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...

1997-12-06 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 isn't a

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 (for

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 run a

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 starting

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 already

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 I

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

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 package down,