Linux-Misc Digest #528, Volume #21 Tue, 24 Aug 99 19:13:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: 3com ISA cards and linux ("Kalkas")
Re: Infrequently connected to Internet (Heeeeeeeez back!)
Re: File system repair after crash (Timothy J. Lee)
Re: Abit BP6? (Vincent Fox)
Re: BeOS (Aeon Flux)
upgrade linux kernel ("Hung P. Tran")
Re: DSL router? (Cory Councilman)
Can't mount Win98 Fat32 hdd...can anyone help...!!! (Cantona)
Help! Text Console Modes (Steve Conley)
Hard disk speed issues (Rod Smith)
Re: BIOS upgrade needs DOS(??) (Johan Kullstam)
Re: modules... How can I make it automatically on every startup ? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Web Page Authoring Tools (Johan Kullstam)
Re: System requirements ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problem to su (initgroups) (NF Stevens)
Re: Default mkdir attributes (NF Stevens)
Re: wrong free disk space if I use df-command (NF Stevens)
Linux Workshops ("ITTE")
Re: changing hostnames (Jayan M)
Re: Why filesystem crash? (Jayan M)
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From: "Kalkas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: 3com ISA cards and linux
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 23:20:12 +0200
Paul Sherwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sat, 21 Aug 1999 17:50:05 +0200, "Kalkas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >How shall I get those drivers? I have been at the 3com site, but they do
not
> >mention Linux; I plan to phone them directly.
> >
> The 3C509 is one of the commonest ISA ethernet cards around.AFAIK,
> every Linux distribution includes support for this card, either
> compiled into a kernel or as a loadable module.
>
> However, you may need the DOS setup program if you don't have it
> already. I suggest you reconfigure the card, switching off PnP and
> setting IRQ and IO values manually. You get fewer problems that way.
> You can get the 3Com config program from the 3Com website.
>
> Best regards, Paul
Thanks for your help, Paul.
Sincerely yours,
Kalkas
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From: Heeeeeeeez back! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Infrequently connected to Internet
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:22:35 +0100
Sean McAfee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's the best long-term solution to this situation? I remember something
> from the Slackware installation about a loopback interface; I didn't select
> it, but could it be what I need now?
Loopback should ALWAYS be active. It's used by so many different processes,
it's unbelievable... X is a big user of it.
(Without it, I think X either fails altogether, or is verrrrry slow)
Do I ultimately need a configuration
> that will make gethostbyname("lion-o") return a struct hostent containing
> 127.0.0.1? (I'm really grasping at straws here, obviously.)
Try adding
lion-o 127.0.0.1
localhost 127.0.0.1
to your /etc/hosts
file... And turn on loopback.
I think...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Lee)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: File system repair after crash
Date: 24 Aug 1999 21:29:49 GMT
Reply-To: see-signature-for-email-address---junk-not-welcome
"Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|I'd like to learn a comprehensive strategy/approach to repairing my file
|system after a crash.
Mount your filesystems with the sync option (instead of the default
async) to reduce the chance of unrecoverable filesystem damage in a
crash.
--
========================================================================
Timothy J. Lee timlee@
Unsolicited bulk or commercial email is not welcome. netcom.com
No warranty of any kind is provided with this message.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent Fox)
Subject: Re: Abit BP6?
Date: 24 Aug 1999 21:05:59 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Paul Jimbo Duncan G7KES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>Hi,
>Is anyone running SMP Linux on an Abit BP6 using a pair of Celerons?
>If so, any problems? Things to watch out for?
Works great.
I have one box with a BP6 and 2 C300A at 450.
Another one right next to it with 2 C366 at 550.
Using Asus Elan-Vital T10 cases, very nice and
roomy and good airflow. The dual 450 box
has 2 generic black OEM heatsinks and stay
cool enough and VERY stable. The dual 550
I put some ComputerNerd Alpha heatsinks on.
Tried it with the generics but the heatsinks
seemed quite worryingly hot to me at 550.
The dual 550 is my dept news-server machine.
Handles a load all day every day plus runs
the RC5 client at 3 Mkeys/sec to boot.
Get OEM CPU's, be mentally prepared
you might have to absorb some losses.
Out of 4 Celeron 366's I have bought so
far, 3 made 550 and one would not. I used
the 366-only in Girlfriend PC and wrote it
off as the risk. I find it unethical that
some on these forums advocate returning a
CPU that works perfectly fine at 366.
