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That Brazilian Guy

14:04

Hello my dear human friends, I need to ask a question

How do I ~~build a forum~~ clone an HDD with ext3/4 partitions to a smaller HDD target?

I have searched SU but couldn't find decent Q&As, maybe my search terms aren't good :(

Seth

You ... don't? As it wouldn't fit on the target?

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy simple solution? resize first

is this a boot drive?

That Brazilian Guy

@Seth Well, Northon Ghost (and others IIRC) do clone / resize on-the-fly for at least FAT32 and NTFS

Journeyman Geek

also see clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/02_Restore_disk_image/…

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, a Mint 18 with /, /home and swap. Not sure if ext3 or ext4.

Journeyman Geek

14:11

@ThatBrazilianGuy oddly ext 3 vs 4 dosen't matter that much

That Brazilian Guy

besides, I think not only the partitions are to be cloned but I think grub and stuff are outside the partitions, right?

Bob

well isn't this backwards

That Brazilian Guy

It's not UEFI

Journeyman Geek

> If you are sure all the data from the image could fit the smaller disk, i.e. it won't be written to the wrong disk space, you can check the option "-icds".Warning! To select this option, you have to know what you are doing!.

Bob

lxde wants to show the screensaver

so of course if xscreensaver is not installed it instead basically dies

That Brazilian Guy

14:13

I think it's not enough to just shrink the partitions and then clone them as it would still miss grub and whatever else it stores outside the partitions.

Journeyman Geek

shrug

that says it'll work in advanced mode

personally I'd do a smart man's nuke and pave

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek Which is...?

Journeyman Geek

dump a package list, backup configs, build a fresh system and move stuff over

Seth

Usually a clone utility would pick them up. You would want to shrink beforehand to make it fit on a smaller drive. Otherwise you could just use dd.

Journeyman Geek

6

A: How do I "duplicate" a server?

If all else fails, there's the old fashioned way - On Ubuntu or debian,use dpkg --get-selections to dump out a list of installed packages, and install them with dpkg --set-selections. The equivalent of this for red hat based distros is yum-debug-dump and yum-debug-restore (optionally with --insta...

Seth

14:16

E.g. if you copy the MBR to a smaller drive you will have disk addresses for a partition that are just physically non existent.

Journeyman Geek

in the good ol days, I'd just have hit it with remastersys in backup mode

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek Oh. It's just that I spent quite a few days configuring lots and lots of stuff including a cinnamon theme to make it look just like XP, icon positions on the desktop... sigh

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy that should carry on with /home

That Brazilian Guy

@JourneymanGeek Wait, I do have the remastersys .deb somewhere from before the dev took it away

@JourneymanGeek I think / and /home are on the same partition.

Journeyman Geek

@ThatBrazilianGuy assuming it works

there's a new version...

@ThatBrazilianGuy home dosen't care where it is as long as its all there and the permissions are correct

That Brazilian Guy

14:23

Well, maybe I won't have to worry about all this, as I bought a PC really, really cheap (although still better than the Sempron 140 I was fixing) on a craigslist-like site but the seller apparently vanished from the face of Earth.

Journeyman Geek

lol

did he ship?

That Brazilian Guy

He's located a few blocks away from home so I chose "no shipping at all"

Worst case scenario, ~~the site gave me his address. I know where he lives...~~ my credit card was debited by the site, so they will owe me USD 56 for a Core 2 Duo Lenovo ThinkCentre

I will wait two days and then start a complaint procedure if necessary (hope it won't be)

RogUE

14:40

@ThatBrazilianGuy It was door-to-door delivery, I suppose ;)

That Brazilian Guy

I plan to pick it up myself

Journeyman Geek

ah

Bob

:D

Win98SE setup in progress => try.vulpin.com/guacamole/#/…

@satibel heh, I'm 'emulating' a P2 here

O_O

The Windows 98 setup has a baked in option specifically for a Logitech driver for one mouse

...billboards?

hm

I might have flubbed it

Journeyman Geek

14:57

could be the install time ads

Bob

O_O

Oliver Salzburg

@Bob Well, back in the day, there were only 3 different mice

Bob

I'm trying to figure out which switch I'm meant to use to avoid this

...yes clippy

> It looks like you're trying to figure out which switch you'm meant to use to avoid this.

