Re: file system on 9.0

2011-11-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:25:35AM +, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from darc...@gmail.com (Denise H. G.): > > > I strongly advise that /usr and /usr/local reside on different > > partitions. Furthermore, If you plan to run a desktop environment, your > > /usr/local should be big enough, say 8G - 1

Re: file system on 9.0

2011-11-20 Thread Denise H. G.
On 2011/11/20 at 19:25, "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > > from darc...@gmail.com (Denise H. G.): >> I strongly advise that /usr and /usr/local reside on different >> partitions. Furthermore, If you plan to run a desktop environment, >> your /usr/local should be big enough, say 8G - 10G, to hold all >>

Re: file system on 9.0

2011-11-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
from darc...@gmail.com (Denise H. G.): > I strongly advise that /usr and /usr/local reside on different > partitions. Furthermore, If you plan to run a desktop environment, your > /usr/local should be big enough, say 8G - 10G, to hold all stuff you > built from the ports. And putting /var on a sep

Re: file system on 9.0

2011-11-19 Thread Denise H. G.
On 2011/11/19 at 23:03, ajtiM wrote: > > On Saturday 19 November 2011 06:29:40 Denise H. G. wrote: >> On 2011/11/19 at 20:09, ajtiM wrote: >> > Hi! >> > One more question before I start installing FreeBSD 9.0 RC-2. >> > Now we have a new bsdinstall and as I red and if I understood correct >> >

Re: file system on 9.0

2011-11-19 Thread Denise H. G.
On 2011/11/19 at 21:18, RW wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:29:40 +0800 > Denise H. G. wrote: > >> >> On 2011/11/19 at 20:09, ajtiM wrote: >> > >> > Hi! >> > One more question before I start installing FreeBSD 9.0 RC-2. >> > Now we have a new bsdinstall and as I red and if I understood >> >

Re: file system on 9.0

2011-11-19 Thread ajtiM
On Saturday 19 November 2011 06:29:40 Denise H. G. wrote: > On 2011/11/19 at 20:09, ajtiM wrote: > > Hi! > > One more question before I start installing FreeBSD 9.0 RC-2. > > Now we have a new bsdinstall and as I red and if I understood correct > > there is also SU journaling file sistem. I will s

Re: file system on 9.0

2011-11-19 Thread RW
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:29:40 +0800 Denise H. G. wrote: > > On 2011/11/19 at 20:09, ajtiM wrote: > > > > Hi! > > One more question before I start installing FreeBSD 9.0 RC-2. > > Now we have a new bsdinstall and as I red and if I understood > > correct there is also SU journaling file sistem. I

Re: file system on 9.0

2011-11-19 Thread Denise H. G.
On 2011/11/19 at 20:09, ajtiM wrote: > > Hi! > One more question before I start installing FreeBSD 9.0 RC-2. > Now we have a new bsdinstall and as I red and if I understood correct there > is > also SU journaling file sistem. I will switch to the GPT partion. If I want > to > have SU-j file

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-02-28 Thread c0re
2011/2/28 Robert Bonomi : >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Mon Feb 28 05:31:46 2011 >> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:24:30 +0300 >> From: c0re >> To: Matthew Seaman >> Cc: FreeBSD >> Subject: Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it&

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-02-28 Thread Arthur Chance
On 02/28/11 12:47, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:29:59 +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: Slice a (as in: da0s1a) is very likely his / /var is usually slice f Terminology: Slices are with numbers, partitions are with letters. :-) E. g. da0s1 is the FreeBSD slice, its partition a = da0

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-02-28 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:29:59 +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > Slice a (as in: da0s1a) is very likely his / > > /var is usually slice f Terminology: Slices are with numbers, partitions are with letters. :-) E. g. da0s1 is the FreeBSD slice, its partition a = da0s1a is /, while /var corresponds to

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-02-28 Thread Chris Rees
On 28 February 2011 12:29, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 2/28/11 1:27 PM, Chris Rees wrote: >> On 28 February 2011 12:26, Chris Rees wrote: > > # mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt/root/ > mount: /dev/da0s1a : Operation not permitted > > So only single user mode or live cd could solve it. >