There are of course web-sites that sell 366's
pretested and guaranteed at 550, but you pay
extra for it. Up to you.
--
"Who needs horror movies when we have Microsoft"?
-- Christine Comaford, PC Week, 27/9/95
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aeon Flux)
Subject: Re: BeOS
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 21:23:28 GMT
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999 11:13:26 -0400, "Robert F. Scheyder"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Hate to bring this up, but what is BeOS? And why to they claim to be better
>than Linux? They're thinking of giving it a try at my school, and I'm just
>interested in what BeOS really claims to do.
>
>Tschuss!
>
>Robert Scheyder
Some old news...
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,12519,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh
That didn't pan out with apple, so they started to get the pc market.
Beos for the Mac was not backwards compatible with other mac programs.
Beos uses it's own file system and runs a bash shell. There are few
programs for Be and even less hardware support than Slackware 3.0!
Designed for multimedia but doesn't support any multimedia hardware.
Go figure?
Aeon Flux
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From: "Hung P. Tran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: upgrade linux kernel
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 17:20:23 GMT
I am using Suse Linux 5.3 and Redhat linux 6.0. I am trying
to upgrade the Suse Linux kernel from 2.0.35 to 2.2.5 to
be compatible with the RedHat kernel. I download
the kernel image from an ftp site an attempt the upgrade.
When I try to recompile the kernel using "make zImage",
I receive an error of duplicate variable from
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/checksum.c. Further inspection
reveals that the variables are not duplicate. It's just that they
are very long and have the same 1st 17 characters, and so
appear the same to the compiler when they are truncated.
How do I overcome this problem ? Do I need to update my
gcc compiler (curently ver 2.7.2.1) or can I modify a makefile
somewhere to add a switch ??? Please advice ...
Should I just update the kernel to 2.2.5 or should I go all the way
to the newest one available (which I believe is 2.3.14) ???
Does newer necessarily mean better or that some version is
more stable than other ???
Thanks,
hung
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
From: Cory Councilman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DSL router?
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 17:19:49 GMT
In alt.os.linux.slackware Greg Leblanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Some Cisco's can do firewalling w/NAT or PAT. If you have access
to the router, config the WAN port for a negotiated address, and then
set up NAT overload (PAT/IP Masq). Then you can config the ethernet
port with you private addresses. If you are really paranoid about breakins,
run an ethernet x-over cable into a dual ethernet Linux box and then do
firewalling there/also.
Cory Councilman
: As far as I know, uswest.net uses DHCP to give client machines a
: publicly routable IP address. I haven't played with my cisco enough
: yet, but I think that you should be able to set the wan interface to use
: DHCP, and then choose an IP for the lan interface. Then just enable
: DHCP for the lan interface using some private IP block. The
: router/bridge also has nat capabilities, which you should enable and
: then you should be all set. However, this is NOT what I would do. I'd
: set up a linux machine with firewalling and use filters to make sure
: that people can't just come in and steal/demolish your computers.
: greg
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: John Hovell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> Marc --
:> I could be wrong, but isn't that basically just connecting a network
:> interface? Doesn't it just plug into an Ethernet card, and gets
: configured
:> accordingly?
:>
:> It really varies depending on the ISP... I installed a DSL modem that
:> actually was a router (that is, you just plugged it into an Ethernet
: hub,
:> and anything on that physical network could get access with a real IP
:> address).
:>
:> What exactly is your setup?
:>
:> --John
:>
:> Marc Ohmann wrote:
:>
:> > Can anyone refer a good how-to or any resource dealing with linux
:> > router/firewall and a cisco 675 DSL modemm to me? I have read all
: of
:> > the relevant LDP how-tos but something more case specific would
: help.
:> > The kernel is recompiling right now and so far everything is going
: as
:> > planned (knock on wood) but I am sure that eventually I am going to
: need
:> > a good resource.
:> >
:> > Thanks,
:> > marc
:>
:>
: --
: It's pronounced "sexy" not "scuzzy"!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cantona)
Subject: Can't mount Win98 Fat32 hdd...can anyone help...!!!
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 21:52:17 GMT
I boot Win98 off a 6Gb hdd with three 2Gb fat16 partitions...
...I also have a 4Gb hdd with a single fat32 partition...
...the problem is I can't mount the fat32 hdd...!!!
