Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-04 Thread Mick
On Monday 05 Sep 2016 10:42:34 Hans wrote: > On 01/09/16 16:04, gevisz wrote: > > I have bought an external 5TB Western Digital hard drive > > that I am going to use mainly for backing up some files > > in my home directory and carrying a very big files, for > > example a virtual machine image file

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-04 Thread Hans
On 01/09/16 16:04, gevisz wrote: I have bought an external 5TB Western Digital hard drive that I am going to use mainly for backing up some files in my home directory and carrying a very big files, for example a virtual machine image file, from one computer to another. This hard drive is preforma

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-04 Thread Mick
On Sunday 04 Sep 2016 17:48:14 Stroller wrote: > > On 3 Sep 2016, at 17:50, Mick wrote: > > Yes, flash drives (unlike spinning drivers) are completely digital. In > > addition, wear levelling algorithms invariably kick in and bits and bytes > > are sprayed all over the pages/modules of the memor

[gentoo-user] Former gcc "-march=atom" flag is now "-march=bonnell"

2016-09-04 Thread waltdnes
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html states... > Optimizing for other Intel microarchitectures have been renamed to > -march=nehalem, westmere, sandybridge, ivybridge, haswell, bonnell. My ancient Atom netbook identifies as "bonnell". [aa1][waltdnes][~] gcc -c -Q -march=native --help=tar

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-04 Thread Stroller
> On 3 Sep 2016, at 17:50, Mick wrote: >> >> I understood that fragmentation can also occur on flash-based disks. >> >> Although the effect of it is not so noticeable, I understood that it still >> has one. > > Yes, flash drives (unlike spinning drivers) are completely digital. In > addition

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestion for freenode

2016-09-04 Thread Andreas K. Hüttel
Am Sonntag, 4. September 2016, 06:37:36 schrieb Raymond Jennings: > I think #gentoo-mentors should be filled by people willing to serve as > mentors, and cater to devs in training who need a mentor ^^ > > What do you guys think? There's * #gentoo-dev-help for asking ebuild questions and getting h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestion for freenode

2016-09-04 Thread Raymond Jennings
That channel is also on the good list, but I'm more talking about using #gentoo-mentors as a specific spot where mentors can hangout and new devs in training can find them. On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 11:27 PM, Hans de Graaff wrote: > On Sat, 03 Sep 2016 21:41:51 -0700, Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku wrote: >

[gentoo-user] Re: Suggestion for freenode

2016-09-04 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Sat, 03 Sep 2016 21:41:51 -0700, Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku wrote: > I like that. Haven't got to even reaching the "dev in training" stage, > but I'd like to have some place where I can ask general gentoo-dev > questions. I have a couple of projects which I'd like to get working > with a simple "e