Re: mount ntfs (windows) file system in /etc/fstab fails at boot

2004-11-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 01:53:11AM -0800, Kevin Smith wrote: > I am able to mount my windows partition manually by either: > > > mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /windows > > or by putting an entry in by /dev/fstab that looks like: > > /dev/ad0s1 /windows ntfs ro 2

mount ntfs (windows) file system in /etc/fstab fails at boot

2004-11-25 Thread Kevin Smith
I am able to mount my windows partition manually by either: > mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /windows or by putting an entry in by /dev/fstab that looks like: /dev/ad0s1 /windows ntfs ro 2 2 and using command: > mount /windows -however, If I leave this entry in

Corrupted file system?

2004-10-22 Thread Jorn Argelo
Hi folks, I've been installing the i386 port (5.2.1-P11) on my AMD64 (because I got sick of the cvsup problem). So that all went fine, I've compiled KDE from source and stuff, no problem. But now I wanted to start KDE (which has been working fine yesterday). So I tried to login and said that it

Re: Read-Only file system

2004-10-14 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "steveb99" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 4:28 PM Subject: Read-Only file system > I appear to have hosed myself and having trouble finding out what I do > and how to fix it. It

Read-Only file system

2004-10-14 Thread steveb99
e point to me how a file system can become Read-Only, the file permissions are fine. Also can this be repaired if so what should I be reading to learn to do that. TIA, Steve B. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re[2]: fsck'ing dirty unmounted file system in multi user?

2004-09-23 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello Bill, Thursday, September 23, 2004, 1:49:18 PM, you wrote: > You can't/shouldn't fsck them if they're mounted. Make sure they're > not mounted first. They aren't. I can't mount them because they aren't clean ;-) > Additionally, if your securelevel is high, you can't fsck them no matter

Re: fsck'ing dirty unmounted file system in multi user?

2004-09-23 Thread Bill Moran
Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > after a crash of a server (running 4.10) we wanted to bring it > up ASAP and skipped fsck'ing some backup partitions as they weren't > essential for it to work. However, I'd now like to fsck them while the > machine is in multi user but I always e

fsck'ing dirty unmounted file system in multi user?

2004-09-23 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hi, after a crash of a server (running 4.10) we wanted to bring it up ASAP and skipped fsck'ing some backup partitions as they weren't essential for it to work. However, I'd now like to fsck them while the machine is in multi user but I always end up with. fsck -fp /dev/ar0s1g /dev/ar0s1g: NO WRITE

Re: File system replication between servers

2004-09-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 04), Marc G. Fournier said: > On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Dan Nelson wrote: > > How about a shared SCSI drive, filesystems only mounted on the > > master. When the master fails, the slave fscks the filesystems, > > mounts them, and becomes the master. Tried and true. You could >

Re: File system replication between servers

2004-09-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 04), Marc G. Fournier said: > On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Dan Nelson wrote: > > You could even do it without shared storage if you use geom_gate > > and geom_{mirror,vinum,ccd} to keep two identical disks on each > > machine in sync. When the master crashes and comes back up as a >

Re: File system replication between servers

2004-09-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 04), Marc G. Fournier said: Does anyone know of any software that will run on FreeBSD that would allow you to keep two servers in sync? All writes to /dir1 on server1 would go to /dir1 on server2, and all writes to /dir2 on server2 wou

Re: File system replication between servers

2004-09-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 04), Marc G. Fournier said: > Does anyone know of any software that will run on FreeBSD that would > allow you to keep two servers in sync? All writes to /dir1 on > server1 would go to /dir1 on server2, and all writes to /dir2 on > server2 would go to /dir2 on server1? >

File system replication between servers

2004-09-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Does anyone know of any software that will run on FreeBSD that would allow you to keep two servers in sync? All writes to /dir1 on server1 would go to /dir1 on server2, and all writes to /dir2 on server2 would go to /dir2 on server1? I've thought about rsync, but am trying to get it as close t

Re: file system setup for new system - recommendations?

2004-08-09 Thread Gary Mulder
D configuration will happy mirror file system corruption, inadvertent user file deletions, etc. Backup however implies a secure and independent copy of the primary system data. Ideally this copy is not just kept on the same disk as the primary data. How useful are your backups if you lose the

Re: file system setup for new system - recommendations?

