[Fwd: Discovering File System Corruption]

2006-01-10 Thread Bret Walker
I have a 6.0-RELEASE-p1 box with a GENERIC kerbnel that I'm having some trouble with. I recently reconstituted the machine from being a 5.4 box. I didn't upgrade, I reinstalled. When I was trying to install tripwire, kept getting this message: ./bin/i386-unknown-freebsd_r/siggen missing. Build

Re: umapfs file system

2005-11-25 Thread Mario Hoerich
: error: previous definition of 'td' was here *** Error code 1 Do you think is still supported? Quoting from mount_umapfs(8): | BUGS | THIS FILE SYSTEM TYPE IS NOT YET FULLY SUPPORTED (READ: IT DOESN'T WORK) | AND USING IT MAY, IN FACT, DESTROY DATA ON YOUR SYSTEM. USE AT YOUR OWN | RISK

umapfs file system

2005-11-23 Thread Valerio daelli
Hi all do you think is possible to compile cleanly and to use the umapfs file system? I tried but I got this error: cc -c -O -pipe -mcpu=ev67 -mieee -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -std

Re: Installing from File System

2005-11-01 Thread Thomas Linton
to be able to change configuration options, such as adding something from the packages collection on the CDs, or adding more of the distributions at a later point remotely, using /stand/sysinstall. I figured I could copy both cds 1 and 2 into a directory on the machine, and choose file system from

RE: Installing from File System

2005-11-01 Thread Dean Weimer
Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: Installing from File System Dean Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have setup FreeBSD 5.4, with a minimal installation from the CDRom, I would like to be able to change configuration options, such as adding something from the packages

RE: Installing from File System

2005-11-01 Thread Dean Weimer
Company _ From: Thomas Linton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 4:13 AM To: Dean Weimer Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing from File System I do have the same problem and don't really understand the syntax of the INDEX file. I guess

File system check fails on boot

2005-10-31 Thread Edward Lichtner
Hi all, There's fire in the house... I recently inserted a USB memory stick and my 5.4 Stable machine rebooted suddenly. I now get the following on boot : Starting file system checks : /dev/ad0s3a: UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=2900154 /dev/ad0s3a: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY

Re: File system check fails on boot

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, Edward Lichtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, There's fire in the house... I recently inserted a USB memory stick and my 5.4 Stable machine rebooted suddenly. I now get the following on boot : Starting file system checks : /dev/ad0s3a: UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=2900154 /dev/ad0s3a

Re: File system check fails on boot

2005-10-31 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:06 AM 10/31/2005, Edward Lichtner wrote: Hi all, There's fire in the house... I recently inserted a USB memory stick and my 5.4 Stable machine rebooted suddenly. I now get the following on boot : Starting file system checks : /dev/ad0s3a: UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=2900154 /dev/ad0s3a

Re: File system check fails on boot

2005-10-31 Thread Edward Lichtner
On 10/31/05, Edward Lichtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, There's fire in the house... I recently inserted a USB memory stick and my 5.4 Stable machine rebooted suddenly. I now get the following on boot : Starting file system checks : /dev/ad0s3a: UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=2900154 /dev

Re: Installing from File System

2005-10-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
, using /stand/sysinstall. I figured I could copy both cds 1 and 2 into a directory on the machine, and choose file system from the installation media page. All works good up to a point. then I receive a message stating that this is Disc 0 and the packages is on Disc 1. How do I make

Installing from File System

2005-10-28 Thread Dean Weimer
could copy both cds 1 and 2 into a directory on the machine, and choose file system from the installation media page. All works good up to a point. then I receive a message stating that this is Disc 0 and the packages is on Disc 1. How do I make the install section realize that all of the files

cvsup File System Full

2005-09-17 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, cvsup failed on me ( filled up a 3.0 G /usr dir). I am in the proces of moving /usr to a sub dir under /home/ which has 30 G. Hopefully, I can rerun cvsup with success. I will create a soft link from /usr - /home/usr. At some point, I will want to move /usr back to its proper place.