When I type:
# mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /dosd
I get this error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2,
or too many mounted file systems
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)
I have also tried editing /etc/fstab but also get an error on booting
linux...!!!
My partitons on the 6Gb hdd mount okay with no problems...!!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Conley)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Help! Text Console Modes
Date: 24 Aug 1999 21:10:09 GMT
Hi! I need some help understanding how to set the console mode on the
Linux console driver. I've read the man pages for console(4),
console_codes(4), mapscrn(8), and the man pages those reference, and I
still don't have a good understanding of how console modes work. Could
anyone point me to a good document on the subject? I've looked through
the HOWTOs that ship with Red Hat 5.2 and I've found nothing terribly
useful.
Here is the problem I'm trying to solve: The Linux text console is more
or less a VT100. I am trying to run a legacy application that will
display properly only on either a Viewpoint terminal, or a "standard IBM
PC video" display. I'm not even going to try to get the Viewpoint
working, but I'm hoping that there is a way to bypass the Linux console's
VT100 emulation and use the PC video display directly. The man pages I've
read suggest that this is indeed possible but I can't seem to get it to
work using the escape sequences they list. I've already figured out that
you're not supposed to just type them in at the shell prompt--I use echo
to print them to the screen and many of them work, but I still can't seem
to get the VT100 emulation disabled. Am I just barking up the wrong tree
here?
If this isn't an option, does anyone know of a good Viewpoint terminal
emulator for Linux? (Preferably NOT one that runs in X11.)
The application in question is a Pick BASIC point of sale app that runs
inside of Pick D3/Linux, and re-writing it to use terminfo/ncurses/
whatever is NOT an option. If it comes down to that it's easier to just
slap another Viewpoint terminal on, but I'd really like to make use of the
hardware I have.
Thanks!
Steve
--
Steve Conley I don't do Windows.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coil.com/~steve
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Hard disk speed issues
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 21:41:40 GMT
Hi,
I've got a puzzling problem with hard drive speed. I have three systems:
1) A multi-OS system with Cyrix MII-333 (266MHz) and two hard
disks -- a 6.4GB IDE and a 4GB SCSI.
2) A Linux-only system with an AMD K6-233 and one hard disk -- a
10GB 7,200 RPM Maxtor IDE unit.
3) A Mac/Linux iMac system with a 10GB 7,200 RPM Maxtor IDE unit.
Now, you'd expect the two Maxtor drives to be fastest (the IDE and SCSI
drives on the multi-OS system are only 5400 RPM units), but here's what I
get from hdparm -tT on these systems and disks:
6.4GB IDE:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 3.34 seconds =38.32 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 6.47 seconds = 9.89 MB/sec
4GB SCSI:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 3.29 seconds =38.91 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 8.85 seconds = 7.23 MB/sec
Linux-only 10GB IDE:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 64 MB in 1.97 seconds =32.49 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 11.69 seconds = 2.74 MB/sec
iMac 10GB IDE:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 64 MB in 1.25 seconds =51.20 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 16.47 seconds = 1.94 MB/sec
I get similar figures when I try timing operations like "dd if=somebigfile
of=/dev/null".
What's worse, when I do any sustained I/O on the "bum" drives, my system
becomes nearly unusable. For instance, if I do a "dd if=/dev/zero of=foo
bs=1024 count=1048576", the drive light goes on for a while (fine), and it
then takes a minute or two to get through a simple text-mode login.
Those Maxtor drives are supposed to be capable of sustained ~20MB/sec
transfers (internal transfer rate), so the ~2-3MB/sec rates being reported
by hdparm are pretty abysmal. I've checked, and as near as I can tell,
the systems are correctly configured for DMA transfers, etc. Here's the
contents of /proc/ide/hda/settings for the Linux-only box:
name value min max mode
---- ----- --- --- ----
bios_cyl 1216 0 65535 rw
bios_head 255 0 255 rw
bios_sect 63 0 63 rw
breada_readahead 4 0 127 rw
bswap 0 0 1 r
file_readahead 72 0 2097151 rw
io_32bit 0 0 3 rw
keepsettings 0 0 1 rw
max_kb_per_request 122 1 127 rw
multcount 0 0 8 rw
nice1 1 0 1 rw
nowerr 0 0 1 rw
pio_mode write-only 0 255 w
slow 0 0 1 rw
unmaskirq 0 0 1 rw
using_dma 1 0 1 rw
The Linux-only box's drive is the only device on its IDE cable, but the
iMac shares the cable with the iMac's standard CD-ROM drive. Both the
x86 boxes have motherboards with VIA chipsets. I've tried recompiling
the afflicted x86 computer's kernel with and without the VIA IDE support,
with little effect. (I'm currently running 2.2.8, but I've also tried
2.2.10 with similar results.) When I run the afflected drive on the
secondary IDE channel on the multi-OS computer, I get similar performance
results on it. I'm running Red Hat 6.0 on the afflicted x86 computer and
LinuxPPC R5 on the iMac.
