Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-25 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: > > On 25/8/22 06:45, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >>> [..] >>> Also, if you're using ext2/3/4, there's the preset, i.e. if you're >>> rather sure about what kind of data is going to be on there, you >>> can tune it so that it reserves more or less place for metadata like >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 8:43 AM Dale wrote: > > I've already got data on the drive now with the default settings so it > is to late for the moment however, I expect to need to add drives > later. Keep in mind, I use LVM which means I grow file systems quite > often by adding drives. I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-25 Thread Jack
On 8/25/22 08:52, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 8:43 AM Dale wrote: I've already got data on the drive now with the default settings so it is to late for the moment however, I expect to need to add drives later. Keep in mind, I use LVM which means I grow file systems quite often

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE plasma desktop view shows files that don't exist

2022-08-25 Thread Mateusz Okulus
On 22/08/24 11:05AM, Jack wrote: > Checking here for any ideas or suggestions before I report as a KDE bug. > > I have my KDE Plasma desktop set to show my ~/Desktop folder. Two days ago, > I created a script.pl Perl script in that folder. (No, I don't generally do > work in that folder, but I just

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-25 Thread Dale
Jack wrote: > On 8/25/22 08:52, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 8:43 AM Dale wrote: >>> I've already got data on the drive now with the default settings so it >>> is to late for the moment however, I expect to need to add drives >>> later.  Keep in mind, I use LVM which means I grow

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 2:59 PM Dale wrote: > > While at it, can I move the drives on LVM to another system without > having to copy anything? Just physically move the drives and LVM see > them correctly on the new system? As long as we aren't talking about boot partitions/sectors, the answer is

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-25 Thread Wols Lists
On 25/08/2022 19:59, Dale wrote: While at it, can I move the drives on LVM to another system without having to copy anything?  Just physically move the drives and LVM see them correctly on the new system?  I may try to build a small computer for a NAS soon.  I'm not sure what is the least I can b

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-25 Thread Dale
Wols Lists wrote: > On 25/08/2022 19:59, Dale wrote: >> While at it, can I move the drives on LVM to another system without >> having to copy anything?  Just physically move the drives and LVM see >> them correctly on the new system?  I may try to build a small computer >> for a NAS soon.  I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-25 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 2:59 PM Dale wrote: >> While at it, can I move the drives on LVM to another system without >> having to copy anything? Just physically move the drives and LVM see >> them correctly on the new system? > As long as we aren't talking about boot partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 4:59 PM Dale wrote: > I may do some mobo hunting shortly. See what little thing I can buy > that is powerful enough. I don't think a Raspberry Pi is enough. It > gets close tho. Biggest thing, I'd need a lot of SATA ports. LOTS of > them. Granted, I had a couple of o

Re: [gentoo-user] Software emulation of angled arrow keys on Lenovo Thinkpad?

2022-08-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 05:58:28PM -0400, Jack wrote > Ah - I expect the game is interpreting keycodes fairly directly. You > can use xev (or similar) to find what the various keys are currently > producing, and there must be some (Xorg related) program to translate > them to whatever the p