Re: cvsup File System Full

2005-09-17 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Saturday 17 September 2005 13:44, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, cvsup failed on me ( filled up a 3.0 G /usr dir). I am in the proces of moving /usr to a sub dir under /home/ which has 30 G. Hopefully, I can rerun cvsup with success. I will create a soft link from /usr - /home/usr. At some

Re: boot problem - how can I access the file system

2005-09-06 Thread Norberto Meijome
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I made a mistake to my /boot/loader.conf file and now the system hangs after pressing F1 and before the boot options menu. How can I access the file to edit it? I have the install CD, but can't seem to figure out how to get to the file system. Hi Robert, I'd get

Re: boot problem - how can I access the file system

2005-09-03 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 13:31 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: I made a mistake to my /boot/loader.conf file and now the system hangs after pressing F1 and before the boot options menu. How can I access the file to edit it? I have the install CD, but can't seem to figure out how to get to the file

Re: boot problem - how can I access the file system

2005-09-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I made a mistake to my /boot/loader.conf file and now the system hangs after pressing F1 and before the boot options menu. How can I access the file to edit it? I have the install CD, but can't seem to figure out how to get to the file system. When it happened

boot problem - how can I access the file system

2005-09-03 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I made a mistake to my /boot/loader.conf file and now the system hangs after pressing F1 and before the boot options menu. How can I access the file to edit it? I have the install CD, but can't seem to figure out how to get to the file system. -- Robert

Re: boot problem - how can I access the file system

2005-09-03 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 13:31 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: What resources do you have? Don't have another FreeBSD machine at this location. I have my SuSE 9.2 linux workstation and Windows 2003 server machine. 2] Fixit CD or Fixit floppy. Available via FTP from ftp.freebsd.org. I tried the

Re: boot problem - how can I access the file system

2005-09-03 Thread nawcom
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ and specifically: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm these are all windows programs that take away the frustration of installing linux. however freebsd and any os follows the same concept when it comes to boot disks (.img) - so give

Re: very big files on cd9660 file system

2005-08-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mostly (b). Sizes are 64 bits in the standard, but FreeBSD has always silently discarded the highest 32 bits and corrupted the next highest bit to a sign bit, so the file size limit is at most 2GB or 4GB (depending on whether the sign bit gets corrupted

Re: very big files on cd9660 file system

2005-08-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
The attached patch should make the isonum functions in iso.h much clearer. It also gets rid of the optimizated versions; I trust the compiler to take care of that. The inode number situation can be improved by dividing the byte offset of the directory entry by a suitable number guaranteed not to

Re: very big files on cd9660 file system

2005-08-25 Thread Mikhail Teterin
ISO9660 does not use 64-bit values.  Those 8-byte values you see in the headers are 32-bit values stored first in little-endian format and second in big-endian format. So, in my original question, the blame lies solely with 3) ISO-9660 standard ? No single file on a ISO9660

Re: very big files on cd9660 file system

2005-08-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Mikhail Teterin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No single file on a ISO9660 filesystem may exceed 4Gb? The ISO 9660 file system was designed for a storage medium which had a fixed capacity of 600 MB. Is there some newer, superceeding backwards-compatible standard -- all the new DVD devices are now

very big files on cd9660 file system

2005-08-19 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Hello! I have a cd9660 image with several files on it. One of the files is very large (above 4Gb). When I mount the image, the size of this file is shown as realsize % 4Gb -- 758876749 bytes instead of 5053844045. What should I blame: 1) The software, that created the image (modified

Re: very big files on cd9660 file system

2005-08-19 Thread Bruce Evans
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Mikhail Teterin wrote: I have a cd9660 image with several files on it. One of the files is very large (above 4Gb). When I mount the image, the size of this file is shown as realsize % 4Gb -- 758876749 bytes instead of 5053844045. What should I blame: 1) The

how to know the file system type [programming]

2005-08-17 Thread Jorge Mario G. Mazo
hi there I've been looking for a way to check the fs type I need to do something like this if NTFS do this if msdis do that if ufs2 do that if ext2 do this other stuff thanks in advance = Either write things worth reading, Or do