Does anybody have any clues about what's going on here, or how to fix it?
--
Rod Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~smithrod
Author of _Special Edition Using Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux_, from Que
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BIOS upgrade needs DOS(??)
Date: 24 Aug 1999 12:51:39 -0400
Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So far, I haven't seen one single motherboard manufacturer that release
> a bios flashing tool for any other operating system than plain DOS. I
> think there's a requirement for a real-mode single-user OS, as opposed
> to protected-mode, multitasking. You can do it from a DOS boot floppy,
> however, there's no requirement for a hard disk partition with DOS. At
> least one motherboard manufacturer (Abit) recommends the floppy method
> over the HD one.
where do you find a booting ms-dos diskette these days? all i have is
linux. is there a site with an ms-dos image i can dd to the floppy?
how do i make a fat12 filesystem?
--
johan kullstam
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modules... How can I make it automatically on every startup ?
Date: 24 Aug 1999 12:56:11 -0400
Cl�udio Ant�nio Costa Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi.
> Everytime I boot, I type manually and add my soundcards module with
> modprobe. How can I make it automatically on every startup? Does Linux
> have
> startup-sequence type of file? I was use hed hat wifh kernel 2.2.5 in
> pentium II
> Claudio Fernandes
put the modprobe commands at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
--
johan kullstam
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Web Page Authoring Tools
Date: 24 Aug 1999 13:01:26 -0400
"Suddn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is a good, easy to use web authoring tool for Linux?
emacs.
--
johan kullstam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: System requirements
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 21:50:44 GMT
In article <XNCw3.5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **) wrote:
> In <7purcu$c1d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> [Snip...]
>
> |> cable modem) for 5 users. In addition, this computer will be used
for
> |> joining my LAN to another LAN (VPN).
> |>
> |> How fast of a computer is required to do this? Will a 486 66 do
the
> |> job? How much memory is required?
>
> [Snip...]
>
> For a single page jumpstart, you might look at the Linux Router
Project:
>
> http://www.linuxrouter.org/
[...Snip...]
An initial perusal of the FAQ shows that there's an unfounded report of
someone using a 486 66 with an unknown amount of memory to serve up a
128k line to 16 users. It sounds like routing isn't exactly a hardware
intensive operation. I'm concerned about the amount of memory in the
machine, though. I can get my hands on 16 megs for a 486-66.
Cheers,
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: Problem to su (initgroups)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:36:55 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Since a view days I can't su. After typing in the password I get the
>message: initgroups: Invalid argument
>
> I don't remember what programs I have installed in the last days but I didnt
> add, change or delete a group or a user.
>
>I have already copied the files group and passwd from another client where it
>works (with the same distribution) but the problem is still the same.
>
>I am running DLD 6.0 (RedHat compatible Distribution)
>
>Any ideas ?
It could be your version of libc. libc5 allowed negative numbers
as user and group ids; but glibc (libc6) doesn't.
Norman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Crossposted-To: redhat.security.general
Subject: Re: Default mkdir attributes
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:55:44 GMT
Michael Klatsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm curious- recently, when I make a new directory, the default attributes
>are as follows:
>
>drwxrwsr-x 2 mapu mapu 1024 Aug 19 18:39 testing
>
>I believe the dirs are being created with the SGID bit set. How can I turn
>this behavior off? Should I turn this off?
If you create a sub-directory of a directory which has the sgid
bit set then by default the new directory will also have the
sgid bit set. You can override this by passing a -m (or --mode)
parameter to mkdir.
If a directory has the sgid bit set then any files created in
that directory will have the same group owner as the directory.
This may or not be what you want.
Norman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: Re: wrong free disk space if I use df-command
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:36:56 GMT
Rene Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hi,
>right now I get the following error-message in my log files.
