On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 00:20:02 -0400
songbird wrote:
Hello songbird,
> i always turn off the automatic reboot. i don't want
If this machine had that option, so would I. Meaning; once powered
down it requires user interaction to restart, it doesn't automatically
reboot after power is restored.
Brad Rogers wrote:
...
> During stormy weather, in the exposed rural area I live in, power can go
> off several times an hour. Although it's rarely longer than a few
> seconds at a time, it's enough to forcibly shut down computers, and
> would be rather annoying if said computer were to be shut
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
...
> Whatever it was that happened, I now tell my BIOS to NO, DO *NOT* keep
> trying to come back up if a power failure completely shuts it down at
> some point. That's from having seen the lights and thus power flicker
> on and off some 4, 5, 6, 7 times within a 2 or 3
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 12:47 PM Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 18:14:19 +0200
> deloptes wrote:
>
> >why not use something more decent like ext3 or ext4? we are in 2018 ;-)
>
> (your smiley noted)
> Ken gave no indication of time-frame, other than in the past. Could've
> been last
On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 18:14:19 +0200
deloptes wrote:
Hello deloptes,
>why not use something more decent like ext3 or ext4? we are in 2018 ;-)
(your smiley noted)
Ken gave no indication of time-frame, other than in the past. Could've
been last week, could've been twenty years ago.
--
Regards
Kenneth Parker wrote:
> My worst, was kind of "mild", though scary: I had to rebuild /boot (on
> ext2), because the last action was placing a copy of the Linux Kernel on
> /boot.
why not use something more decent like ext3 or ext4? we are in 2018 ;-)
regards
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 8:09 AM Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 07:56:34 -0400
> Kenneth Parker wrote:
>
> Hello Kenneth,
>
> >My worst, was kind of "mild", though scary: I had to rebuild /boot (on
> >ext2), because the last action was placing a copy of the Linux Kernel on
> >/boot.
>
>
On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 07:56:34 -0400
Kenneth Parker wrote:
Hello Kenneth,
>My worst, was kind of "mild", though scary: I had to rebuild /boot (on
>ext2), because the last action was placing a copy of the Linux Kernel on
>/boot.
It was the fear of such an issue (an inability to boot) that
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 2:20 AM Brad Rogers wrote:
>
> Worst I had happen as a result of power failure was that disk the
> journal couldn't recover everything required, such that sector errors
> were reported on every boot. A reformat got around that. Tiresome, but
> not fatal.
>
My worst,
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:34:37 -0400
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
Hello Cindy-Sue,
(I've removed references, so this should no longer thread with the USB
drive thread)
>reinstall... or something. I don't remember hardware getting fried,
>just [code]. Maybe it was even "that other" operating system
On 7/18/18, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:47:31 -0400
> songbird wrote:
>
>> we get enough power flickers that it's probably saved
>>me a lot of issues over the years since. well worth the
>>$80 i spent.
>
> Agreed, *well* worth the spend.
>
> During stormy weather, in the
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:47:31 -0400
songbird wrote:
Hello songbird,
> we get enough power flickers that it's probably saved
>me a lot of issues over the years since. well worth the
>$80 i spent.
Agreed, *well* worth the spend.
During stormy weather, in the exposed rural area I live in, power
Martin McCormick wrote:
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> We normally have a stable power situation, here, but
> recently we had 4 small glitches in one day plus several more
> before and after that day and anything mounted rw usually needs
> the fsck procedure afterward to be sure it is still any good.
>
>
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 04:46:59PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
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> > Yes, you can. Try
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> Thank you. I see the error of my ways, now. I had tried just
> about everything
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> Yes, you can. Try
>
> sudo mount -oro /dev/ /mnt
>
> (for a more concrete example, assuming your USB drive comes up as
> /dev/sdc and has one partition, say /dev/sdc1):
>
> sudo mount -oro /dev/sdc1 /mnt
>
> Now if you are
On 7/17/2018 9:44 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
The reason to do this is to protect data on thumb drives full of
archives.
When searching for information, most of the discussion
was from people who had root file systems which had been
corrupted so the mount process mounted them read-only.
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 02:44:02PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> The reason to do this is to protect data on thumb drives full of
> archives.
>
> When searching for information, most of the discussion
> was from people who had root file
The reason to do this is to protect data on thumb drives full of
archives.
When searching for information, most of the discussion
was from people who had root file systems which had been
corrupted so the mount process mounted them read-only.
In this case, all is well and the
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