I'm glad that I am not the only one who felt that was a bit extreme.
This is a BSD, not Linux, list after all.
Regards,
Mikel King
Senior Editor, BSD News Network
Columnist, BSD Magazine
6 Alpine Court,
Medford, NY 11763
o: 631.627.3055
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelking
2seconds spent Googling the phrase pulls up my much more polite answer to
exactly the same question from a month ago.
Absolutely no effort was made, that much is OBVIOUS.
In my defense when I realised the the OP thought that this was a Juniper
support list I did offer to try help.
On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 01:12:27 -0700
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote:
I have a question about what I am seeing on several servers. These
are 4 core machines with more than the needed memory. Load is never
above .5 and memory usually shows over half free. I have never seen
it even close to
On 1 August 2010, at 03:42, RW wrote:
On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 01:12:27 -0700
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote:
I have a question about what I am seeing on several servers. These
are 4 core machines with more than the needed memory. Load is never
above .5 and memory usually shows over half
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On 29/06/2010 04:34:10, Richards, Toby wrote:
So as far as I can tell, turning Linux Mode on exposes another threat
vector. Can I turn on Linux Mode ONLY for a single binary (the Flash
plugin)?
Unfortunately no. Enabling the linuxulator loads a
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:57:33 -0700, Richards, Toby
toby.richa...@slo.courts.ca.gov wrote:
My question is this: If I turn on Linux mode, don't I sacrifice the
security, performance, and other benefits of the FreeBSD kernel vice
Linux?
No. FreeBSD's Linux mode is nothing more or less than an
@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Question RE: Linux Mode
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:57:33 -0700, Richards, Toby
toby.richa...@slo.courts.ca.gov wrote:
My question is this: If I turn on Linux mode, don't I sacrifice the
security, performance, and other benefits of the FreeBSD kernel vice
Linux?
No. FreeBSD's Linux
Hi,
Ah, I see.
So if I need a more advanced version of some software, that has been
installed as a package, I can use portupgrade (or other port
management tools) to upgrade the package to a port. Am I right?
Thanks,
Antonio
(As a newbie I'm somewhat concerned about keeping consistency between
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Antonio Vieiro
anto...@antonioshome.net wrote:
Hi,
Ah, I see.
So if I need a more advanced version of some software, that has been
installed as a package, I can use portupgrade (or other port
management tools) to upgrade the package to a port. Am I right?
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Vinay vinay.par...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am new to FreeBSD. I have installed FreeBSD 6.3 and was playing with
gvinum.
snip
Can you let me know what am i missing?
You should use a current release of FreeBSD, if 6.3 is still supported it
won't be for much
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 04:58:56PM +0200, Antonio Vieiro wrote:
Hi all,
I can't find an answer to this question, so I decided to post here.
Since I'm not very good at english let me ask this with an example.
I assume that packages and ports may have different versions of the
same software
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Dino Vliet dino_vl...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi freebsd folks,
I'm having troubles installing some ports because I'm behind a restrictive pf
firewall. I've heard that this could
be circumvented if I use a ftp_proxy. I have this debian server that can
access ftp
On 5/15/10 5:57 PM, jon wrote:
To whom it concerns,
Not us, really. This strikes me much more as a Mac OS or local network
support issue.
I am a relatively basic/amateur computer user and I just noticed today
that my recent servers lists Free BSD.
Your recent servers list where? We need
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 05:57:35PM -0400, jon wrote:
To whom it concerns,
I am a relatively basic/amateur computer user and I just noticed
today that my recent servers lists Free BSD.
I do not knowingly connect to any outside servers and am concerned
that any server has been connected
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 11:10 -0500, Jorge Biquez wrote:
Hello all.
I hope this question does not sound so stupid. I have read archives
and do gogled searches but would like , if possible, to hear comments
based on experience.
I have a machine, pentium D 2.4mhz 2gb RAM, 160DD HD XP Pro. As
王跃辉 wrote:
hi
I have a problem when I try to install FreeBSD as client OS on a Linux
OS.
Sorry, but this does not make any sense to me. How are you trying to install
FreeBSD on Linux? FreeBSD is an operating system, not an application.
following the instruction I find that I can't
Hello!
