Re: OT: most universal file system for 1TB external USB2 hard drive

2008-08-29 Thread Andrew Gould
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:17 PM, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is also NTFS through ntfs-3g ,which is available for all of the above (sysutils/fusefs-ntfs on FreeBSD). Having a native Windows filesystem is sensible on a portable drive, and fat32 is not a great filesystem.

Re: OT: most universal file system for 1TB external USB2 hard drive

2008-08-29 Thread RW
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:21:40 -0500 Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:17 PM, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is also NTFS through ntfs-3g ,which is available for all of the above (sysutils/fusefs-ntfs on FreeBSD). Having a native Windows filesystem is

OT: most universal file system for 1TB external USB2 hard drive

2008-08-22 Thread Andrew Gould
of these systems to be able to read and write to the drive, what file system should I use? I know fat32 is pretty universal, but is it advisable? Thanks, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: OT: most universal file system for 1TB external USB2 hard drive

2008-08-22 Thread Polytropon
include FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X and Windows XP Pro. If I want all of these systems to be able to read and write to the drive, what file system should I use? I know fat32 is pretty universal, but is it advisable? Well, the filesystem with the most interchange quality isn't a real file system

Re: OT: most universal file system for 1TB external USB2 hard drive

2008-08-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Windows XP Pro. If I want all of these systems to be able to read and write to the drive, what file system should I use? I know fat32 is pretty universal, but is it advisable? yes, just don't put too many small files on it as it's wasteful. and don't put too big files (in order of many GB

Re: OT: most universal file system for 1TB external USB2 hard drive

2008-08-22 Thread RW
include FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X and Windows XP Pro. If I want all of these systems to be able to read and write to the drive, what file system should I use? I know fat32 is pretty universal, but is it advisable? There is also NTFS through ntfs-3g ,which is available for all of the above

df: negative Used and Capacity -- file system corruption?

2008-06-18 Thread Mark B.
Hi, FreeBSD 7, AMD64. $ df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1d2.9G-67M2.7G-2%/var/www $ mount /dev/da0s1d on /var/www (ufs, local, soft-updates) $ I found an email thread from 2006 where Suleiman Souhlal says the culprit was a stale

Large file system creation

2008-04-08 Thread Brian McCann
Hi all. I'm trying to create a ~9TB partition on a new file server. I thought FreeBSD now supported this (I'm on 7.0), but I can't figure it out. I go into sysinstall, create the partition in fdisk using A = Use Entire Disk), write it to disk, exit sysinstall and re-run it...and sysinstall

Re: Large file system creation

2008-04-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:39:48AM -0400, Brian McCann wrote: Hi all. I'm trying to create a ~9TB partition on a new file server. I thought FreeBSD now supported this (I'm on 7.0), but I can't figure it out. I go into sysinstall, create the partition in fdisk using A = Use Entire Disk),

Re: Large file system creation

2008-04-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi all. I'm trying to create a ~9TB partition on a new file server. I thought FreeBSD now supported this (I'm on 7.0), but I can't figure it out. I go into sysinstall, create the partition in fdisk using A = Use Entire Disk), write it to disk, exit sysinstall and re-run it...and sysinstall

Re: Large file system creation

2008-04-08 Thread Brian McCann
That looks like what I need. I've got a seperate 32GB array to boot off of, so that's perfect. Now to just read some man pages. Thanks! --Brian On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:39:48AM -0400, Brian McCann wrote: Hi all. I'm

Re: Large file system creation

2008-04-08 Thread Brian McCann
Hmm...didn't think of that...didn't think fsck used that much RAM...and thought it was independent of the file system size. Right now it's got 2GB. On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Alexandre Biancalana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/8/08, Brian McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That looks like

Re: Large file system creation

2008-04-08 Thread Alexandre Biancalana
On 4/8/08, Brian McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That looks like what I need. I've got a seperate 32GB array to boot off of, so that's perfect. Now to just read some man pages. Thanks! How many memory do you have in this machine ?? To fsck 9 TB you will need a LOT of memory

Re: Large file system creation

2008-04-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
That looks like what I need. I've got a seperate 32GB array to boot off of, so that's perfect. Now to just read some man pages. Thanks! How many memory do you have in this machine ?? To fsck 9 TB you will there is swap too . but my 1.4TB partition can be fsck'ed on 1GB RAM without swap.