2004-08-08 Thread Jay O'Brien
Darren Crotchett wrote: > On Sunday 08 August 2004 10:36 pm, David Kelly wrote: > > >>Uh, you know /root/ is the superuser's home directory and not the same >>thing as "the root directory '/'", right? :-) > > > Yeah. When I got to the end of my email and had to type "/" again, I thought > I

Re: file system setup for new system - recommendations?

2004-08-08 Thread Darren Crotchett
On Sunday 08 August 2004 10:36 pm, David Kelly wrote: > > Uh, you know /root/ is the superuser's home directory and not the same > thing as "the root directory '/'", right? :-) Yeah. When I got to the end of my email and had to type "/" again, I thought I had accidentally written /root when I

Re: file system setup for new system - recommendations?

2004-08-08 Thread David Kelly
On Aug 8, 2004, at 9:04 PM, Darren Crotchett wrote: The other directory that tends to grow is /usr. This is where all of your /home, /www and /ports directories are. In other words, you put alot of stuff in /usr. I never put anything in /root. So, once the system is built it is nearly 100% st

Re: file system setup for new system - recommendations?

2004-08-08 Thread Darren Crotchett
I'm not as experienced as many others on this list, some of whom have already given you their advice. But, I have used FreeBSD for many years and will gladly share what I think I have figured out about these topics with you. Your planned usage sounds alot like the way I use FreeBSD. I use it a

Re: file system setup for new system - recommendations?

2004-08-08 Thread Jay O'Brien
stheg olloydson wrote: > it was said: > > > >>Today I sent an order >>to Newegg for >>a second Seagate 120GB drive ($101.05 including tax >>& shipping). > > > > >>Now to learn more about grofs(8); I wasn't aware of >>that >>capability at all. I was one of the first users of >>CP/M and >

Re: file system setup for new system - recommendations?

2004-08-08 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: >Today I sent an order > to Newegg for > a second Seagate 120GB drive ($101.05 including tax > & shipping). > Now to learn more about grofs(8); I wasn't aware of > that > capability at all. I was one of the first users of > CP/M and > begrudgingly went to DOS; I was a "power u

Re: file system setup for new system - recommendations?

2004-08-07 Thread Jay O'Brien
Thanks to Stheg Olloydson, Adam Smith, and David Kelly for your thoughts and recommendations. First, to answer your questions. It was my error on the RAM; yes, I meant to say 1024MB, not 1024GB (blush). And, I'm (now) using FreeBSD 4.10 because it looks like it was the right one to choose to us

Re: file system setup for new system - recommendations?

2004-08-07 Thread Adam Smith
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 05:29:56PM -0700, Jay O'Brien said: > Here's where I am, and I would appreciate your collective comments. I'm > persuaded to use 1026MB for swap, 8GB for root (/), 30GB for /backup tars, > and the remainder for /home. The /tmp, /usr, and /var directories would > be inclu

Re: file system setup for new system - recommendations?

2004-08-07 Thread David Kelly
On Aug 6, 2004, at 7:29 PM, Jay O'Brien wrote: I've learned that I need another partition to which I can write tar backups and then ftp them to one of my windows machines on my LAN. How have you learned this lesson? Tar isn't really the best thing for backing up the OS. Besides, you don't need to

Re: file system setup for new system - recommendations?

2004-08-06 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: by: "Jay O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm confused, and I ask for your collective help. > > I successfully built a FreeBSD system using defaults. It works fine, > so far. I will start over and rebuild the system now, carefully > documenting each step. I will make some changes th

file system setup for new system - recommendations?

2004-08-06 Thread Jay O'Brien
I'm confused, and I ask for your collective help. I successfully built a FreeBSD system using defaults. It works fine, so far. I will start over and rebuild the system now, carefully documenting each step. I will make some changes the second time. What I have right now is not mission critical,

Re: Need a network file system with Windows client and freeBSD server

2004-07-15 Thread peter lageotakes
--- Artem Koutchine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I need sime kind of network file system which has a > FreeBSD server and > Windows clients (particulary Windows XP) and that > FreeBSD file share > must be mounted on Windows XP under a drive letter. > Window

Re: Need a network file system with Windows client and freeBSDserver

2004-07-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 14 July 2004 01:39 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Wednesday 14 July 2004 12:30 pm, Artem Kuchin wrote: > > > Authorized Windows users mount "web folders", which appear as > > > drive letters. The use of SSL protects the username/password as > > > well as the content in transit. > > >