Re: how to know the file system type [programming]

2005-08-17 Thread Philip Hallstrom
hi there I've been looking for a way to check the fs type I need to do something like this if NTFS do this if msdis do that if ufs2 do that if ext2 do this other stuff Parse /etc/fstab? I'm sure there are lots of other ways too... ___

Re: how to know the file system type [programming]

2005-08-17 Thread jdyke
Jorge Mario G. Mazo wrote: hi there I've been looking for a way to check the fs type I need to do something like this if NTFS do this if msdis do that if ufs2 do that if ext2 do this other stuff not sure if this is what your looking for, but there are likely a million ways, one being in

Re: how to know the file system type [programming]

2005-08-17 Thread Jorge Mario G. Mazo
--- jdyke [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Jorge Mario G. Mazo wrote: hi there I've been looking for a way to check the fs type I need to do something like this if NTFS do this if msdis do that if ufs2 do that if ext2 do this other stuff not sure if this is what your looking

Re: how to know the file system type [programming]

2005-08-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 17), jdyke said: Jorge Mario G. Mazo wrote: hi there I've been looking for a way to check the fs type I need to do something like this if NTFS do this if msdis do that if ufs2 do that if ext2 do this other stuff not sure if this is what your looking for, but

Re: how to know the file system type [programming]

2005-08-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 17), Jorge Mario G. Mazo said: --- jdyke [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Jorge Mario G. Mazo wrote: hi there I've been looking for a way to check the fs type I need to do something like this if NTFS do this if msdis do that if ufs2 do that if ext2

Re: how to know the file system type [programming]

2005-08-17 Thread dpk
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Jorge Mario G. Mazo wrote: hi there I've been looking for a way to check the fs type I need to do something like this if NTFS do this if msdis do that if ufs2 do that if ext2 do this other stuff thanks in advance I'd check out the fdisk code. For example: $ fdisk

Re: FreeBSD file system example and question

2005-07-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Marcin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, where can i find information or examples of how to write a file system for FreeBSD, apart from /usr/src/sys/* and /usr/share/man/*? The Architecure Handbook. (/usr/share/doc/en/arch-handbook) The old McKusick book (/usr/share/doc/en/design-44bsd

Re: FreeBSD file system example and question

2005-07-28 Thread Marcin
Thanks! The arch-book is something i was looking for. Somehow i missed that when seeking doc/ m. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

FreeBSD file system example and question

2005-07-27 Thread Marcin
Hello, where can i find information or examples of how to write a file system for FreeBSD, apart from /usr/src/sys/* and /usr/share/man/*? What is vnode_if.h for? Why is it generated for every fs module if it is the same every time? I tried to google for the answer but found nothing. Only

Re: FreeBSD file system example and question

2005-07-27 Thread Vulpes Velox
Don't know the answers, but the fs mailing list would probally be a better one to ask on. On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:38:22 +0200 Marcin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, where can i find information or examples of how to write a file system for FreeBSD, apart from /usr/src/sys/* and /usr/share

preventing a dual-mount of an NFS file system

2005-07-22 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Just curious if there is an option that can be set (I've checked the man page, and didn't find one) that would prevent a file system from being mounted twise on the same mount point? For instance, I have /du defined in my /etc/fstab, and want to prevent: mount /du mount /du from working

Re: preventing a dual-mount of an NFS file system

2005-07-22 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 04:59:56PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Just curious if there is an option that can be set (I've checked the man page, and didn't find one) that would prevent a file system from being mounted twise on the same mount point? For instance, I have /du defined in my

Problem with unix file system

2005-06-14 Thread snoopy
Hi, i have a problem with an erro of me : i have formated unfortunely my ufs partition of my server data, how is possible to unformat ufs file system, i've try easy recovry with raw mode but many files lost , please anybody can help me or my data as lost

Re: Problem with unix file system

2005-06-14 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/14/05, snoopy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have a problem with an erro of me : i have formated unfortunely my ufs partition of my server data, how is possible to unformat ufs file system, i've try easy recovry with raw mode but many files lost , please anybody can help me or my data

Re: Problem with unix file system

2005-06-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, i have a problem with an erro of me : i have formated unfortunely my ufs partition of my server data, how is possible to unformat ufs file system, i've try easy recovry with raw mode but many files lost , please anybody can help me or my data as lost? What do you mean by format? Did

fstab option to 'skip' a file system?

