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 1QmvyV-0001rm-E8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:56:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2071321C082; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:55:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6EF021C082 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:54:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxd23 with SMTP id 23so3701169fxd.40 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:54:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=17DI7TTeSmO7jMtEDUKwe9nbLzfMo56y4818+ExAtLw=; b=YuwM7eeBIWeWh1yi++866lfANZxHYF9W+6EiU3Mgq6HnKUaq5kku3YtFxdYnJ+p20v 9Hr6y8961rnzP6V0D63tVa0Ft/O0QHGVI4x1SalURL/5hrgFefuQErVU5Vl+ECm5qNoW Llti4LYtEZwUKlT2kmA8dIEBd1nJ4RYtcRAL0= 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 Received: by 10.223.32.19 with SMTP id a19mr2522457fad.22.1311980085028; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:54:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.28.139 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:54:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E330CE0.1090904@gmail.com> References: <20110725182047.GM30008@ns1.bonedaddy.net> <4E31C6B2.1090009@gmail.com> <4E31F2B4.2090901@gmail.com> <1719001.xkopxB8nfY@eve> <4E330CE0.1090904@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:54:44 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fbe4f01646022e07ea49c80d9ebdb260 On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Dale wrote: > Joost Roeleveld wrote: >> >> On Thursday 28 July 2011 18:37:24 Dale wrote: >> >>> >>> Pardon me. =C2=A0My brain passed gas here. =C2=A0lol =C2=A0Could it be = that my drives >>> file system has ran out of inodes or whatever they are called? =C2=A0Th= at may >>> explain why I can't copy anything to it but it works fine as far as >>> reading goes. >>> >>> Thoughts? =C2=A0How do I check/change it? =C2=A0Headed to some man page= s too. >>> >>> Dale >>> >>> :-) =C2=A0:-) >>> >> >> To check this, you could try creating a new file (with size =3D 0) on th= e >> root of >> that drive, like (After you close and save all your work): >> >> touch/LetMeseeIfThisWorksOrIfTheKernelPanicsAgain >> >> If it doesn't panic, check if that file actually exists. >> >> -- >> Joost >> >> >> > > It worked fine and it was there with 0 bytes. =C2=A0Weird. > > I sort of gave up on this drive. =C2=A0I had a very kind soul to send me = a video > card when I did this build. He also sent me a 250Gb drive. =C2=A0I copied= all I > could to that but did lose a LOT of my videos and such. =C2=A0Anyway, I'm= doing > this right now: > > dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/sdc > > I figure that will put it back like brand new and very blank. =C2=A0I'll = recreate > my partition, throw a file system on it and see if it will let me copy ba= ck > to it or not. > > While I am at it, what is the best file system for videos? =C2=A0That is = the > biggest thing I use that drive for. =C2=A0I had a LOT of NCIS, CSI and ot= her > shows that are now gone. =C2=A0Anyway, what are opinions on a file system= for > videos on a 750Gb drive? =C2=A0I 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. --=20 :wq