Re: Need a network file system with Windows client and freeBSDserver

2004-07-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 14 July 2004 12:30 pm, Artem Kuchin wrote: > > Authorized Windows users mount "web folders", which appear as drive > > letters. The use of SSL protects the username/password as well as > > the content in transit. > > Um.. what do you mean by 'mount web folders'? Can you really > mount

Re: Need a network file system with Windows client and freeBSDserver

2004-07-14 Thread Artem Kuchin
> Authorized Windows users mount "web folders", which appear as drive > letters. The use of SSL protects the username/password as well as the > content in transit. Um.. what do you mean by 'mount web folders'? Can you really mount it as a driver letter? How to do it in webdav? (i suppose you ar

Re: Need a network file system with Windows client and freeBSD server

2004-07-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 14 July 2004 11:26 am, Bill Moran wrote: > "Artem Kuchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I need sime kind of network file system which has a FreeBSD > > > > server and Windows clients (particulary Windows XP) and that > > > >

Re: Need a network file system with Windows client and freeBSD server

2004-07-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 14), Artem Kuchin said: > > > I need sime kind of network file system which has a FreeBSD > > > server and Windows clients (particulary Windows XP) and that > > > FreeBSD file share must be mounted on Windows XP under a drive > > > let

Re: Need a network file system with Windows client and freeBSD server

2004-07-14 Thread Bill Moran
"Artem Kuchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I need sime kind of network file system which has a FreeBSD server and > > > Windows clients (particulary Windows XP) and that FreeBSD file share > > > must be mounted on Windows XP under a drive letter.

Re: Need a network file system with Windows client and freeBSD server

2004-07-14 Thread Artem Kuchin
> > I need sime kind of network file system which has a FreeBSD server > > and Windows clients (particulary Windows XP) and that FreeBSD file > > share must be mounted on Windows XP under a drive letter. Windows > > For any of the solutions you describe, you will definitel

Re: Need a network file system with Windows client and freeBSD server

2004-07-14 Thread Artem Kuchin
> > I need sime kind of network file system which has a FreeBSD server and > > Windows clients (particulary Windows XP) and that FreeBSD file share > > must be mounted on Windows XP under a drive letter. Windows client > > is FAR FAR away and is behind nat. Traffic costs a

Re: Need a network file system with Windows client and freeBSD server

2004-07-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 14), Artem Koutchine said: > I need sime kind of network file system which has a FreeBSD server > and Windows clients (particulary Windows XP) and that FreeBSD file > share must be mounted on Windows XP under a drive letter. Windows > client is FAR FAR away a

Re: Need a network file system with Windows client and freeBSD server

2004-07-14 Thread Bill Moran
"Artem Koutchine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I need sime kind of network file system which has a FreeBSD server and > Windows clients (particulary Windows XP) and that FreeBSD file share > must be mounted on Windows XP under a drive letter. Windows client

Need a network file system with Windows client and freeBSD server

2004-07-14 Thread Artem Koutchine
Hi! I need sime kind of network file system which has a FreeBSD server and Windows clients (particulary Windows XP) and that FreeBSD file share must be mounted on Windows XP under a drive letter. Windows client is FAR FAR away and is behind nat. Traffic costs a lot, so that file system must not

file system activity question

2004-06-29 Thread Jeronimo Romero
quick question: is there a way to monitor filesystem writes the way tcp/dump monitors tcp/ip activity on the network??? I know this is sort of a strange question. but i was just curious. I'm not in this list so please cc: me. thanks. ___ [EMAIL PRO

Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem

2004-06-08 Thread Ben Paley
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 10:38, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Tuesday 08 June 2004 05:20, Ben Paley wrote: > > But seriously, does any of this suggest a course of action to you? I'm > > planning to try the "set sysid to 0" plan... what if that doesn't work? > > Sounds like an excellent idea. Perhaps wind

Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem

2004-06-08 Thread Ben Paley
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 10:38, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Tuesday 08 June 2004 05:20, Ben Paley wrote: > > But seriously, does any of this suggest a course of action to you? I'm > > planning to try the "set sysid to 0" plan... what if that doesn't work? > > Sounds like an excellent idea. Perhaps wind

Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem

2004-06-08 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 05:20, Ben Paley wrote: > On Monday 07 June 2004 16:44, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > Notice the size recorded for this slice is zero. > > > > If the "cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63" is somewhere > > near the reasonable possible geometry description then virtually > > t

Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem

2004-06-07 Thread Ben Paley
On Monday 07 June 2004 16:44, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > Notice the size recorded for this slice is zero. > > If the "cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63" is somewhere > near the reasonable possible geometry description then virtually > the entire disk has been allocated to the FreeBSD slice.

Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem

2004-06-07 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Monday 07 June 2004 04:01, Ben Paley wrote: > su-2.05b# fdisk ad1 > *** Working on device /dev/ad1 *** > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 > par

Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem

2004-06-07 Thread Robert Storey
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:10:48 +0100 Ben Paley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is very scary, but thanks for the advice. I had some more advice > (not sure if it went to the list or not) to try setting the second > partition as unused (sysid=0), so I might try that first to see > whether I can avo

Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem

2004-06-07 Thread Ben Paley
On Monday 07 June 2004 11:17, Dan Strick wrote: > > Partition 2 (sysid 14, start 156296385) is bogus. I don't have a clue as > to how it might have been created. I *guess* it was the W98 installer - if you boot into DOS and invoke setup.exe it's fairly polite, but if you boot from the cdrom, w

Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem

2004-06-07 Thread Dan Strick
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 19:31:48 +0100, Ben Paley wrote: >> > ... > > *** Working on device /dev/ad1 *** > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 > paramete

Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem

2004-06-06 Thread Ben Paley
On Sunday 06 June 2004 13:04, Dan Strick wrote: > Perhaps something changed the partition type code in the MBR partition > table on your FreeBSD disk. Do "fdisk ad1" to display the MBR partition > table. The FreeBSD slice should say: > > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > > If it says any

Re: Dangerous file system / disk problem

2004-06-06 Thread Dan Strick
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 12:13:17 +0100, Ben Paley wrote: >> > I wanted to have FreeBSD on my first drive and Win98 on the second, but > of course windows doesn't like being on the second disk, and began > "preparing" my first drive which already had FreeBSD on it! Well, I > swapped the drives over, put

Dangerous file system / disk problem

2004-06-06 Thread Ben Paley
Hello, I wanted to have FreeBSD on my first drive and Win98 on the second, but of course windows doesn't like being on the second disk, and began "preparing" my first drive which already had FreeBSD on it! Well, I swapped the drives over, put W98 on the first one, they both boot fine and I didn

ufs2 file system and zope/zeo directorystorage q

2004-05-19 Thread Ken Gunderson
Howdy: I'd have a Zope/Zeo site that I'd like to set up to use DirectoryStorage. DirectoryStorage author states: bushy If you are using a filesystem that is inefficient with directories containing larger than a few hundred items. This is optimal for most conventional filesystems, such as ex

Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread Christian Laursen
Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps a document would be in order describing/detailing all the details such > as this about soft updates, all in one place. What I know I have mostly > gathered by reading papers and random mailinglist postings about certain > specifics. Is there

Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread Peter Schuller
r quite some time, and probably would not use it even to enable linux/freebsd file sharing... The amount of file system korruption experienced in the event of an unclean shutdown is just too great, even on a personal non-server system. So yeah, ReiserFS would be great. But I suspect it would also

Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread Robert Storey
> > Is anyone remotely interested in this? > > Yes, for the reasons mentioned below, and strictly for practical personal use > because I'd love to be able to share data between FreeBSD and Linux ;) Right now, FBSD offers the option to mount ext2 if you've compiled that into the kernel - I'd be

Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread Peter Schuller
> [Problems with softupdates] > > > Yet another problem is that an fsync() no longer guarantees that data is > > on disk, even with write caching disabled on the media. This doesn't > > break things like PostgreSQL provided that the order of writes is > > preserved, but it does break things like MT

Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread Christian Laursen
Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Problems with softupdates] > Yet another problem is that an fsync() no longer guarantees that data is on > disk, even with write caching disabled on the media. This doesn't break > things like PostgreSQL provided that the order of writes is preserved,

Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, > I had to build a storage system this week with a capacity of 1.6TB. > Regrettfully I decided to use Linux with XFS as the thought of waiting > for fsck to complete in the event of a problem makes me wince. I > experimented with FreeBSD, using two 800GB partitions and things like > that, b

The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread John Monkey
Ladies and Gents, The lack of a journalling file system for FreeBSD has been discussed over and over on the mailing lists. I have read and understood all the advocacy for softupdates and background fsck. Softupdates gives great performance benefits. Background fsck is useful, but with

Re: Mounting a Windows NTFS file system

2004-05-02 Thread Roop Nanuwa
On Mon, 3 May 2004 01:45:51 +0200, Bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > can I safely mount (read/write or at least read only) > a windows NTFS partition in my FreeBSD operating system > without any damage for this partition ? You can safely mount it read-only without risking damage.

