On Thursday 12 February 2009 16:24:25 A. Wright wrote:
Can anyone corroborate that? If so, does anyone know when
ed started wanting to make a temp file even before any edits
are made? I am sure that ed has gotten me out of similar jams
in the past, when I wanted to see part of a file in an
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:00:16 -0500, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote:
1) It was my understanding one has to force-mount a dirty
filesuystem. IF this sounds like a practice best left to senior
Jedi Masters ... it porbably is.
Mounting possibly defective file systems is not a good
seeing fsck checking partitions after unclean shutdown, but when everything's
okay, there's no problem running into MUM *afterwards*.
exactly like me i have
background_fsck=NO
in rc.conf
unix doesn't crash every few hours so it's really not a problem to wait a
bit more
Wojciech Puchar writes:
background_fsck=NO
in rc.conf
unix doesn't crash every few hours so it's really not a problem
to wait a bit more
Cases and personal tolerance may vary.
One of my machines has a pair of 50gb SCSI disks; running two
full passes takes about 7
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:11:56 -0500, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote:
One of my machines has a pair of 50gb SCSI disks; running two
full passes takes about 7 minutes.
I have no idea how long it might take to check a multi-terabyte
RAID-mumble set-up.
It's not *that* hard to
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:16:13 +0100
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:11:56 -0500, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com
wrote:
One of my machines has a pair of 50gb SCSI disks; running two
full passes takes about 7 minutes.
I have no idea how long it might take to check a
One of my machines has a pair of 50gb SCSI disks; running two
full passes takes about 7 minutes.
I have no idea how long it might take to check a multi-terabyte
RAID-mumble set-up.
depends of how filesystem was created.
multiterabyte arrays are usually used for large files, and
IMHO, if you are running a system where 'power outages' cannot
be tolerated, why not install a UPS, they are really quite
cheap, and be done with it? I cannot imagine any high end,
mission critical system not employing one.
Power outages are not the only thing which can
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:22:55 -0500
Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote:
IMHO, if you are running a system where 'power outages' cannot
be tolerated, why not install a UPS, they are really quite
cheap, and be done with it? I cannot imagine any high end,
mission critical system not employing
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:22:55 -0500, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote:
Power outages are not the only thing which can cause (directly
or indirectly) file system corruption.
Oh yes, that's so true - I experienced it in July 2008, and I still
think it was a software problem...
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On 2/13/09 7:22 AM, Robert Huff wrote:
IMHO, if you are running a system where 'power outages' cannot
be tolerated, why not install a UPS, they are really quite
cheap, and be done with it? I cannot imagine any high end,
mission critical system not employing one.
Power
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 04:06:49PM -0800, David Newman wrote:
What's the canonical method for checking ufs file systems on a FreeBSD
7.1/amd64 system after an unscheduled power outage?
How about fsck
jerry
thanks
dn
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On 2/12/09 4:41 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 04:06:49PM -0800, David Newman wrote:
What's the canonical method for checking ufs file systems on a FreeBSD
7.1/amd64 system after an unscheduled power outage?
How about fsck
Right. I'm asking procedurally how that's
David Newman wrote:
On 2/12/09 4:41 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 04:06:49PM -0800, David Newman wrote:
What's the canonical method for checking ufs file systems on a FreeBSD
7.1/amd64 system after an unscheduled power outage?
How about fsck
Right.
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:45:18 -0800
David Newman dnew...@networktest.com wrote:
do I need to
boot into single-user mode, what filesystem(s) do I mount and how,
what switches if any do I use with fsck and so on.
i thought it happens in the background anyway. i don't recall having to
do anything
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On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Tim Judd wrote:
It's part of the bootup scripts now. It runs in the background 60 seconds
after the login prompt shows up (not exactly, but close to 60 secs)
it's the background_fsck option that defaults to YES in
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, David Newman wrote:
On 2/12/09 4:41 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 04:06:49PM -0800, David Newman wrote:
What's the canonical method for checking ufs file systems on a FreeBSD
7.1/amd64 system after an unscheduled power outage?
How about fsck
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 05:16:53PM -0800, prad wrote:
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:45:18 -0800
David Newman dnew...@networktest.com wrote:
do I need to
boot into single-user mode, what filesystem(s) do I mount and how,
what switches if any do I use with fsck and so on.
i thought it happens
Jerry McAllister writes:
do I need to
boot into single-user mode, what filesystem(s) do I mount and how,
what switches if any do I use with fsck and so on.
i thought it happens in the background anyway. i don't recall having to
do anything other than listen to the drive
David Newman dnew...@networktest.com wrote:
What's the canonical method for checking ufs file systems on a FreeBSD
7.1/amd64 system after an unscheduled power outage?
Wait.
The system will automatically detect a dirty shutdown and check the disks
during the boot process. If the disks are
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