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4:06 PM
So, my blog is gone... All the other websites I had are gone... And I'm pissed. The flash drive is completely toast, after about 30 seconds
 
Oh snap :/ Internet Archive?
 
That may get the output, but what about putting the entries back in to Wordpress?
 
Oh, that's a different can of worms
What happened?
 
I'll see after it's at least booted into a new Debian environment if I can recover some data :-/
I used to boot the system from a flash drive... The flash drive died... It won't stay on
 
@CanadianLuke there's a wordpress backup plugin...
too late now, but..
 
4:09 PM
Was the data on that flash drive, or was that just the boot medium?
 
That one wasn't covered by the backup... It was covered by a file copy to another hard drive, but I didn't do that backup for quite a while...
I think I'll just start fresh
Now, the shitty part - I had a 16GB partition on RAID 10 for swap... I tried to erase that and use it as / and set as bootable.... But you can't boot a RAID 10 with GRUB yet
So, I'm going to see if I can repartition without losing my data... And make that a 4-disk RAID 1
 
Can you image the drive before doing partitioning stuff? Just it case something gets wrecked
 
I'm giving up on the flash drive for now. The RAID I have is 4x4TB drives... I'm not imaging that thing right now :-p
 
That makes sense ;)
 
I need to get myself a NAS somewhere outside my house... Argh
 
4:18 PM
@CanadianLuke You hosted your site(s) on a local server on your home?
 
Yea, except the ones I get paid to host... Those ones are in the cloud
I think I need to repartition my drives -.- It's not accepting the 16GB RAID 10 partition at the front for the root partition
So, long-ass backup is going to start, and I'm going to get some rest
 
Well, you should always backup.
Which reminds me, I have daily backups of the DB but not yet daily backups of the files.
 
and backup the backups
 
Even better, test the backups occasionally
Also consider hardware RAID if you can get a hold of a machine that can do it
 
I think I'll implement a wp plugin that does incremental backups to amazon s3
I have less-than-zero experience with aws
 
4:30 PM
Unrelatedly, why are all hardware RAID configuration UIs insanely difficult to use?
 
@BenN Because devs don't do design or UX.
"Design is for sissies. UX is... what's UX"?
 
User Experience
So I can't mount my backup drive... It's detected, fdisk sees it fine... In the Installer environment, I type mount /dev/sdf1 /mnt/backup, and get mount: mounting /dev/sdf1 on /mnt/backup/ failed: Invalid argument. Thoughts?
 
What FS?
 
@BenN because low usemetric decreases demand
 
Try specifying the FS with the -t switch on mount
 
4:37 PM
check dmesg @CanadianLuke
 
dmesg mentions something about FAT.... But it should be EXT4....
If I try mount -t fat /dev/... it then says No such device
 
something about fat isnt very descriptive...
 
If the actual FS is ext4, you should use -t ext4 if I understand correctly
 
^^ this
 
FAT-fs (sdf1): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
 
4:41 PM
mnt/backup exists right?
 
I tried with ext3/4 type, but it's giving the Invalid Arugment error
Yes
 
Anything interesting in the logs after trying to specify the right FS?
 
check there isnt anything at /mnt/backup and check mount -v output
 
Nothing new in dmesg... It's still the same line, not moved. mount -v shows rootfs on /, none on /run, /proc and /sys, devtmpfs on /dev, devpts on /dev/pts, and /dev/md127p1 on /target (where I want to install Debian to). Nothing about /mnt/backup or /dev/sdg1
The installer has hung on screen one, likely because of that one partition getting transformed into root, and not being bootable
I'm going to restart, and try in Rescue Mode
 
sdg? it was sdf a min ago
 
4:45 PM
*sdf
 
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5 mins ago, by Canadian Luke
FAT-fs (sdf1): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
this worries me slightly
thats not failure
 
Might it actually be FAT?
 
It better not be! I formatted it when I was still running Ubuntu
 
is it efi?
 
Nope
Wait...
It shouldn't be... One sec
 
4:47 PM
so..... linux can write fat..
 
Linux supports all the Windows filesystems IIRC (maybe except ReFS)
It doesn't care about NTFS security though
 
writing fat on a small removalable device makes sense as a default infact
fat32....
 
OK, new environment. I have the RAID mounted, I'm going to check the other two drives now
 
so it wasnt fat?
 
