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What is better a 2nd drive for Raid 1 or a backup one?
by Javier Perez 03 Jan '20

03 Jan '20

Hi I have my /home partition on a 2TB HDD drive about half full. Should be doing regular backups but not in the habit. What is better? A. Purchase a second 2TB to create a Raid1 mirror or B. Purchase a second 4TB drive for backup purposes. If case B, should I get a USB3.0 adapter or similar so that I could just plug the HDD, let it do the backup and unplug and store it? Or is it better to install it on another networked pc and do it through the network? Is there a better, easier, less troublesome option to keep the data safe that does not involve the cloud? This is a home network Thanks -- ------------------------------ /\_/\ |O O| pepebuho(a)gmail.com ~~~~ Javier Perez ~~~~ While the night runs ~~~~ toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch.

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Unwanted display feature -
by Bob Goodwin 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

. Fedora-31, Firefox has a single item at the top left corner of the display that contains a list of windows opened, In earlier versions each window had a separate listing in a horizontal row across the top, actually I would select the option for two rows. Now there is only the one block at the top, a list on which I must click to get the one I want usually from a list of ten or fifteen, very inconvenient to use, worse yet this thing stays on my display when I am not using Firefox as a list of things I can select in others. The most annoying feature is that sometimes it blinks for reasons unknown to me. I use XFCE and have gone through the configuration screen a number of times but have found nothing that restores the earlier display scheme. Can anyone tell me how to fix this and restore the row of open windows listed across the top rather than this menu list icon/block,whatever it is called? Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, Fedora Linux-31 XFCE

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virtual box extension pack
by François Patte 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

Bonjour, I installed the last version of virtualbox (6.1.0) but I cant't find the right extension pack which fit this version.... I got Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.0.vbox-extpack but virtualbox refuses to load it: Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.0.vbox-extpack' (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED). Where can I find the right pack? Thank you. -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)6 7892 5822 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte FSF https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/presenting-shoetool-happy-holidays-from…

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help for an install
by François Patte 01 Jan '20

01 Jan '20

Bonjour, I want to install fedora in dual boot with windows 10 on a dell laptop (latitude 3500) on which windows is preinstalled. I firstly boot on an usb stick with Gparted in order to resize the partitions but Gparted doesn't "see" the SSD... I disabled the secure boot, but nothing has changed, Gparted sees only its own partition and nothing else. I have the last version of Gparted ( 1.0.0-5). Could anybody help me? I don't know anything of windows which I never used... -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)6 7892 5822 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte FSF https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/presenting-shoetool-happy-holidays-from…

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How to tell how a package was installed?
by Manuel Reimer 01 Jan '20

01 Jan '20

Hello, I've freshly installed an Fedora VM. If I run "dnf history userinstalled", then I only get 19 packages listed. That's way less than I would have expected. For example I have LibreOffice right with my fresh installation. It is not listed as "userinstalled". Even though it is not listed, "dnf autoremove" doesn't ask me to uninstall LibreOffice. So somehow it was installed in a way that makes "dnf autoremove" know that LibreOffice was "user installed". What exactly does qualify LibreOffice, Firefox and others to not get listed in "dnf autoremove"? Some kind of group? How to find out such information? Manuel

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Re: help for an install
by Frank McCormick 01 Jan '20

01 Jan '20

Resending because part of the reply was missing :) On 12/31/19 12:47 PM, François Patte wrote: > I am presently completely blocked: something > went wrong and the computer is blocked by a "defaultuser0". > resize the partitions to install linux because the > ntfs partition is crypted (bitlocker). This APPARENTLY solves the defaultuser0 problem. YMMV I found this from a google search. When you get that message, try restarting a few times to see if you will let you setup a proper account. If not, do the following at the sign in screen. Hold down the shift key on your keyboard while clicking the Power button on the screen. Continue to hold down the shift key while clicking Restart. Continue to hold down the shift key until the Advanced Recovery Options menu appears. Click Troubleshoot Click Reset this PC Click Remove Everything (I'd be careful at this step) Fully clean the drive (Same here) Click Reset Once you get into your machine again, you an un-encrypt the disk by turning off bitlocker, then you can resize.

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24 hour time again -
by Bob Goodwin 01 Jan '20

01 Jan '20

On a new fedora 31 installed this week and updated i am unable to get Thunderbird-68.3.1 to display a message list using 24 hour time. The Date and Time Regional setting can not be changed from US English to und as expected. I've tried downgrading Thunderbird, and rebooted the system, nothing has helped. This computer, with the same settings, displays the time in 24 hour format. I haven't been able to work this out so perhaps someone has a suggestion ... -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, Fedora Linux-31 XFCE

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