>"low space on device ..."
>If I use the df-command it tells me that I have a capacity of 98% (= 135
>MB)on the device. But if I use the du command it shows only 35 MB (=30%).
>This must be the right size because after reboot df shows the same size.
>(I use RedHat 4.1 with kernel 2.0.27)
>Can I update the df-database without rebooting? Or any other comments?
df and du can validly give different values for a variety of reasons.
One possible reason is that you have deleted a file but the process
that is writing to that file hasn't closed it yet. In this case what
happens is that the directory entry is deleted so du cannot see the
file (and therefore cannot include it in its calculations) but the
file is still taking up disk space. When you reboot the program which
has the file open terminates and the disk space is freed.
If what you deleted is a log file then you need to tell the daemon
which is writing to that file to close it and open a new log file.
Most daemons respond to the HUP signal by reinitialising themselves
which usually includes closing and reopening log files. So if, for
instance, your cron log file is growing too large and you want to
delete it you would need to do the following
rm cron.log
killall -HUP cron
Note that most distributions include a cron job (which runs in
the early morning) which will do such housekeeping tasks automatically.
If you don't leave your system running 24hrs then it might be a good
idea to run these scripts manually from time to time.
Norman
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From: "ITTE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Workshops
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:14:49 GMT
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From: Jayan M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: changing hostnames
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:24:07 GMT
If it's redhat, chenge the following files:
/etc/HOSTNAME
/etc/sysconfig/network
Add / modify the /etc/hosts to point localhost and your
new hostname to 127.0.0.1
Gary Momarison wrote:
> Anup Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I'm runnign redhat..
> >
> >
> > I'd like to know how I can change the my hostname to something I like.
>
> Since you don't say, I'll assume it's a recent "redhat".
>
> Run "linuxconf" as root and poke around for the hostname changing
> thingy. Or poke around in your /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script to
> see what's happening at boot.
>
> --
> Look for Linux info at http://www.deja.com/home_ps.shtml and
> Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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From: Jayan M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why filesystem crash?
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 22:58:04 GMT
After you do a clean reboot and fsck whatever,
see how many i-nodes are free in your filesystem.
Maybe you're running out of i-nodes, even though
you have free space (or do you?) on your harddisk..
..and maybe, that's why the installation hangs and
complains about 'could not write to inode' etc
Jayan
Leonard Evens wrote:
> Doug Bryant wrote:
> >
> > hello all.
> >
> > I have been running linux on an AMD 266 home brew with a 2-3 year old 2
> > gig Western digital ide hard drive.
> >
> > This morining I downloaded the jdk and unzipped it into /usr/local/
> > Half way through the file unzipping process, the screen locks. I could
> > not do anything to get it to unstick, so I hit the power button. A
> > quick run through startup, an the box is back up and running.
> >
> > At lunch, I telneted into the box from work to cotinue setting up what I
> > did not get to finish this morning. Same procedure, same tar file, and
> > it happened again.
> >
> > When I got home, after guessing something was wrong with the tar file, I
> > downloaded another jdk version and unzipped it into the same location.
> > Well it happened again. I was logged into the console as root at the
> > time and telneting from my other computer configuring it.
> >
> > This time, the console was take over with a recursive scrolling message
> > about not being able to write to inode. Sorry I did not write the exact
> > message down. it was giving me the inode message and the address of the
> > crash on the disk.
> >
> > A hard reboot and this time i had to manually run fsck to get the
> > computer back up and running.
> >
> > Could anyone tell me why or what could be causing this. I suspect a bad
> > spot on the disk but would like a second opinion. Is there a way to fix
> > the disk if this is the case? I have been running this maching as a
> > gateway to the internet and it stays running basically all the time.
> >
> > I really appreciate any feedback. Thanks very much for your time.
> >
> > Doug Bryant
>
> It does sound as if there may be a problem with the disk. fsck
> should find any problems with the filesystem.
>
> With the SunOS, one could boot from a CD and use the Sun format
> program to do various disk checks, e.g. read, read/write in place,
> which were theoretically nondestructive and several destructive
> disk checks.
>
> There may be similar programs for Linux, but if so I don't know
> what they are. mkfs with the -c option will check the partition
> for bad sectors before making a filesystem, but that is highly
> destructive.
>
> You might have to use some Windows program.
>
> Let us know what you find out.
> --
>
> Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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