Mounting a Windows NTFS file system

2004-05-02 Thread Bruno
Hi all, can I safely mount (read/write or at least read only) a windows NTFS partition in my FreeBSD operating system without any damage for this partition ? >FreeBSD seekingjob.singles.it 4.9-RC FreeBSD 4.9-RC #0: Thank you in advance Bruno --- [Quipo ISP - Questa E-mail e' stata controllata

Re: Max file system size

2004-04-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
hal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the maximum file system size for FreeBSD? "What are the limits for ffs filesystems?" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#FFS-LIMITS UFS2 is now standard in FreeBSD 5.x, however, and has conside

Max file system size

2004-04-21 Thread hal
What is the maximum file system size for FreeBSD? I have looked at the manual, man pages, and google. No luck?! Would some kind soul either tell me what the maximum file system size is or where I can look to find it myself. hal ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: File system error

2004-04-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 09:15, water B wrote: > I got a little problem with /usr partition > > # df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 288M72M 193M27%/ > /dev/da0s1f15G13G 535M96%/usr > /dev/da0s1e 288M97M 168M37%/va

Re: File system error

2004-03-31 Thread Richard Stevenson
e used disk. > > Does anybody have an idea? > Type "sync" And see if you can find out (lsof might help) if there were/are any processes using the files you deleted - the file system can't release the space until the file handles have been closed (or s

Re: File system error

2004-03-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi, > > I got a little problem with /usr partition > > # df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 288M72M 193M27%/ > /dev/da0s1f15G13G 535M96%/usr > /dev/da0s1e 288M97M 168M37%/var > procfs4.0K 4

Re: File system error

2004-03-31 Thread Don
> # df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 288M72M 193M27%/ > /dev/da0s1f15G13G 535M96%/usr > /dev/da0s1e 288M97M 168M37%/var > procfs4.0K 4.0K 0B 100%/proc > # du -h /usr > ... > 6.4G/usr

File system error

2004-03-31 Thread water B
Hi, I got a little problem with /usr partition # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 288M72M 193M27%/ /dev/da0s1f15G13G 535M96%/usr /dev/da0s1e 288M97M 168M37%/var procfs4.0K 4.0K 0B 100%/p

RE: /root file system full

2004-03-08 Thread Ron Joordens
turday, 6 March 2004 3:24 PM > To: Ron Joordens > Subject: Re: /root file system full > > On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:55 pm, you wrote: > > Bob, > > > > Thanks for taking the time to answer my query. > > > > My filesystem setup is the default one

Antivir doesn't work on local 5.x file system, but works fine

2004-03-08 Thread George Swentek
been modified in 5.X and that is the reason for this problems.( We get precompiled binary and they are doing it on 4.X .. ) I installed 5.X installation over 4.X file system and the error was still present! Personally moved the directories I need to be scanned on different partition and

Re: Antivir doesn't work on local 5.x file system, but works fine on mounted ...

2004-03-07 Thread Martin Welk
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:32:03PM +0200, George Swentek wrote: > Antivir ( http://www.antivir.de/ ) - a popular antivirus scanner > doesn't work on local file system in Freebsd 5.X (...) > Files are 0 and it seems that antivir doesn't recognize the files in the file > s

Re: /root file system full

2004-03-06 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 04:50:32PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > Good Morning, > > > > I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.9 and have thoroughly enjoyed my first > > foray into the BSD world. Indeed my first foray into any non-windows OS. So > > far I have encountered quite a few problems bu

Re: Can't mount cd9660 file system.

2004-03-06 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
If you have doubts about your CD (but you probably shouldn't), this should help: iso_file="backup.iso" blocksize=2048 ## *** WARNING *** DVDs might be different *** WARNING *** ## Block size of ISO CDs. Nothing else will work (esp,in dd command). blocks=$(( $(ls -l ${iso_file} | awk '{pri

Re: Can't mount cd9660 file system.

