Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

[Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Joost Roeleveld wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday 28 July 2011 18:37:24 Dale wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Pardon me.  My brain passed gas here.  lol  Could it be that my drives
>>> file system has ran out of inodes or whatever they are called?  That may
>>> explain why I can't copy anything to it but it works fine as far as
>>> reading goes.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?  How do I check/change it?  Headed to some man pages too.
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>
>>> :-)  :-)
>>>
>>
>> To check this, you could try creating a new file (with size = 0) on the
>> root of
>> that drive, like (After you close and save all your work):
>>
>> touch<mountpoint of drive>/LetMeseeIfThisWorksOrIfTheKernelPanicsAgain
>>
>> If it doesn't panic, check if that file actually exists.
>>
>> --
>> Joost
>>
>>
>>
>
> It worked fine and it was there with 0 bytes.  Weird.
>
> I sort of gave up on this drive.  I had a very kind soul to send me a video
> card when I did this build. He also sent me a 250Gb drive.  I copied all I
> could to that but did lose a LOT of my videos and such.  Anyway, I'm doing
> this right now:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc
>
> I figure that will put it back like brand new and very blank.  I'll recreate
> my partition, throw a file system on it and see if it will let me copy back
> to it or not.
>
> While I am at it, what is the best file system for videos?  That is the
> biggest thing I use that drive for.  I had a LOT of NCIS, CSI and other
> shows that are now gone.  Anyway, what are opinions on a file system for
> videos on a 750Gb drive?  I had reiserfs on it before.

I had a few terabytes of my own DVD rips on ext4 on a 3TB RAID5 once
upon a time. Worked very well.


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