I presume you are talking about running FreeBSD as a guest OS in Xen or
the like.
Let me point you to this URL, it contains a lot of useful information on
what you're seeking.
The fsmware.com website seems down, and has been for awhile. The
documentation is
just out of date.
王跃辉 wyh1...@gmail.com 04/21/10 10:21 AM
hi
I have a problem when I try to install FreeBSD as client OS on a
Linux
OS. following the instruction I find that I can't open the website of
www.fsmware.com to finish some download work. it seems that the dns
server
don't support the address in China
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote:
王跃辉 wrote:
hi
I have a problem when I try to install FreeBSD as client OS on a Linux
OS.
Sorry, but this does not make any sense to me. How are you trying to install
FreeBSD on Linux? FreeBSD is an operating
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 16:50:20 Ross Cameron wrote:
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com
wrote:
王跃辉 wrote:
hi
I have a problem when I try to install FreeBSD as client OS on a
Linux OS.
Sorry, but this does not make any sense to me. How are
on it.
From: Kruppa, Peter Ulrich pukru...@googlemail.com
To: Jorge Biquez jbiq...@icsmx.com
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Sun, April 18, 2010 6:50:04 PM
Subject: Re: Question. Multi Boot
Am 18.04.2010 18:10, schrieb Jorge Biquez:
Hello all.
I hope this question does not sound so stupid. I
Am 18.04.2010 18:10, schrieb Jorge Biquez:
Hello all.
I hope this question does not sound so stupid. I have read archives
and do gogled searches but would like , if possible, to hear comments
based on experience.
I have a machine, pentium D 2.4mhz 2gb RAM, 160DD HD XP Pro. As I
mentuioned
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010, Jorge Biquez wrote:
Hello all.
I hope this question does not sound so stupid. I have read archives and do
gogled searches but would like , if possible, to hear comments based on
experience.
I have a machine, pentium D 2.4mhz 2gb RAM, 160DD HD XP Pro. As I mentuioned
in
On 4/18/10 12:50 PM, Kruppa, Peter Ulrich wrote:
Since Windows isn't very cooperative with other operating systems,
leave it where it is, buy a second hard disk and install FreeBSD (and
Linux) on it. The FreeBSD bootmanager will be able to boot Windows but
Windows will not boot any FreeBSD or
At 05:04 p.m. 18/04/2010, you wrote:
On 4/18/10 12:50 PM, Kruppa, Peter Ulrich wrote:
Since Windows isn't very cooperative with other operating systems,
leave it where it is, buy a second hard disk and install FreeBSD
(and Linux) on it. The FreeBSD bootmanager will be able to boot
Windows
2010/4/14 Дмитрий Бехтерев dbehte...@gmail.com
Hello all!
I want use redundant scheme for booting my OS.
Most would use gmirror, zfs mirror, or a hardware based solution instead of
your approach.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html
--
Adam Vande More
In the last episode (Mar 27), Manish Jain said:
I am used to the normal GNU-version of expr (also available on Solaris)
and much prefer it over the FreeBSD version. The GNU version allows
internal commands like length, substring and others which make it much
easier to work with. Is there any
Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Mar 27), Manish Jain said:
I am used to the normal GNU-version of expr (also available on Solaris)
and much prefer it over the FreeBSD version. The GNU version allows
internal commands like length, substring and others which make it much
easier to work
Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote:
When you execute a script ... the aliases are
ignored. Is there some way to fix this ...
Search for expand_aliases in the bash manpage.
___
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
I understand this is possible but cant seem to find any how to`s or
guides out on the net, I would like to set up a jail running FreeBSD 8.0
i386 on a system that is running FreeBSD 8.0 amd64.
JAILS requires host and client systems source code in sync. So that makes it
impossible to run a
On 2/27/10, Gökşin Akdeniz goksin.akde...@gmail.com wrote:
I understand this is possible but cant seem to find any how to`s or
guides out on the net, I would like to set up a jail running FreeBSD 8.0
i386 on a system that is running FreeBSD 8.0 amd64.
