If a modern hard drive begins to let bad blocks through it's internal
block relocation mechanics have failed. I recommend to take backup on
everthing on that disk because this is usually a sign that the disk
will die shortly.
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 07:17:44PM +0100, Marco wrote:
> hej list,
>
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:11:56AM -0500, Glen Barber wrote:
> This explains one of the reasons not to change root's shell:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/security.html#TOOR-ACCOUNT
Yes that's exactly what I meant. Is there any other reason except for
that? As I see it that problem c
Why is this not a good idea? The only reason I can think of it that you
want your root shell on the root hard drive. As many system use a
separate partition for /usr and that bash installs to /usr/local/bin per
default I can see how that can cause troubles. But are there any other
reasons? Unstabil
> After reading freebsd.org/gnome FAQs and hal FAQs my impression is that
> dbus and hal must be run on the clients box, not on the server.
>
> Can somebody confirm this?
AFAIK that is correct.
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On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 04:18:28PM +0200, Omer Faruk Sen wrote:
> Can I use zfs on / using FreeBSD 7.1?
Yes. But you need a /boot partition so the bootloader can find the
kernel. See http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSOnRoot and
http://www.ish.com.au/solutions/articles/freebsdzfs