Re: Large file system creation

2008-04-08 Thread Alexandre Biancalana
On 4/8/08, Brian McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm...didn't think of that...didn't think fsck used that much RAM...and thought it was independent of the file system size. Right now it's got 2GB. so better you think a little more before execute and do some tests before production too

Re: Large file system creation

2008-04-08 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Tuesday 08 April 2008 11:20:58 am Wojciech Puchar wrote: That looks like what I need. I've got a seperate 32GB array to boot off of, so that's perfect. Now to just read some man pages. Thanks! How many memory do you have in this machine ?? To fsck 9 TB you will there is swap too .

Re: Large file system creation

2008-04-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
it will be most likely large 32K blocks, so quick fsck and little RAM In my experience with UFS2 and fsck you will want to have a gig of ram per TB of filesystem. You can get by with less sometimes, eventually you'll get bit. Most mere mortals don't take UFS2 past 6-8TB in production. There

Re: Large file system creation

2008-04-08 Thread Alexandre Biancalana
On 4/8/08, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it will be most likely large 32K blocks, so quick fsck and little RAM In my experience with UFS2 and fsck you will want to have a gig of ram per TB of filesystem. You can get by with less sometimes, eventually you'll get bit.

Re: Large file system creation

2008-04-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
you talk about VM, not real memory. i don't think making 10GB swap is a problem. The problem is the time that it will take to fsck a 9TB filesystem. depends mostly of file count not size. my 1.4TB partition is checked shorter than 20GB squid partition

Re: Large file system creation

2008-04-08 Thread Edward Capriolo
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I'm trying to create a ~9TB partition on a new file server. I thought FreeBSD now supported this (I'm on 7.0), but I can't figure it out. I go into sysinstall, create the partition in fdisk using A =

Re: Large file system creation

2008-04-08 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 08 April 2008 21:12:00 Edward Capriolo wrote: Seems like a shame to boot a nice 9TB disk pack off a floppy Disk or a Pen drive. I mean you do what you have to but that just screams 'workaround' Or worrying about 1 minute longer boot cycle on 90 days+ uptime screams optimization

Re: Large file system creation

2008-04-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On our older servers that wouldn't even recognize a 2TB partition (which is where the OS was too), we used a CF card and CF card adapter to boot from. Slightly more gracious... CD/DVD drive isn't bad too. anyway - you don't change kernel every day. or pendrive. possibly floppy but i don't

Re: Large file system creation

2008-04-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Seems like a shame to boot a nice 9TB disk pack off a floppy Disk or a Pen drive. I mean you do what you have to but that just screams 'workaround' Or worrying about 1 minute longer boot cycle on 90 days+ uptime screams doesn't matter at all. it is workaround, but over strange BIOS software,

Re: Large file system creation

2008-04-08 Thread Brian McCann
On our older servers that wouldn't even recognize a 2TB partition (which is where the OS was too), we used a CF card and CF card adapter to boot from. Slightly more gracious... On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Edward Capriolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Wojciech

Expanding file system

2008-03-03 Thread Jeffery Swan
I am currently running FreeNAS on FreeBSD as a NAS device and it works great. Initially, I had a Highpoint RocketRAID card installed with 3 - 500 Gig drives attached configured in hardware as RAID 5. This gave me about 905 Gig usefull storage. The RAID card allows for adding hard drives via

Re: Expanding file system

2008-03-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jeffery Swan wrote: The problem is, df only reports back the original 905 Gig. It seems that the RAID controller did migrate my data but left the additional space raw. What I need to know how to do now is extend my original partition (slice) to include the newly added space without loosing

Re: Expanding file system

2008-03-03 Thread Jeffery Swan
Actually, I am using GPT. -Jeff - Original Message - From: Matthew Seaman To: Jeffery Swan Subject: Re: Expanding file system Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:54:46 + Jeffery Swan wrote: The problem is, df only reports back the original 905 Gig. It seems

Re: Expanding file system

2008-03-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
growfs can expand UFS filesystem. worked for me with normal partitions, if you use geli with sector size != 512 bytes, it won't, but i've patched it for that. still - it's buggy. but really don't assume it won't screw up your filesystem... if you like to try do: a)unmount this fs b) fsck it

