Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi. On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 11:24:06 +0200 Angelo Moreschini wrote: ... > The mounting of the partitions for the back up on the USB HD is made > permantly at boot of the computer (the name of the backup-partitions is > wrote in the file / etc / fstab) : > UUID=376214F24CC07CE0 /media/BKx_data-pers

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Angelo Moreschini
I understand what you say Francis, perhaps you are right, and I'll try your suggestion. But first of all I would like fix the basic problem (that the service doesn't correctly). All the tray that I can do before to solve this, could be affected from this "original sin"... It is not so much mater

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Francis . Montagnac
On Sun, 07 Jan 2018 11:43:37 +0200 Angelo Moreschini wrote: > I understand what you say Francis, perhaps you are right, and I'll try your > suggestion. Ok. > But first of all I would like fix the basic problem (that the service > doesn't correctly). You mean I think the autofs service. If I u

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Angelo Moreschini
I understood (now) from where the error came : in auto.master file I forgot to put in comment this line : <+auto.master> Do you know what means it ? (what is the purpose of the sign "+" ?). Now I''l try your suggestion : .. On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 11:58 AM, wrote: > > On Sun, 07 Jan 2018 11

Re: Feature Request for long links

2018-01-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2018-01-07 at 13:42 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 01/07/18 13:12, Tim wrote: > > Allegedly, on or about 6 January 2018, Beartooth sent: > > > Firefox, along with few other browsers, has one valuable feature > > > that should spread. If you copy a *long* link (like, say, three to > > > five

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Francis . Montagnac
On Sun, 07 Jan 2018 12:16:34 +0200 Angelo Moreschini wrote: > I understood (now) from where the error came : > in auto.master file I forgot to put in comment this line : > <+auto.master> > Do you know what means it ? (what is the purpose of the sign "+" ?). Search using nsswitch.conf a map o

Re: !#@$**%^ Firefox

2018-01-07 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 21:39:56 + (UTC), Beartooth wrote: > Hmmm... I get > > [btth@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa |grep -i iridium > iridium-browser-62.0-1.fc27.x86_64 > but I'm not clear what that tells me. Maybe that I did install it with > dnf after all?? If it actually came out of the Fedora

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Angelo Moreschini
Hi Francis, before to begin, I would like talk with you a moment... Strangely I had several difficult to try autofs .. Now I that I went more in depth,I can understand that autofs is made mainly to be used in a net environment (NFS - file systems used in networks). The purpose because I wont u

Re: Feature Request for long links

2018-01-07 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 7 January 2018, Ed Greshko sent: > Anyway, I don't think automatically altering a URL is a good idea. > At least in the way I understand the OP's feature request. Me neither. > I read it as the "copy/paste" function was somehow supposed to > recognize that the destination

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Francis . Montagnac
On Sun, 07 Jan 2018 13:07:11 +0200 Angelo Moreschini wrote: > Strangely I had several difficult to try autofs .. This is not as simple as /etc/fstab. > Now I that I went more in depth,I can understand that autofs is made mainly > to be used in a net environment (NFS - file systems used in netw

Re: Fedora 27, slow sata hdd access

2018-01-07 Thread John Pilkington
On 06/01/18 09:35, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2018-01-05 at 21:14 -0700, InvalidPath wrote: So fully updated F27, using Plasma I have a 2TB Seagate drive as a secondary storage device off a normal sata port. Accessing the disk via kdialog, Dolphin and Nautilus is slooow. Can take anywh

Re: Fedora vs. Meltdown & Spectre

2018-01-07 Thread Doug H.
On Sat, 2018-01-06 at 10:18 +0100, François Patte wrote: > Le 06/01/2018 à 04:45, Matthew Miller a écrit : > > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 04:07:19PM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > Yes, and for reference the current release is Fedora 27. Jumping > > > straight to F27 might be risky, so I'd do it in f

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Angelo Moreschini
Hi Francis, I followed your procedure, I can see the partitions by nautilus as is the standard, but still I cannot see them from the command line ..: [angelo_dev@localhost ~]$ ls /srv/BKx_programming ls: cannot access /srv/BKx_programming: *No such file or directory* (the output about t

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Francis . Montagnac
On Sun, 07 Jan 2018 17:58:07 +0200 Angelo Moreschini wrote: > I can see the partitions by nautilus as is the standard, but still I cannot > see them from the command line ..: > > [angelo_dev@localhost ~]$ ls /srv/BKx_programming > ls: cannot access /srv/BKx_programming: *No such file or dire

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Angelo Moreschini
of curse I changed ... : == auto.master - /srv/ /etc/auto.ext-usb --timeout=10,defaults == auto.ext-usb BKx_programming -fstype=ntfs :/dev/disk/by-uuid/479F99A324FF4D1D BKx_data-common -fstype=ntfs :/dev/disk/by-uuid/EA8266EA8266BB29 === === *no output in journal

Re: Fedora 27, slow sata hdd access

2018-01-07 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 6 January 2018, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > when I had a NAS permanently mounted via NFS. The NAS would > periodically turn off its drives while not in use, but any > 'open file' GUI dialogue would wait for it to spin up before letting > me do anything, even if the files I wa

Re: Feature Request for long links

2018-01-07 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 09:22:48PM +, Beartooth wrote: > Firefox, along with few other browsers, has one valuable feature > that should spread. If you copy a *long* link (like, say, three to five > lines long in an email) into its address bar, it will eliminate the > spaces that come f

