Re: SSD TRIM software raid (mdadm)

2019-01-10 Thread basti
On 10.01.19 00:51, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Why did you flag the SSD as write-mostly ? I would have expected the > opposite. Oh Sorry I understand this option in a wrong way. Ok, I will try TRIM on LVM. Thanks a lot.

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-10 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-06, Brian wrote: > > Thank you for your persistence. I was beginning to think your Firefox > was not from Debian. It appears the feature you describe has disappeared > from it in more recent versions: > > https://www.ghacks.net/2018/05/21/firefox-62-developer-toolbar-removal/ > It woul

Description of "files" under /proc

2019-01-10 Thread Richard Owlett
In another forum there was a discussion comparing execution times of some different programs accomplishing the same task. The programs were being run on different machines. As part of the discussion the use of "grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo" was suggested. That prompted me to investigate the /proc di

Re: Description of "files" under /proc

2019-01-10 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 05:54:45AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Is there somewhere that catalogs the function of the various "files" under > that directory? What are the functions of the sub-directories with a numeric > name? Choose any: proc(5). filesystems/proc.txt.gz from the

Re: Taming the "lsblk" command

2019-01-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 06:45:22PM -0600, David Wright wrote: So, looking at the OP, is the order of sdc a temporary state of affairs, produced by adding partitions to sdc while sde is plugged in and blocking the sequence? (I've never seen one letter split.) Or is it quite normal when you reac

Re: Description of "files" under /proc

2019-01-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/10/2019 06:07 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 05:54:45AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Is there somewhere that catalogs the function of the various "files" under that directory? What are the functions of the sub-directories with a numeric name? Choose any: proc(5).

Re: Multitasking, using a Multi-User Operating System

2019-01-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 02:44:01AM -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/01/msg00328.html snip So what is occurring now? I hope I'm not supposed to "Dumb Myself Down". snip I can't see a new question here from your old one. Rather than dilute responses acros

Re: Multitasking, through Multiple Text Windows

2019-01-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 09:33:27AM -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: I first need to Date Myself You don't, really: all it serves is to worsen the signal:noise ratio of your email pertinent to the problem you are experiencing. One "Special Function", which pointed out the "Fly in the Ointment" to

Debian 9 /boot && /boot/efi partition

2019-01-10 Thread Pieter Lems
Dear Debian users, Recently I switched from QubesOS to Debian. The reason for this (just in case anyone wants to know) is because it was hard to combine the OS with the work I have to do for my school. While installing Debian I choose to use the following partition scheme: nvme0n1

remmina toolbar icons missing using stretch-backports

2019-01-10 Thread Rick Macdonald
On my stretch system, I just upgraded remmina to 1.2.32 using stretch-backports. It works fine except now many of the toolbar icons show [X] as if they're are missing. Some are OK, such as Tools, Preferences, Screenshot. Missing ones are: Resize, Toggle Fullscreen, Switch Tabs, Toggle Scaled M

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 06 January 2019 12:56:14 Brian wrote: > On Sun 06 Jan 2019 at 12:15:09 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > screenshot filename.png --fullpage > > > > Humm: > > gene@coyote:~/linuxcnc/nc_files$ sudo apt-get install screenshot > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building d

Re: /etc/network/interfaces with multiple network interfaces

2019-01-10 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hi Reco, works perfectly as you decribe for me. Many thanks Rainer Am Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2019, 05:41:49 CET schrieb Reco: > Hi. > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 11:09:58PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a system with two network interfaces, connecting to two subnets. >

Re: Debian 9 /boot && /boot/efi partition

2019-01-10 Thread deloptes
Pieter Lems wrote: > What is the reason this was automaticly done? > Does this have any negative influence on the security of my /boot > partition? How can I counter this? > And if it's possible to counter this, would it be profitable (in case of > security) to counter it? Not sure but I think /b

Re: Debian 9 /boot && /boot/efi partition

2019-01-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 07:28:04PM +, Pieter Lems wrote: As you can see there is a /boot and a /boot/efi partition. I was wondering the following things: What is the reason this was automaticly done? The system is set up to boot vie (U)EFI. The EFI boot volume must be FAT32, so /boot/efi is

Migrate Stretch to New UEFI Build?

2019-01-10 Thread Patrick Bartek
Building a new UEFI system to supplant my "showing its age" 12 year old non-UEFI, MBR-only system, and don't want to do a clean install of Stretch. Cloning drive and converting to GPT is out. I want only to migrate the Stretch install out of the others there. Any links or suggestions as to the b

Slow boot

2019-01-10 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, This machine is taking ages to boot. It's a fresh install. According to dmesg, this is where it appears to hang: [2.717311] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 [2.717398] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.35.0-ioctl (2016-06-23) initialised: dm-d e...@redhat.com [2.978281] clocksourc

Re: Failure to boot - LVM problems?

2019-01-10 Thread Richard Hector
On 4/01/19 2:48 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > This is one of those annoying cases where I claim "It was working, and I > didn't do anything, and now it doesn't" - suspicious, I know ... > > In this case, I can see from my emails that this machine booted (via > wake-on-lan from a cronjob

Re: Slow boot

2019-01-10 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Hector composed on 2019-01-11 14:03 (UTC+1300): > This machine is taking ages to boot. > It's a fresh install. > According to dmesg, this is where it appears to hang: > [2.717311] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 > [2.717398] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.35.0-ioctl (2016-06-23) >

Re: Slow boot

2019-01-10 Thread Richard Hector
On 11/01/19 3:27 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > Richard Hector composed on 2019-01-11 14:03 (UTC+1300): > >> This machine is taking ages to boot. > >> It's a fresh install. > >> According to dmesg, this is where it appears to hang: > >> [2.717311] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 >> [2.71

Re: Slow boot

2019-01-10 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Hector composed on 2019-01-11 16:54 (UTC+1300): ... > So either there's something else unlogged happening between, or there's > parallelism happening. Either way, I'm not sure where to look next :-( > Hints on where to look for the boot sequence in the kernel source, perhaps? Maybe pasteb

Re: allocating disk space

2019-01-10 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2019-01-09 14:26 (UTC-0600): > On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 19:36:42 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: >> Yes, when filling the disk at the outset. With the escalation of disk sizes >> over the years, it's >> become more common not to allocate 100% at the outset. In non-ancient memor

Re: Migrate Stretch to New UEFI Build?

2019-01-10 Thread deloptes
Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Building a new UEFI system to supplant my "showing its age" 12 year old > non-UEFI, MBR-only system, and don't want to do a clean install of > Stretch. Cloning drive and converting to GPT is out. I want only to > migrate the Stretch install out of the others there. Any