/dev/sdb has one partition, 3.7T
/dev/sda has one partition, FAT (the Linux Installer flash drive)
SAME GOD DAMN ERROR
 
4:51 PM
Since my computer's power button wasn't working, I just used my phone to turn on my computer
 
The dmesg window looks like this:
 
Can you detect the FS of the large partition?
 
FAT usually implies FAT16 right?
 
fat32 by default from mkfs
 
try exfat?
 
Bob
4:54 PM
@CanadianLuke ddrescue first
 
FAT-fs (md127p2_: utf8 is not....
EXT4-fs (md127p2): couldn't moutn as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities
EXT4-fs (md127p2): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities
EXT4-fs (md127p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
sd 1:0:0:0 [sdb] 976754645 4096-byte logical blocks: (4.00 TB/3.63 TiB)
FAT-fs (sdb1): utf8 is nto a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
 
what the... a fat partition inside a ext2 duisk img?
errrrrrrrrr
what mount command did u run?
 
Remember, rescue mode
 
i dont see any error there
 
I only mounted my data partition to /mnt/raid. I can't see any other errors
 
Bob
4:56 PM
always image the drive before playing with it
 
how?
i see 2 moun attempts
and listen 2 @BenN
and @bob
 
hmm, weird.
 
is this a dying drive?
 
I just did. I created /mnt/raid and /mnt/backup. I mounted the RAID partition to /mnt/raid. I can't mount the other
SMART status shows it's OK... It better be
 
utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems because it will have the advantage of being case sensitive ?
 
4:58 PM
@Hennes no, we need to be backwards compatible with dinosaurs
 
the other being a different physical drive?
 
That needs to die out.
 
@Hennes I think the reasoning is that FAT is usually used on systems that are case-insensitive
 
Even NTFS can be taught to behave normally
 
I personally am for case insensitivity
 
4:59 PM
I want to mount my backup drive, so I can take a full backup of the DATA, then I can repartition the drives
Eff off Clippy
 
there is somebody out there using a rescue flash drive to create a FAT partition on a floppy disk, to put it in their old packard bell DOS dinosaur or HP/UX or whatever to play elite
 
ok what dev is it right now?
 
/dev/sdb1
 
blkid might help
 
looks at danooct1
 
5:00 PM
no
thats a partition
 
F.......
I just ran it into parted... PartEd tells me it's NTFS now, not type 83! WTF!?!?!
 
/dev/sdd: UUID="VhLSd6-HOrv-klfR-kqIO-EsAY-Hp3O-Q8VXvO" TYPE="LVM2_member"
a device
/dev/sda2: UUID="409420a1-d570-4065-ac1b-b7fbbdab483d" TYPE="swap" PARTLABEL="swap" PARTUUID="72a779f7-0242-4a2f-8138-100cb5bc412f"
 
rekt
 
a partition
run blkid
 
Please image the drive before our half-blind advice permanently destroys your data
 
5:02 PM
also this ^
but if ur really backing up to this disk, maybe a nuke is in order first anyway (badblocks etc)
 
I can't, I don't have another spare 4TB external drive kicking around
 
imaging the drive takes hours
 
If it's mostly empty, you could probably compress the image as it's taken?
 
"take it to a professional who will charge you $70 an hour"
 
Maybe? I've never actually imaged a drive in Linux
 
5:03 PM
blkid shows it as ntfs.... WTF!?!
 
(Ghost FTW)
 
I just use clonezilla
But I don't really ever image drives for small stuff
 
dd is slow no matter what, u could compress it after, or inline with pipes
@CanadianLuke and youre 110% ur looking at the right disk?
 
Anything reading a while drive is going to be slow.
 
if so, its possible ntfs :/
 
5:04 PM
blkid shows it as the Seagate, the only one on the system
I tried mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/backup and -t ntfs-3g, and both say No such device
 
can u paste the blkid line?
 
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="Seagate Backup Plus Drive" UUID="F2F2B8B6F2B88101" TYPE="ntfs"
 
wow that UUID is short, anyway
the kernel definately thinks it's ntfs
 
reinstall linux?
 
That is the right length for an NTFS serial number
 
5:07 PM
Rescue Environment. I know I need to reinstall Linux
 
fdisk -l
 
"freestyle rapping is applied Markov chains" lol
 
hands are steady, moms spagetti..
 
ID 83, Type Linux
 
... dafaq
something is very very wrong
dmesg | grep sdb
 
5:10 PM
uhhhhh testdisk
definitely testdisk...
 
