using 2nd monitor with Stretch and MATE desktop

2017-05-09 Thread Johann Spies
On 10 May 2017 at 02:42, Felix Miata wrote: > Richard Owlett composed on 2017-05-09 13:59 (UTC-0500): > ... >> I need documentation of the "Monitor Preferences" menu *WITH PICTURES*. >>... > One picture. > > After an xrandr man page refresh, using the following in a startup script: > > xra

Re: Using 2nd monitor with Stretch and MATE desktop

2017-05-09 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 05/09/2017 11:15 PM, Johann Spies wrote: arandr is a graphical frontend to xrandr. Johann Yep! -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid/Testing - Plasma 5.8.6 - Intel I5-3320M - EXT4 at sda8 Registered Linux User #380263