Hi Mike,
> > > # touch /forcefsck
> > Oh, that's very interesting!!! Thanks a lot for that hint.
>
> You're welcome. I remembered after the fact that there's an equivalent
> /fastboot for booting without checks, too.
That one I knew. :-)
I suppose you wouldn't know whether it's at possible to
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mike Touloumtzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>2) If you're wondering whether or not fsck will be run at boot time:
> most Linux/Unix installations, including Debian, test for the
> presence of a /forcefsck file in the rc scripts at boot time. If
> this file ex
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:49:24PM +, Andy Spiegl wrote:
>
> >If you can't umount it, take the system to
> >single-user mode with 'telinit 1', then try the umount/fsck.
> That wouldn't work either in my case, because I only have remote
> access to this machine.
>
Yeah, I somehow miss
According to George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> dmesg | more
>
> might help
Nope, it doesn't. :-(
It only reports some of the startup messages. The important ones like
the output of fsck (even whether it was run at all) is not shown.
BTW, I don't understand the man page of dmesg. It desc
> On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:10:24PM +, Andy Spiegl wrote:
> >
> > trying to install new packages I just noticed that I can't write to
> > /var/lib/dpkg anymore. The error I get is:
> > "No space left on device".
According to Mike Touloumtzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 1) You usually don't have
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 11:50:09AM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> You are going to probably need physical access to the machine to run fsck
> from the console. It is possible that it might repair itself on a reboot
> but if it has problems, it will come up in single-user mode wanting input
> from th
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:10:24PM +, Andy Spiegl wrote:
> Hi!
>
> trying to install new packages I just noticed that I can't write to
> /var/lib/dpkg anymore. The error I get is:
> "No space left on device".
>
> I took a look at /var/log/kern.log and found this:
>
> ... kernel: EXT2-fs err
Hi Paul,
> editing /etc/defaults/rcS
> FSCKFIX=yes
Thanks. Actually I did that last week, after some kind person in the
list gave this as an answer to another question of mine.
Well, I dared to do itandwas lucky! The system is up and running
again. And I don't see any dubious messages
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl) writes:
> I took a look at /var/log/kern.log and found this:
>
> ... kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:07): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count \
> corrupted for block group 4
> ... last message repeated 207 times
> ... last message repeated 133 times
> and so on
Hi Jim,
first of all thanks for the fast answer!
> It's hard to answer when you don't include any other information.
You are right. I am sorry. I wanted to get my question out as fast as
possible and stopped thinking.
> The obvious question is: Are you really out of disk space? and the answer
It's hard to answer when you don't include any other information. The
obvious question is: Are you really out of disk space? and the answer is df.
What does the output from df say?
If you are out of disk space, do you have a spare partition available? If so
you may be ok. If not, you may be screwe
Hi!
trying to install new packages I just noticed that I can't write to
/var/lib/dpkg anymore. The error I get is:
"No space left on device".
I took a look at /var/log/kern.log and found this:
... kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:07): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count \
corrupted for block
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