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Is libostree practical for user files? Is it practical to use libostree for user files? Or is it too specialized for tracking an entire OS? I am not familiar with libostree, but sounds like it's "Git for filesystem trees". Seems like this is originally intended for versioning entire `/`, I'm guessing so that you can just checkout files... (more) |
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Does Fedora have cutting edge features, and what makes it so? I saw another post recommend using Fedora if you want cutting edge features. Is Fedora really a "cutting edge" distro? I am not very familiar with Fedora, I know it's a community counterpart to RHEL and sometimes less tested new stuff goes into Fedora before going into RHEL, since they don't ha... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291314 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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Systemd unit needs to start at boot but wait for network I have a systemd unit that does some stuff on the internet. Sometimes this gets fired at startup. I want to make sure it's delayed until the computer is connected to the internet. In my notes I found: ``` Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target nss-lookup.target ``` Is this ... (more) |
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A: How do I migrate my main filesystem to a new drive? I'll add a specific, simple way that worked for me: 1. Create some kind of Linux Live USB 2. Boot into Live OS 3. Use `lsblk` and `blkid` to figure out which drive exactly is the old and new one. Stay in the same Live session (don't reboot) in case the drives move around between boots. 4. Doubl... (more) |
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Yes :)
If the answer is
> You cannot trigger cron jobs manually. You can only do that in systemd, this is one of the things systemd tried to "fix" vs. cron.
That is acceptable, I just don't know for sure if it is. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291264 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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A: How do I migrate my main filesystem to a new drive? Gnome disks can create a disk image, and then restore it to the new one. The new drive has to be same size or larger, although this is obvious. If it is larger, the partition will still be small, but I find it easier to resize it after the fact. It's better if the sector size also matches: http... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291263 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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How do I migrate my main filesystem to a new drive? I want to switch hard drives. How do I migrate my root FS from the drive it's on, to the new one, so that everything is exactly as it is? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291260 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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Get notifications to dunst when systemd units fail How can I get notifications to dunst when systemd units fail? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291256 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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Manually trigger cron jobs Do any of the cron implementations allow you to manually trigger cron jobs (stuff in your crontab) right now, in the exact same manner as they would have when triggered on their usual schedule, except for timing? (more) |
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A: Why/how can distro support lifetimes exceed the lifetime of their dependencies (such as Python)? When PSF says Python 3.8 is not supported, they are simply saying they will no longer bother fixing bugs in or adding stuff to that version. It's not like Python 3.8 will start automatically exploding your computer the moment they drop support. They just don't want you to come complain to them if you... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291204 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'foo' When I create the initramfs, I sometimes see messages like: ``` ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'xhcipci' ``` I get many for different modules. 1. What do they mean? 2. Should I install the missing firmware? My computer seems to be working fine. 3. If I don't want to ins... (more) |
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Ah, my mistake. Of course, it's the other way around. (more) |
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A: What are non-POSIX shells and what's the point of them? From the average user's perspective: Back in the day when people were figuring out how to do shells, there were as many shell syntaxes as shells. Everyone made up their own little language to go with their shell. Most of them sucked big time. One sucked a bit less, that became bash. The others die... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291139 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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What are non-POSIX shells and what's the point of them? I've been learning some Linux and I finally feel like I can find my way around the command line. But now I hear people say there are other, "non-POSIX" kinds of shell, with different semantics. What are these for? (more) |
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How do you generate arbitrary random numbers from /dev/random? Suppose I want to get random numbers from `/dev/random` with basic CLI tools. Is there a way to do it, that's easier to type and read than `python -c 'import random; print(100 + 200random.random())'`? I know how to generate random strings and I could generate a string of digits. But that's not ver... (more) |
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A: What is cat abuse/useless use of cat? UUOC is an ancient Unix yarn. I can't find the original essay (I believe from Usenet, where else...) but if memory serves it's either from early 90s or before. `cat` is actually a program for concatenating files. `cat file1 file2 ...` will give you `file1+file2+file3`. Together with `split`, this ... (more) |
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