Re: Clone logical volume using dd

On 11/22/20 11:27 PM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 9:45 AM Robert Nichols mailto:rnicholsnos...@comcast.net>> wrote: Unless "conv=sync" is used, it does not. Without "conv=sync", when the input reaches EOF, dd will write whatever partial block has been read. If

Is TRIM or DISCARD needed for regular HDDs

Hi, I am confused about whether I should use TRIM or DISCARD on my laptop. I use LVM on top of LUKS and I do make frequent use of snapshots. Merging them to my root volume. I have a regular HDD and not a SSD. Will enabling TRIM and DISCARD help me? If so, how do I do that ? I have already trie

Re: Clone logical volume using dd

On 11/22/20 11:12 PM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 2:02 AM Jorge Fábregas > wrote: You really should use a proper tool for the job. Something like partclone.  That way you don't waste time & storage since you'll be saving *only* t

Re: Clone logical volume using dd

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 1:37 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > No. Unless you are trying to recover a failing drive, you would not > want either of those. > So do I use partclone or dd ? -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fed

Re: Clone logical volume using dd

On 11/22/20 9:08 PM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: dd if=/dev/vg/root_lv of=/mnt/exthdd bs=64k conv=noerror,sync status=progress 1) Why use noerror and sync? noerror might give me a corrupted image and sync is just going to increase the size of my image with padding. Indeed, noerror and sync ar

Re: Clone logical volume using dd

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 1:38 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > You can use partclone or e2image (just make sure you use the > option to include data) or clonezilla. I thought partclone is a part of Clonezilla. > I would suggest also doing a > full tar backup of the filesystem before trying anything els

f33 :: where should i fill bug against dnf-dragora?

Hi! Is there a specific place where can i fill a bug for dnf-dragora? It is maddening that weird sorting where i have (descending order): 9994.2k 999.7k 998.5k 996.6k 994.9k 9928.2k ... is this alphabetical sorting or what? Thanks! Adrian ___ users mai

Re: Clone logical volume using dd

On 11/23/20 12:12 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 1:38 PM Samuel Sieb > wrote: You can use partclone or e2image (just make sure you use the option to include data) or clonezilla. I thought partclone is a part of Clonezilla. No, clonezill

Re: Is TRIM or DISCARD needed for regular HDDs

On 11/23/20 12:07 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: I am confused about whether I should use TRIM or DISCARD on my laptop. I use LVM on top of LUKS and I do make frequent use of snapshots. Merging them to my root volume. I have a regular HDD and not a SSD. Will enabling TRIM and DISCARD help me?

Re: f33 :: where should i fill bug against dnf-dragora?

On 11/23/20 12:37 AM, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: Hi! Is there a specific place where can i fill a bug for dnf-dragora? https://github.com/manatools/dnfdragora/issues would be best. I see that this was fixed a couple of years ago, but maybe it has regressed. You could file it at https://bugzilla

Re: Clone logical volume using dd

Just for info. I've maintained the g4l disk imaging project since 2004, and the basic line it uses for doing a partition/disk image locally is. (dd bs=1M if=$localback 2>/dev/null |jetcat-mod -f 5000 -p $readsize 2>$progout |lzop -c - >/mnt/local$localpath$localimagename) & It boots from a cd or

Re: Is TRIM or DISCARD needed for regular HDDs

On 23/11/2020 16:47, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/23/20 12:07 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: I am confused about whether I should use TRIM or DISCARD on my laptop. I use LVM on top of LUKS and I do make frequent use of snapshots. Merging them to my root volume. I have a regular HDD and not a SSD.

Re: Is TRIM or DISCARD needed for regular HDDs

On 23/11/2020 17:25, Ed Greshko wrote: Do you think that last statement may be a bit confusing if he only has a HDD? Ahhh, never mind.  It may be useful/supported with thin LV. --- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. ___ users m

Re: Is TRIM or DISCARD needed for regular HDDs

On Mon, 23 Nov 2020, 3:07 pm Ed Greshko, wrote: > > > Ahhh, never mind. It may be useful/supported with thin LV. > Can someone tell me why these commands are useful ? Does thin LVMs have problems deleting data? > ___ users mailing list -- users@lis

Re: Is TRIM or DISCARD needed for regular HDDs

On 23/11/2020 19:23, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2020, 3:07 pm Ed Greshko, mailto:ed.gres...@greshko.com>> wrote: Ahhh, never mind.  It may be useful/supported with thin LV. Can someone tell me why these commands are useful ? Does thin LVMs have problems deleting data?