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-02-28 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 2/28/11 1:27 PM, Chris Rees wrote: > On 28 February 2011 12:26, Chris Rees wrote: # mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt/root/ mount: /dev/da0s1a : Operation not permitted So only single user mode or live cd could solve it. >>> >>> *NOT* true. Stopping any daemons that were using "/

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-02-28 Thread Chris Rees
On 28 February 2011 12:26, Chris Rees wrote: >> > >> > # mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt/root/ >> > mount: /dev/da0s1a : Operation not permitted >> > >> > So only single user mode or live cd could solve it. >> >> *NOT* true.  Stopping any daemons that were using "/var/spooll", and then >> umount(1)-ing it

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-02-28 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 2/28/11 12:24 PM, c0re wrote: > 2011/1/6 Matthew Seaman : >> On 06/01/2011 11:26, c0re wrote: >>> # df -h >>> Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on >>> /dev/ad0s1a496M466M -9.8M 102%/ >>> >>> So it's full. >>> >>> But by du it's not appeared to be full >>> >>

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-02-28 Thread Chris Rees
On 28 Feb 2011 12:12, "Robert Bonomi" wrote: > > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon Feb 28 05:31:46 2011 > > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:24:30 +0300 > > From: c0re > > To: Matthew Seaman > > Cc: FreeBSD > > Subject: Re: / file sy

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-02-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon Feb 28 05:31:46 2011 > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:24:30 +0300 > From: c0re > To: Matthew Seaman > Cc: FreeBSD > Subject: Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full > > 2011/1/6 Matthew Seaman :

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-02-28 Thread c0re
2011/1/6 Matthew Seaman : > On 06/01/2011 11:26, c0re wrote: >> # df -h >> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on >> /dev/ad0s1a    496M    466M   -9.8M   102%    / >> >> So it's full. >> >> But by du it's not appeared to be full >> >> >> # du -hxd 1 / >> 2.0K    /.snap >> 512B  

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Concrete jungle, oh freebsd-questions, you've got to do your best... 2011/01/06 17:19:05 +0300 c0re => To FreeBSD : cr> > Another place to look for wasted space is filesystem snapshots, if any. They cr> > can be created implicitly, e. g., by fsck. cr> Yeah, I checked /.snap - nothing there. snap

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 06.01.2011 15:19, c0re wrote: >> why not to restart your httpd and mysqld? >> This may release your unused filehandles. > As I said I've restarted whole server, so nothing there to release at all. > >> Another place to look for wasted space is filesystem snapshots, if any. They >> can be create

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread c0re
> why not to restart your httpd and mysqld? > This may release your unused filehandles. As I said I've restarted whole server, so nothing there to release at all. > Another place to look for wasted space is filesystem snapshots, if any. They > can be created implicitly, e. g., by fsck. Yeah, I che

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread Chris Rees
Server has been rebooted before to try this. Chris Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet do threading. On 6 Jan 2011 14:06, "Peter Vereshagin" wrote: > Concrete jungle, oh freebsd-questions, you've got to do your best... > 2011/01/06 16:57:34 +0300 Peter

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Concrete jungle, oh freebsd-questions, you've got to do your best... 2011/01/06 16:57:34 +0300 Peter Vereshagin => To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : PV> This may release your unused filehandles. used but unlinked, really, oops. 73! Peter pgp: A0E26627 (4A42 6841 2871 5EA7 52AB 12F8 0CE1 4AAC

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Concrete jungle, oh freebsd-questions, you've got to do your best... 2011/01/06 15:06:18 +0300 c0re => To FreeBSD : cr> # lsof / why not to restart your httpd and mysqld? This may release your unused filehandles. Another place to look for wasted space is filesystem snapshots, if any. They can be

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread c0re
2011/1/6 Matthew Seaman : > On 06/01/2011 11:26, c0re wrote: >> # df -h >> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on >> /dev/ad0s1a    496M    466M   -9.8M   102%    / >> >> So it's full. >> >> But by du it's not appeared to be full >> >> >> # du -hxd 1 / >> 2.0K    /.snap >> 512B  

