Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2022-02-08 at 16:48 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > You may actually want hard size limits on different partitions. You can still have this with subvolumes. See btrfs-quota(8). poc ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubsc

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-08 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 07.02.2022 um 23:35 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan : > > On Mon, 2022-02-07 at 11:50 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> On 2/6/22 08:17, Paolo Galtieri wrote: >>> so why are / and /home the same device? >> >> >> To the question of "why," I'd think the answer is in the discussion >> held >> in

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-08 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 08.02.2022 um 12:11 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan : > > On Tue, 2022-02-08 at 16:48 +1030, Tim via users wrote: >> You may actually want hard size limits on different partitions. > > You can still have this with subvolumes. See btrfs-quota(8). Yes, a sentence beginning with „You can have th

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2022-02-08 at 13:56 +0100, Peter Boy wrote: > > On the other hand, the traditional approach has only a poor > > solution to > > restrict directories. At installation time, the harddisk can be > > partitioned so that every directory (eg. /usr, /var/, ...) that > > needs a > > limit gets its

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 2/8/22 05:56, Peter Boy wrote: no one would partition a hard disk along file system subdirectories. Want to bet? Some of us, especially home users, consider LVM a pointless complication for our use case and never use it. ___ users mailing list -

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 2/8/22 12:44, Joe Zeff wrote: On 2/8/22 05:56, Peter Boy wrote: no one would partition a hard disk along file system subdirectories. Want to bet?  Some of us, especially home users, consider LVM a pointless complication for our use case and never use it. I am still using EXT4 partition

Re: Acer Chromebook 15

2022-02-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2/7/22 01:28, Michael Hennebry wrote: Is it possible to put fedora on an Acer Chromebook 15? I've been trying to no avail. Google has shown me lots of sets of directions for booting from USB, none of which have worked. I've gotten it to the point that it claims OS checking is off, but then it

laptop failing with latest kernel update

2022-02-08 Thread Anil Felipe Duggirala
hello, I performed a normal update today after some time without updating, which I believed contained a kernel update (to 5.16.5-100.fc34.x86_64 I believe). After doing the update and rebooting my pc started behaving erratically. Bootup time was longer, then it sort of got stuck, then some probl

Re: laptop failing with latest kernel update

2022-02-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 2/8/22 16:10, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: How should I report this issue in this case? One way is to god directly to Bugzilla and open the report yourself. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to use

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2022-02-08 at 17:15 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 2/8/22 12:44, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 2/8/22 05:56, Peter Boy wrote: > > > no one would partition a hard disk along file system > > > subdirectories. > > > > Want to bet?  Some of us, especially home users, consider LVM a > > po

Re: Acer Chromebook 15

2022-02-08 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 05:29, Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > Is it possible to put fedora on an Acer Chromebook 15? > I've been trying to no avail. > Google has shown me lots of sets of directions for booting from USB, > none of which have worked. > I've gotten it to th

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/8/22 04:56, Peter Boy wrote: The quote describes a situation which has gone for more of a decade now. Since we have LVM (when got that part of the Linux kernel? kernel 2.6? 2004 or so? Don’t know exactly), no one would partition a hard disk along file system subdirectories. You create logi

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2022-02-08 17:28, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 2/8/22 04:56, Peter Boy wrote: The quote describes a situation which has gone for more of a decade now. Since we have LVM (when got that part of the Linux kernel? kernel 2.6? 2004 or so? Don’t know exactly), no one would partition a hard disk along

Re: why are / and /home the same filesystem?

2022-02-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 6:30 AM Peter Boy wrote: > > > > > Am 08.02.2022 um 12:11 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan : > > > > On Tue, 2022-02-08 at 16:48 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > >> You may actually want hard size limits on different partitions. > > > > You can still have this with subvolumes. See b

Screensavers and power management

2022-02-08 Thread Alex
Hi, I have fedora35 installed on my desktop with a Radeon RX 570 driving three monitors, with the Cinnamon desktop, although it could be the other variation of Cinnamon that's available by default - I checked the Settings menu and can't find any way to determine which it is. I'd like all three moni

Re: Screensavers and power management

2022-02-08 Thread Branko Grubić
On Tue, 2022-02-08 at 21:43 -0500, Alex wrote: > Hi, > I have fedora35 installed on my desktop with a Radeon RX 570 driving > three monitors, with the Cinnamon desktop, although it could be the > other variation of Cinnamon that's available by default - I checked > the Settings menu and can't find