JAILS requires host and client systems
Hi,
Graeme Dargie wrote:
Hello List,
I understand this is possible but cant seem to find any how to`s or
guides out on the net, I would like to set up a jail running FreeBSD 8.0
i386 on a system that is running FreeBSD 8.0 amd64. I know this may
sound somewhat odd but I have a
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:29:04 +0100
Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org articulated:
Samuel Martín Moro wrote:
It's not officialy supported, but it still works.
You have to link some libraries to give them their freebsd 6.2
names.
I had to do it for the servers we sell at work.
It works
Robert wrote:
Hello
I have zend framework websites and I was wondering if they work well with
Freebsd7.2?
Because I hear bad thing about that. Can you tell me about that please?
Zend Framework is PHP? PHP works on FreeBSD, Zend Framework will also
work. Unless you give more specific
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:51:48 +0100
Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org articulated:
Robert wrote:
Hello
I have zend framework websites and I was wondering if they work
well with Freebsd7.2?
Because I hear bad thing about that. Can you tell me about that
please?
Zend Framework is
Jerry wrote:
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:51:48 +0100
Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org articulated:
Robert wrote:
Hello
I have zend framework websites and I was wondering if they work
well with Freebsd7.2?
Because I hear bad thing about that. Can you tell me about that
please?
Zend Framework is PHP?
It's not officialy supported, but it still works.
You have to link some libraries to give them their freebsd 6.2 names.
I had to do it for the servers we sell at work.
It works perfectly.
Samuel Martín Moro
CamTrace
{EPITECH.} tek4
Nobody wants to say how this works.
Maybe nobody knows ...
Samuel Martín Moro wrote:
It's not officialy supported, but it still works.
You have to link some libraries to give them their freebsd 6.2 names.
I had to do it for the servers we sell at work.
It works perfectly.
I'm glad it works, and it is not surprising. It would be easier for a
company
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 11:07:06 +, davidowe...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hello there how do i install freebsd to my dedicated server
I may politely point you at FreeBSD's excellent online
documentation, the handbook and the FAQ, which you'll
find here:
On 12/19/09, Jamie Griffin j...@koderize.com wrote:
Hi
I have been reading the handbook to learn about building a custom
kernel, but just wanted to ask something about gathering information
about my hardware before I give it a go.
The handbook suggests the command:
# pciconf -lv
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:41:14AM -0700, Tim Judd wrote:
Can I ask for more details from you why you're interested in building
a custom kernel?
--TJ
Thanks for the information Tim. I don't have a specific need to build a
custom kernel at the moment, I really just want to learn how to do
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 04:13:09PM +, Jamie Griffin wrote:
The handbook suggests the command:
# pciconf -lv
On my system, this command does print out information for quite a few
components, I just wondered if this information is all I need to work
from or is it not an accurate or
2009/12/19 Jamie Griffin j...@koderize.com:
Hi
I have been reading the handbook to learn about building a custom
kernel, but just wanted to ask something about gathering information
about my hardware before I give it a go.
The handbook suggests the command:
# pciconf -lv
...which I like
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:46:27 -0500
ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote:
You aren't going to gain much in speed or size savings, so
do take care to understand what you hope to gain. If you
wish to shorten kernel compile times and reduce the size of
/boot, have a look at the
ill...@gmail.com writes:
You aren't going to gain much in speed or size savings, so
do take care to understand what you hope to gain.
While I haven't done even an eyeball check recently, not too
long ago the size savings for an aggressively pruned kernel could be
quite noticable;
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Warren Block wrote:
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, d...@safeport.com wrote:
All variations give me a black screen with the keyboard locked. startx,
xdm and xorg all do the same.
Does ctrl-alt-f1 switch to the console? If so, good news--it's working.
You need to run dbus and
d...@safeport.com wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Pieter de Goeje wrote:
Xorg defaults to a black screen instead of a checkerboard pattern
these days.
You can revert to the old style with -retro flag to X .If things are
working you should see the old style screen with an X mouse pointer (if
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
d...@safeport.com wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Pieter de Goeje wrote:
Xorg defaults to a black screen instead of a checkerboard pattern these
days.