2005-06-11 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Is there an option that I can add to fstab (or some way of doing it?) that, when a server reboots, it will 'ignore' that file system, but I can still do a 'mount /fs' after the fact? I have remote servers that I'd like to manually fsck one of the file systems after it comes up, but I don't

Re: fstab option to 'skip' a file system?

2005-06-11 Thread Bob Bomar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc G. Fournier wrote: | | Is there an option that I can add to fstab (or some way of doing it?) | that, when a server reboots, it will 'ignore' that file system, but I | can still do a 'mount /fs' after the fact? | | I have remote servers that I'd

Re: fstab option to 'skip' a file system?

2005-06-11 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Bob Bomar wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc G. Fournier wrote: | | Is there an option that I can add to fstab (or some way of doing it?) | that, when a server reboots, it will 'ignore' that file system, but I | can still do a 'mount /fs' after

Re: fstab option to 'skip' a file system?

2005-06-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 08:16 PM 6/11/2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Is there an option that I can add to fstab (or some way of doing it?) that, when a server reboots, it will 'ignore' that file system, but I can still do a 'mount /fs' after the fact? in the options column in fstab specify noauto -Glenn I have

Re: Hints for small file system

2005-05-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
mail.schatti.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you had to choose amongst the available filesystems on 5.4 to contain just about 500kB to a MB, which would you use, and with what parameters ? Which of these has the lowest administration overhead, the lowest space overhead ? Generally I go with

Re: Hints for small file system

2005-05-14 Thread Clifton Royston
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:29:37PM +, mail.schatti.ch wrote: If you had to choose amongst the available filesystems on 5.4 to contain just about 500kB to a MB, which would you use, and with what parameters ? Which of these has the lowest administration overhead, the lowest space

Hints for small file system

2005-05-13 Thread mail.schatti.ch
If you had to choose amongst the available filesystems on 5.4 to contain just about 500kB to a MB, which would you use, and with what parameters ? Which of these has the lowest administration overhead, the lowest space overhead ? TIA George ___

installInitial: Couldn't clone the bootfloppy onto the root file system

2005-03-23 Thread Network Security
the following errors: 'Copying return error status of 1!' '/: write failed, filesystem is full' 'installInitial: Couldn't clone the bootfloppy onto the root file system. Aborting!' An emergency shell shows that the device files 'da0s2a' through 'da0s2f' exist in '/dev'. What am I missing? Thanks, Mike

file system type

2005-03-19 Thread Robert Munn
Is there any way of detecting the type of file system on a disk, specifically UFS2 or UFS1? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: file system type

2005-03-19 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 09:27:57AM -0500, Robert Munn wrote: Is there any way of detecting the type of file system on a disk, specifically UFS2 or UFS1? If all you need to know is wether a UFS file system is UFS1 or UFS2, you could use /sbin/dumpfs -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http

Re: file system type

2005-03-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Robert Munn wrote: Is there any way of detecting the type of file system on a disk, specifically UFS2 or UFS1? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Cluster File System / Replicated File System

2005-03-02 Thread Nick Pavlica
. Is there a cluster and or file system replication method that meets these requirements in FreeBSD? Your help is appreciated! --Nick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

RE: SCO file system mounting

2005-02-28 Thread Vince
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mikkel C. Simonsen Sent: 25 February 2005 12:12 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCO file system mounting [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Hello to all. Would 'mount' mount the SCO

Re: SCO file system mounting

2005-02-25 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 01:13:06AM -0600, Aftab Jahan Subedar typed: Hauan David A wrote: -Original Message- From: Aftab Jahan Subedar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SCO file system mounting Hello to all