@CanadianLuke do you require the data on this disk btw?
just wondering, as you said your backing up to your data TO it.
@CanadianLuke also ls -lah /where/youre/trying/to/mount/to
 
@JourneymanGeek Actually there are. This is a "Pavilion of Penguins" in Prague.
Upon entering this pavilion you will find yourself in the harsh world of the Chilean and Peruvian coasts – the home of the Humboldt’s penguin. Standing behind large glass panes, you can observe the way they live and move around both above and under the surface of the water– you can even watch them nesting in the winter, as we are one of the few European zoos to achieve regular success in breeding these penguins.
 
@djsmiley2k Just the usual, . and ..
 
Can you mount the partition as ext3? There are some threads on the interwebs about ext3 being misrecognized as NTFS
 
700 on permissions?
not that it'd make much difference if you're root. which you should be
 
5:15 PM
cat /proc/filesystems to see if you have all the normal FS drivers?
 
@BenN Ha that was my next thought.
 
Also try ls "/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/fs/"
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gpuguyWhen I am running linux from sd card and try to mount sd card -no problem, works fine. But when I am running linux from flash memory I am unable to mount my SD card: # mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/ mount: mounting /dev/mmcblk0p1 on /mnt/ failed: Invalid argument What could be the basic reason fo...

 
@BenN vfat,btrfs,ext2,3,4, jfs xfs
 
....
so no support for ntfs
so if it IS ntfs, that's why it won't mount.
 
Well, /proc/filesystems doesn't necessary list everything the kernel has, that's what the second command is for
 
5:17 PM
I'd suggest something good like sysrescuecd
 
OK, I'll download that one and try... Argh
I do appreciate everyone's help, honestly
 
no worries
I'm just wondering wtf has happened to it to get in this state
 
no ntfs.... ouch
old parted magic used to be good
now the guy is charging $$$ for it
 
Really?
 
screw that, a distribution ought to be free
 
5:24 PM
@CanadianLuke again, do you need to access the data on this disk?
 
yeah, hiren's boot cd (or was it ultimate boot cd?) carry the old Parted Magic, before the guy started charging money
 
I do, it will make the file copy faster
 
but.... if you're not sure of the quality of the files on this disk
you shouldn't be trusting them
 
He doesn't say what the money goes to, just says "bandwidth" so obviously he's using it as a footstool for personal gain
 
and concidering you don't even know what fs is on there...
@oldmud0 meh he can do what he likes
don't need the tool, it's by no way unique
 
5:26 PM
If he provides a good service, I think he deserves to get some compensation
 
7 more minutes... I'm going to get some breakfast, BRB
 
@djsmiley2k he's not sure because the distribution doesn't have ntfs-3g or dosfstools
 
@oldmud0 if you're dumping a backup on it, i'd hope you know exactly what fs is on it
:/
 
not really, you can do a block-level backup, don't even need to know what fs it is
 
'herp I dumped my backup out to /dev/sda123' - turns out that's a spool for a ascii printer in finance.
 
5:28 PM
/dev/sd*** won't ever spool to a printer...
 
@oldmud0 but then we don't care what fs is there, it's gonna get nuked
@oldmud0 you wanna bet?
 
I guarantee it's possible to make a /dev/ice spool to a printer, though I don't know how at the moment
 
@oldmud0 why do you think I can't just mknode /dev/sda123 ?
 
@djsmiley2k try it and call me back ok
please send me video of you dding your hard drive contents to an ascii printer in finance when you are done
 
Kids, let's not fight....
But I'd also like to see that
 
5:33 PM
On Windows, you could write a file system filter driver to do the job
I don't know Linux internals though
 
@oldmud0 :D
@BenN you'd have the node just pipe data into postscript and pass it directly to the printer
 
making windows drivers sucks
worst thing ever. just the whole ordeal of signing drivers is such a pain
 
Better that than Windows constantly crashing because of someone's janky driver ;)
Windows is for everyone, not just super technical people, and it would be bad if Windows got the blame for someone else's poor kernel-mode programming
 
yeah, so instead people jury rig "stable" kernel mode drivers other people made to their own programs and stuff
case in point, my brother's "turcom" pen tablet
 
I really learned to appreciate driver signing when I bought a cheapo serial port card and its driver caused my machine to BSOD whenever its monitors turned off
 
5:36 PM
xD
 
yeah but what about for indie developers?
and devs making free kernel drivers?
 
