From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NQBFJ-0000kF-0y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:58:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B8831E076B; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:57:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmmtao102.cox.net (eastrmmtao102.cox.net [68.230.240.8]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA5AE076B for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:57:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao102.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.00.01.00 201-2244-105-20090324) with ESMTP id <20091231025758.HUXP13474.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:57:58 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.101] ([68.226.67.252]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id Pexy1d00M5Sa0uU02exyBn; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:57:59 -0500 X-VR-Score: -100.00 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=Q0/QIhtFGXcPwKBXdiAKH6RPO1IrUZ7nWfC2VwHFyto= c=1 sm=1 a=w8vW1BtY9Kn2S3BlLC7G9Q==:17 a=zLDZ_Eo_PX2mKbY7yR0A:9 a=R8TCT5n-63-X3UwOzZVH-0IhRg4A:4 a=w8vW1BtY9Kn2S3BlLC7G9Q==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Message-ID: <4B3C130A.6010605@cox.net> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:57:14 -0500 From: Marcus Wanner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem References: <200912291404.15508.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <4B3A8A4A.6010606@xunil.at> <200912300009.00280.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <1262132249.136326.8.camel@centar> <4B3B5FCD.8000502@cox.net> <20091231010449.304bf227@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091231010449.304bf227@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 35bd03dd-4e77-4fcc-b411-002f29031866 X-Archives-Hash: 5911d5f4b86148e815626a480d7e8c4a On 12/30/2009 8:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:12:29 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: > > >> I had to hard reset the >> system and look at the logs. The only problem was that the logs had the >> wrong contents because they had been "written to" but not actually >> flushed to the disk, and it took me about 10 hard resets to figure that >> out. >> > Another reason to you the magic sysrq keys instead of the reset button. > S syncs your filesystems. > sysrq syncs the filesystem? I always wondered what that key actually did... Wait, to get sysrq is Shift+printscreen, right? Marcus