You can revert to the old style with -retro flag to X .If things are working
you should see the
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 07:15:58 doug wrote:
I have a IBM thinkpad T42p. xorg 7.4 is pretty much a disaster for me.
First I wonder if anyone has gotten 7.4 to work on this or similar
hardware. The system is 3+ years old when it was still IBM.
I have done this a time or two starting with
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, doug wrote:
I have a IBM thinkpad T42p. xorg 7.4 is pretty much a disaster for me. First
I wonder if anyone has gotten 7.4 to work on this or similar hardware. The
system is 3+ years old when it was still IBM.
My T42--no P--is the only system that the new Xorg has worked
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Pieter de Goeje wrote:
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 07:15:58 doug wrote:
I have a IBM thinkpad T42p. xorg 7.4 is pretty much a disaster for me.
First I wonder if anyone has gotten 7.4 to work on this or similar
hardware. The system is 3+ years old when it was still IBM.
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Warren Block wrote:
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, doug wrote:
I have a IBM thinkpad T42p. xorg 7.4 is pretty much a disaster for me.
First I wonder if anyone has gotten 7.4 to work on this or similar
hardware. The system is 3+ years old when it was still IBM.
My T42--no P--is
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, d...@safeport.com wrote:
All variations give me a black screen with the keyboard locked. startx,
xdm and xorg all do the same.
Does ctrl-alt-f1 switch to the console? If so, good news--it's working.
You need to run dbus and hal as per the Handbook page. Or disable
Yan, Yeqing wrote:
Hi:
I'm from Intel China. Our project use FreeBSD 7.0
and I have some questions about the FreeBSD syscall.
I don't know how to use these syscall below.
Is there having some doc or example about how to use these syscall?
kse_exit
kse_wakeup
kse_create
kse_thr_interrupt
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 278, Issue 4, Message 2
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:36:00 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote:
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Bret Busby wrote:
Hello.
I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq
NX5000, 2MB
Bret Busby wrote:
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Bret Busby wrote:
Hello.
I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq
NX5000, 2MB RAM), in a free 20MB partition.
I really hope you meant Gb here ;)
I noticed that the Linux Format magazine to which
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:36:00 +0800 (WST), Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote:
See
http://busby.net/bret/Screenshot--dev-sda-GParted.png
I think I do understand. You have:
1. a primary DOS partition which contains
a NTFS file system
2. an extended DOS partition
On 9/29/09, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
snip
Honestly, I've never seen the need for extended DOS partitions.
Let's say you intendedly want to run a multi-OS system, then
you can install four systems, each one in its own slice, and
within the slice, the partitiions, if needed and
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:01:18PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
Hello.
I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq
NX5000, 2MB RAM), in a free 20MB partition.
I noticed that the Linux Format magazine to which I subscribe, in Issue
124, comes with FreeBSD 7.2 on the
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Bret Busby wrote:
Hello.
I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq
NX5000, 2MB RAM), in a free 20MB partition.
I really hope you meant Gb here ;)
I noticed that the Linux Format magazine to which I subscribe, in
Bret Busby wrote:
Hello.
I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq
NX5000, 2MB RAM), in a free 20MB partition.
I really hope you meant Gb here ;)
I noticed that the Linux Format magazine to which I subscribe, in
Issue 124, comes with FreeBSD 7.2 on the DVD.
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:01:18 +0800 (WST)
Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote:
Hello.
I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq
NX5000, 2MB RAM), in a free 20MB partition.
I noticed that the Linux Format magazine to which I subscribe, in
Issue 124, comes with
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:01:18 +0800 (WST), Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote:
From what I understand, FreeBSD (and possibly all BSD) uses hard
disc slices rather than partitions, and therefore cannot
easily be installed in a free partition, but needs for
hard disc slices to be used.