> you'm

satibel

/ie - This switch bypasses the Windows 98 Startup Disk wizard screens. If this switch is used, the Windows\Command\EBD folder is not created.

/iv - This switch bypasses displaying the Setup screens during an upgrade within Windows.

g2g, bye.

Bob

bye

ah, back in the days wehn drives crashed if you looked at them wrong

SCAN ALL THE DRIVES

(also the days when drives were small enough that you could actually scan them in under a week...)

...wait. 98SE was aware of NTFS?

Journeyman Geek

15:11

couldn't read it tho

Bob

@JourneymanGeek hm?

oh. yea

Yay, I got my first ARF!

Journeyman Geek

I remember avira had a driver that worked well for that

Bob

... I don't have format

what kind of startup disk is this?!

Journeyman Geek

@Bob ARF?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek one of these days I should try that whole upgrade from DOS to 95 through XP to 10 :P

@JourneymanGeek Abort, Retry, Fail?

huh. I think I borked it.

Journeyman Geek

15:13

ARF!

Bob

> Windows Setup requir

uhhh

what do

I swear it wasn't this hard last time

Journeyman Geek

TWSS

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I bet it's some funny piece of hardware

hm. requires 7 MB

except... I don't have a format command

Journeyman Geek

o0

if I remember I'll give it a shot later in the week

Bob

15:36

@JourneymanGeek well, I finally found a format on the CD -_-

there's probably a paper manual for this somewhere

and by somewhere I mean in my garage

I wonder what Windows 98 setup does when confronted with multiple drives :P

Journeyman Geek

;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek AND WE HAVE SETUP :D

having to fiddle with DOS proper... I'm not sure if that makes me feel better or worse about the batch scripts @djsmiley2k's doing :P

Boris_yo

What smartphones is everyone here using at the moment?

Bob

View's still up at try.vulpin.com/guacamole/#/…

@JourneymanGeek Best part. This Avoton CPU, which is also running a Java/Tomcat server, X server, LXDE, and a bunch of other crap... probably still has more capacity to spare than the typical 98SE period CPU :P

@Boris_yo S7E

Journeyman Geek

;p

Bob

15:45

I should probably give it more RAM. Hm.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob its good enough ;p

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Somehow, it's managing to max out two CPU cores... despite me only giving it one. ... I might be doing software emulation? whoops

Journeyman Geek

o0

Bob

Wait. No. That's htop's default display derping :P

But yea I expected one maxed out

Boris_yo

@Bob Nice. Any reason you forked additional $ for Edge over not Edge?

djsmiley2k

15:47

{-]

Bob

It's also writing on a qcow2 file on a ZFS dataset...

@Boris_yo bigger battery. don't particularly like the curved part of the screen but otherwise good.

djsmiley2k

@Bob :P

Boris_yo

@Bob I am contemplating between S6 Edge and A5 (2017 release)

Bob

@Boris_yo lots of people say the S6 was a bit of a dud generation. unless it's really cheap, I wouldn't really recommend.

but it might still be better than the A5, idk

Boris_yo

It's around $585 here...

Bob

15:50

@Boris_yo you can get a grey import S7 for that much...

O_O @JourneymanGeek something borked again

Journeyman Geek

on SU?

on your VM?

Boris_yo

@Bob Grey imports are serviced by 3rd party labs which do not have good reputation...

Bob

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Bob

soon as it hit 100% prepared

Journeyman Geek

15:51

Isn't it a vm?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ...yes?

Journeyman Geek

lol

Bob

discussions.virtualdr.com/…

Journeyman Geek

I'll definately need to give it a shot

Bob

"That error message usually means the hard drive is failing."

uh. no.

The chance of this drive, sitting on an SSD, with ZFS on top, failing just at this point is...

@JourneymanGeek I wanted to have one viewable in a web browser -_-

  scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h1m with 0 errors on Tue May  2 15:53:32 2017

Yea. The chance of 98SE/KVM failing is several orders of magnitude higher than ZFS failing at this point.

Journeyman Geek

15:54

@Bob true but if I can get it running, I can let you know what worked

Bob

> That message can appear when any disk write is attempted and the VSAFE.COM program has been loaded into memory from the MS-DOS command prompt or loaded using the autoexec.bat file.

wat.

so even in 1998, even on installer disks, antiviruses were/are ruining my day

bertieb

@Boris_yo OnePlus3 !