Re: Get the empty space on a file system

2008-02-19 Thread Olivier Nicole
2) knowing the file system from 1), how to check the remaining space in the file system? You normally just start writing and deal with the errors that come from full file systems when they show up. The C functions set errno accordingly. The reason is that the system lies about

Get the empty space on a file system

2008-02-18 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am writing a C application that would store files in a directory. Before it starts storing files, I would like the application to check is there is enough space in the file system. How to: 1) knowing the name of the directory, how toknow the file system it belongs to (not considering

Re: Get the empty space on a file system

2008-02-18 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 18. Februar 2008 11:25:39 schrieb Olivier Nicole: How to: 1) knowing the name of the directory, how toknow the file system it belongs to (not considering symbolic links, I can decide that the directory is always a real path); 2) knowing the file system from 1), how to check

Re: Get the empty space on a file system

2008-02-18 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I am writing a C application that would store files in a directory. Before it starts storing files, I would like the application to check is there is enough space in the file system. How to: 1) knowing the name of the directory, how toknow the file system

md-disk as root file system,size limit!?

2008-02-18 Thread Xinyu Dong
I want use md-disk as root file system. OS: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE Environment = VMWare (Version 5) and Computer (CPU=Intel P4 2.4G, Memory=Kingston 1G DDR400, Storage=2G CF) create a less-than 100MB of image (image for ramdisk, mfs root) The loader.rc { load kernel

mounting a ufs file system in a microslut os

2007-11-18 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have microslut vista as a dual boot (before anyone suggests wine please refer to previous threads on amd74 vs. wine) and want to access my FreeBSD file systems from it (and later linux when I install it as a triple boot). It is the only machine on

Re: mounting a ufs file system in a microslut os

2007-11-18 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Monday 19 November 2007 04:32:15 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I have microslut vista as a dual boot (before anyone suggests wine please refer to previous threads on amd74 vs. wine) and want to access my FreeBSD file systems from it (and later linux when I install it as a triple boot). It is

Re: mounting a ufs file system in a microslut os

2007-11-18 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/ Didn't reconize any of my UFS filesytems... tried UFS Explorer semi-worked (the file system I need is /dev/ad5s1 [note no partition letter!]:monster# ls /dev/ad* /dev/ad4/dev/ad4cs1 /dev/ad5s1

Migrating a file system with minimal downtime

2007-10-30 Thread Daniel Eriksson
I want to migrate a file system containing multiple jails from a small drive to a large (RAID-1) array. I want to do this with minimal downtime. Simply shutting down the jails and using dump/restore to move the file system takes too long, but what if I do it in several steps like this: 1. dump

Re: Migrating a file system with minimal downtime

2007-10-30 Thread Doug Clements
On 10/30/07, Daniel Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to migrate a file system containing multiple jails from a small drive to a large (RAID-1) array. I want to do this with minimal downtime. I did a migration like this, but instead of dump, I used rdist. Take an initial snapshot

Re: The Elephant file system

2007-08-17 Thread Adam J Richardson
Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I was doing some research for file systems at work and came across some semi-technical papers on a file system called elephant. Since this paper mentions that the designers first tried their implementation on FreeBSD 2.2.7, I thought I'd ask here if anyone has ever

The Elephant file system

2007-08-16 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I was doing some research for file systems at work and came across some semi-technical papers on a file system called elephant. Since this paper mentions that the designers first tried their implementation on FreeBSD 2.2.7, I thought I'd ask here if anyone has ever heard of this file system

Need clarification on file system parameters (using newfs).

2007-08-10 Thread Maxim Khitrov
am familiar with them, but am not sure how they relate to the finished product (i.e. my file system). First there is the block size set by default to 16KB, and fragment size set to 1/8 of block size. I'm assuming that a block is a group of sectors, but how does fragment size fit into the picture

Re: Creating an ext2 file system on FreeBSD?

2007-08-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
/usr/ports/sysutils/e2fsprogs On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Paul Hoffman wrote: Hi again. Is there a FreeBSD equivalent of Linux's 'mke2fs'? I want to create a disk image that is in ext2 format. On Linux, I would do: dd if=/dev/zero of=some.img bs=1M count=1 seek=1024 /sbin/mke2fs -F -j some.img Can

Re: Creating an ext2 file system on FreeBSD?

