On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:46:14PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > problem. I like to try a couple of combination. But like to minimize > the risk of disk corruption. How do I prepare before issuing an > kernel-killing command? Perhaps go into single user mode and unmount > most of the partitions? Are are more things that can be done to > prepate well for a freeze test?
If you've compiled the magic sysrq support among the kernel hacking functions, Alt+SysRq+U mounts all filesystems read-only, and from there you're safe. Else, you can unmount filesystems or "mount -o remount,ro" them. In the latter case, you might need to go into single-user-mode to be able to remount your root file system read-only. However, if your system is not doing anything else, journaling file systems and a "sync" issued before the experiment should be just fine (mounting read-only is the sure bet, though). Ciao, Enrico -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
