Re: Journalctl and offline boot disk drive

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 30/03/2025 12:32, George Kirkham wrote:
> Now with Journalctl, is it still possible to connect the failed-to-boot 
> disk drive to another computer and read logs?  How?
[...]
> https://man.archlinux.org/man/journalctl.1.en
>
> -D DIR, --directory=DIR

There is <https://manpages.debian.org/journalctl#SOURCE_OPTIONS>
However since you are already on the Arch site, you may find examples there:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Journal

There is an article on journal in
https://systemd.io/#the-systemd-for-administrators-blog-series
It does not describe -D, but still may be useful for other use cases.

> PS I am currently using Thunderbird to try out email threading. Are the 
> any other good email clients that support email threading and are 
> packaged in Debian?

Rare mail clients do not set In-Reply-To. I am curious which one you 
usually use.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists#Message_Threading_and_Replying
describes threading. In addition this article and
https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/
suggests
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