Spotify - Negativo17 vs FlatPak

Hi everyone, I've been using Spotify for the last year (via Flatpak) and it's been working perfectly fine (not a single crash). I'm not fond on using snaps, flatpaks or appimages unless really necessary but at the time I installed it the general consensus was that Flatpak (at least for Spotify) w

Re: Clone logical volume using dd

On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 08:47:33PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > ext4 I think it has some kind of dump facility but the man page for > dumpe2fs doesn't look like it does that. So I'm not sure. dumpe2fs is for dumping the filesystem information for ext2/3/4. The package name for the filesystem dump

Odd screen rotation misbehavior

I have a Lenovo Yoga X1 (2nd gen) with Intel graphics, running GNOME (fully up to date). Recently, the screen rotation lock control in the system menu (drop-down in the upper right corner) disappeared and the screen stopped auto-rotating. I had been running in Xorg mode because certain Zoom feature

Re: 'smbclient' Crashing on Fedora 33

On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 13:47:47 -0500 Tim Evans wrote: > My backups have consistently failed since my upgrade to F33 (were > working without problems for years before, and most recently on F32). > Anybody have further suggestions, please? I don't know is this is relevant, but ssh in F33 stopped a

Re: Clone logical volume using dd

On 11/23/20 2:08 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 1:37 PM Samuel Sieb mailto:sam...@sieb.net>> wrote: No.  Unless you are trying to recover a failing drive, you would not want either of those. So do I use partclone or dd ? partclone understands filesystems and

Re: 'smbclient' Crashing on Fedora 33

On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 08:13:27 -0700 stan wrote: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 13:47:47 -0500 > Tim Evans wrote: > > > My backups have consistently failed since my upgrade to F33 (were > > working without problems for years before, and most recently on > > F32). > > > Anybody have further suggestions

lost the meta key in gnome-terminal after 32 -> 33 upgrade

Hi! After upgrade my Fedora from 32 to 33 I found Meta key in the gnome-terminal works strange. Looks like now the gnome-terminal recognizes Alt key as Meta key. Everywhere in the system Win key is the Meta key and in the gnome-terminal only Alt key is the Meta key. I see it because before Win+Ba

HTML/PDF -

What is the best way to convert an HTML file to PDF. I have a two page report in HTML form that I want to change to PDF. I can scan a printed copy but I would like to convert the HTML file I received to PDF. LibreOffice reformat it into a four page document, I would prefer to keep the original

Re: HTML/PDF -

On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 14:37:06 -0500 Bob Goodwin wrote: > What is the best way to convert an HTML file to PDF. Print it to a pdf? (Install cups-pdf if required). ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users

Re: HTML/PDF -

On 11/23/20 3:37 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > What is the best way to convert an HTML file to PDF. You can open the HTML with Firefox and then Print --> Print to File (the default is PDF). If you want something in the command-line maybe the grand king of document conversions: pandoc. HTH, Jorge ___

Re: HTML/PDF -

2020-11-23 20:37 UTC+01:00, Bob Goodwin : > What is the best way to convert an HTML file to PDF. I have a two page > report in HTML form that I want to change to PDF. I can scan a printed > copy but I would like to convert the HTML file I received to PDF. > LibreOffice reformat it into a four page

Re: HTML/PDF -

Hi https://html2pdf.com/ This might work. -- Richard ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code

Re: HTML/PDF -

Have you looked at the Open Source Office Suites? Libre Office of Apache There "MS Word" equivalent is fluent in maney formats. Also just cut and paste into word and save as pdf? Thomas Dineen On 11/23/2020 11:54 AM, Richard Ibbotson wrote: Hi https://html2pdf.com/ This might work.