Re: Fedora vs. Meltdown & Spectre

2018-01-07 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 06:31:43AM -0800, Doug H. wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade > That page is currently showing instructions to upgrade to F27, which > includes the line: > sudo dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=27 > > So Matthew is noting that people

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Francis . Montagnac
On Sun, 07 Jan 2018 18:38:31 +0200 Angelo Moreschini wrote: > == auto.master - > /srv/ /etc/auto.ext-usb --timeout=10,defaults > == auto.ext-usb > BKx_programming -fstype=ntfs :/dev/disk/by-uuid/479F99A324FF4D1D > BKx_data-common -fstype=ntfs :/dev/disk/by-uuid/EA8266EA8266BB29

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Angelo Moreschini
I set OPTIONS="-v" in /etc/sysconfig/autofs: I restart the autofs service and after tried again to look for the mounted partition: [angelo_dev@localhost ~]$ ls /srv/BKx_programming ls: cannot access /srv/BKx_programming: *No such file or directory* * still noting to do * *also the outpu

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Angelo Moreschini
reading the documentation, I remember that I red that are some rules to write the auto.xxx files (like terminate the rows with "at the head" (crl)) but I didn't pay so much attention and now don't remember these exactly. Perhaps the problem is there ? On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 8:01 PM, Angelo Mo

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Angelo Moreschini
I didn't removed the directories in /media.. but *surly no one row about the mounting of the partition is now in fstab.* On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > reading the documentation, I remember that I red that are some rules to > write the auto.xxx files > (like termi

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread stan
On Sun, 7 Jan 2018 17:58:07 +0200 Angelo Moreschini wrote: > Hi Francis, > > I followed your procedure, > > I can see the partitions by nautilus as is the standard, but still I > cannot see them from the command line ..: > > [angelo_dev@localhost ~]$ ls /srv/BKx_programming > ls: cannot ac

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Francis . Montagnac
On Sun, 07 Jan 2018 20:01:18 +0200 Angelo Moreschini wrote: > I set OPTIONS="-v" in /etc/sysconfig/autofs: > I restart the autofs service > and after tried again to look for the mounted partition: > [angelo_dev@localhost ~]$ ls /srv/BKx_programming > ls: cannot access /srv/BKx_programming: *No

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Angelo Moreschini
wait ... I checked better and I saw the directories doesn't exits in /srv... trying to create now but I didn't have success.. : [angelo_dev@localhost srv]$ sudo mkdir BKx_programming *mkdir: cannot create directory ‘BKx_programming’: Permission denied* that is funny ... How it can be ? I

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Angelo Moreschini
perhaps the /srv directory is a special one ? Also administrator cannot make directory inside it ? On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 8:44 PM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > wait ... I checked better and I saw the directories doesn't exits in > /srv... > > trying to create now but I didn't have success.. : >

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Angelo Moreschini
we have to use another directory than /srv . The directories for mounting partitions weren't created there ...,and look it is not possible to create there ... On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 8:52 PM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > perhaps the /srv directory is a special one ? Also administrator cannot > make

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Francis . Montagnac
On Sun, 07 Jan 2018 20:52:39 +0200 Angelo Moreschini wrote: > perhaps the /srv directory is a special one ? Also administrator cannot > make directory inside it ? Yes and no: it is a mountpoint directory managed exclusively by autofs (since with ssetup auto.master for that). This is normal to n

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Bob Marcan
On Sun, 7 Jan 2018 20:44:57 +0200 Angelo Moreschini wrote: > wait ... I checked better and I saw the directories doesn't exits in > /srv... > > trying to create now but I didn't have success.. : > > [angelo_dev@localhost srv]$ sudo mkdir BKx_programming > > > *mkdir: cannot create directory

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Angelo Moreschini
OK ... I understand... ... So you say : the directory exist.. although I cannot see them ? this look to be not much clear (but really you are right :-). )... -- here the output you asked : [angelo_dev@localhost ~]$ sudo *journalctl --since 19:57:00 -u autofs.service* -- Logs begin

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Angelo Moreschini
the *umount failed ..*. : [angelo_dev@localhost ~]$ sudo umount /srv/BKx_data-personal umount: /srv/BKx_data-personal: mountpoint not found [angelo_dev@localhost ~]$ sudo umount /srv/BKx_programming umount: /srv/BKx_programming: mountpoint not found [angelo_dev@localhost ~]$

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Francis . Montagnac
On Sun, 07 Jan 2018 21:37:51 +0200 Angelo Moreschini wrote: > So you say : the directory exist.. although I cannot see them ? > this look to be not much clear (but really you are right :-). )... That's the way autofs works for such an indirect map by default. This may ne changed: see man aut

Re: Data backup- (udev problem)

2018-01-07 Thread Angelo Moreschini
I learned much today... Thank you for your time, as well the problem is not fixed, you have really helped me. good night Angelo On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 10:02 PM, wrote: > > On Sun, 07 Jan 2018 21:37:51 +0200 Angelo Moreschini wrote: > > > So you say : the directory exist.. although I cann

Re: Fwd: Re: multi-head config question

2018-01-07 Thread Tony Nelson
On 18-01-01 17:43:42, François Patte wrote: Le 01/01/2018 à 16:22, Tony Nelson a écrit : > On 18-01-01 06:24:22, François Patte wrote: >  ... >> With these high resolution panels, there is a  problem with the size of >> tools: for instance, I have a resolution of 1280x1024 and it is >> sometim