Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-29 Thread Pupino
2008/11/30 Dio, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi all, >> i noticed a strange behaviour on my macine recently. >> Something is continuously filling up my root partition at a speed near >> 1k per minute. >> I have just few programs running and none of them should save that >> much information on the

Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-29 Thread Michele Schiavo
lsof ? Il giorno dom, 30/11/2008 alle 01.15 +, Pupino ha scritto: > Hi all, > i noticed a strange behaviour on my macine recently. > Something is continuously filling up my root partition at a speed near > 1k per minute. > I have just few programs running and none of them should save that > m

Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 30 November 2008, Pupino wrote: > Hi all, > i noticed a strange behaviour on my macine recently. > Something is continuously filling up my root partition at a speed near > 1k per minute. > I have just few programs running and none of them should save that > much information on the disk. >

Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-29 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Pupino schrieb am 30.11.2008 02:15: > Hi all, > i noticed a strange behaviour on my macine recently. > Something is continuously filling up my root partition at a speed near > 1k per minute. > I have just few programs running and none of them should save that > much information on the disk. > Now t

RE: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-29 Thread Dio, James
> Hi all, > i noticed a strange behaviour on my macine recently. > Something is continuously filling up my root partition at a speed near > 1k per minute. > I have just few programs running and none of them should save that > much information on the disk. > Now the problem is that i have absolutely

Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 01:15 +, Pupino wrote: > Hi all, > i noticed a strange behaviour on my macine recently. > Something is continuously filling up my root partition at a speed near > 1k per minute. > I have just few programs running and none of them should save that > much information on the

[gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem

2008-11-29 Thread Pupino
Hi all, i noticed a strange behaviour on my macine recently. Something is continuously filling up my root partition at a speed near 1k per minute. I have just few programs running and none of them should save that much information on the disk. Now the problem is that i have absolutely no idea of wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Source Family Tree software?

2008-11-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht schrieb am 30.11.2008 00:29: > >> It seems that >> gramps is doing something sort of like this but one wonders just how >> large their database is. Also, I'd hate for my wife to do a lot of >> work entering a

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Source Family Tree software?

2008-11-29 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Mark Knecht schrieb am 30.11.2008 00:29: > It seems that > gramps is doing something sort of like this but one wonders just how > large their database is. Also, I'd hate for my wife to do a lot of > work entering a few hundred people only to find she cannot use the > gramps data with anything but

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Source Family Tree software?

2008-11-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Arttu V. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/29/08, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Anyone have any recommendations of something in portage. (Or not in >> portage?) > > Wikipedia has some, they've even tried to categorize a bit and made > some tables of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Source Family Tree software?

2008-11-29 Thread Arttu V.
On 11/29/08, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone have any recommendations of something in portage. (Or not in > portage?) Wikipedia has some, they've even tried to categorize a bit and made some tables of the basic features: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_genealogy_softwar

Re: [gentoo-user] boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

2008-11-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 29 November 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > > 1. Anyone aware of a wiki or other gentoo "help" that describes how to > change the boot message "size" during boot? yes, it is. In /usr/src/Documentation.

[gentoo-user] boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

2008-11-29 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
A few years back I installed gentoo and everything worked fine, except that the OS bootup messages were too "big", and scrolled by too fast. Somewhere I found a tweak (IIRC, it involved recompiling the kernel) that handled it fine - i.e. the font was reduced dramatically after the bios was boo

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Source Family Tree software?

2008-11-29 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Mark Knecht schrieb am 29.11.2008 19:34: > Anyone have any recommendations of something in portage. (Or not in portage?) > > I found gramps in portage. I did not find Lifelines. I haven't > uncovered any other project names as yet. > > Thanks, > Mark > > I do not use it myself but I know there

[gentoo-user] Open Source Family Tree software?

2008-11-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Anyone have any recommendations of something in portage. (Or not in portage?) I found gramps in portage. I did not find Lifelines. I haven't uncovered any other project names as yet. Thanks, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pager independant of window manager

2008-11-29 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 29. November 2008 18:32:34 schrieb Rodrigo Lazo: > I think he mean a pager like this: > > http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/fbpager/ Aargh, stupid me. Yes, there's two meanings of "pager". Bye... Dirk

[gentoo-user] Re: pager independant of window manager

2008-11-29 Thread Rodrigo Lazo
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Samstag, 29. November 2008 07:30:03 schrieb Harry Putnam: > >> Can anyone tell me if there is a desktop pager that can be run >> regardless of window manager? >> >> Browsing through portage, It appears there is not such a critter. > > xterm -e less

