Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-11 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 11:09 GMT, Tim Connors penned: Not a case of ext3 being crap, a case of ext3 with journalled *data* being crap. Quite a nice allrounder with the other two ext3 options set. And you get the same problems with all other fses when their equivalent of jo

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-11 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 02:56:49PM +1300, cr wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 05:17, Pigeon wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:49:26PM +1300, cr wrote: > > > On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 03:49, Pigeon wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:11:53PM +1300, cr wrote: > > (snip) > > > > > > > > > > > Are th

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-11 Thread Geordie Birch
cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07 Oct 2003 04:10 +1300]: > Anyway, *now*, Ctrl-Alt-BS does indeed just kill X and leave me in Linux as > it should.However, whether it'll still work if X 'siezes' I'll only know > if and when I have a sieze. Check out the magic sysreq key. With its secure access

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-11 Thread cr
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 05:17, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:49:26PM +1300, cr wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 03:49, Pigeon wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:11:53PM +1300, cr wrote: (snip) > > > > > > > > Are there any downsides to ext3? > > > > > > If you have a filesystem with a

Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-10 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 11:09 GMT, Tim Connors penned: > > Not a case of ext3 being crap, a case of ext3 with journalled *data* > being crap. Quite a nice allrounder with the other two ext3 options > set. And you get the same problems with all other fses when their > equivalent of journalled *data*

Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-10 Thread José Salavert Torres
El Viernes, 10 de Octubre de 2003 15:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > How can I clean a dirty journal??? > I can't startup my machine... Well I have done: tune2fs -O as_journal /dev/hdxx Now everithing goes properly, It seems that the ext3 , is not that safe. Another tip is that my system mount

Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I clean a dirty journal??? I can't startup my machine... On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:05:24PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 22:49 GMT, Roberto Sanchez penned: > > > > >If you have and ext3 that you want to revert to ext2, you can just: > >

Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-10 Thread Tim Connors
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 10 Oct 2003 01:39:18 -0600: > There was a link to an article on slashdot today comparing various > journaling FSes. Apparently (I just read the comments, not the actual > article, like the typical /. reader), ext3 is pretty much el crapola > com

Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-10 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 06:59 GMT, cr penned: > > Thanks everybody for your input. > > As it happens, all my partitions are ext2 at the moment (except for > some FAT16's but we needn't go into that ;) > > I'm contemplating swapping some of 'em to ext3, I was just wondering > if the pluses outwei

Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-10 Thread cr
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:05, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 22:49 GMT, Roberto Sanchez penned: > >>If you have and ext3 that you want to revert to ext2, you can just: > >> > >>tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdXX > >> > >>-Roberto > > > > Out of curiosity, w

Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-09 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:05:24PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 22:49 GMT, Roberto Sanchez penned: > > > > >If you have and ext3 that you want to revert to ext2, you can just: > > > > > >tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdXX > > > > > >-Roberto ...

Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-09 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 00:05 GMT, Roberto Sanchez penned: > > Right. But, the OP said something about sticking with ext2 instead of > ext3. I assumed that he already had an ext3 drive that he wanted to > make ext2. > > -Roberto > Ah. I didn't read it like that, but maybe he did. -- moniqu

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 18:49:23 -0400, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Pigeon wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 20:49:26 +1300, cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > I think, with my capability for pushing the wrong butt

Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 22:49 GMT, Roberto Sanchez penned: If you have and ext3 that you want to revert to ext2, you can just: tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdXX -Roberto Out of curiosity, why would one want to do this? Also, you can always mount an ext3 drive as ext2 j

reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-09 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 22:49 GMT, Roberto Sanchez penned: > If you have and ext3 that you want to revert to ext2, you can just: > > tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdXX > > -Roberto Out of curiosity, why would one want to do this? Also, you can always mount an ext3 drive as ext2 just by specifying

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Pigeon wrote: I think, with my capability for pushing the wrong button at critical moments, I might be safer to stick with ext2 then. Well, I admit that I found out about this the hard way. But I think that was when I was running slink; the woody versions of the tools all seem to spit out warn

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-09 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:49:26PM +1300, cr wrote: > On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 03:49, Pigeon wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:11:53PM +1300, cr wrote: > > > On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 07:04, Pigeon wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:09:29AM +1300, cr wrote: > > > > > I've only had one sieze in rece

