Re: Changing space reserved

1998-01-02 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Tim Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Doing this reminded me of a problem I had trying to defrag the drive. I > unmounted it and booted off a floppy, typed edefrag and : > stalin# edefrag -d -r /dev/hda1 > edefrag 0.61 > DEBUG: read_tables() > edefrag: bad magic number in super-block > > What

Re: Changing space reserved

1997-12-30 Thread Tim Thomson
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > (this one is the risky method) > sync > mount -n -o remount,ro / > tune2fs > mount -n -o remount,rw / Worked!!! (had to go to maintence mode). Thanks a lot!!! What does the volume name you can set do? Doing this reminded me of a problem I had

Re: Changing space reserved

1997-12-30 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Tim Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My Debian system has only a 100Mb Hard Drive, I stuck a resonable system > onto it, managed to recompile my kernel (although I've now deleted most of > the source) and have now set it up as much as I want to for now. > I use my system to recieve mail using

Re: Changing space reserved

1997-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
Tim Thomson wrote: > It says I have 5Mb free, but 91Mb-80Mb = 11Mb! Can I change it so it > reserves say, 2Mb instead? tune2fs -m 2 /dev/hda1 > Is it safe to do this? > What could go wrong? The man page for tune2fs warns: Never use tune2fs on a read/write mounted filesystem to

Changing space reserved

1997-12-30 Thread Tim Thomson
Hi, My Debian system has only a 100Mb Hard Drive, I stuck a resonable system onto it, managed to recompile my kernel (although I've now deleted most of the source) and have now set it up as much as I want to for now. I use my system to recieve mail using fetchmail. What I want to know is, can I r