I see a
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:08:17AM -0700, Jason wrote:
I was wondering in the case of openssl:
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:08.openssl.asc
Corrected: 2009-04-22 14:07:14 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.2-PRERELEASE)
2009-04-22 14:07:14 UTC (RELENG_7_2,
--- On Tue, 7/21/09, Zohreh zohreh...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Zohreh zohreh...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: question
To: Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr
Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 2:43 PM
Dear Sir/Madam
tahnk you fo your reply , i have checked my squid setting , and ftp_passive
2009/7/22 asdasd asdasd androni...@yahoo.com:
Hello. Sorry for ny bad english. :)
My trouble - I install BSD on first computer, after than plug hard drive into
other computer, but it doesn`t work! Can you help? After booting BIOS FreeBSD
print Can`t load kernel. What did I must do?
Thanks
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Glen Barberglen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/22 asdasd asdasd androni...@yahoo.com:
Hello. Sorry for ny bad english. :)
My trouble - I install BSD on first computer, after than plug hard drive
into other computer, but it doesn`t work! Can you help? After
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:51:57 -0700 (PDT), Zohreh zohreh...@yahoo.com wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam
i have a question about free bsd and squid that was installed on it.
i insatlled squid 2.6 stabled 20 on freebsd 7. and i enabled firewall
on freebsd . now i brows http sites on internet but i
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:28:16PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:51:57 -0700 (PDT), Zohreh zohreh...@yahoo.com wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam
?
i have a question about free bsd and squid that?was?installed on it.
i insatlled squid 2.6 stabled 20 on freebsd 7. and i
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:51:57 -0700 (PDT)
Zohreh zohreh...@yahoo.com wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam
i have a question about free bsd and squid that was installed on it.
i insatlled squid 2.6 stabled 20 on freebsd 7. and i enabled firewall
on freebsd . now i brows http sites on internet but i cannot
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 07:33:37PM +0100, João Pagaime wrote:
hello all
any chance of the following NIC working with
the latests freeBSD release:
Embedded HP NC362i Integrated Dual Port Gigabit Server Adaptor
FreeBSD's hardware release notes dont look very promising
Looks like a quite
Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 07:33:37PM +0100, João Pagaime wrote:
hello all
any chance of the following NIC working with
the latests freeBSD release:
Embedded HP NC362i Integrated Dual Port Gigabit Server Adaptor
FreeBSD's hardware release notes dont look very
On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:46:45 -0400
DJ Lawless jlawless...@aol.com wrote:
Do you need to become a member of freeBSD to get a freeBSD.org email
address?
if yes how do you become a member?
If you have to ask, it's not going to happen.
___
In response to DJ Lawless jlawless...@aol.com:
Do you need to become a member of freeBSD to get a freeBSD.org email address?
Yes.
if yes how do you become a member?
Make enough contributions to the project that you get noticed and you'll be
invited.
--
Bill Moran
J. Julián Rodríguez warenost...@gmail.com writes:
I´m a FreeBSD user from 4.0 version to Current (i386 arch). I've recently
switched to a amd64 machine and
consecuently to the amd64 version of the OS.
You claim the amd64 version enjoys Tier 1 Status, but in the page
From: Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com
Hi,
I am about to buy a new printer (my first one actually) and my retailer
strongly
recommends HP's D1560 printer (USB). I am running ghostscript8-8.62_5 under
FreeBSD 7.1 and I can't see this model listed anywhere in apsfilter. So I
Jerry wrote:
According to the [1]http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html site, your
printer is supported. Install the '/print/hplip' port. Be sure to read the docu
mentation on configuring the program.
I have hplip and cups installed on my system to support two HP wireless printer
s,
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:06:14 +0530
Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Jerry,
Thanks for your message. I checked up the list, which says that the
D1560 is indeed supported, but it also says that the minimum version
of hplip required for this is 2.8.5, while the latest port
On Apr 6, 2009, at 11:12, Chris Rees wrote:
Can
no-one can come up with a reply either quoting a mailing list or
giving the circumstances when:
a) Background fsck caused data CORRUPTION
_and_
b) A foreground fsck would not have done the same
?
