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 1NQOJ3-0007L9-9d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:55:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1654E086B; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:54:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmmtao102.cox.net (eastrmmtao102.cox.net [68.230.240.8]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB4ECE086B for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:54:25 +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 <20091231165426.XEXV13474.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:54:26 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([68.226.67.252]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id PsuQ1d00A5Sa0uU02suRCD; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:54:25 -0500 X-VR-Score: -110.00 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=Q0/QIhtFGXcPwKBXdiAKH6RPO1IrUZ7nWfC2VwHFyto= c=1 sm=1 a=w8vW1BtY9Kn2S3BlLC7G9Q==:17 a=l3mHDHmS6yW7A2rh2FwA:9 a=xXsbO2Ni_vO9cuoHt_YA:7 a=ErIs686FclS8ADpnR2iLHzVk0DUA:4 a=w8vW1BtY9Kn2S3BlLC7G9Q==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Message-ID: <4B3CD740.6040008@cox.net> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:54:24 -0500 From: Marcus Wanner User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) 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: <4B3C130A.6010605@cox.net> <4B3C2628.6080906@gmail.com> <200912310920.41484.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <200912310920.41484.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ead15bcc-1e2b-42b2-9539-58b4d7bac1a0 X-Archives-Hash: b2327a219f29f83e49e47f43c05c7476 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag 31 Dezember 2009, Dale wrote: > >> 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. >> >> > > and sometimes K is all you need. > > Thank god for /usr/src/linux/Documentation > Thanks for the info! Marcus