Re: SCO file system mounting

2005-02-25 Thread Mikkel C. Simonsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Hello to all. Would 'mount' mount the SCO file system ? Does any body know ? I presume the SCO system as partition type 2 or partition type 3 or partition type 0x63. If SCO is running... How about mount -t nfs? Good idea . but the bad thing is its only running the serial

Re: SCO file system mounting

2005-02-25 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
David Bear wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 01:13:06AM -0600, Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote: Hauan David A wrote: -Original Message- From: Aftab Jahan Subedar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SCO file system

Re: SCO file system mounting

2005-02-25 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 01:13:06AM -0600, Aftab Jahan Subedar typed: Hauan David A wrote: -Original Message- From: Aftab Jahan Subedar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SCO file system

Re: SCO file system mounting

2005-02-24 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 23), Aftab Jahan Subedar said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 23), Aftab Jahan Subedar said: Would 'mount' mount the SCO file system ? Does any body know ? I presume the SCO system as partition type 2 or partition type 3

Re: SCO file system mounting

2005-02-24 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
Hauan David A wrote: -Original Message- From: Aftab Jahan Subedar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SCO file system mounting Hello to all. Would 'mount' mount the SCO file system ? Does any body know ? I presume

SCO file system mounting

2005-02-22 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
Hello to all. Would 'mount' mount the SCO file system ? Does any body know ? I presume the SCO system as partition type 2 or partition type 3 or partition type 0x63. Thank you. -Jahan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: SCO file system mounting

2005-02-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 23), Aftab Jahan Subedar said: Would 'mount' mount the SCO file system ? Does any body know ? I presume the SCO system as partition type 2 or partition type 3 or partition type 0x63. Sorry; no-one has written drivers for any of SCO's filesystem types (htfs is probably

Re: SCO file system mounting

2005-02-22 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 23), Aftab Jahan Subedar said: Would 'mount' mount the SCO file system ? Does any body know ? I presume the SCO system as partition type 2 or partition type 3 or partition type 0x63. Sorry; no-one has written drivers for any of SCO's filesystem

Re: SCO file system mounting

2005-02-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 23), Aftab Jahan Subedar said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 23), Aftab Jahan Subedar said: Would 'mount' mount the SCO file system ? Does any body know ? I presume the SCO system as partition type 2 or partition type 3 or partition type 0x63. Sorry

RE: SCO file system mounting

2005-02-22 Thread Hauan David A
-Original Message- From: Aftab Jahan Subedar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SCO file system mounting Hello to all. Would 'mount' mount the SCO file system ? Does any body know ? I presume the SCO system

UFS2 File System Recovery

2005-02-13 Thread Thomas Foster
I have done quite a bit of searching on the subject and seem to be coming back to the same conclusion. I recently accidentally removed a symlink recursively in a sleep deprived stupor and lost an entire directory of personal music projects. Being that I had not performed backups for that day,

FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Terry R. Friedrichsen
Is anybody besides *me* having file system corruption problems with FreeBSD 5.3? I've looked around on several of the mailing lists and found no men- tion of this. I have two different platforms on which I'm trying to run FreeBSD 5.3. One is an x86 SMP system (dual AMD Athlon 1900

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:50:02 -0700 (MST), Terry R. Friedrichsen wrote: Is anybody besides *me* having file system corruption problems with FreeBSD 5.3? I've looked around on several of the mailing lists and found no men- tion of this. Not the same problem as you, but I've been getting

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Nick Pavlica
I have been testing 5.3 (Standard Install/Default settings) and haven't had any file system corruption. However, the I/O performance results from my testing currently show that there is a major difference between 4.11 and 5.3 (4.11 is much faster!). I have a suspicion that these issues may

re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Terry R. Friedrichsen
Thanks for responding to my inquiry. If it fits into your testing program, try running something that works the file system and simply turn off the system power in the middle of it. Twice, now, doing this on my Alpha has rendered the system unrecoverable at boot time, necessitating a reinstall

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Nick Pavlica
: Thanks for responding to my inquiry. If it fits into your testing program, try running something that works the file system and simply turn off the system power in the middle of it. Twice, now, doing this on my Alpha has rendered the system unrecoverable at boot time, necessitating