2007-08-03 Thread Tom Grove
Paul Hoffman wrote: Hi again. Is there a FreeBSD equivalent of Linux's 'mke2fs'? I want to create a disk image that is in ext2 format. On Linux, I would do: dd if=/dev/zero of=some.img bs=1M count=1 seek=1024 /sbin/mke2fs -F -j some.img Can I do something similar on FreeBSD? --Paul Hoffman

Creating an ext2 file system on FreeBSD?

2007-08-03 Thread Paul Hoffman
Hi again. Is there a FreeBSD equivalent of Linux's 'mke2fs'? I want to create a disk image that is in ext2 format. On Linux, I would do: dd if=/dev/zero of=some.img bs=1M count=1 seek=1024 /sbin/mke2fs -F -j some.img Can I do something similar on FreeBSD? --Paul Hoffman

Re: Question re reducing a file system in FreeBSD 6.2

2007-07-12 Thread Frank Wissmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a question re reducing a filesystem in FreeBSD 6.2 - I am new to FreeBSD - I am use to AIX We have FreeBSD installed on a dell 1950 - I would like to reduce the size of /usr in case I want to added the space to another file system. We currently have

Question re reducing a file system in FreeBSD 6.2

2007-07-11 Thread irene . kelly
Hi, I have a question re reducing a filesystem in FreeBSD 6.2 - I am new to FreeBSD - I am use to AIX We have FreeBSD installed on a dell 1950 - I would like to reduce the size of /usr in case I want to added the space to another file system. We currently have all our space allocated

Realtime File System Replication On FreeBSD How reliable is it?

2007-06-01 Thread Antonio
Hi all, I found this site with instructions to setup what is basically a network RAID-1: http://phaq.phunsites.net/2006/08/11/realtime-file-system-replication-on-freebsd/ My question is: What experience does anyone have using this solution on a production environment? I will appreciate

Re: Realtime File System Replication On FreeBSD How reliable is it?

2007-06-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
Antonio wrote: Hi all, I found this site with instructions to setup what is basically a network RAID-1: http://phaq.phunsites.net/2006/08/11/realtime-file-system-replication-on-freebsd/ My question is: What experience does anyone have using this solution on a production environment

Re: Realtime File System Replication On FreeBSD How reliable is it?

2007-06-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
://phaq.phunsites.net/2006/08/11/realtime-file-system-replication-on-freebsd/ Looking at the link it seems he is actually asking about geom_gate. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: File System errors

2007-05-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:34:42AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Gary Kline wrote: I booted into single-user (press 4) and got rid of tons of junk left in /var/tmp. Then I did a mount -a and and fsck -y. But not in that order.

Re: File System errors

2007-05-16 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Ross Penner wrote: On 5/15/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:15:06PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I looked into the matter

Re: File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 15, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Ross Penner wrote: [ ... about fsck... ] It seems to my unexperienced eye that their are problems in some of the filesystems, but they arn't being resolved. I tried running fsck -y and nothing changed. What am I doing wrong? How can I resolve these issues? Thanks

Re: File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
the following: rosbot# fsck ** /dev/ar0s1a (NO WRITE) ** Last Mounted on / ** Root file system ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups 1549 files, 27349 used, 226466 free

Re: File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:15:06PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I looked into the matter and discovered the utility fsck. I ran this as root and I got the

Re: File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Ross Penner
On 5/15/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:15:06PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I looked into the matter and discovered the

Re: File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
: rosbot# fsck ** /dev/ar0s1a (NO WRITE) ** Last Mounted on / ** Root file system ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups 1549 files, 27349 used, 226466 free (650

File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Ross Penner
on / ** Root file system ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups 1549 files, 27349 used, 226466 free (650 frags, 28227 blocks, 0.3% fragmentation) ** /dev/ar0s1e (NO WRITE) ** Last

Re: File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 02:49:59PM -0400, Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: El Mar, 15 de Mayo de 2007, 14:15, Ross Penner escribió: I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I looked into the matter

Re: File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Gary Kline wrote: I booted into single-user (press 4) and got rid of tons of junk left in /var/tmp. Then I did a mount -a and and fsck -y. But not in that order. fsck -y *first*, then mount -a, then start removing files from

Query file system type for yet-to-be mounted volumes?