Bob

@bertieb So, Four?

Boris_yo

1 + 3 =4

So HTC 4.

I see what you did there.

Probably got pre-release review version from HTC.

bertieb

@Bob Will check... imports half of nodejs It says 1997-08-04

Boris_yo

15:58

Must be their brand ambassador.

bertieb

@Boris_yo That's what my diplomatic plates say!

And my dinner plates!

(I like reading while I eat)

Boris_yo

Cool. I am emisary.

Not Persian though...

bertieb

Nearly made an inapropes DS9 joke

Boris_yo

I am Leonidas' emisary!

bertieb

He's not one of the Prophets!

Maybe the Prophets cover band? 'Through the Wormhole'

Or was that their compilation album?

Boris_yo

16:05

@Bob Is optical stabilization a big deal in smartphone for you?

Bob

@Boris_yo I do prefer to have it. I'm not great at holding the phone steady.

But it's somthing expected these days, at least in flagships

Boris_yo

@Bob How do you handle 5.5" screen size when going mobile? Does it fit in jeans?

Bob

@Boris_yo Depends what I'm wearing? Shallow pockets, it might stick out a bit... shrug

Boris_yo

When I take shots I breathe out full and then take a shot. That ensures photo will not come out blurry.

Maybe with optical image stabilization I won't need to work that hard...

Learned that trick in army, when I held M16 and when I played Americas Army. Calmly breathe out and pull the trigger...

That Brazilian Guy

16:28

NHQ loves stupid clickbait stupid.

Journeyman Geek

lol

That Brazilian Guy

Such a pearl of a Q&A pair, lots of research and deep, engaged thought:

21

Q: What exactly does the Avast "remind me next century" option actually do?

When Avast needs to restart your computer after a program update, it provides an option to remind you "next century": Based on anecdotal responses to it that I've come across, it definitely doesn't wait an actual century, so just what exactly does the option do, and how long does it wait?

40

A: What exactly does the Avast "remind me next century" option actually do?

Just tried pressing "Next Century" and "Ok" then set my clock forward 100 years - 3 minutes. Waited 3 minutes and guess what:

> guess what:

You won't believe what happens next!

HNQ, not the Japanese TV network.

> What does the "include tentacles" option actually do?

So. My credit card provider is "100% mobile". My phone is kabonked. Guaranteed pleasentness ensues.

For instance, I had to pay my yearly server fee of exorbitant USD 15

(By the way, thanks @JourneymanGeek for the tip, I use it constantly as a VPN server)

Turns out I had set a really low credit card limit because reasons and as I bought that PC yesterday there was less than USD 15 left.

"No problem, I'll call the credit card provider and ask them to raise the limit"

> "Sir, you need your app to change the credit card limit"

O_o

"My phone is being repaired".

> "Ok sir, in this case you install the app on someone else's phone"

djsmiley2k

......

Bob

@JourneymanGeek I don't think I'm gonna get very far...

djsmiley2k

get a n ew provider

That Brazilian Guy

16:38

Install. My. Credit. Card. App. On. A. Normal. Person. Phone.

The one app that manages my credit card and stores personal info and tracks what I bought and where and how much it costed, and manages the usage limit, and shows the entire credit card number on its screen, etc.

djsmiley2k

3 mins ago, by djsmiley2k

get a n ew provider

That Brazilian Guy

Install it on a phone of someone who probably
1) Never updated its OS
2) Has zillions of notifications
3) Enabled "non-store apps"
4) Has lots of malware

"Uhh... Wouldn't it raise security issues"

> "Well, no sir, as our app doesn't store cache data" ヽ(ಠ_ಠ)ノ

djsmiley2k

hmmmmmmmmm

run away, fast

a coder

what site do you go to for high speed internet testing?

i.e. 5GIG

That Brazilian Guy

@djsmiley2k You see, they don't charge monthly or yearly charges. And they're less worse than the alternatives.

Bob

16:43

@acoder ...at that point you'd need a dedicated provider

a coder

we have L3

Bob

@acoder I mean, you'd need to test against a dedicated provider on the other end.

a coder

and i'm going to run it from the "locals"

Bob

@acoder lowendtalk.com/discussion/87527/10-gbit-uplink-speedtest

a coder

so you can't do it on your own at speedtest or something?

