On Friday 6 May, 2011 08:15:25 cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote: > I'm afraid to reboot though, because yesterday I started a btrfs fi balance > on this machine while sshed to another, and that is still running 15 hours > later with no indication of progress nor sign of abating. ^C is ineffective.
Wow. I was very nearly completely screwed. I went ahead and rebooted, but grub.cfg was not set up at all. I had no way to run update-grub on that root, and so tried manually filling in the missing parameters. That didn't work, probably through the obfuscation of UUIDs I couldn't determine what was really going on. What a terrible idea the way they were implemented, UUIDs. Why not put the current device assignment somewhere in the number? Terrible. I ended up copying an old grub.cfg from a backup, and that got me at least booted, though with lots of grub errors. Now I am at a loss. I don't understand this. grub-update at least -pretended- to work before I rebooted. I am still in shock. MUST get some actual work done today, rather than bit-twiddling. MUST try and make a living. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