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 05:50:02AM -0700, Terry R. Friedrichsen wrote: Is anybody besides *me* having file system corruption problems with FreeBSD 5.3? I've looked around on several of the mailing lists and found no men- tion of this. I have two different platforms on which I'm trying

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:42:47PM -0700, Terry R. Friedrichsen wrote: Thanks for responding to my inquiry. If it fits into your testing program, try running something that works the file system and simply turn off the system power in the middle of it. This is expected if you don't turn off

re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Terry R. Friedrichsen
I wrote: try running something that works the file system and simply turn off the system power in the middle of it. to which [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: This is expected if you don't turn off write caching of the hard disks. It breaks the softupdates consistency model because data written

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:53:46PM -0700, Terry R. Friedrichsen wrote: I wrote: try running something that works the file system and simply turn off the system power in the middle of it. to which [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: This is expected if you don't turn off write caching

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 file system troubles

2005-01-26 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Terry R. Friedrichsen wrote: Is anybody besides *me* having file system corruption problems with FreeBSD 5.3? I've looked around on several of the mailing lists and found no men- tion of this. I have two different platforms on which I'm trying to run FreeBSD 5.3

File System mounting prob

2005-01-12 Thread Emon
Hello everyone I am newbie using FreeBDS 5.3, would apprecate some advice on the folling problems First Is there any way to mount a filesystem, as a generel user? so that everytime I put a cd in the CD player I dont have to su to root just to mount it! Second I can't find kppp(the

Re: File System mounting prob

2005-01-12 Thread Rod Person
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 6:20 pm, Emon wrote: Is there any way to mount a filesystem, as a generel user? so that everytime I put a cd in the CD player I dont have to su to root just to mount it! http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html I can't find kppp(the dial

Re: File System mounting prob

2005-01-12 Thread Kris Maglione
I can't find kppp(the dial up connecter that used to come with KDE) anymore!?? If KDE is not providing it any more, then is there any other (GUI) substitute for it? kppp is part of the kdenetwork port. It should automagically appear on the kde menu under Internet (maybe Network, don't

File System Descriptions

2004-12-10 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Dear people, Does anyone know of a place where they describe the differences between the commonly known filesystem types - UFS, UFS2, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, REISERFS, FAT32 (spit!) .. well, mostly the ones related to Unix I hope. I would like to know why one type is preferred over the others, or

Re: File System Descriptions

2004-12-10 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:48:37 +0300, Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear people, Does anyone know of a place where they describe the differences between the commonly known filesystem types - UFS, UFS2, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, REISERFS, FAT32 (spit!) .. well, mostly the ones related to

Re: mount ntfs (windows) file system in /etc/fstab fails at boot

2004-11-30 Thread CHris Rich
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:53:11 -0800, Kevin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am able to mount my windows partition manually by either: mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /windows or by putting an entry in by /dev/fstab that looks like: /dev/ad0s1 /windows ntfs ro

Re: mount ntfs (windows) file system in /etc/fstab fails at boot

2004-11-30 Thread Kevin Smith
Kris K. explained the problem earlier in the thread. The correct entry in your /etc/fstab should be somethig like bellow. I had a 2 in the 6th field (instead of 0 or leave it out); this causes the file system to be checked on bootup which fails with the ntfs file system. If you have

Help with rc.conf error, read-only file system

2004-11-30 Thread Michael G.
I've been away from FreeBSD for a while and I just loaded 5.3 and inavertently made an error in rc.conf. Now when I boot up the file system is read-only and I haven't been able to edit rc.conf to correct the simple mistake. Any help would be appreciated. Michael G

Re: Help with rc.conf error, read-only file system

2004-11-30 Thread David Kelly
I've been away from FreeBSD for a while and I just loaded 5.3 and inavertently made an error in rc.conf. Now when I boot up the file system is read-only and I haven't been able to edit rc.conf to correct the simple mistake. Any help would be appreciated. mount -a to attempt mounting all

