Re: Alternative grub entries

On Tue, 2019-04-02 at 23:12 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 5:22 AM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > I'm interested in configuring grub to allow selecting different sets of > > kernel parameters at boot time. I know I can edit the boot command line > > by hand, but this is tedi

Fedora sometimes fails to sleep when I close my laptop

I have a no-name netbook-style laptop running up-to-date Fedora 29. When I close the lid, fedora almost always puts the notebook in sleep mode. Unfortunately, once in a while, it does not. And then my battery r

Re: Fedora sometimes fails to sleep when I close my laptop

On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 11:04:35AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > I have a no-name netbook-style laptop running up-to-date Fedora 29. > > > When I close the lid, fedora almost always puts the notebook in sleep

Re: Fedora sometimes fails to sleep when I close my laptop

On 4/3/19 8:04 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: I could put the notebook to sleep and then close the lid, but this is quite a bit more fiddly. Why would Fedora fail to sleep once in a while? When it doesn't go to sleep, check the logs around that time. That will tell you if it didn't detect the

Apache 2.4 and CustomLog with pipe returns "error writing"

Hi, I have a fedora28 system with apache-2.4.34 and would like to try to do some more advanced logging to report on bandwidth, users, and other stats. I've identified this script as part of munin called apache_logger that requires a change to how apache logs by default. I've added the following t

Re: Apache 2.4 and CustomLog with pipe returns "error writing"

On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 14:41:50 -0400 Alex wrote: > Hi, > I have a fedora28 system with apache-2.4.34 and would like to try to > do some more advanced logging to report on bandwidth, users, and other > stats. > > I've identified this script as part of munin called apache_logger that > requires a cha

Tip: Android tablet

Hi All, Kernel 5 fixed the issue with MTP and my wife's Android tablet. If your's did not work, try again under kernel 5. :-) -T ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.

Building custom installation media

Hi Everyone, I want to build my own installation media (on USB). I would like to include additional packages for an offline installation. However all I could find is this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_a_Fedora_install_ISO_for_testing#Build_a_DVD.iso, which is horribly ou

Re: Building custom installation media

On 4/3/19 3:42 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: I want to build my own installation media (on USB). I would like to include additional packages for an offline installation. However all I could find is this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_a_Fedora_install_ISO_for_testing#Build_a_DVD.i

Re: Building custom installation media

regardless, my recommendation is DONT!!! you will waste your time and get no ROI. why you may ask: glad you did; ever been to a *release party* to a *nix release? i have. Microport, SCO, Brocade, & Linux require man Months of QA testing on all kinds of good & bad hw. may i suggest that your posi

Re: Building custom installation media

On 4/3/19 4:59 PM, Jack Craig wrote: please permit me to continue, consider the current distro you wish to make your own and just 'a few new apps'. are those apps also install tested for the needed hw variety & robustness? What? Maybe try reading his email again. He just wants to be able to

Re: Building custom installation media

On 4/3/19 4:32 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 4/3/19 3:42 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: I want to build my own installation media (on USB).  I would like to include additional packages for an offline installation.  However all I could find is this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_a_Fedora

Re: Building custom installation media

i misunderstood, my apologies, ... On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 5:17 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/3/19 4:59 PM, Jack Craig wrote: > > please permit me to continue, consider the current distro you wish to > > make your own and just 'a few new apps'. > > are those apps also install tested for the needed

how to check for disk fragmentation?

Good evening, I recall that a few years ago, I somehow checked my Fedora system for disk fragmentation. I also think the tool came with Fedora; i did not have to install it separately. Now, I don't recall the name of the tool that did that. Nor can I find any tool to do that. How do I check

Re: how to check for disk fragmentation?

On 4/3/19 6:28 PM, home user via users wrote: Good evening, I recall that a few years ago, I somehow checked my Fedora system for disk fragmentation. I also think the tool came with Fedora; i did not have to install it separately. Now, I don't recall the name of the tool that did that. Nor

Re: how to check for disk fragmentation?

On 04/03/2019 07:28 PM, home user via users wrote: I recall that a few years ago, I somehow checked my Fedora system for disk fragmentation. I also think the tool came with Fedora; i did not have to install it separately. Now, I don't recall the name of the tool that did that. Nor can I fin

Re: how to check for disk fragmentation?

Mike wrote > I don't know of any defragmentation tool. Are you maybe thinking of > "fsck"? It's a program to check the health of the filesystem and > recover any lost bits, etc. No. It was definitely a tool that included fragmentation checking and defragmentation functionality. ___

Re: how to check for disk fragmentation?

On 4/4/19 9:45 AM, home user via users wrote: > Mike wrote > > I don't know of any defragmentation tool. Are you maybe thinking of > > "fsck"? It's a program to check the health of the filesystem and > > recover any lost bits, etc. > > No.  It was definitely a tool that included fragmentation check

Re: how to check for disk fragmentation?

On 4/3/19 6:45 PM, home user via users wrote: Mike wrote > I don't know of any defragmentation tool. Are you maybe thinking of > "fsck"? It's a program to check the health of the filesystem and > recover any lost bits, etc. No.  It was definitely a tool that included fragmentation checking an

Re: how to check for disk fragmentation?

(Ed wrote) > You could be thinking of e4defrag? I vaguely recall it being a GUI tool. But it's a vague memory. I did a "man" on e4defrag. That should work. Thank-you, Ed. Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: how to check for disk fragmentation? [SOLVED]

(Joe wrote) > You don't. The ext2/3/4 file systems are designed to minimize > fragmentation, ... Not what I expected. But I like it! Recently, I've been moving a lot of files and sub-directories around. And I'm preparing for a semi-annual big back-up and system upgrade (to F-29). Because it

Re: how to check for disk fragmentation? [SOLVED]

On 4/4/19 11:12 AM, home user via users wrote: > The results above do raise a question in my mind:  What are those > "[user's home]/.local/share/tracker/tracker-miner-fs.log" > files?  Anything to do with coin or data mining, or something else malicious? These are produced by the "tracker" packag

Re: how to check for disk fragmentation?

(Samuel wrote) > There was a program called "e2defrag", but it was for ext2 only. > e2fsck will give you a fragmentation percent at the end. Just > don't forget the "-n" unless the partition is not mounted! > ... I saw this after tagging the thread "SOLVED". But for continuing education, I'll g

Re: Building custom installation media

> >> I could find is this page: > >> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_a_Fedora_install_ISO_for_testing#Build_a_DVD.iso, > > >> which is horribly out of date. *just curious, 'horribly out of date implies to me that you believe the process has greatly changed. * *as you make it clear

Re: Building custom installation media

On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 05:39:35PM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/3/19 4:32 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 4/3/19 3:42 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > I want to build my own installation media (on USB).  I would like to > > > include additional packages for an offline installation.  However > > > all

Re: Building custom installation media

On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 09:06:25PM -0700, Jack Craig wrote: > > >> I could find is this page: > > >> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_a_Fedora_install_ISO_for_testing#Build_a_DVD.iso, > > > > >> which is horribly out of date. > > > > *just curious, 'horribly out of date implies t

Re: Building custom installation media

interesting, i'll go learn more. thx! On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 11:21 PM Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 09:06:25PM -0700, Jack Craig wrote: > > > >> I could find is this page: > > > >> > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_a_Fedora_install_ISO_for_testing#Build_a_DVD.iso