I received the following email message that does not appear to be posted
to the SL list. Is anyone familiar with the repository mentioned below
and the legitimacy thereof?
Yasha Karant
Original Message
Hi users of EL6 based distributions,
I'm pleased to announce a new
I also received the solicitation…
I have no knowledge (good or bad) regarding this repository.
-Keith.
On Jul 10, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote:
I received the following email message that does not appear to be posted to
the SL list. Is anyone familiar with the
I have no experience with it on Linux, but neither Joyent nor pkgsrc
are new to me on illumos.
You should probably expect things to work well and correctly after a
fashion, though TBH I'd prefer it if the pkgsrc packages were
playing in the RPM sandbox, but that's an implementation detail more
I needed some more storage space on our SL6.5 server, so I hooked up a USB
external drive to the machine. The external drive had a Macintosh file system
on it, so I installed kmod-hfsplus from the
elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-5-el6.elrepo.noarch.org repository. I mounted the
drive, and
These are the type of things that can be difficult to do over email...
Try mounting the /dev/sda6 after fsck in rescue mode and make sure the
filesystem has at least 10% free space.
Is it ext2, 3, or 4, or other?
What other partitions are on /sda? I assume /boot is one, any others?
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On Jul 10, 2014, at 3:49 PM, John Lauro john.la...@covenanteyes.com wrote:
These are the type of things that can be difficult to do over email...
Try mounting the /dev/sda6 after fsck in rescue mode and make sure the
filesystem has at least 10% free space.
Is it ext2, 3, or 4, or other?
The external drive that I tried to delete the files from was way bigger than
the drive I have in this machine.
Could the “undo” information have run me out of disk space?
If so, would the problem lie in /tmp?
Can I safely delete everything in /tmp?
If so, is that worth trying?
Well, I have some progress. The server now boots, thank God.
Here’s what I did:
I booted using the Rescue disk, and mounted the file systems.
I changed the last field in the /etc/fstab file to 0. Even more Googling
turned up a thread that said that last field of each line tells the system
