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[opensuse] Fwd: Performance penalty for mis-aligned partitions on a 4K physical sector drive
by Greg Freemyer 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

Resend without HTML On Monday, March 16, 2015, Anton Aylward <opensuse(a)antonaylward.com> wrote: > > On 03/16/2015 09:32 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > > If you are going to use drives with 4KB physical sectors you need to > > avoid filesystems with 1KB blocks. > > I'm sure there are many in the silent majority here who don't have the > detailed knowledge, or, like me, have let it pass them by since they > deal with other matters (such as users and applications), and wonder > about one or another implication in that statement. > > We've seen the example with mkfs or extFS for various block sizes, but > what about other file systems? > > And more to the point for most of us: > > How can we tell about these things? > > * What block size the disks are are > > I suppose all late model disks are 4K :-) > > * what size the file system blocks are for the file systems in use > - Not just extFS but XFS, reiserFS, BtrFS > - if the are not 4K what can we do about it? > > * Some might ask about the other file systems in /proc/filesystems. > - Does it matter with tmpfs? What about when it 'overflows' to /tmp? > > * How can we tell if they are aligned? > - if they are not, what can we do about it? > > > Either it matters, and these are the questions that emerge, or it doesn't. > It matters, but for most people, they do normal things and it works out fine. The developers have addressed their needs. Felix is a different kind of creature :) He takes a TB or larger drive and puts a bunch of small partitions: == From one of Felix's posts == Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 63 80324 40131 6 FAT16 /dev/sda2 80325 578339 249007+ 1c Hidden W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sda3 * 578340 1397654 409657+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4 1397655 625137344 311869845 5 Extended /dev/sda5 1397718 4466069 1534176 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 4466133 4482134 8001 1 FAT12 /dev/sda7 4482198 4996214 257008+ 6 FAT16 /dev/sda8 4996278 19743884 7373803+ 83 Linux /dev/sda9 19743948 28756349 4506201 83 Linux /dev/sda10 28756413 40226759 5735173+ 83 Linux /dev/sda11 40226823 78959474 19366326 83 Linux /dev/sda12 78959538 81417419 1228941 83 Linux /dev/sda13 81417483 91249199 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/sda14 91249263 101080979 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/sda15 101081043 110912759 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/sda16 110912823 120744539 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/sda17 120744603 130576319 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/sda18 130576383 140408099 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/sda19 140408163 150239879 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/sda20 150239943 160071659 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/sda21 160071723 171542069 5735173+ 83 Linux /dev/sda22 171542133 181373849 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/sda23 252525798 262357514 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/sda24 262357578 272189294 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/sda25 272189358 282021074 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/sda26 282021138 291852854 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/sda27 291852918 301684634 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/sda28 301684698 311516414 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/sda29 311516478 624093119 156288321 83 Linux /dev/sda30 624093183 625137344 522081 e W95 FAT16 (LBA) ====== The defaults simply break in those conditions, so Felix has to concern himself with issues the rest of us never have come up. If you look at the above you see he has a lot of partitions that start on a odd sector. That is bad today. Typical modern partitioning tools will align all partitions to 1MB. Felix needs to adopt a 21st century partitioning mechanism. Then you can see that many of his partitions are only 2GB of so. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] ffmpeg crop stopped working
by Paul Groves 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

So I have come back to upload more old programs to my plex server and as I have done many times, using ffmpeg to crop the black bars off the left and right of old 4:3 format videos (where they are pillar-boxed to fit on 16:9 tvs). This command which I incorporated into a batch script used to work fine a few months ago: ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vf "crop=640:480:96:0" output.mkv where 640:480 is the resolution of the 4:3 video and 96 is the width of the two black bars. The original video (input.mkv) is 832x480 so I am literally just cropping the edges. Now instead of ffmpeg working like it always has, I am now greeted with the following message: [Parsed_crop_0 @ 0x6c6800] Invalid too big or non positive size for width '640' or height '480' [Parsed_crop_0 @ 0x6c6800] Failed to configure input pad on Parsed_crop_0 I have searched online and cannot find any coherent answers. Does anyone have a clue what the error actually means and why I never used to get it before (on what I am assuming is an older version of ffmpeg)? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] bash debugger
by don fisher 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

I recently ran into a lot of problems with my use of tcsh and was encouraged to learn bash. I find that there is a bash debugger http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/ I have always found using a debugger useful in learning a language in that you can easily determine what happens during each step. I do not find this listed in the available packages when I do a search under software manager. Is there a reason it is not included, or is it a repository that I have not discovered? Thanks Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Seamonkey - Subject and message out of sync
by James Knott 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

I use Seamonkey as my main email app. One thing that's started recently is some messages do not match the message subject. Instead, the subject matches another message nearby in the list. This happens with more than one server and also does not appear in Thunderbird. This shows that the problem is with Seamonkey and not the server. One server is Dovecot, running on the same computer. The other is on an outlook.office365.com server. Both accounts are running IMAP. I have not noticed this problem on a GMail account, also IMAP. Any ideas on how to get things back in sync? tnx jk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] sistemad - Time has been changed ?
by Per Jessen 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