2009/4/6 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org:
On Apr 7, 2009, at 02:34, Chris Rees wrote:
\
So, the answer is NO, it does NOT cause data CORRUPTION. A simple
reboot solved it? Really, you're advocating guaranteed extended
downtime every time there's a power outage, compared with a slight
chance of a slightly longer downtime while every
2009/4/6 Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk:
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 21:40:52 +0100
Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote:
2009/3/31 Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de:
Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote:
2009/3/31 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl:
IMHO this
On Apr 6, 2009, at 11:12, Chris Rees wrote:
Can
no-one can come up with a reply either quoting a mailing list or
giving the circumstances when:
a) Background fsck caused data CORRUPTION
_and_
b) A foreground fsck would not have done the same
?
Yes. When background FSCK first became
2009/3/31 Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de:
Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote:
2009/3/31 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl:
IMHO this background fsck isn't good idea at all
Why?
Google background fsck damage.
I was bitten by it myself, and I also
2009/4/5 Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com:
2009/3/31 Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de:
Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote:
2009/3/31 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl:
IMHO this background fsck isn't good idea at all
Why?
Google background fsck damage.
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 21:40:52 +0100
Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote:
2009/3/31 Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de:
Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote:
2009/3/31 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl:
IMHO this background fsck isn't good idea at all
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 08:05:11 manish jain wrote:
I am migrating from Linux and am still learning the basics of FreeBSD.
One thing that I would to carry over from my Linux days is to force an
fsck on all filesystems at system startup. On Linux, this was simply a
matter of editing
manish jain wrote:
Hi,
I am migrating from Linux and am still learning the basics of FreeBSD.
One thing that I would to carry over from my Linux days is to force an
fsck on all filesystems at system startup. On Linux, this was simply a
matter of editing /etc/rc.sysinit. Things seem a bit
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:35:11 +0530
manish jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am migrating from Linux and am still learning the basics of
FreeBSD. One thing that I would to carry over from my Linux days is
to force an fsck on all filesystems at system startup. On Linux, this
was
i don't know why you do want to FORCE it every boot. in FreeBSD it's not
needed.
but you may add
background_fsck=NO
to check filesystems at boot when needed, not delayed.
IMHO this background fsck isn't good idea at all
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On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:01:37 +0800, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:35:11 +0530
manish jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am migrating from Linux and am still learning the basics of
FreeBSD. One thing that I would to carry over from my Linux days is
to
2009/3/31 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl:
IMHO this background fsck isn't good idea at all
Why?
Chris
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Bruce Cran wrote:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:35:11 +0530
manish jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am migrating from Linux and am still learning the basics of
FreeBSD. One thing that I would to carry over from my Linux days is
to force an fsck on all filesystems at system startup. On
2009/3/31 manish jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com:
BTW, a lot of people who posted replies thought I was not aware that a preen
is always executed at startup. When I said I wanted to force an fsck, I
meant 'fsck -fy'. As for background checks, they are - in my opinion - a
real nightmare. Even
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:15:54 +0200
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 08:05:11 manish jain wrote:
I am migrating from Linux and am still learning the basics of
FreeBSD. One thing that I would to carry over from my Linux days is
to
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:00:18 +0530
manish jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote:
As for the reason why I want to force fsck is that it has now
happened 3 timed that, after a clean and proper shutdown - with no
foreign filesystems mounted, FreeBSD has complained on system restart
(twice on a
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:00:18 +0530
manish jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote:
Having bgfsck enabled is like
inviting a dragon to dinner when this happens.
2009/3/31 RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com:
If you've done a normal install, soft-updates aren't enabled on /,
so it will get foreground
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 04:04:53PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:00:18 +0530
manish jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote:
Having bgfsck enabled is like
inviting a dragon to dinner when this happens.
2009/3/31 RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com:
If you've done a normal
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 14:24:11 RW wrote:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:15:54 +0200
Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 08:05:11 manish jain wrote:
I am migrating from Linux and am still learning the basics of
FreeBSD. One thing that I
Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote:
2009/3/31 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl:
IMHO this background fsck isn't good idea at all
Why?
Google background fsck damage.
I was bitten by it myself, and I also recommend to turn
background fsck off. If your disks are
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:57:21 +0200 (CEST), Oliver Fromme
o...@lurza.secnetix.de wrote:
Google background fsck damage.
I was bitten by it myself, and I also recommend to turn
background fsck off. If your disks are large and you
can't afford the fsck time, consider using ZFS, which
has a
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