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 1NQOiP-0001rc-1w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:21:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 36EF6E0761; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:21:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f174.google.com (mail-yw0-f174.google.com [209.85.211.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1730AE0761 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:21:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh4 with SMTP id 4so11824483ywh.10 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:21:01 -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=2tXV6TB1kYGAX69i0PlqPdSQ71hBxZUHapprtLRSbPY=; b=cDP1/xoIVEHYpRaKBfQJ9twKCidpqnLkfgEQ3x+N7JpbTTdH6atfqgTfXvT30h01sD 0sERmHxDdB6ieULXSQg9RA9fKIMdFsuLaPMqFfREZ6XPewHC4jqKgLFhtJEMq8y2Pzo3 pKRExVpr0AQPUV0P3oBD0LVga5QK93Mim+we8= 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=a9g+NSOMLoEtH+Hk4JGWS9ikGh47yBnjgm6NLtcCADzqqiFcp923AvwM8ML8repDq6 jC5pcBE5G1/Bt4VBK/2V+eZuOQxC1Jjcg3gb5IlxV5xgXciSEVzE2GXr21ZEjXHl/rym 5v481ULpn/kgLYjS8AP47LFLpk+pgl5aW41RE= Received: by 10.101.55.11 with SMTP id h11mr14130094ank.50.1262280061718; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:21:01 -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 7sm5889442yxg.14.2009.12.31.09.20.58 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:20:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B3CDD79.3060207@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:20:57 -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: <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: 0d54178f-d2fa-4a81-9e2c-070e65679f7b X-Archives-Hash: 8a4d27e5d3bc3f25d439e259232b0295 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 > > This was posted by Volker a while back. e sends TERM to all processes (except init) i kills all processes (except init) s syncs partitions u remounts everything ro b boots a box o turns off a box k saks a box - kills all processes on that vt That tells what each key does. I'm still not sure which one took me back to a console. It may be the E key that does it. Dale :-) :-) r unraws the keyboars - takes it away from X.