Re: BTRFS settings for media storage

2021-03-28 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 6:51 PM Tim via users wrote: > > I'm recently seeing info like this in logwatch emails: > > **Unmatched Entries** > Device: /dev/sda [SAT], CHECK POWER STATUS spins up disk (0x81 -> > 0xff) > > Which makes little sense to me. The system is a 24/7 server, n

Re: BTRFS settings for media storage

2021-03-28 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 4:31 PM George N. White III wrote: > > Your plan needs to consider backups and/or replication (to cloud or another > site).It is easy and cheap to lose data. Not losing data is not easy and > not cheap. Exactly this. If the data is important, it's backed up. If it's

Re: BTRFS settings for media storage

2021-03-28 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 11:47 AM Richard Shaw wrote: > > I appreciate all the detailed response, but at the same time the answers seem > often bi-polar... You can do all these great things with BTRFS! But even if > you test your raid array multiple times, a bad firmware may still eat all > your

Re: BTRFS settings for media storage

2021-03-28 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2021-03-28 at 19:30 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > There have also been efforts to predict eminent drive failure (e.g., > using S.M.A.R.T) but without much success. It took me a moment to wonder what would be famous/respected about drive failures. ;-) But I've often wondered if SMART

Re: Fedora 33 Update: harvey-1.0.0-12.fc33

2021-03-28 Thread Tim via users
This sort of thing really annoys me: > Name: harvey > Product : Fedora 33 > Version : 1.0.0 > Release : 12.fc33 > URL : https://github.com/danrabbit/harvey > Summary : The hero that Gotham needs right now > Description : Calculate and visualize color contrast. Harve

upgrade report F34

2021-03-28 Thread old sixpack13
Hallo as often(!!!) the last years I upgraded to F34 Beta. the most things went smooth with [1]. some selinux troubleshooting needed *Big* Thanks to all involved. some thoughts, though: 1. gnome power (?) menu: I would like to see a more "desktop user" friendly power menue. I guess all normal us

Re: BTRFS settings for media storage

2021-03-28 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 at 14:47, Richard Shaw wrote: > Ok, so I'm struggling a bit here :) > > I appreciate all the detailed response, but at the same time the answers > seem often bi-polar... You can do all these great things with BTRFS! But > even if you test your raid array multiple times, a bad

sort of Gnome40 related

2021-03-28 Thread David
Here is a screenshot of my Gnome40 set-up. https://www.dropbox.com/s/2o40vvqgfs6vauk/Gnome40_Rawhide.png?dl=0 I really like the idea of hitting the SuperKey twice to get to this view of the desktop Just curious why anyone would use Gnome Tweaks in Gnome 40 ? I like Gnome40 better than Mate

Re: BTRFS settings for media storage

2021-03-28 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 9:41 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 6:00 AM Richard Shaw wrote: > > > > So how long do you wait until you consider the drive "good"? :) > > > > I'm not in a hurry so I could setup two of the drives in a RAID1 mirror > and copy my media over and just let

Re: Identifying what is accessing a USB device.

2021-03-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2021-03-28 at 07:46 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 27/03/2021 20:18, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > but > > it's a real kludge > > Previously you had said that getting all of this to work was a > "hobby".  Not nice to call > the output of your hobby a "kludge".  :-) :-) Much worse if it wa