Re: Help with rc.conf error, read-only file system

2004-11-30 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 November 2004 23:22, Michael G. wrote: I've been away from FreeBSD for a while and I just loaded 5.3 and inavertently made an error in rc.conf. Now when I boot up the file system is read-only and I haven't been able to edit rc.conf

Re: Help with rc.conf error, read-only file system

2004-11-30 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:04:03 -0600 (CST), David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been away from FreeBSD for a while and I just loaded 5.3 and inavertently made an error in rc.conf. Now when I boot up the file system is read-only and I haven't been able to edit rc.conf to correct

Re: writable file system for windows

2004-11-30 Thread Irvin Piraman
. HTH On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:55:04 -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Smith wrote: Hi-- My question is really directed at which type of file system I should choose for the shared area (bsd/windows) when I do the partitioning, rather than access. I

Re: mount ntfs (windows) file system in /etc/fstab fails at boot

2004-11-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-30 10:31, Kevin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris K. explained the problem earlier in the thread. The correct entry in your /etc/fstab should be somethig like bellow. I had a 2 in the 6th field (instead of 0 or leave it out); this causes the file system to be checked on bootup

Re: moving ports to another file system

2004-11-29 Thread Vulpes Velox
root file system then I would have liked. I may have also created a separate /usr file system, but I have /usr in the root file system. The /usr/ports can take up a lot of space and I'm wondering if there are limitations to having ports live in a another files system with a symbolic link

Re: moving ports to another file system

2004-11-29 Thread Dan Nelson
files system with a symbolic link from /usr/ports to a ports directory in another file system. No limitations at all. You can even symlink it over NFS to another machine if you want (set WRKDIRPREFIX to a local path in /etc/make.conf though, to speed up builds). If one is going

moving ports to another file system

2004-11-28 Thread Kevin Smith
After installation and setting up of my BSD system for a while, I've come to realize that I probably should have organized my disk a bit differently and I have a smaller root file system then I would have liked. I may have also created a separate /usr file system, but I have /usr in the root

Re: moving ports to another file system

2004-11-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 28), Kevin Smith said: After installation and setting up of my BSD system for a while, I've come to realize that I probably should have organized my disk a bit differently and I have a smaller root file system then I would have liked. I may have also created a separate

mount ntfs (windows) file system in /etc/fstab fails at boot

2004-11-25 Thread Kevin Smith
I am able to mount my windows partition manually by either: mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /windows or by putting an entry in by /dev/fstab that looks like: /dev/ad0s1 /windows ntfs ro 2 2 and using command: mount /windows -however, If I leave this entry in

Re: mount ntfs (windows) file system in /etc/fstab fails at boot

2004-11-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 01:53:11AM -0800, Kevin Smith wrote: I am able to mount my windows partition manually by either: mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /windows or by putting an entry in by /dev/fstab that looks like: /dev/ad0s1 /windows ntfs ro 2 2

Re: mount ntfs (windows) file system in /etc/fstab fails at boot

2004-11-25 Thread Kevin Smith
Yes, putting a 0 in the sixth field takes care of the problem and the /windows file system is now mounted. thanks. P.S. It's usually helpful to transcribe the exact error, instead of describing vague symptoms. Yes,I agree. I was not able to retreive the exact error message from dmesg on boot

Re: mount ntfs (windows) file system in /etc/fstab fails at boot

2004-11-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 02:16:45AM -0800, Kevin Smith wrote: Yes, putting a 0 in the sixth field takes care of the problem and the /windows file system is now mounted. thanks. P.S. It's usually helpful to transcribe the exact error, instead of describing vague symptoms. Yes,I agree

Corrupted file system?

2004-10-22 Thread Jorn Argelo
Hi folks, I've been installing the i386 port (5.2.1-P11) on my AMD64 (because I got sick of the cvsup problem). So that all went fine, I've compiled KDE from source and stuff, no problem. But now I wanted to start KDE (which has been working fine yesterday). So I tried to login and said that

Read-Only file system

2004-10-14 Thread steveb99
to me how a file system can become Read-Only, the file permissions are fine. Also can this be repaired if so what should I be reading to learn to do that. TIA, Steve B. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

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