That Brazilian Guy

16:44

I just had to download RemixOS, start it in a VM, activate Google Apps, install the app, run it, and change the limit. Easy-peasy

Bob

Ideally you'd run your own iperf server on the far end.

That way you actually have some control over it.

@acoder Kinda-sorta, but consider: one server is unlikely to have > 10Gbit. What if a couple other people test at the same time as you?

a coder

i'm only getting about 10MB from azure for local backups for some reason

Bob

You won't get reliable results unless either the server link far exceeds yours, or you host your own server to test against.

a coder

google should

djsmiley2k

should what?

Bob

16:45

I'm sure they'd be happy to provide you the server if you pay for it.

a coder

10-30 mb that is

That Brazilian Guy

@acoder The best speedtest site is speedtest.net

djsmiley2k

@ThatBrazilianGuy for 5Gb testing?

Bob

@ThatBrazilianGuy Not for multi-Gbit connections

djsmiley2k

xD

a coder

16:46

for commercial tests?

Bob

2 mins ago, by Bob

@acoder https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/87527/10-gbit-uplink-speedtest

Read that thread. Use one of the ones linked there, and pray no one else is using it at the same time.

Or run your own.

Those are your options.

Burgi

$hometime = true;
if($hometime){
    echo "see you later!";
}

djsmiley2k

^^

That Brazilian Guy

@djsmiley2k Oh.

djsmiley2k

lol

That Brazilian Guy

16:47

Hey hello @Rahul2001!

Happy birthday!

Bob

@acoder Eh, if it's TCP and a far-away server it's probably a large BDP.

You'll need to tune your TCP window sizes, etc.

a coder

let speed test choose

Rahul2001

@ThatBrazilianGuy thanks!

Bob

Or use UDR or something else based on UDT.

@JourneymanGeek ^ I swear it's getting worse every time i run it!

a coder

@bob can i use a dos cmd?

DavidPostill

17:55

lol

17

Q: Why is Windows giving my hard disk the letter C and not A or B for example?

Is it because the operating system is written in the C programming language? I think that the A and B languages were not so successful? I am thirteen and trying to do computer programming in C#.

windows operating-system

defalt

look at this question..they are saying that users can't access Google Drive Application Data Folder..If i've root access can't i access every memory location on my phone?

24

Q: How can I see hidden app data in Google Drive?

I have an Android app that stores my notes in hidden app data. I want to export my notes so the question is simple: How can I access the hidden app data in Google Drive for a specific app?

google-drive-sdk

Google drive application data folder contains the saved file of game progress..only application is given access to write file there

how do i quote someone's comment to whom i want to reply?

djsmiley2k

18:35

ok guise

first my mouse stopped movnig on this laptop (trackpad)

i rebooted because... odd

it comes ack up, ther's now no mouse cursor either (but you can still right click) - it still dosn't move ither

not even sure wtf is going now on

Anyone got any advice? :/

logical123

try a usb pointer device

disable trackpad in bios

djsmiley2k

i would i fi had oe :/

logical123

blast

djsmiley2k

yah

logical123

I have a question too lol... I'm trying to muddle my way through regular expressions to rename a bunch of files in shell, but am having a bit of trouble thinking it through. the file names are in the following format: FILENAME_DDMMYY_HHMM_text.jpg

all I need to do is flip MM and DD so that month is first. then, when sorting by alphanumeric order, they are in chronological order as well

djsmiley2k

18:56

wooo fixed it

disabled in bios, booted, enabled in bios, it's back

does FILENAME contain numbers?

Also @logical123 that questiion is perfect for the site

just ask it there

logical123

No, it does not.

Yeah, I might post it, but I've almost finished a python script to do it already lol

djsmiley2k

@Bob again thanks for your help yesterday, can't believe that worked as well as it did xD

logical123

Was hoping someone idling maybe had a quick oneliner soln.

ive been having a strange problem with my quite old now ThinkPad. I have Lubuntu 14 on it, and for the life of me cannot seem to get it to boot off of anything but the fixed disk...