2007-05-07 Thread Modulok
How does one determine the file system a disk uses, for disks that are not yet mounted? Example: You're handed a disk that has been sitting around in a closet for years, with no idea what it was used for. The department manager tells you to see what it contains. How do I mount it, if I don't

Re: Query file system type for yet-to-be mounted volumes?

2007-05-07 Thread Bernd Trippel
Modulok typed on 07/05/07 11:02: How does one determine the file system a disk uses, for disks that are not yet mounted? Example: You're handed a disk that has been sitting around in a closet for years, with no idea what it was used for. The department manager tells you to see what it contains

Re: Clustered file system

2007-05-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:44:26PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: Hi We are expanding at work and I am messing around with different setups. I need a file system that will *look* like its just on one machine, like when mounting with NFS, but because of the large amount of data, I really

Clustered file system

2007-05-01 Thread Rico Secada
Hi We are expanding at work and I am messing around with different setups. I need a file system that will *look* like its just on one machine, like when mounting with NFS, but because of the large amount of data, I really need to expand the files to several servers. Also I need some kind

Re: Clustered file system

2007-05-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 01/05/07, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi We are expanding at work and I am messing around with different setups. I need a file system that will *look* like its just on one machine, like when mounting with NFS, but because of the large amount of data, I really need to expand

Re: Can not move directory within FAT32 file-system

2007-02-09 Thread nicky
ronggui wrote: Hello, all. I am new to FreeBSD. I got my first question with FAT32 file-system. It seems quite strange. I install FreeBSD 6.2 in my asus notebook. When I mount windows file system, I cannot move directory even if as root. mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s6 /mnt mkdir /mnt/1 mkdir /mnt2

Re: Can not move directory within FAT32 file-system

2007-02-09 Thread ronggui
to FreeBSD. I got my first question with FAT32 file-system. It seems quite strange. I install FreeBSD 6.2 in my asus notebook. When I mount windows file system, I cannot move directory even if as root. mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s6 /mnt mkdir /mnt/1 mkdir /mnt2 mv /mnt/1 /mnt/2 The last step

Re: Can not move directory within FAT32 file-system

2007-02-09 Thread ronggui
, all. I am new to FreeBSD. I got my first question with FAT32 file-system. It seems quite strange. I install FreeBSD 6.2 in my asus notebook. When I mount windows file system, I cannot move directory even if as root. mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s6 /mnt mkdir /mnt/1 mkdir /mnt2 mv /mnt/1

Can not move directory within FAT32 file-system

2007-02-08 Thread ronggui
Hello, all. I am new to FreeBSD. I got my first question with FAT32 file-system. It seems quite strange. I install FreeBSD 6.2 in my asus notebook. When I mount windows file system, I cannot move directory even if as root. mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s6 /mnt mkdir /mnt/1 mkdir /mnt2 mv /mnt/1 /mnt/2

Re: FreeBSD File System, please help

2007-01-09 Thread perryh
Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 08 January 2007 12:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Such a report will be incomplete if the system in question is an NIS client. For starters, see yp(8). Would getent passwd and getent group be more definitive? No idea. There is no

Re: FreeBSD File System, please help

2007-01-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 2:34 am, you wrote: No idea. There is no manpage for getent on my (6.1) system, so I don't know what it might do. Maybe it's new (to FreeBSD) as per 6.2. Anyway: --- SYNOPSIS getent database [key ...] DESCRIPTION The getent program

SV: FreeBSD File System, please help

2007-01-08 Thread Tim Nilimaa
/etc/passwd cat /etc/groups Kind regards Tim Nilimaa Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED] genom VeeJay Skickat: må 2007-01-08 15:29 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD-Questions Ämne: FreeBSD File System, please help Hello my friends 1. How to get the Files listing

FreeBSD File System, please help

2007-01-08 Thread VeeJay
Hello my friends 1. How to get the Files listing of Recently Changed files under a File System based on date... for example Root / 2. How to see that how many Users are created on a FreeBSD System.. meaning how to get All Users/Groups list on a FreeBSD Server? -- Thanks! BR / vj

