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Hey! I am a beginner here. I am a Pre-final year student at VJTI, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Read about this amazing project on GSOC website. Wanted to contribute to open source and commit to a long term project. Where can I start?
<zoq[m]>
<_slack_mlpack_16> "Hey! I am a beginner here. I..." <- Hello, so a good starting point it to checkout https://www.mlpack.org/community.html, especially the "Getting Involved" has some pointer how you to get started.
<GopiMTatiraju[m]>
Hi Ammar, other than core mlpack, we also have an examples repo and models repo which needs a lot of work...
<GopiMTatiraju[m]>
Once you are done building mlpack and get yourself familiar with codebase you can look into all the repos...
<GopiMTatiraju[m]>
* Hi Ammar, other than core mlpack, we also have an examples repo and models repo.
<GopiMTatiraju[m]>
Once you are done building mlpack and get yourself familiar with codebase you can look into all the repos...
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<shrit[m]>
rcurtin: have you every moved the / root filesystem to another disk drive, without data loss?
<shrit[m]>
basically mine is saturated and I would like to move it to a new harddrive. However, I can not find any good resources online and I have done that for the /home which is much eaiser. I wonder if you have ever tried to do such a thing
<shrit[m]>
okay, I am back, it seems that `dd` does work
<shrit[m]>
it cloned the hard drive and I just swaped the old with the new one and it seems to be working so far
<shrit[m]>
now I need to extend the filesystem
<GopiMTatiraju[m]>
Wow, this is nice...
<GopiMTatiraju[m]>
Saves the new installation and setup time...
<shrit[m]>
saved basically my life, It would take a month to install and re config the new installation
<GopiMTatiraju[m]>
Yea, I will bookmark the article
<shrit[m]>
Yeah, it is a good one, I only did half of it because I knew I am going to remove the old disk
<rcurtin[m]>
yeah, shrit , dd is what I would have suggested if the filesystems will be the same size 👍
<shrit[m]>
Doing it on a raspberry pi is easy, but doing it on you main machine is not the same.
<shrit[m]>
I was able to resize the partition then but I had to delete the swap and then create one.
<shrit[m]>
wonder why we do not use `dd` to make backups
<shrit[m]>
everyone propose to use rsync, but dd is way easier and better
<zoq[m]>
Is `dd` really better? They are somewhat different in nature, dd does perform on a block-level and `rsync` on a file level.
<zoq[m]>
When I want a backup I want incremental backups, so I can't use `dd`.
<zoq[m]>
Also, using `dd` on a mounted disk, is probably not a good idea.
<rcurtin[m]>
yeah, whenever I have done something like this I reboot into a livecd or something so the fs isn't mounted. It could be dangerous to use dd if it's mounted
<zoq[m]>
Yeah, if I want a 1-to-1 copy `dd` is good; I basically get a perfect replication, that means I can even restore my potential fragmented data :)
<shrit[m]>
Yeah, exactly I am always looking for replication, rsync is good I have it as a cron job, but at the end what is the point if I never copy data from the external drive?
<shrit[m]>
we will never know if the replication with rsync is as perfect as it should be. While with `dd` I am sure that this is it
<shrit[m]>
frankly I would judge it better in my usage perspective, as I `rsync` always failed me. But of course, if you have a different use case then `rsync` can be good for that one