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-09 Thread cr
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 03:49, Pigeon wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:11:53PM +1300, cr wrote: > > On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 07:04, Pigeon wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:09:29AM +1300, cr wrote: > > > > I've only had one sieze in recent times, what I've had several of > > > > recently is sudden

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-08 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:11:53PM +1300, cr wrote: > On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 07:04, Pigeon wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:09:29AM +1300, cr wrote: > > > I've only had one sieze in recent times, what I've had several of > > > recently is sudden complete power cut - possibly a power supply fault.

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-08 Thread cr
On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 07:04, Pigeon wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:09:29AM +1300, cr wrote: > > I've only had one sieze in recent times, what I've had several of > > recently is sudden complete power cut - possibly a power supply fault. > > Either way, it has the same effect of discombobulatin

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-08 Thread cr
On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:58, Mike Mueller wrote: > On Sunday 05 October 2003 06:02, Neo wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:37, cr wrote: > > > > > > I just had a sieze in X, and Ctrl-Alt-F? had no effect, > > > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace was the only key combination that worked. Is > > > there any sett

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-06 Thread Mike Mueller
On Sunday 05 October 2003 06:02, Neo wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:37, cr wrote: > > I just had a sieze in X, and Ctrl-Alt-F? had no effect, > > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace was the only key combination that worked. Is there > > any setting that will restore its function of 'kill X but don't reboot

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-06 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:09:29AM +1300, cr wrote: > > I've only had one sieze in recent times, what I've had several of recently is > sudden complete power cut - possibly a power supply fault. Either way, it > has the same effect of discombobulating my hard drive so I have to do a lot > of

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-06 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Just an important addition in my opinion: > Then edit /etc/fstab and change the "ext2" to "ext3" for each partition > on which you enabled a journal and reboot or remount those partitions. > The conversion only takes a few tens of seconds for each partition, and > you can always "back out" by simp

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-06 Thread Kent West
cr wrote: I've only had one sieze in recent times, what I've had several of recently is sudden complete power cut - possibly a power supply fault. Either way, it has the same effect of discombobulating my hard drive so I have to do a lot of fscking on startup again.Occasionally this compl

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-05 Thread cr
On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 04:42, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:42:17AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:37:19PM +1200, cr wrote: > > > I just had a sieze in X, and Ctrl-Alt-F? had no effect, > > > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace was the only key combination that worked. Is >

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-05 Thread cr
On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 02:46, Kent West wrote: > Neo wrote: > >On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:37, cr wrote: > >>Way back in the days of RedHat 5 or thereabouts, whenever X siezed for > >> any reason, I could kill it with Alt-Ctrl-Backspace and end up back in > >> the command line. > > This is Debian's behav

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-05 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:42:17AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:37:19PM +1200, cr wrote: > > I just had a sieze in X, and Ctrl-Alt-F? had no effect, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace > > was the only key combination that worked. Is there any setting that will > > restore its funct

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-05 Thread Kent West
Neo wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:37, cr wrote: Way back in the days of RedHat 5 or thereabouts, whenever X siezed for any reason, I could kill it with Alt-Ctrl-Backspace and end up back in the command line. This is Debian's behaviour also. However, since I got more sophisticated hardware

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-05 Thread Neo
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:37, cr wrote: > Way back in the days of RedHat 5 or thereabouts, whenever X siezed for any > reason, I could kill it with Alt-Ctrl-Backspace and end up back in the > command line. Very handy, since Linux is ~ 10^6 times more stable than X > ;) > > However, since I

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-05 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:37:19PM +1200, cr wrote: > I just had a sieze in X, and Ctrl-Alt-F? had no effect, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace > was the only key combination that worked. Is there any setting that will > restore its function of 'kill X but don'

How to kill X?

2003-10-04 Thread cr
Way back in the days of RedHat 5 or thereabouts, whenever X siezed for any reason, I could kill it with Alt-Ctrl-Backspace and end up back in the command line. Very handy, since Linux is ~ 10^6 times more stable than X ;) However, since I got more sophisticated hardware with an ATX power s