It's not even that old either, like '07

Usually doing what you did, disable everything then enable everything in bios, works, but not the past 3 times I've tried

djsmiley2k

welp i think you want awk

logical123

yeah that, or a clever mv command is what i was trying

or just straight rename from util-linux

djsmiley2k

19:05

if it was todays date, it'd be easy

logical123

unfortunately not lol

djsmiley2k

you could parse hte file name out after the _, use date, convert it ot a different format, resave the file

thats a horrible work around, but it's not regex XD

logical123

exactly what im doing in python

looking for first _, chop that off, chop first 2 chars, next two, then rebuild the needed string with the pairs of chars swapped

djsmiley2k

or that way works

logical123

19:52

https://pastebin.com/1W7eJtpT

It's not pretty, but it works.

bertieb

20:29

ISO 8601

ISO 8601 Data elements and interchange formats – Information interchange – Representation of dates and times is an international standard covering the exchange of date and time-related data. It was issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and was first published in 1988. The purpose of this standard is to provide an unambiguous and well-defined method of representing dates and times, so as to avoid misinterpretation of numeric representations of dates and times, particularly when data are transferred between countries with different conventions for writing numeric dates...

(because MMDDYY only works if YY doesn't change- may or may not matter in this case, but worth bearing in mind)

AnArrayOfFunctions

21:16

Hello

Michael Frank

Hello

AnArrayOfFunctions

I was thinking is there any way to run 32 bit UEFI applications on what seems to be 64 bit UEFI firmware.

Because I seem to be able to launch only 64bit UEFI applications which is odd.

And btw I'm new to this firmware bitness thing.

But anyway - I think I got it.

Michael Frank

If you can be more specific about what you are trying to run and on what hardware, you could probably post a question on the main site.

AnArrayOfFunctions

Well yeah probably I could - thanks for the tip. But I feel like I can deal with this myself. On the other hand I left this here if you want to discuss it later if it feels like any interesting of a topic.

djsmiley2k

21:39

The chat is temporal, the site is constant

so actual useful infomation should ideally reside on the main site

Burgi

we came 6th out of 7 in the quiz :(

last week we won AND won the raffle

djsmiley2k

that said, discussion is always fun, but I have no clue what you're trying to do, with the information you've provided.

@Burgi cheat more

Burgi

heretic

DavidPostill

@Burgi You were too ~~slow~~ drunk looking up the answers on your smartphones?

Michael Frank

If I ran a pub quiz, I'd make everyone put their phones in an upside down pint glass with another full pint on top.

If you want to get your phone, gotta chug the beer!

Burgi

21:46

@DavidPostill i was driving

also we never look stuff up!

Michael Frank

22:01

@Burgi Driving? Is this some kind of carpool quiz show?

Burgi

yeah :(

djsmiley2k

22:11

o_O

Burgi

22:53

MegaProcessor - Computerphile

►

djsmiley2k

Is matlab on topic? :/

only 197 questions tagged..

still listening to Hello Internet here @Burgi

The computerphile vids are weird, while I'm subscribed I rarely actually watch em

Also my co-worker is leaving after his night shifts, his last one being tomorrow

but his new job had his induction today

So I've told him to sleep

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k kinda

djsmiley2k

This guy has only 2 anwers

both to a github project

HuHa

19 2

linux unix bash command-line disk-utility

Infact, his project

so.... that's spam, right? (he doesn't say he actually made it, tho it's quite obvious once you click through to github).

Journeyman Geek

could comment recommending full disclosure

.... like @DavidPostill just did...

DavidPostill

I did on one of them. The other one says "HuHa (KDirStat / QDirStat author)" already.

djsmiley2k

23:08

yeah

I just noticed on the otherone he did so

this one came up in review, hense why i was looking at it :D

djsmiley2k

23:31

ewwww

superuser.com/questions/tagged/addons

wtf is this tag!? addons

Journeyman Geek

Propose to nuke?

djsmiley2k

Can I just post that on meta then?

DavidPostill

Yeah. Meta tag

@djsmiley2k Yes. But it is compulsory to come up with a punny title when proposing tag mods

Ben N

"Subtract [addons]"

djsmiley2k

Yeah, was trying to think up something clever

Burgi

23:49

where is @TOWMN?

its been a month

Journeyman Geek

they've not turned up since the asda incident

Burgi

how are they coping without any internet?

think it was the straw that broke the camel's back?

Michael Frank

@JourneymanGeek asda?

Journeyman Geek

chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=asda&room=118

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