Re: Configuring a Fedora 33 system as NAS

2021-03-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 15Mar2021 17:54, Tom Horsley wrote: >I installed TrueNAS on an old system (along with a ton of disk >space), it isn't as familiar as fedora, but it seems to work very well >and you get used to it after a while. Been putting all my videos >on it and running a Plex server in a jail. Our home NAS

Re: Configuring a Fedora 33 system as NAS

2021-03-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/16/21 1:04 AM, Cameron Simpson wrote: Plex: I keep toying with plex. I find it very frustrating. I'd love to hear about your setup. We still play media on our PVR, which has the server's media tree NFS mounted on it. I use Gerbera (formerly MediaTomb). It's very simple and provides a DL

Re: speed of dd

2021-03-16 Thread Thomas Stephen Lee
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 12:45 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 3/14/21 4:05 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > Changing to bs=65536 I get overall 93.5 MB/s on a 2.1 GB iso transfer. > > Just a suggestion that using bs=64K might be easier to remember and > type, although I usually use at least bs=1M. A hack th

Re: Configuring a Fedora 33 system as NAS

2021-03-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2021-03-16 at 19:04 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 15Mar2021 17:54, Tom Horsley wrote: > > I installed TrueNAS on an old system (along with a ton of disk > > space), it isn't as familiar as fedora, but it seems to work very well > > and you get used to it after a while. Been putting al

Re: speed of dd

2021-03-16 Thread elder sixpack13
> When I do something like: > > dd if='fedora.iso' of=/dev/sdb status=progress > > I only get around 6 megabytes per second on a USB 2 Sandisk Cruzer > Blade flashdrive (store bought, not fleabay) plugged directly into a > motherboard's USB 3 port - one that's not sharing its host with any > oth

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-16 Thread elder sixpack13
> I've had this 1 TB drive for about 1 year and have been using it succesfully > for > backups > of my anf my wife's systems and suddenly yesterday morning I was unable to > mount it. > Neither fdisk nor gparted can see it ... maybe this might help to get some data/the disk back: https://www.hda

Re: Configuring a Fedora 33 system as NAS

2021-03-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 19:04:06 +1100 Cameron Simpson wrote: > I'd love to hear about your setup. We still play media on our PVR, which > has the server's media tree NFS mounted on it. I've never made a plex account, it all works fine as long as you don't want to do things like play things outside

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2021-03-16 at 13:38:16 elder sixpack13 wrote: > > I've had this 1 TB drive for about 1 year and have been using it > > succesfully for > > backups > > of my anf my wife's systems and suddenly yesterday morning I was unable to > > mount it. > > Neither fdisk nor gparted can see it ... > > m

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2021-03-16 at 15:40:23 Erik P. Olsen wrote: > On 2021-03-16 at 13:38:16 elder sixpack13 wrote: > > > > I've had this 1 TB drive for about 1 year and have been using it > > > succesfully for > > > backups > > > of my anf my wife's systems and suddenly yesterday morning I was unable > > > to m

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-16 Thread elder sixpack13
> On 2021-03-16 at 15:40:23 Erik P. Olsen wrote: ... > Well, unfortunately for DOS/Windows only. there are small iso's (~10 MB). I guess mediawriter should be able to put that on an usb stick too or a cd-writer on an cd. ___ users mailing list -- users@

Re: speed of dd

2021-03-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/16/21 6:32 AM, elder sixpack13 wrote: AFAIK, flashdrives operates the same as ssd's. while SSD's and pricey flashdrive (e.g. Sandisk Extreme) support the trim command to erase occupied space the sheaper flashdrives do not support trim, what means they get slower over time. deleted contents

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-16 Thread Roger Heflin
The dd-rescue package on linux should work just fine. Assuming you can get the disk to respond. If the disk is taking 180s then the disk is not responding at all, and even if the disk were responding in 10 sec any rescue program will take longer than anyone will wait. The software tools will on

Re: Unable to mount USB connected hard drive.

2021-03-16 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 16 Mar 2021, Roger Heflin wrote: Best plan would be to get it out of the usb enclosure and see if smartctl will return anything useful and see if the disk behaves better. Another USB enclosure might work. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contai

wallpaper related

2021-03-16 Thread David
Someone artistic in the Fedora crowd should take the Fedora 34 wallpaper and make versions of it and put them someplace where a potential Fedora user could "easily" access them. I like dark dreary wintery scenes to cheer me up from the dreaded heat and humidity of southeast Texas. For example,

Bad JSON format for 'lshw'

2021-03-16 Thread Digimer
I tried to submit this as a ticket to https://ezix.org/project/newticket#ticket but it wouldn't accept the captcha test. Posting here in case I can get to the 'lshw' dev (or package maintainer) through Fedora. This is tested on Fedora 33 (and CentOS Stream 8, fwiw). I'm working on a program to pro

Re: Bad JSON format for 'lshw'

2021-03-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/16/21 7:56 PM, Digimer wrote: I tried to submit this as a ticket to https://ezix.org/project/newticket#ticket but it wouldn't accept the captcha test. Posting here in case I can get to the 'lshw' dev (or package maintainer) through Fedora. This is tested on Fedora 33 (and CentOS Stream 8, fw