2004-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:39:02PM -0500, David wrote: > Hi, everyone. I'm using freeBSD 5.1 > > I am having trouble mounting a cd9660 file system. I've > done this hundredths of times with no problems. But > for the first time, I am burning the iso image to dvd > med

Can't mount cd9660 file system.

2004-03-05 Thread David
Hi, everyone. I'm using freeBSD 5.1 I am having trouble mounting a cd9660 file system. I've done this hundredths of times with no problems. But for the first time, I am burning the iso image to dvd medium. A dvd+r exactly... First, I created the image with the mkisofs command: mkisof

Antivir doesn't work on local 5.x file system, but works fine on mounted ...

2004-03-05 Thread George Swentek
Antivir ( http://www.antivir.de/ ) - a popular antivirus scanner doesn't work on local file system in Freebsd 5.X The result from FreeBSD 4.9 system: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$antivir -s /var/log/ AntiVir / FreeBSD Version 2.1.0-9 Copyright (c) 1994-2004 by H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH. All r

Re: /root file system full

2004-03-03 Thread Bob Johnson
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:51 pm, Ron Joordens > wrote: > Good Morning, > [...] > My / filesystem is full. 109%. I want to know what is on the / > filesystem, what I can get rid of, how to get rid of it and how to > make sure that it doesn't happen again. > > Any thoughts? > The / filesystem co

Re: /root file system full

2004-03-03 Thread Asenchi
+> +> Any thoughts? I have some so far. You put in your subject that /root file system is full and in the body of your message you put / is full. These are acutally two different things. Are you using the 'root' account to log in to the system? Are you installing ports for the &#x

Re: /root file system full

2004-03-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:51:56AM +1100, Ron Joordens wrote: > My / filesystem is full. 109%. I want to know what is on the / filesystem, > what I can get rid of, how to get rid of it and how to make sure that it > doesn't happen again. > > Any thoughts? Check for core files (called 'foo.core'

Re: /root file system full

2004-03-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
> Good Morning, > > I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.9 and have thoroughly enjoyed my first > foray into the BSD world. Indeed my first foray into any non-windows OS. So > far I have encountered quite a few problems but have always managed to find > an answer in the handbook or by searching th

Re: /root file system full

2004-03-03 Thread Dan Rue
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:51:56AM +1100, Ron Joordens wrote: > Good Morning, > > I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.9 and have thoroughly enjoyed my first > foray into the BSD world. Indeed my first foray into any non-windows OS. So > far I have encountered quite a few problems but have always

/root file system full

2004-03-03 Thread Ron Joordens
Good Morning, I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.9 and have thoroughly enjoyed my first foray into the BSD world. Indeed my first foray into any non-windows OS. So far I have encountered quite a few problems but have always managed to find an answer in the handbook or by searching through the ex

Network File System (Coda, AFS) question.

2004-03-01 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I'm interested in setting up a distributed file system across two 5.2.1 machines. I wanted this to work such that the two machines had /different/ data but through the use of some software they can be ``mounted'' to provide a single large volume (almost the same way that

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-02-19 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 06:42:22 -0800 (PST) "Scott I. Remick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > > --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try > > > > $ hd /dev/...| grep -A 5 "02 00 00 00 0c 00 04 01 2e 00 00 00 02 00 00 > > 00" > > Well that definitely produced someth

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-02-19 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try > > $ hd /dev/...| grep -A 5 "02 00 00 00 0c 00 04 01 2e 00 00 00 02 00 00 > 00" Well that definitely produced something: bash-2.05b# hd /dev/ad2s1e | grep -A 5 "02 00 00 00 0c 00 04 01 2e 00 00 00 02 00 00" 002d 02 00 00

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-02-19 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:31:55 -0800 (PST) "Scott I. Remick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > >

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-02-18 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here you should have answered `y' (it doesn't ask you to change > anything yet). Let's try that again, shall we? Sorry, ok I went through it again, saying Y to all the "Continue?" prompts but N to all the ones that talked about changi

