On 03Sep2019 23:12, ToddAndMargo wrote:
On 9/3/19 10:56 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 03Sep2019 22:03, ToddAndMargo wrote:
I have a flash drive with about four partitions on is.
Lets call it /dev/sdc.
Can I tar sdc or am I stuck with tarring the partitions?
Any drawback to this?
Depends w
On 9/3/19 10:46 PM, Frédéric wrote:
My dnf seems broken. Below is what I get with dnf upgrade.
I did dnf clean all, dnf clean metadata, I tested to add zchunk=False,
I set back fastestmirror to false but nothing changes.
I was able to upgrade a lot of packages and while it works for them, I
get a
On 9/3/19 11:32 PM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
What is the purpose of this exercise?
I have a bootable Fedora 64 GB flash drive. I use it
to troubleshoot customers' computers -- mostly Windows.
Windows loved to eat these sticks. (I have had great
luck switching to a Samsung stick.)
I have prev
On 9/3/19 11:12 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
The question would then arise as to how you would extract files/data from that
dd created
No extraction. I just want to do a mass overwrite when
the stick gets corrupted
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On 9/4/19 12:06 AM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
Shrug. "cat" is easier to invoke:
cat /dev/sdBLAH >sdBLAH.img
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson
I am use to dd. Kind of like I am use to vi when
EVERY other editor it the world is easier to use.
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On Wed, 2019-09-04 at 01:59 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> On 9/3/19 11:32 PM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> > What is the purpose of this exercise?
>
>
> I have a bootable Fedora 64 GB flash drive. I use it
> to troubleshoot customers' computers -- mostly Windows.
> Windows loved to eat thes
I have a DELL Precision Mobile 5530 with an NVidia card and the
proprietary drivers (if only I could use the non-proprietary ones)...
Since I switched to Fedora 30, it seems that USB-C power supply does not
work (the battery is not charging)... I was afraid of a harware problem,
when I not
On 9/4/19 5:00 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> On 9/3/19 11:12 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> The question would then arise as to how you would extract files/data from
>> that dd created
>
> No extraction. I just want to do a mass overwrite when
> the stick gets corrupted
OK.
Pro-Tip: Spelling o
On 4 Sep at 01:12, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Of course a dd copy may be rather time consuming and space consuming
> with no apparent advantage.
A lot less time consuming if you use the "bs=" option. Haven't seen anyone
mention that; I believe the default is still the old Unix 512b, painful.
Cheers,
On 9/4/19 9:16 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On 4 Sep at 01:12, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Of course a dd copy may be rather time consuming and space consuming
>> with no apparent advantage.
> A lot less time consuming if you use the "bs=" option. Haven't seen anyone
> mention that; I believe the default is
On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 3:26 PM Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 9/2/19 8:51 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > \/fedora\/linux\/releases\/([0-9]+)\/Everything/x86_64\/(.*)$
> > http://repo.mirrors.squid.internal/fedora/releases/$1/$2
> > \/fedora\/linux\/updates\/([0-9]+)\/x86_64\/(.*)$
> > http://repo.mirrors.s
Would this be a good use for a local private mirror?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring#How_can_someone_make_a_private_mirror.3F
On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 9:54 AM Richard Shaw wrote:
> Since I have >7 Fedora installations I setup a squid proxy server
> specifically for the pu
On Wed, 2019-09-04 at 21:55 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 9/4/19 9:16 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> > On 4 Sep at 01:12, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > > Of course a dd copy may be rather time consuming and space consuming
> > > with no apparent advantage.
> > A lot less time consuming if you use the "bs=" opti
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>On Wed, 2019-09-04 at 21:55 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 9/4/19 9:16 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
>> > On 4 Sep at
On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 22:31:52 -0400
murph nj wrote:
> I've got an Acer laptop that has been shutting down suddenly. (I
> suspect a bad battery, working on that.)
>
> After a sudden shutdown last night, I now get a kernel panic on boot
> right after "Starting Switch Root..."
The switch root is ch
Hi Fedora World .
I have a maybe stupid question : I use a Fritz-Box 7490 and try to install
Icons on screen : fritz.nas , fritz.mediaserver , myfritz , but one way or
another I do not manage this item .
Is there a solution ?
Kind regards ,
Ger van Dijck .
Using Opera's mail clien
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 11:45 AM stan via users
wrote:
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>
> The switch root is changing from the initramfs to the installed OS. If
> there is a power problem, it is possible that memory is not working
> properly, and disk reads are erronious. Fix the power supply before
> you go any further. An
On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 04:20:14PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-09-04 at 21:55 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > On 9/4/19 9:16 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> > > On 4 Sep at 01:12, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > > > Of course a dd copy may be rather time consuming and space consuming
> > > > with
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 10:16 AM Ted Roche wrote:
> Would this be a good use for a local private mirror?
>
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring#How_can_someone_make_a_private_mirror.3F
>
It looked like you have some ability to control what gets mirrored but for
the most par
On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 09:51:58 -0500
Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 3:26 PM Samuel Sieb wrote:
>
> > On 9/2/19 8:51 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > > \/fedora\/linux\/releases\/([0-9]+)\/Everything/x86_64\/(.*)$
> > > http://repo.mirrors.squid.internal/fedora/releases/$1/$2
> > > \/fed
On 9/4/19 11:42 AM, stan via users wrote:
A hack you might consider if the computers can exchange files. On one
machine, the machine that will get the packages, turn off the switch
that deletes packages after install in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf. Then,
use rsync to put those packages in the appropriate
On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 12:33:59 -0400
murph nj wrote:
> The power supply was not the problem, it was the battery. All
> subsequent testing has been done plugged into power. It also boots
> just fine from a USB stick with either Mint or Fedora.
