Hi All
I am moving a 1TB NTFS partition 200MB to the right using gparted and of
course it is very slow. I don't understand why gparted is moving all of
the data. Why not just move 200MB and add it to the end of the
partition? My googling only tells me how to do it but not why.
Cheers
Nic
Hiya,
my venerable linksys wrt54gs running openwrt is still going strong, but
probably can't handle NBN 100 Mbit even on lobotomised HFC, so I guess
it's time for a new router...
any recommendations for a 2+ port gigabit and (I guess) AC WiFi that
can hopefully run openwrt ok for the next decade?
I don't need or want any USB or NAS or gaming.
ATA for landline optional.
I looked at newer linksys wrt32x but they're $450 from jb (prob $250
from amazon but they don't seem to ship to .au (again)) and also
they're outliers running marvel chipsets.
after that I just get confused in the maze of 100's of routers that
could run openwrt vs. what you can buy today that's an ok price.
I'm open to other options if they're interesting or cheaper/better -
eg. little arm boards with a couple of gige ports and ac wifi as long
as they run centos/fedora/openwrt or similar.
thanks!
cheers,
robin
I had a perfectly good working Devuan system running testing .(beowulf
/ceres)
Ran some updates a few days ago and everything was working fine.
Rebooted starts normally brings up slim, user name and password as normal
then a black screen.
Switching to a terminal Alt Ctrl F1 allows me to log in.
startx and xinit fail
Obviously the video card is good or I couldn't get to the log in screen or
use the terminal.
The system is using the nouveau video driver.
It was I believe running the Nvidia driver before the updates
Only error I notice on shutdown is that slim is not running which I presume
is due to a failure to startx.
Where do I start debugging this one? Beats me right now.
Stripes.
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I have a Lenovo P51 laptop here (currently running Microsoft Windows 10) on
which I'm contemplating installing Linux - probably Arch Linux, or perhaps
Debian Testing - or another distribution that is kept fairly up to date. Arch
is of interest in that the packages are kept fairly close to upstream, which
could be useful for some of my purposes (e.g., reporting bugs on
accessibility-related tools such as braille display software and screen
readers, and compiling development versions thereof).
I need to keep Microsoft Windows around for work purposes, due to
compatibility issues. I'm contemplating a dual-boot configuration. I would
rather not turn off Microsoft's virtualization-based security, which requires
Secure Boot to be enabled; unfortunately, there are too many vulnerabilities
and plenty of Windows malware is circulating.
On the Windows side, I have enabled Device Guard and Credential Guard in local
group policy, set to require "secure boot with UEFI lock". I don't know
whether this will complicate Linux installation, or whether it will need to be
disabled, even temporarily.
At this point, neither an Arch ISO image (written to a USB drive with dd) nor
a GRML64 image will boot. I suspect Secure Boot is responsible, unless of
course this system cannot boot from these prepared ISO images.
I've read documentation on the Arch wiki and elsewhere about UEFI and Secure
Boot, most of which is not very clear or somewhat incomplete. There are
several boot loaders from which to choose, for example, as well as
complications with Secure Boot. I've installed
Arch before (and Debian more than once), but only on BIOS-based systems and
never with another operating system also present. Further, there are various
reports of mixed success with Linux on this particular laptop model. It isn't
clear what information is up to date.
Also, I want to avoid corrupting the UEFI firmware or data in ways that would
necessitate board replacement; I've had to deal with unrelated hardware issues
recently and definitely don't want to have to go through the pain of that
experience again, if I can avoid it.
So, what would be my best source of advice at this point on how to proceed?
Suggestions and links would be welcome. I'm also willing to discuss it with
someone who knows UEFI well, if necessary.
On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 10:13:10PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> It appears that the boot of my laptop is delayed by postfix depending on
> network-online.target. How can I change this? Postfix is only listening on
> 127.0.0.1 so there's no reason for it to wait until my laptop connects to
> the Wifi network before continuing the boot.
>
> I ran "systemctl edit postfix@-" and "systemctl edit postfix@" and put the
> below in which should make it not depend on network-online.target. But it
> doesn't change anything. Any ideas?
is there a loopback only target you can make it depend on rather than network-manager?
other than that, my only idea is to dump network manager and manually configure your
network with /etc/interfaces. I've always found that's best, anyway - NM is OK-ish
for the simplest of network configs but a complete PITA for anything even slightly
complex.
craig
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Hello All,
I have an Agfa SnapScan 1236. If it is not used for a while, it goes
to sleep and even turns itself off. I would like to be able to wake it
up, without a reboot,without disconnecting power, without
disconnecting the USB cable. Does anyone have ideas?
Even when it is "misbehaving" running snapscan -L will find it, but
using snapscan to actually scan a document fails to open the scanner.
Even when used after a boot, I need to scan the first page I put in
twice, it is a medical capable scanner with a lamp in the lid as well
as underneath. I would like the first scan to not be in transparency
mode. I was given it by a medical practice who have migrated from film
X-Rays to digital ones.
This will also help for when I do want to scan transparencies.
Regards,
Mark Trickett
I use rsync for most of my backups. For a restore I can rsync the files back
and touch /.autorelabel to restore the SE Linux labels. That combination gets
all setuid files etc, but doesn't get file capabilities.
Below is an example. Is there a good way of preserving capabilities apart
from running "getcap /bin/* /sbin/* /usr/bin/* /usr/sbin/*" and storing the
output? Currently /bin/ping seems to be the only commonly used program using
filesystem capability flags. Also is there a way of telling Debian to restore
capabilities apart from "apt-get --reinstall install iputils-ping"?
root@sevm:~# cp -a /bin/ping .
root@sevm:~# rsync -va /bin/ping ping2
sending incremental file list
ping
sent 61,328 bytes received 35 bytes 122,726.00 bytes/sec
total size is 61,240 speedup is 1.00
root@sevm:~# getcap ping ping2
ping = cap_net_raw+ep
root@sevm:~#
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Recently Grub has been changing to a high resolution mode. On some systems this is really slow, presumably due to having a crap BIOS. On kvm/qemu systems it doesn't work with -display curses.
How do I get grub to stick to 80x25 text?
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If you have servers in multiple countries and people using those servers in
multiple locations what's a good way of setting up a VPN?
If you have a VPN server at each DC then performance will be great but users
have to setup multiple instances of the VPN software which they will mess up
and time will be wasted.
If you have a VPN server at one DC then a user who connects to a server in a
different DC gets longer ping times. Also an outage in one DC breaks
everything.
Any ideas?
Support is required for Linux servers and Linux, Windows, and OS/X clients.
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