Re: improper shutdown

2007-04-04 Thread Christian Walther
On 04/04/07, John Govender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi can u pls tell me how i can find out the exact time a pc running winXP media centre was improperly shut down? FreeBSD is not exactly related to WinXP, so I doubt that someone on this list is either capable or willing to answer your

Re: improper shutdown

2007-04-04 Thread Eric
John Govender wrote: hi can u pls tell me how i can find out the exact time a pc running winXP media centre was improperly shut down? thanks John as others have mentioned, this question has nothing to do with FreeBSD, but you can check the event log on your XP box to see when the crash

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-09 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 07:05:43 +0800 Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am kinda new to FBSD, still kinda learning stuff. Anyway, when my system boots i see all kinda fragmentation information. How do I correct this? Any good reading material? FreeBSD will defragment itself without

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-09 Thread Bill Moran
Randy Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 07:05:43 +0800 Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am kinda new to FBSD, still kinda learning stuff. Anyway, when my system boots i see all kinda fragmentation information. How do I correct this? Any good reading

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot

2004-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 07:05:43 +0800 Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am kinda new to FBSD, still kinda learning stuff. Anyway, when my system boots i see all kinda fragmentation information. How do I correct this? Any good reading material? FreeBSD will defragment

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-09 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:36:52 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 07:05:43 +0800 Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am kinda new to FBSD, still kinda learning stuff. Anyway, when my system boots i see all

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot

2004-06-09 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:45:06 -0400 (EDT) Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 07:05:43 +0800 Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am kinda new to FBSD, still kinda learning stuff. Anyway, when my system boots i see all kinda fragmentation

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot

2004-06-09 Thread Scott
Hi, As a newbie to FreeBSD, I may be way off base, but it seems very logical to me that the size of your drive or partition would make a difference on at what percentage full one would start to notice problems. In terms of megs/gigs 80% of 120 gigs still has a lot of work space left. 80% of 4

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot

2004-06-09 Thread Bill Moran
Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, As a newbie to FreeBSD, I may be way off base, but it seems very logical to me that the size of your drive or partition would make a difference on at what percentage full one would start to notice problems. In terms of megs/gigs 80% of 120 gigs still

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot

2004-06-09 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:21:40PM -0500, Scott wrote: As a newbie to FreeBSD, I may be way off base, but it seems very logical to me that the size of your drive or partition would make a difference on at what percentage full one would start to notice problems. In terms of megs/gigs 80%

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot

2004-06-09 Thread Bill Moran
Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:21:40PM -0500, Scott wrote: As a newbie to FreeBSD, I may be way off base, but it seems very logical to me that the size of your drive or partition would make a difference on at what percentage full one would start to

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot

2004-06-09 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 03:59:00PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:21:40PM -0500, Scott wrote: As a newbie to FreeBSD, I may be way off base, but it seems very logical to me that the size of your drive or partition would make a

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot

2004-06-09 Thread Kent Stewart
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 12:59 pm, Bill Moran wrote: Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:21:40PM -0500, Scott wrote: As a newbie to FreeBSD, I may be way off base, but it seems very logical to me that the size of your drive or partition would make a

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-08 Thread Murray Taylor
Fragmentation is a non-event in 99.999% of cases. It is nothing like micro$lop fragments and (before you ask, no there is no defrag tool, 'cos it is not required) The shutdown question -- well you should not shutdown incorrectly ;-) - see man shutdown and friends (BTW - letting the FreeBSD box

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-08 Thread Bruce Hunter
This is off topic, I was wondering if there is a pretty little gui that will run when booting. Kinda like windows, lindows, and even Redhat Fedora has one; which can be switched back and forth. Basically, so I don't have to see the text scrolling down and just see a loader with %. Maybe in the

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-08 Thread Jason Stewart
On 08/06/04 02:21 -0400, Bruce Hunter wrote: This is off topic, I was wondering if there is a pretty little gui that will run when booting. Kinda like windows, lindows, and even Redhat Fedora has one; which can be switched back and forth. Basically, so I don't have to see the text scrolling

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
[It's not generally good policy to ask multiple questions in one email. As crazy as it sounds, you're better off sending a seperate email for each question. See http://www.lemis.com/questions.html] Bruce Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is off topic, I was wondering if there is a pretty

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
I am kinda new to FBSD, still kinda learning stuff. Anyway, when my system boots i see all kinda fragmentation information. How do I correct this? Any good reading material? Do not correct it. It is not at all the same thing as fragmentation in Microsloth systems and is not a problem.

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-08 Thread Robert Storey
I am kinda new to FBSD, still kinda learning stuff. Anyway, when my system boots i see all kinda fragmentation information. How do I correct this? Any good reading material? FreeBSD will defragment itself without any action from the user. However, defragmentation requires some blank space,

Re: Improper shutdown of system / Fragmentation Problems / Boot logs

2004-06-08 Thread Thomas Farrell
Sometimes the power goes out and my machine shuts off . when I power it backup it fails at check root file system. and drops me into a shell I run fsck /dev/da0s1a and answer yes to fixing of fragmented inodes. figure out what drive/partition root is mounted of by typing df and then run fsck