>
> There are three kernels available from the boot me
I was able to mount the drives, and check them, no problems. I was
also able to move all of my important data off of the drives to an
external, so I'm not worried about any loss to the data on the drives.
No worries of fatal mistakes anymore.
I also took a look at the journals that were left, the
On 9/4/19 8:20 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
For a USB drive it probably doesn't make much difference. Output will
be buffered and speed is limited by the USB interface.
If you aren't specifying a block size, the default block size tends to
involve more round-trips through the kernel and thr
On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 15:05:36 -0400
murph nj wrote:
> I was able to mount the drives, and check them, no problems. I was
> also able to move all of my important data off of the drives to an
> external, so I'm not worried about any loss to the data on the drives.
> No worries of fatal mistakes anym
On 9/4/19 2:44 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
The point of Eyal's method is to ensure that all the free space on the
drive is filled with zeroes, thus improving the compression. Otherwise
you are just uselessly compressing junk.
poc
Is there a way to tell the stick itself to zero out
all unuse
On 9/4/19 6:16 AM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
On 4 Sep at 01:12, Ed Greshko wrote:
Of course a dd copy may be rather time consuming and space consuming
with no apparent advantage.
A lot less time consuming if you use the "bs=" option. Haven't seen anyone
mention that; I believe the default is still
On 9/4/19 1:25 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
On 9/4/19 2:44 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
The point of Eyal's method is to ensure that all the free space on the
drive is filled with zeroes, thus improving the compression. Otherwise
you are just uselessly compressing junk.
poc
Is there a
scrub, in the Fedora repos, has a fillzero option and a freespace specifier
that should do the trick. MAKE A BACKUP FIRST, as scrub's primary job is to
erase any trace of everything on a device, so you'd hate to get the options
wrong!
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 4:41 PM ToddAndMargo via users <
user
On 9/4/19 1:48 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
scrub, in the Fedora repos, has a fillzero option and a freespace
specifier that should do the trick. MAKE A BACKUP FIRST, as scrub's
primary job is to erase any trace of everything on a device, so you'd
hate to get the options wrong!
Thank you!
Ya, backup
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 4:21 PM stan via users
wrote:
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> On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 15:05:36 -0400
> murph nj wrote:
>
> > I was able to mount the drives, and check them, no problems.
>
> Did that include the boot partition, where the kernels and initramfs'
> are?
>
I had not, but on your suggestion, I
On Wed, 2019-09-04 at 12:44 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 9/4/19 8:20 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > For a USB drive it probably doesn't make much difference. Output will
> > be buffered and speed is limited by the USB interface.
>
> If you aren't specifying a block size, the default block
A that explains it! It's possible to do by ldapadd, but it requires a file
formatted differently.
Glad you got it running in the end. Always happy to help!
> On 5 Sep 2019, at 00:04, Fernando Fuentes wrote:
>
> William,
>
> Thanks, I got it to import. I was trying to do an ldif import vi
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 5:42 PM murph nj wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 4:21 PM stan via users
> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 15:05:36 -0400
> > murph nj wrote:
> >
> > > I was able to mount the drives, and check them, no problems.
> >
> > Did that include the boot partition, where the ke
On 9/3/19 11:32 PM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/mountPoint/zero
rm /path/to/mountPoint/zero
Oh, I finally understand! I was thinking /mnt/flash/big-file-o-zeros
was on the local drive, not the flash drive. Duh!
Thank you!
On 19-09-04 17:42:40, murph nj wrote:
...
Everything left on the screen after the kernel panic is (too much to
type)
https://imgur.com/a/kf81crl
...
Unfortunately, it goes right to a kernel panic, so no prompts at all
to work with. (I'd have chewed on it more before asking for help if I
h
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 9:56 PM Tony Nelson wrote:
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> It dies trying to pivot-root, so add to the kernel command line
>
> rd.break=pre-pivot
>
Interesting. I was able to drop to a shell. I took a look at the
journal, and it looked like a possible hibernation problem, so I took
that out
On 5/1/19 2:48 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Hi All,
I have a Fedora 30 flash drive set up for dual booting
from Legacy or UEFI. It boots beautifully from UEFI.
(It also have a bios_grub partition).
It booted perfectly from both under Fedora 29.
Now when booting from legacy, it go into "S
On 9/3/19 10:03 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Hi All,
I have a flash drive with about four partitions on is.
Lets call it /dev/sdc.
Can I tar sdc or am I stuck with tarring the partitions?
Any drawback to this?
Many thanks,
-T
Followup.
This is what I finally wound up doing to back
Hi.
On Wed, 04 Sep 2019 22:55:56 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> This is what I finally wound up doing to back up this stick.
> Dead Stick is a play on words off of Live USB:
> Backup:
> 1) shutdown: zero out unused space
...
> # zerofree -v /dev/sd..
Beware that zerofree
On 9/4/19 11:24 PM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote:
Hi.
On Wed, 04 Sep 2019 22:55:56 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
This is what I finally wound up doing to back up this stick.
Dead Stick is a play on words off of Live USB:
Backup:
1) shutdown: zero out unused space
...
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