I thought -F is "force". Ralph Bacolod ,MT http://blog.devsphoto.com twitter: @rafiks
-----Original Message----- From: Thad <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:38:07 To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List<[email protected]> Reply-To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group \(PLUG\) Technical Discussion List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [plug] du -m still shows a big deleted directory, thoughts about shutdown -rF In AIX shutdown -Fr will do force reboot which usually issued for hosed situation. In Linux I usually -r with shutdown. Sent from T-Mobile G2 with Googlein andrelst <[email protected]> wrote: >"-r" is reboot, and the "-F" part is fsck when OS is booting up. These been >deprecated for some time now, and my CentOS 6 does not even have the -F >parameter and other newer distros as well. > >If you want to force fsck at boot time, then as root: > # touch /forcefsck > >and run shutdown afterwards. Note, If you don't have OOB (out of band >management), advised not to do it. It could happen that fsck is asking for a >yes/no question at the console. > >regards, >Andre | http://www.varon.ca > >On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Johann Vincent Paul Tagle < >[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ok it turns out this was me just being silly. The tar xvf extracted it to >> /parent_directory/parent_directory/directory, >> not /parent_directory/directory, which is why I got confused. But still >> would like to learn more about shutdown -rF. Thanks. >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Johann Vincent Paul Tagle < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi. Have a server on a US-based host, where I deleted a directory that >>> has around 275G worth of files. The objective is to restore that directory >>> from a .tar backup. However, after deleting the directory, df didn't >>> reflect the expected increase in the available space, and du -m still shows >>> the directory, although "ls <directory name>" does not. >>> >>> Tried rebooting the server - no changes. I cannot unmount the filesystem >>> to run fsck as the directory is part of "/" so I need to be physically >>> logged on server to go on single user mode. Googling about it people >>> suggest shutdown -rF, which I'm keen on trying because I'm stuck anyway as >>> the hosting provider cannot help me until I get endorsed by the account >>> owner, who won't be available until a few hours from now. Just want to know >>> your thoughts about running this command. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Johann >>> >> >> >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> > >_________________________________________________ >Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