FreeBSD File System, please help

2007-01-08 Thread Robert Huff
VeeJay writes: 1. How to get the Files listing of Recently Changed files under a File System based on date... for example Root / man find 2. How to see that how many Users are created on a FreeBSD System.. meaning how to get All Users/Groups list on a FreeBSD Server

Re: FreeBSD File System, please help

2007-01-08 Thread perryh
2. How to see that how many Users are created on a FreeBSD System.. meaning how to get All Users/Groups list on a FreeBSD Server? The information is in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. You can get a count with the wc command. Such a report will be incomplete if the system in

Re: FreeBSD File System, please help

2007-01-08 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 08 January 2007 12:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Such a report will be incomplete if the system in question is an NIS client. For starters, see yp(8). Would getent passwd and getent group be more definitive? -- Kirk Strauser pgpU9vIlBUWYA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: file system for FreeBSD, OS X and WinXP?

2007-01-01 Thread Chris Whitehouse
with nearly full discs). My hope is that I could use a single file system on this drive which could then be plugged into any of these machines which run FreeBSD, OS X, or WinXP. My usual recommendation for this very problem is the ext2 filesystem. As far as I know, the drivers exist and work

file system for FreeBSD, OS X and WinXP?

2006-12-31 Thread Keith Beattie
Hello all, I recently picked up a big 700G external USB/Firewire Seagate drive with the hopes of using it to store my growing collection of music, photos, etc. currently spread across several different machines (all with nearly full discs). My hope is that I could use a single file system

Re: file system for FreeBSD, OS X and WinXP?

2006-12-31 Thread Derek Ragona
/Firewire Seagate drive with the hopes of using it to store my growing collection of music, photos, etc. currently spread across several different machines (all with nearly full discs). My hope is that I could use a single file system on this drive which could then be plugged into any of these machines

Re: file system for FreeBSD, OS X and WinXP?

2006-12-31 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
). My hope is that I could use a single file system on this drive which could then be plugged into any of these machines which run FreeBSD, OS X, or WinXP. My usual recommendation for this very problem is the ext2 filesystem. As far as I know, the drivers exist and work reasonably well for win32

Re: How can I fix Cannot find file system superblock problem?

2006-12-16 Thread FK
. From: FK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How can I fix Cannot find file system superblock problem? Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:27:56 +0900 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fk Dear all members, fk fk From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fk Subject: Re: How can I fix Cannot find file system superblock problem? fk Date

Re: How can I fix Cannot find file system superblock problem?

2006-12-16 Thread FK
, which is horrible since I have modified a lot of data for the time. Do I have any practical ways to back up the data without mounting it, given that I could not fix the superblock? -- FK. From: FK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How can I fix Cannot find file system superblock problem? Date

Re: How can I fix Cannot find file system superblock problem?

2006-12-16 Thread Antony Mawer
On 16/12/2006 6:25 AM, FK wrote: ... But ... I will lose one-month-long-worthing data, which is horrible since I have modified a lot of data for the time. Do I have any practical ways to back up the data without mounting it, given that I could not fix the superblock? Have you tried a

How can I fix Cannot find file system superblock problem?

2006-12-09 Thread FK
Dear list members, How can I fix Cannot find file system superblock problem? I thought there would be a solution on the Internet, and googled but could not find one yet. I hope you would have some hints. Thank you. Background: FreeBSD6.0-RELEASE. #disklabel /dev/da0s2 # /dev/da0s2: 8

Re: How can I fix Cannot find file system superblock problem?

