On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:14:36AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 07:42:04AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 04:24:50PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > Alt-sysrq-s to sync the filesystems (you'll see your drive light come > > > on briefly and you;ll get a console message if you happen to be in > > > one.) > > > > The console I used to test this became unusable. The rest of the system > > seems ok though. > > how do you mean? Were you testing alt-sysrq-s? I think its something
Yes > that should only be done as a last resort before pulling the plug on a > locked-up box. I will note that the few times I've used it, I've not > had any "recovering journal" messages upon reboot, which I think is > the whole point. You box is so borked that you've got to pull the > plug, so try and sync the file system first. If the console is no > longer usable after doing this, well, you were taking the box down > forcibly anyway... Of course, for the "normal" case there is sync. BTW, that console is still unusable, but the rest of the system is ok (uptime 10 days+) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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