I see this message quite frequently in the log on my xen guest systems - I'm guessing it's an indication that ntp on the xen host adjusted the clock. About once every minute, right now 793 times since midnight - that seems a bit too much? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (5.1°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] "your-dns-needs-immediate-attention.site"
by Arup Rakshit 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

Hi, I am having the following issue : [arup@Rails]$ gem install rails --no-ri --no-rdoc ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError) Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - connect(2) for "your-dns-needs-immediate-attention.site" port 443 (https://your-dns-needs-immediate-attention.site/quick/Marshal.4.8/rails-4.2…) How to resolve it ? Please tell me if any more information you want me to provide. -- ================ Regards, Arup Rakshit ================ Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. --Brian Kernighan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Uninstall update applied by SuSE updater?
by Christopher Myers 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

It appears that when I installed the patches for tcl and tk earlier this week, it broke the sipe plugin for pidgin, and I can't log into our Lync server anymore. The version on my laptop that got installed by the SuSE updater is: tk-8.6.3-5.1.i586 tcl-8.6.3-4.1.i586 Is there any way that I can figure out what the prior version was, and back-rev to that version? I'm running 13.1. Thanks! Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] NetworkManager just broke :^(
by Patrick Shanahan 16 Mar '15

16 Mar '15

Tumbleweed Just forced to return to wicked on my acer laptop. NetworkManager says it connects but creates no local address for inet, s/b 192.168.1.14. yast network activate wicked restart network and I have service. wtf, resolve.conf is regenerated but not changed with NetworkManager reporting connection ifconfig: wlp3s0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 48:D2:24:A8:07:0D inet6 addr: fe80::4ad2:24ff:fea8:70d/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1133 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:526 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:160461 (156.7 Kb) TX bytes:100254 (97.9 Kb) No local address with wicked: ifconfig: wlp3s0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 48:D2:24:A8:07:0D inet addr:192.168.1.14 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::4ad2:24ff:fea8:70d/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1904 errors:0 dropped:3 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:905 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:369344 (360.6 Kb) TX bytes:157962 (154.2 Kb) tks, -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] WD MyCloud on Linux?
by Thomas Taylor 16 Mar '15

16 Mar '15

Got a WD MyCloud (4TB) backup device for the wife/daughter to use with Windows. WD does not seem to offer any support for Linux, only Windows and Mac. Does anyone have suggestions how I could use this device with Linux (OS 13.1-KDE)? Would I need to create a samba share? Thanks, Tom -- Forgiveness is really not about someone’s harmful behavior; it’s about our own relationship with our past. When we begin the work of forgiveness, it is primarily a practice for ourselves. - Gina Sharpe, “The Power of Forgiveness ^^ --... ...-- / -.- --. --... -.-. ..-. -.-. ^^^^ Tom Taylor KG7CFC openSUSE 13.1 (64-bit), Kernel 3.11.6-4-default, KDE 4.11.2, AMD Phenom X4 955, GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Nvidia 337.19) 16GB RAM -- 3x1.5TB sata2 -- 128GB-SSD FF 36.0, claws-mail 3.10.1 registered linux user 263467 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Dependency problem with LibreOffice and Firefox
by Bjoern Voigt 16 Mar '15

16 Mar '15

I have an interesting dependency problem on my openSUSE 13.2 box. I am not interested in LibreOffice (standard distribution), so I removed it and installed LibreOffice from www.libreoffice.org (RPM). The problem is, that "zypper" sees a dependency between LibreOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird. "zypper verify" is unable to resolve the dependencies. "zypper verify" begins with # zypper verify Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... 12 Problems: Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-calc.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-calc-.noarch Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-calc.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-calc-.noarch Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-writer.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-writer-.noarch Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-writer.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-writer-.noarch Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-impress.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-impress-.noarch Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-impress.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-impress-.noarch Problem: nothing provides appdata(thunderbird.appdata.xml) needed by application:Thunderbird-.noarch Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-draw.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-draw-.noarch Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-draw.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-draw-.noarch Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-base.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-base-.noarch Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-base.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-base-.noarch Problem: nothing provides appdata(firefox.appdata.xml) needed by application:Firefox-.noarch Problem: nothing provides appdata(libreoffice-calc.appdata.xml) needed by application:libreoffice-calc-.noarch Solution 1: deinstallation of application:libreoffice-calc-.noarch Solution 2: break application:libreoffice-calc-.noarch by ignoring some of its dependencies Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/s/r/c] (c): 1 If I always choose the "deinstallation" option, "zypper" ends with: Resolving dependencies... The following 7 applications are going to be REMOVED: Firefox Thunderbird libreoffice-base libreoffice-calc libreoffice-draw libreoffice-impress libreoffice-writer No additional space will be used or freed after the operation. Dependencies of all installed packages are satisfied. "zypper verify" doesn't uninstall anything. What should I do? Greetings, Björn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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