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-02-04 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
t; 17227785 DUP I=4257795 > 17227786 DUP I=4257795 > EXCESSIVE DUP BLKS I=4257795 > CONTINUE? [yn] n Here you should have answered `y' (it doesn't ask you to change anything yet). Let's try that again, shall we? > UPDATE STANDARD SUPERBLOCK? [yn] n > > >

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-02-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
27784 DUP I=4257795 17227785 DUP I=4257795 17227786 DUP I=4257795 EXCESSIVE DUP BLKS I=4257795 CONTINUE? [yn] n UPDATE STANDARD SUPERBLOCK? [yn] n * FILE SYSTEM MARKED DIRTY * > If you know what fsdb(8) is, it might be helpful (still with the -r > (read-only) option, and the -d opti

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-02-04 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 06:37:11 -0800 (PST) "Scott I. Remick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And /dev/ad2s1e? > > bash-2.05b# mount -r /dev/ad2s1e /data > mount: /dev/ad2s1e on /data: incorrect super block > bash-2.05b# fsck /dev/

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-02-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And /dev/ad2s1e? bash-2.05b# mount -r /dev/ad2s1e /data mount: /dev/ad2s1e on /data: incorrect super block bash-2.05b# fsck /dev/ad2s1e ** /dev/ad2s1e BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG LOOK FOR ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS? [yn] y USING A

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-02-04 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
> to try mounting /dev/ad2s1c r/o, and if that fails, try fscking it. > > bash-2.05b# mount -r /dev/ad2s1c /data > mount: /dev/ad2s1c on /data: incorrect super block > > bash-2.05b# fsck /dev/ad2s1c > ** /dev/ad2s1c > BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG > /dev/ad2s1c: NOT

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-02-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
on /data: incorrect super block bash-2.05b# fsck /dev/ad2s1c ** /dev/ad2s1c BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG /dev/ad2s1c: NOT LABELED AS A BSD FILE SYSTEM (unused) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-02-04 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 23:05:05 -0800 (PST) "Scott I. Remick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry, you were recovering an 80G disk, and now you say the 80G has 4.9 > > on it. Did you erase anything? Is this a remote machine? > No

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-02-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, you were recovering an 80G disk, and now you say the 80G has 4.9 > on it. Did you erase anything? Is this a remote machine? No, it was not the drive that had the OS on it. It was originally mounted as /data on a system that had

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-02-03 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 16:05:26 -0800 (PST) "Scott I. Remick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > Hello, gentlemen. For those of you still interested in this little > adventure, I now have the 80GB drive mounted on the 2nd IDE controller in > its own dedicated FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE system. > > ad0: 1

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-02-03 Thread Scott I. Remick
Hello, gentlemen. For those of you still interested in this little adventure, I now have the 80GB drive mounted on the 2nd IDE controller in its own dedicated FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE system. ad0: 19092MB [38792/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 ad2: 76345MB [155114/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33 I'm read

Re: [was: Cutting the power ... ] Journaling file system

2004-01-19 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Cordula's Web wrote: > Beware when using flash ram as some kind of live filesystem! > Flash media has a quite limited number of erase cycles > You may think that's plenty, but since filesystem meta-data > is often written at the same location (superblocks etc...), > this locat

Re: [was: Cutting the power ... ] Journaling file system

2004-01-19 Thread Cordula's Web
> On January 18, 2004 10:48 pm, Micheas Herman wrote: > > Use flash ram cards and a journaling file system. (soft updates may work > > but you need to talk to someone that knows about them much better than I > > do.) Beware when using flash ram as some kind of live filesyst

Re: [was: Cutting the power ... ] Journaling file system

2004-01-18 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:04:04PM -0500, Pedro Sam wrote: > On January 18, 2004 10:48 pm, Micheas Herman wrote: > > Use flash ram cards and a journaling file system. (soft updates may work > > but you need to talk to someone that knows about them much better than I > > d

[was: Cutting the power ... ] Journaling file system

2004-01-18 Thread Pedro Sam
On January 18, 2004 10:48 pm, Micheas Herman wrote: > Use flash ram cards and a journaling file system. (soft updates may work > but you need to talk to someone that knows about them much better than I > do.) I've googled around a bit, but was unable to find a journaling file syste

Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

2004-01-12 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I mean trying to mount it, to fsck it, using dd|hd to find the > superblock, etc. I just want to be *really* sure we know what > we are doing. Well, I don't have experience making bootable FreeBSD floppies... it might be more useful fo

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