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3/ogg editing

2008-11-29 Thread meino . cramer
Hi Fred, no problem...I am also no native english speaker...so, well, may be it is my english not yours what screws up things a little... :) MP3/OGG are audio codecs, which are lossy. Means: If you encode a wav-file to mp3, than decode this one again back to wav there is some sound loss. Audacit

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3/ogg editing

2008-11-29 Thread Fred Elno
> Hello, > > > I tought this one decodes before editing ??? > > This is what I found in audacity homepage: "Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems." So I think he is able t

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3/ogg editing

2008-11-29 Thread meino . cramer
Hello, I tought this one decodes before editing ??? Fred Elno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-11-29 16:21]: > Hello, > > I did you try Audacity? > > > > > Hi, > > > > I am looking for a ogg/mp3 editing softwarei (gui), which is able to > > cut/append such streams without loss due to reencoding. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3/ogg editing

2008-11-29 Thread Fred Elno
Hello, I did you try Audacity? > > Hi, > > I am looking for a ogg/mp3 editing softwarei (gui), which is able to > cut/append such streams without loss due to reencoding. > > What software is worth trying ? > > Thank you very much for your help in advance! > > Kind regards, > mcc > > > -- > Pleas

[gentoo-user] mp3/ogg editing

2008-11-29 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I am looking for a ogg/mp3 editing softwarei (gui), which is able to cut/append such streams without loss due to reencoding. What software is worth trying ? Thank you very much for your help in advance! Kind regards, mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unles

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot login with publickey on sshd

2008-11-29 Thread Mick
On Saturday 29 November 2008, Eric Martin wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > For some reason my Gentoo rsa public key is not liked by 3.9p1-11.el4_7 > > sshd, which is running on a CentOS server. On the Gentoo machine I am > > running net-misc/openssh-5.1_p1-r1. This is what it shows: > > =

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-29 Thread Florian Philipp
Andrey Vul schrieb: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 07:29, Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Iain's diagnosis seems about right. I would start with a nice 2h memtest86+ test followed with a 1h cpuburn test. I believe you mean 2d memtest86+ unless computer has DDR9-9 RAM where 100 (full

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-29 Thread Florian Philipp
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As for my photos, I can back all the collection to a single DVD (and to a second one, since I keep hearing that DVD-Rs are unreliable), and since I don't take new photos every week,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-11-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 29 November 2008 11:19:47 Daniel Iliev wrote: > Now let's put the assumptions aside and do a test. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] # test $ cat /usr/portage/packages/All/* > test1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] # test $ cp test1 test2 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] # test $ ls -lah > total 2.3G > drwxr-xr-x  2 root us

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-11-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:24:08 -0600, Dale wrote: > Given my experience with XFS, I won't be switching anytime soon. I used > that once on a in-laws system. After each crash, power failure, I had > to reinstall. Let's just say it left a bad taste in my mouth. ;-) I'm > not saying it is a bad fi

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-11-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:19:47 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Personally I think NTFS is one of the things MS have done right. It is > fast, stable and has the features of the Linux FSes and even more. It > has journal, quotas, permissions, mount points, symbolic links. Does > any of ext, reiserfs or

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-11-29 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:46:01 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 28 November 2008 13:14:42 Dale wrote: > > If this is a little high, what would be the best way to defrag it? > > By not defragging it. I beg to defer. The simplest way to defrag a partition is to make backup a

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-11-29 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I've been waiting for a proper statistical analysis of this question for > years. I'm still waiting :-) Besides, modern storage presents an extra > wrinkle. Defrag as most of the world knows it originated in DOS, where disk > sectors were guaranteed to be laid out on dis

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-11-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 28 November 2008 17:08:03 Stroller wrote: > I understood that ReiserFS's trees could become out-of-balance,   > resulting in performance loss, and that the way to deal with this was   > to tar the contents of the drive to another file-system and then untar   > them back. That's what I te

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-11-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 28 November 2008 18:09:37 Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 28 November 2008 13:14:42 Dale wrote: > >> If this is a little high, what would be the best way to defrag it? > > > > By not defragging it. > > > > It'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-11-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 28 November 2008 20:24:38 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Friday 28 November 2008 13:14:42 Dale wrote: > >> If this is a little high, what would be the best way to defrag it? > > > > By not defragging it. > > > > It's not Windows. Windows boxes needs defragging not