2006-12-09 Thread perryh
FK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If alternatives are all copies of the master, they must have the same contents. I checked and found they are equal. # dd if=/dev/da0s2a skip=160 bs=512 count=16 of=sb1 16+0 records in 16+0 records out 8192 bytes transferred in 0.013373 secs (612571 bytes/sec)

Block Size (FreeBSD File System)

2006-11-17 Thread VeeJay
into fragments, so that multiple, slightly oversized files can use one block to store their extra tidbits. FreeBSD defaults to 8KB blocks. If you're creating a large partition―say, 1GB or more―use 16KB blocks. When you do this, you also need to change your fragment size. The FreeBSD file system

Re: Block Size (FreeBSD File System)

2006-11-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have read this below quoted information that to increase performance, one can set a Block Size. If so, how much? Could some genius advise what to do? Take the defaults. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: File system full

2006-10-18 Thread Paul Murphy
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-10-18 07:53, Office of CEO- rithy4u.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, My firewall server was running out of space on / partition I have try to reboot/fsck and delete all unneccessary files inside / but I still get 12 MB of free space with total 495 MB worth

Re: File system full

2006-10-18 Thread Robert Huff
Paul Murphy writes: I have been trying to track down a similar problem! Using the above method I think I have found 'natd' to be the culprit. Should 'natd' receive a signal when 'alias.log' rolls over? Restarting 'natd' seems to have releases some megabytes. That's not

Re: File system full

2006-10-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-10-18 07:13, Paul Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-10-18 07:53, Office of CEO- rithy4u.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, My firewall server was running out of space on / partition I have try to reboot/fsck and delete all unneccessary files inside /

Re: File system full

2006-10-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-10-18 07:13, Paul Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-10-18 07:53, Office of CEO- rithy4u.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, My firewall server was running out of space on / partition I have try to reboot/fsck and delete all

Re: File system full

2006-10-18 Thread Robert Huff
Matthew Seaman writes: There doesn't seem to be any signal that you can send natd with the usual 'reread all config files and re-open all file descriptors' effect that most daemons understand. The next obvious questions are would that be desirable behavior? and how hard would it

Re: File system full

2006-10-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-10-18 14:34, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: The file `alias.log' is not rotated by `newsyslog.conf', so maybe we should add it there? Then we can let `newsyslog' signal `natd' by: %%% diff -r 4474abb9619a etc/newsyslog.conf ---

File system full

2006-10-17 Thread Office of CEO- rithy4u.NET
Dear All, My firewall server was running out of space on / partition I have try to reboot/fsck and delete all unneccessary files inside / but I still get 12 MB of free space with total 495 MB worth of that partition. Any ideas? Rgds, -- *Rithy Ray, RCSA* Chief Executive Officer Web:

File system full

2006-10-17 Thread Robert Huff
Office of CEO- rithy4u.NET writes: My firewall server was running out of space on / partition I have try to reboot/fsck and delete all unneccessary files inside / but I still get 12 MB of free space with total 495 MB worth of that partition. Any ideas? du -x / | sort -nr | head

Re: File system full

2006-10-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-10-18 07:53, Office of CEO- rithy4u.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, My firewall server was running out of space on / partition I have try to reboot/fsck and delete all unneccessary files inside / but I still get 12 MB of free space with total 495 MB worth of that partition. Any

Re: Mounting a snapshot of a file system

2006-08-19 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* On 19/08/06 13:28 +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: | On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:21 am, Odhiambo Washington wrote: | Hi all, | | I believe that this might be possible.. | | I have created a snapshot of a filesystem and moved it to a | remote host: | | dump -L0af - / | ssh remote_host 'gzip

Ouch! write failed, file system is full

2006-08-19 Thread W. D.
How do I get out of this mess? gzip: stdout: No space left on device Broken pipe df Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 9918398644-7395 108%/ I tried to do a backup: cd / mkdir archive tar -zcvpf /archive/full-backup-`date

Re: Ouch! write failed, file system is full

2006-08-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-08-19 18:55, W. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get out of this mess? gzip: stdout: No space left on device Broken pipe df Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 9918398644-7395 108%/ First of all, start by trying to find

Re: Ouch! write failed, file system is full

2006-08-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
/ mkdir archive tar -zcvpf /archive/full-backup-`date '+%Y-%B-%d'`.tar.gz --directory / --exclude=mnt --exclude=proc --exclude=archive --exclude=cache . What did I do wrong, and how to fix it and do it right? Without knowing what your file system hierarchy is, it's a very good bet that you've

Re: Ouch! write failed, file system is full

2006-08-19 Thread Erik Nørgaard
W. D. wrote: How do I get out of this mess? gzip: stdout: No space left on device Broken pipe df Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 9918398644-7395 108%/ I tried to do a backup: cd / mkdir archive tar -zcvpf

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