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