Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-13 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 9:04 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > > > We should talk about a backup plan in another thread :D In my own > case, I never need them, but I have 1/2 dozen completely independent > backups, because I hate my data and I'm constantly trying to destroy > it. (This is turning into a re

Re: Is it possible to create an email-only user in fedora linux?

2021-01-13 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 13.01.2021 um 00:46 schrieb Bill Oliver : > > On Mon, 2021-01-11 at 21:47 +0100, Peter Boy wrote: >>> Am 11.01.2021 um 19:24 schrieb Bill Oliver : >>> >> >> I hope I do not misunderstand your requirements. You need not set up >> a system user to allow mail usage. You just create all your

Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-13 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 9:22 AM Gordon Messmer wrote: > > https://listi.jpberlin.de/pipermail/smartmontools-support/2020-November/000559.html > > Your message indicated a sequence of errors that look like write > failures, which sounds a lot like the problem that Chris described with > your btrfs,

Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-13 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 8:52 AM Tom Horsley wrote: > > Not to worry! I read that bcachefs is finally making it into > the linux kernel, so real soon now it will be the new shiny object > and btrfs will be obsolete :-). > ___ Let's hope it does a better

Re: btrfs: What to do with large growing files?

2021-01-13 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 23:01 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > but from what I understand of how blockchain works the database is > append-only, as each new block includes a cryptographically strong > hash of the previous one. That's what makes it a chain. An infinitely expanding file on a consum

Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-13 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 11:05 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > > Short version: Josef (Btrfs dev) and I agree there's probably > something wrong with the drive. The advice is to replace it, just > because trying to investigate further isn't worth your time, and also > necessarily puts your data at risk.

Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-13 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 9:16 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > > > -x has more information that might be relevant including firmware > revision and some additional logs for recent drive reported errors > which usually are benign. But might be clues. > > These two attributes I'm not familiar with > 187 Repo

Re: Calibre on Fedora 33

2021-01-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 17:37 -0800, Clifford Snow wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan you said DeDRM worked for you. Did that include > epubs? I've only used it on AZW3 (Kindle) books, converting them to MOBI. poc ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedorapro

Re: btrfs: What to do with large growing files?

2021-01-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2021-01-13 at 19:21 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 23:01 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > but from what I understand of how blockchain works the database is > > append-only, as each new block includes a cryptographically strong > > hash of the previous one. That's

Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-13 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 at 05:41, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 9:16 AM Chris Murphy > wrote: > > > > > > -x has more information that might be relevant including firmware > > revision and some additional logs for recent drive reported errors > > which usually are benign. But m

Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-13 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2021-01-13 at 14:06 +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > I am fully open to the fact that there may be something wrong with my > HDD. But it is difficult to believe that, since this laptop is from > 2016 and I had been using Windows 10 on it for a long time and saw no > problems. Faults can

Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 1/13/21 12:36 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: I am fully open to the fact that there may be something wrong with my HDD. But it is difficult to believe that, since this laptop is from 2016 and I had been using Windows 10 on it for a long time and saw no problems. None that you know of.  Windo

Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-13 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 9:04 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > > Because of the --init-csum-tree failure i'm a bit concerned that it's > possible the --repair step didn't completely repair things. So... just > keep important things backed up. Top priority. If you told me you hate > your data then I wouldn'

Re: Any recent progress toward Fedora support for Raspberry Pi 4?

2021-01-13 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via users
On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 09:51 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 03:46:12PM -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via > users wrote: > > With 8 GB the Pi4 finally has enough memory to be a fairly > > satisfactory > > workstation. By "headless server" do I understand you to mean you > >

Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 2:36 AM Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > 1) Is it possible there is nothing wrong with my drive, but there is > something with my BIOS/HDD Firmware ? May be my firmware is not > capable of BTRFS's stringent write requirements ? The sample size is too small to know for sure wh

Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 2:41 AM Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 9:16 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > > > -x has more information that might be relevant including firmware > > revision and some additional logs for recent drive reported errors > > which usually are benign. But

Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 6:02 AM George N. White III wrote: > Your drive has been used for 1671 hours, and > 1491 power-on cycles. Mechanical device wear is often highest at startup, > so this is probably getting close to the design lifetime of a consumer laptop > HDD. I missed that this is a 2.

Re: BTRFS partition corrupted after deleting files in /home

2021-01-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 1:09 PM Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 9:04 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > Because of the --init-csum-tree failure i'm a bit concerned that it's > > possible the --repair step didn't completely repair things. So... just > > keep important things back