Re: How does the superblock/mount -t auto work? (was: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs)

2003-12-27 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 18:04:14 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 at 23:59 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: Thank you for taking the time to respond, but the above was already pretty clear to me. What's not clear to me are the following points: Sorry, my fault. Since the 'auto'

RE: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-27 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 23:12:22 +0100, David Baron wrote: The problem that I had, several times, was a shutdown hangup on something like deconfiguring inetd. At this point, the keyboard was disabled. I could escape to another TTY# but could type nothing. The best behaved shutdown at this

Re: How does the superblock/mount -t auto work? (was: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs)

2003-12-27 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 at 10:35 GMT, Paul Morgan penned lots of really good info, including: Here's a good place to start reading (I give the two links because there's not a link from the first page to the second, at least I didn't see one. The second page describes ext3 journalling options.

Re: How does the superblock/mount -t auto work? (was: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs)

2003-12-27 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 09:57:13 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 at 10:35 GMT, Paul Morgan penned lots of really good info, including: Here's a good place to start reading (I give the two links because there's not a link from the first page to the second, at least I didn't

Re: Re: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs

2003-12-26 Thread David Baron
Should I so choose to convert to ext3: What options do I give this program? I have one big-linux partition (as opposed to separates /etc, /usr, etc.) and the swap partition. I do not quite undersatnd the options in the -h listing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs

2003-12-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 at 09:15 GMT, David Baron penned: Should I so choose to convert to ext3: What options do I give this program? I have one big-linux partition (as opposed to separates /etc, /usr, etc.) and the swap partition. I do not quite undersatnd the options in the -h listing. I'm

Re: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs

2003-12-26 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 12:23:23 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 at 09:15 GMT, David Baron penned: Should I so choose to convert to ext3: What options do I give this program? I have one big-linux partition (as opposed to separates /etc, /usr, etc.) and the swap partition. I do

How does the superblock/mount -t auto work? (was: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs)

2003-12-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 at 21:15 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 12:23:23 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Ooh, here *I* have a question. Just noticed that I have my ext3 root partition mounting as 'auto' in my fstab. My other ext3 partitions are mounting as 'ext3,ext2' (in case

Re: How does the superblock/mount -t auto work? (was: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs)

2003-12-26 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 16:08:42 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 at 21:15 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: With auto, mount will probe the superblock to get the filesystem type. cf. man mount I'm not sure how to take a peek at the superblock myself, but the relevant output of

Re: How does the superblock/mount -t auto work? (was: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs)

2003-12-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 at 23:59 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: The magic number is part of the superblock. tune2fs -l is showing you the superblock. The magic number is the same for ext2 and ext3, but the features are different (has_journal for ext3). This is very useful: Suppose you have an ext3

Re: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-25 Thread David Z Maze
David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem that I had, several times, was a shutdown hangup on something like deconfiguring inetd. The script that's getting run at that point is /etc/init.d/inetd; if this is happening repeatedly, you might look at that script further. If I journal

Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread David Baron
This would be a good idea. Sometimes, the shutdown fails leaving a damaged volume. I just did a manual fsck as well and good but it is a bit scarey :-) How might I assure such a logout synch? Is there a utility to do this? Unmount;mount ? General question: How does one set up a login and

Re: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from David Baron: General question: How does one set up a login and logout script -- such as to man bash -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:28:51 +0100, David Baron wrote: This would be a good idea. Sometimes, the shutdown fails leaving a damaged volume. I just did a manual fsck as well and good but it is a bit scarey :-) How might I assure such a logout synch? Is there a utility to do this?

RE: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread David Baron
The problem that I had, several times, was a shutdown hangup on something like deconfiguring inetd. At this point, the keyboard was disabled. I could escape to another TTY# but could type nothing. The best behaved shutdown at this point as a control./alt/del. It apparently did not flush the

Re: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread Travis Crump
David Baron wrote: The problem that I had, several times, was a shutdown hangup on something like deconfiguring inetd. At this point, the keyboard was disabled. I could escape to another TTY# but could type nothing. The best behaved shutdown at this point as a control./alt/del. It apparently

Re: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:28:51 +0100, David Baron wrote: This would be a good idea. Sometimes, the shutdown fails leaving a damaged volume. I just did a manual fsck as well and good but it is a bit scarey :-) How might I assure such a logout synch? Is there a utility to do this?

Re: Synching volumes on logout

2003-12-24 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:28:51 +0100, David Baron wrote: This would be a good idea. Sometimes, the shutdown fails leaving a damaged volume. I just did a manual fsck as well and good but it is a bit scarey :-) How might I assure such a logout synch? Is there a utility to do this?