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Backup job default enabled
by "Robert Zöhrer | pronet.at" 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hi, yesterday I noticed a sytem freeze of my grml HD installation on my Thinkpad. After a little time of puzzling I detected a full (100%) root partition :/ I thougt: Who the f*** has filled up the (before) remaining 2 GB of space? -> It was a default enabled? backup job (backup-manager?) who backed up /home /etc and some other stuff in /backup :( In principle (automatic) backups is a good cause and this default enabled backup job is well meaning but as we see in this example it could be problematic. Backing up on same physical disk doesn't make lots of sense anyway. Conclusio: I won't enable such probably space/resource consuming automatic tasks per default. p.s.: I certainly have a (central) backup solution via server ;) -- Regards Robert

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/etc/fstab and noatime
by T 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hi Since more and more people are using pen drives, I think in such case it is desirable to disable updating inode access time for each access to limit the wear and tear. So I hope that the generated /etc/fstab can have noatime for the mount points, at least an option to enable so. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/

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Assistance with accessibily backing up my grml installation.
by Keith Hinton 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hi, I need some assistance from anyone who can provide it. I wish to tar, my entire root file system, and make the tar file create on another box via ssh. I am booted into the Live-disk, ATM. Any suggestions? If you have any, let me know. My idea was: to mount the root file system under something like: /mnt/grmlSystem. Then: tar czpf - /mnt/grmlSystem | ssh box@remotebox cat > Grml.tar.gz Would this work? If I have made an syntax error, please correct it, or something. I don ot wish, nor will I use slash exclude, as grml itself won't be running physically on the drive in question. Regards, -Keith website: www.KeithNet.DynDNS.org, proudly supplying a grml.org link!

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Dear Mika
by Keith Hinton 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hi all, Apparently my so called failior to hibernate and resume from XFS turned out to be the fact that my Computer was trying to boot off my USB flash drive. LOL Regards, --Keith.

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Md arrays error
by harry meyers 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hi, I always get a boot message like this: ,---- | Assembling MD arrays failed (no arrays found) `---- I don't know how to deal with it. I was trying to figure out what it can be, so I came over mdassemble and raid. Maybe anyone can help me to get rid of it - or give me a hint where I can further information on it. harry

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GRML and nice values
by Keith Hinton 29 Dez '06

29 Dez '06

Hi all. I have a strange problem in GRML Linux 0.8 (as I run this on my server machine, and do not wish to upgrade.) One of my problems, is that my software speech will die for no particular reason. I was instructed to set speechd-up therefore with a value of nice -20. I see this resolves my issue, but will that nice value be preserved during an suspend-to-disk? Regards, --Keith. BTW...Is software speech a CPU-intensive process in general? Regards, --Keith

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Are grml packages initially installed by aptitude
by T 29 Dez '06

29 Dez '06

Hi, I'm just wondering, are grml packages initially installed by aptitude? The reason that I'm asking is that after 'aptitude purge evms', I found the libevms-2.5 is still in the system. Also, after 'aptitude purge shish', the dietlibc dietlibc-dev are still in the system. I've never install those package myself, so I'm wondering how grml packages are initially installed. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/

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gnome disaster
by martin yazdzik 29 Dez '06

29 Dez '06

Dear Friends, Symptoms: login via gdm as root, no issues whatsoever login vi gdm as yazdzik, gnome starts, then stops no issue with fluxbox as yazdzik what logs do I need to send so you can see what is wrong this is a new install as of yesterday I have deleted user and /home, so there is an issue somewhere with something that I cannot grasp did I bork the install somehow? or is gnome currently broken somewhere(unlikely since it works as root...) -m

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AdvanceMAME - AdvanceBOOT - USB Multi-BIOS Boot
by Mark 28 Dez '06

28 Dez '06

http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/boot-readme.html "It's also able to create disk images which are compatibles with all the three standards USB-FDD, USB-HDD and USB-ZIP at the same time." (Would be nice if USB hard drives made from grml2hd could do that.) http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/readme.html "Automatic creation of perfect video modes with the correct size and clock." "A lot of video boards supported. See the GNU/Linux, DOS and Windows card list." (Found while researching replacements for vesafb.)

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About /mnt/grml
by T 27 Dez '06

27 Dez '06

Hi On examining my root volume backup, I noticed for the first time the /mnt/grml directory. It looks almost like the whole root fs to me. Can somebody explain a bit about this directory? Especially, will my root volume backup be twice as big as it should be? Is it OK to omit the directory when backing up, or use it alone for backup, ...? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/

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