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 1NQCVy-0000X0-B4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:19:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B84EE0729; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:18:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f224.google.com (mail-gx0-f224.google.com [209.85.217.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0C38E0729 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:18:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk24 with SMTP id 24so11908447gxk.6 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:18:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lEEdojBsznkj3z692EZalccFI/fREfLK8MbeeAEYF7w=; b=PC1ziOP61+M+yfHbU5b1a6whMM8Dlckv958ZFqE4l7rgH8lzgRbnnZWtlhYIkhuII/ gcaqiag9b+gaC6QSwAB/TqzZW9dHps2FfvzwzqjWmtU58Sb0VtBY2VLGVoUftJFLqjo0 ninq6PqKqVrWkPrEErxJU5zK2LMWVewhhYKKE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=WatMvxVZg69zydjQhnZOn4LJNPm/QsIi8VLA/8UC99zFLYKFlQL5+aBdeFYznpTjqs Dd75ngmBVURNRVV2vErhVN3NcpdY3prf3HerbcTofXmk2BEo/Dfkc4FnzwdmXTWdmyos JlPB9eLAjfRS10bYGS+2sENiy61PTT3Ycti+4= Received: by 10.101.160.12 with SMTP id m12mr3563405ano.69.1262233131531; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:18:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-64-8.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.64.8]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 15sm5723679yxh.40.2009.12.30.20.18.49 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:18:50 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B3C2628.6080906@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:18:48 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091201 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 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> <4B3C130A.6010605@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <4B3C130A.6010605@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 67df86f2-8a71-4385-a3b7-3b8e140fc93a X-Archives-Hash: 494046c412ade91bc2623b9a6032e639 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 :-) :-)