You can install the test certificate for development
 
they can't afford the costs for WHQL testing, so microsoft is technically controlling costs for kernel drivers
how am I supposed to install an open-source kernel driver?
you have to finance it.
 
Sign it with the test root certificate and enable that cert for your machine
 
OK, booting SysResCD
 
5:38 PM
does eFF not have a driver cert we can all use or something?
 
That would kind of defeat the purpose of driver signing ;)
 
somehow somewhere, your driver has to become popular enough to get somebody with lots of money to sign your driver
and then you have to invoke that person every single time you push out an update
 
I swear, it's like I'm talking to my kids...
 
and then, you're forced to write in VS C/C++.
Which isn't something necessarily bad.
 
Bob
You can write in asm for all the difference it makes
 
5:41 PM
@CanadianLuke o_O??
 
OK, SRCD recognizes the partition, still not sure the type
 
And you're sure the backups have been working?
 
fuseblk whatever that is
A majority of the files are there. I'm going to rsync though
Good, both drives are mounted
 
Yay!
 
errrr
fuseblk, is using fusedriver plus... funky stuff
 
5:44 PM
Well, it's working, and it's backing up my data drive
So be funky, it's going! Lol
 
Whatever works! \o/
 
hmmmmmmmm I'm not happy about it, but at least try to remember that @CanadianLuke :D
seems ubuntu does it this way by default, that's great, until they drop support for fuse because 'reasons' D:
 
Well, once I get everything up and running, that may change then.
What is FUSE, exactly?
 
Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is a software interface for Unix-like computer operating systems that lets non-privileged users create their own file systems without editing kernel code. This is achieved by running file system code in user space while the FUSE module provides only a "bridge" to the actual kernel interfaces. FUSE is available for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD (as puffs), OpenSolaris, Minix 3, Android and OS X. FUSE is free software originally released under the terms of the GNU General Public License and the GNU Lesser General Public License. == History == The FUSE system...
I think it's like filter drivers that don't require root to install?
 
5:51 PM
yeah
userspace partition changing and fun stuff.
but, you have root
but it's ubuntu and it's like 'meh lets not do things properly, this'll work, lol'.
 
YES!!!!!!!! Scrolling through is THE BACKUP OF THE /etc AND /var AND /usr FOLDERS!!!!
I feel much better now!
 
I'm so happy! :D
 
Everyone's 87th-favourite blog will be back with all the data!
 
@CanadianLuke wait what happen to your blog
 
@oldmud0 That's what we were trying to recover
 
6:01 PM
why did it die
a hard drive just died?
was that RAID 1?
this tim kaine guy sounds very well spoken
 
I'm so going to explode if I see any more questions starting with "So I"
 
as if there was some sense in US politics
So I wanted to add network to my python game?
So how would I like have to like go about like doing something and so to do something like that?
 
@oldmud0 It was on a RAID 10 (which is OK), and a single Flash Drive... The flash drive crashed
 
Bob
@CanadianLuke sorry, it's only 94th now
 
@CanadianLuke why did you put data on a flash drive again?
any permanently mounted drive should be an internal drive
 
USB drives are generally held to terrible standards.
 
<ducks to avoid shrapnel>
 
Enclosure could break, cable could break, power supply could break.
 
Bob
@oldmud0 eh, I have a bootloader on one on my primary server
But it's very rarely accessed and the internal drives are all in a zfs pool
So initrd and vmlinuz on flash drive :P
 
Honstly? Because I didn't want to have to repartition my drives when I'd upgrade. I know better now, so it's going to get done right
After it's up and running, if I have all the files I need, no harm done. If I'm missing files still, then I gotta figure out how to get them off the flash drive, or else start over
Oh yea... I guess I gotta rebuild Samba's AD structure too... Shit
I should setup my Pi as a secondary controller or something next time...
 
6:10 PM
Should the 2x version of a Pi be called a Tau?
pub scrubs, fite me 1v1 gentoo linux
build2fight
 
While I'm waiting for the backup to finish, I'm going to play on another computer... I'll talk to you guys later
 
how would linux wars work
 
... And I see the backup folder from Jul22 :)
 
> build your own kernel, no automake or buildroot allowed, only 50 pkgs allowed, pit your kernel against your opponent
 
@CanadianLuke Yay! :D
 
6:18 PM
:)
 
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spam?
 