Re: Clone logical volume using dd

On 11/23/20 1:02 AM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: dd bs=1M if=$localback |lzop -c - > /mnt/local$localpath$localimagename I use lzop for compression of image, since it gives good compress and is considerable faster than gzip. Note: Since it does copy all blocks, it is best to clear t

Re: 'smbclient' Crashing on Fedora 33

On 11/23/20 7:13 AM, stan via users wrote: On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 13:47:47 -0500 Tim Evans wrote: My backups have consistently failed since my upgrade to F33 (were working without problems for years before, and most recently on F32). Anybody have further suggestions, please? I don't know is

Re: lost the meta key in gnome-terminal after 32 -> 33 upgrade

On 11/23/20 8:07 AM, Denis Shaposhnikov wrote: After upgrade my Fedora from 32 to 33 I found Meta key in the gnome-terminal works strange. Looks like now the gnome-terminal recognizes Alt key as Meta key. Everywhere in the system Win key is the Meta key and in the gnome-terminal only Alt key is t

Re: Clone logical volume using dd

On 23 Nov 2020 at 12:50, Samuel Sieb wrote: Subject:Re: Clone logical volume using dd To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Samuel Sieb Date sent: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 12:50:46 -0800 Send reply to: Community support for Fed

Re: lost the meta key in gnome-terminal after 32 -> 33 upgrade

On 23/11/2020 22:04, Samuel Sieb wrote: From the gnome-terminal help, it says that alt-backspace is the *bash* shortcut to delete the previous word.  So the current behaviour is Alt-backspace is just an example. Another example is navigation by words. In F32 it was Win+F/Win-B for forward/ba

Re: Clone logical volume using dd

On 11/23/20 1:35 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: On 23 Nov 2020 at 12:50, Samuel Sieb wrote: This is still not suitable for his purpose. It's not about the compressed size, it's about the number of blocks copied. Using dd, you are still copying *all* the unused blocks which will be really bad

Re: lost the meta key in gnome-terminal after 32 -> 33 upgrade

On 11/23/20 1:47 PM, Denis Shaposhnikov wrote: On 23/11/2020 22:04, Samuel Sieb wrote:  From the gnome-terminal help, it says that alt-backspace is the *bash* shortcut to delete the previous word.  So the current behaviour is Alt-backspace is just an example. Another example is navigation by

Re: HTML/PDF -

On 2020-11-23 14:54, Richard Ibbotson wrote: https://html2pdf.com/ This might work. Yes and it was good enough for what I needed. Thanks to everyone for the alternatives which I will save ... -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3 _

Re: lost the meta key in gnome-terminal after 32 -> 33 upgrade

On 23/11/2020 23:16, Samuel Sieb wrote: Which is still the same answer I gave.  Those are bash shortcuts which are supposed to use ALT.  I suspect that gnome-terminal was mapping Meta OK, the question is how to change it and configure using of Win keys instead of Alt keys? BTW, I don't use ba

Re: lost the meta key in gnome-terminal after 32 -> 33 upgrade

On 11/23/20 2:28 PM, Denis Shaposhnikov wrote: On 23/11/2020 23:16, Samuel Sieb wrote: Which is still the same answer I gave.  Those are bash shortcuts which are supposed to use ALT.  I suspect that gnome-terminal was mapping Meta OK, the question is how to change it and configure using of Wi

NFS Problems in Fedora 33

Hi, all, Since upgrading to Fedora 33, I am having some problems accessing files on NFS shares. I should say first that, immediately after the upgrade, the shares would not mount at all. I was getting the error: mount.nfs4: Operation not permitted when mounting NFS device even when attemptin

Re: Why is the LibreOffice group blank ?

On 21/11/20 12:30 pm, Ed Greshko wrote: On 21/11/2020 09:06, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/20/20 3:31 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 21/11/2020 04:54, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: Why is there a blank group of LibreOffice ? Why aren't the required packages in it ? On my F33 system I get [egreshko@

Re: NFS Problems in Fedora 33

On Nov 23, 2020, at 19:05, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > > LyX refuses to start, blocking at a call to > lockf(fd, F_LOCK, 0) at support/filetools.cpp, during startup. (I believe > that fd here points at a file on the NFS share.) Did you end up using NFSv4? It sounds like a locking problem b

Re: NFS Problems in Fedora 33

On 11/23/20 9:17 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Nov 23, 2020, at 19:05, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: LyX refuses to start, blocking at a call to lockf(fd, F_LOCK, 0) at support/filetools.cpp, during startup. (I believe that fd here points at a file on the NFS share.) Did you end up using N

Re: NFS Problems in Fedora 33

On 24/11/20 1:55 pm, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 11/23/20 9:17 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Nov 23, 2020, at 19:05, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: LyX refuses to start, blocking at a call to lockf(fd, F_LOCK, 0) at support/filetools.cpp, during startup. (I believe that fd here points at