Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Marcus Wanner wrote:
> 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
>
>

This is from a post by Neil a good long while back:

Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The usual
full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B

Reboot
Even
If
System
Utterly
Broken


I usually only get to the second or third key and I am back at a console. 

That help?

Dale

:-)  :-)