Finish up this game of South Park... I just entered the Kingdom of Canada
 
Bob
Spam makes me hungry
 
470 Gbit DDOS!
I fear the day when attackers launch terabit DDOS attacks...
 
@oldmud0 That doesn't look like spam to me, but I definitely wouldn't put random DLLs from a third-party into my system folder
I think it would be easier and safer to reinstall the official VC++ redistributable
 
6:25 PM
Incapsula was the company that provided the protection here.
 
@oldmud0 i use gentoo
 
@djsmiley2k Gentoo is way too much work for me. I've managed to complete a Gentoo base system installation in a Hyper-V environment but building from source pushed this laptop to its limits :\
(The VM was given access to all eight logical processors and had access to 8 GB of memory, IIRC. Client Hyper-V has full support for Haswell and its new instructions.)
 
ive had the same 'install' for about 10 years, through 3 different systems
 
Sure, Gentoo is incredibly malleable and a running Gentoo machine can fly through compute-intensive workloads thanks to CPU-specific optimizations not otherwise possible (ever wanted every app to use AVX instructions?) but it's too complicated for me to manage. My servers run openSUSE.
 
yah, fauir enuf
ive actually got 0 experince with suse
 
6:39 PM
@BenN Aaaargh!!!
Was AFK so you ducked too soon :)
 
:p
 
@oldmud0 Not spam. Just cr@p answer.
 
7:01 PM
whoops wrong room haha
 
7:24 PM
is anyone a git expert? :(
 
I'm not, but what do you need?
 
I have a gitlab repo, and I commited something I cant share with my group members so I want to delete all the commits and source files and start fresh

(but preserve the issues I've created)

and I can't figure out how :/
 
Is it already pushed?
 
yeah it's on the remote
 
Oh, that's kind of a problem
 
7:35 PM
especially if I'm not running the open source version? haha
okay let me see if theres a way to make a new project and import the issues
 
I know zero about Gitlab though :(
 
thanks for your input though Ben :)
 
7:54 PM
Apple: "iOS? Malware? IMPOSSIBLE!" mass censorship
given how powerful apple is, it could censor
it's scary to think that apple has enough money to literally pay anyone off to do anything
they could pay off your lawyers to give you a bad defense... pay off your family members to not encourage you...
 
8:14 PM
@DavidPostill Bad link in your comment at:
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The link to superuser.com.com goes to a malware download.
 
@creidhne Thanks. Will fix it.
 
Hey hm. I just installed my processor. I've tightened the 4 cooler screws, but I'm still able to rotate the cooler. Should I be worried?
 
8:33 PM
what cooler is it
check your cpu temperatures
with a program such as hwmonitor
 
It's a 212 Evo
I haven't finished building the computer yet so I'll check that later
 
@Ariane mine continues to be able to rotate like 2* works fine, once burned in and settled it might be better to quit trying to rotate it :-)
 
I see
 
oh idk I thought mine felt loose too but not that loose, I tried rotating it recently and it wouldnt budge
 
they just do that, and until the goop turns to dust or brick , it will stay that way, like with AS5 under there it stays greasy and thermal like :-)
 
8:42 PM
Ugh, I'm missing two motherboard screws.
 
Dunno, maybe gravity does
 
just get come crazy glue
yeah maybe when you're shoving in ram sticks
or if it's a tower not a desktop
 
with the 210 or 212 you can increase the pressure with some carefull bending, they are very adaptable cheazy but usable sinks.
 
There are many problems with that statement @CausingUnderflowsEverywhere
 
8:44 PM
cheazy?! are you calling my insanely powerful cooler a cheap?
yes, crazy glue is slightly conductive
 
yea piece of crap too, but wonderfull piece of crap, it is like they got the right ammount of fluid in them.
 
It's also non removable
 
then how did the boy who stuck his fingers and eyelids together with it open his fingers and eyelids?
 
Magic
 
make sure you put those screws evenly
whats more important, making sure the middle of the board is being pulled or the edges
magic isnt real. ghosts are.
 
8:48 PM
I stole one from the outside graphics card holder thing. Now I'm only missing one. I've got all corners covered. Should work for now.
 
great now you're going to wreck your pci express slot
 
The heck. The motherboard comes with an SLI thingie but no screws.
 
hey language!
please remove that profane word
thanks.
 
Sorry
Why didn't I keep this cooler's manual? I don't even know which way to put the fan
Ugh I forgot the IO panel. I had forgotten how much of a pain it is to build a PC
 

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