Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Quick question from a non-unix person who doesn't >want to break something "just poking around"... > >How does one go into "single user" mode, then start >the multi user functions again? As many other people on this list alre

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-06 Thread Joey Hess
Oliver Elphick wrote: > In 10 years of using Unix and Linux I have never had to defragment a disk. > > This isn't a Micro$oft product... > > Can anyone suggest why one might want to defragment a disk in Linux? I have a partition that is 15% fragmeneted (after a year and a half of use..) I'm star

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-06 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Oliver Elphick writes: > > In 10 years of using Unix and Linux I have never had to defragment a disk. > > This isn't a Micro$oft product... > > Can anyone suggest why one might want to defragment a disk in Linux? > On a related issue... Doesn't Unix load data on demand? i.e. when you

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Curt Howland hat gesagt: // Curt Howland wrote: > Quick question from a non-unix person who doesn't > want to break something "just poking around"... > > How does one go into "single user" mode, then start > the multi user functions again? > > I pulled a defrag package down, but it won't run > (

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
Curt Howland wrote: >How does one go into "single user" mode, then start >the multi user functions again? > >I pulled a defrag package down, but it won't run >(for blatently obvious reasons) in multi-mode. In 10 years of using Unix and Linux I have never had to defragment a disk. This i

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-06 Thread Carey Evans
Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How does one go into "single user" mode, then start > the multi user functions again? The way I do it, when there aren't bigger problems: At the console, as root, enter "telinit 1". To leave single-user mode, exit the shell. -- Carey Evans <

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Curt Howland wrote: > > Quick question from a non-unix person who doesn't > want to break something "just poking around"... > > How does one go into "single user" mode, then start > the multi user functions again? At the lilo prompt, type your image name plus 'single' > I pulled a defrag packa

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-05 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Single-user mode is also known as runlevel 1. To go to any runlevel, as root run 'telinit [level]' -- so 'telinit 1' would bring you to single-user mode, 'telinit 0' would shut down the system, 'telinit 6' would reboot.. and 'telinit 2' (or 3 or 4) would bring you back to multi-user mode. You cou

Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-05 Thread Curt Howland
Quick question from a non-unix person who doesn't want to break something "just poking around"... How does one go into "single user" mode, then start the multi user functions again? I pulled a defrag package down, but it won't run (for blatently obvious reasons) in multi-mode. No need to tell me