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread c0re
2011/1/6 Ryan Coleman : > What about filehandlers? > > On Jan 6, 2011, at 5:26 AM, c0re wrote: > >> # df -h >> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on >> /dev/ad0s1a    496M    466M   -9.8M   102%    / >> >> So it's full. >> >> But by du it's not appeared to be full >> >> >> # du -

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2011 11:26, c0re wrote: > # df -h > Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a496M466M -9.8M 102%/ > > So it's full. > > But by du it's not appeared to be full > > > # du -hxd 1 / > 2.0K/.snap > 512B/dev > 2.0K/tmp > 2.0K/usr

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread Ryan Coleman
What about filehandlers? On Jan 6, 2011, at 5:26 AM, c0re wrote: > # df -h > Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a496M466M -9.8M 102%/ > > So it's full. > > But by du it's not appeared to be full > > > # du -hxd 1 / > 2.0K/.snap > 512B/

Re: File System Performance on FreeBSD

2010-08-08 Thread Mihai Donțu
On Sunday 08 August 2010 20:55:40 Antonio Vieiro wrote: > I don't mind if a filesystem is very fast: I want it to be reliable > first. I wonder if that Phoronix test suite checks for reliability first > or not. https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Barriers_on_by_default Since it has

Re: File System Performance on FreeBSD

2010-08-08 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi, I heard that Linux filesystems were not reliable because of some bad way of doing caching or something like that. For a study on Linux FS reliability see [1] by Toshiba guys. It seems Linux was upset on this about one year ago [2]. Quoting: "Torvalds, for one, didn't seem too excited ab

Re: File System Performance on FreeBSD

2010-08-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > On 8/8/10 10:03:59 AM, Kiswono Prayogo wrote: > >> Is there any justification for this benchmark? >> >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=zfs_ext4_btrfs&num=2 >>

Re: File System Performance on FreeBSD

2010-08-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:13:46 -0400 Bill Moran wrote: > To someone technical who might be looking to investigate the results > with an eye toward fixing them, it's useless. Anyone can download the Phoronix Test Suite though, so it should be fairly easy to check if the results are valid at least.

Re: File System Performance on FreeBSD

2010-08-08 Thread Bill Moran
On 8/8/10 10:03:59 AM, Kiswono Prayogo wrote: Is there any justification for this benchmark? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=zfs_ext4_btrfs&num=2 Kind of hard to do much with that "benchmark" First of

Re: File system

2010-05-23 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Eitan Adler wrote: gjournal will replay all write attempts (metadata and data) before the failure, so you should be relatively sure that all writes are done correctly. As I understand it journals work by writing to disk a log of all the changes that have to be made - waits for confirmation tha

Re: File system

2010-05-21 Thread Eitan Adler
gjournal will replay all write attempts > (metadata and data) before the failure, so you should be relatively > sure that all writes are done correctly. As I understand it journals work by writing to disk a log of all the changes that have to be made - waits for confirmation that it wrote the data

Re: File system

2010-05-20 Thread Randi Harper
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > 2) You could try using a 'journaling' filesystem, *BUT* you'd have to build/ >   implement it yourself.  Journaling filesystems are deliberately _not_ >   provided with FreeBSD, due to security issues/implications with them. >   _You_ will ha

Re: File system

2010-05-17 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Craig Whipp wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 10:53 am, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Ansar Mohammed wrote: Hello All, I have a FreeBSD VM running. Whenever I reboot the VM without a clean shutdown it boots into single user mode and I have to run fsck. When I run fsck, the file system clearly has issues.

Re: File system

2010-05-12 Thread Craig Whipp
On Mon, May 10, 2010 10:53 am, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > Ansar Mohammed wrote: >> Hello All, >> I have a FreeBSD VM running. Whenever I reboot the VM without a clean >> shutdown it boots into single user mode and I have to run fsck. >> >> When I run fsck, the file system clearly has issues. >> >>

Re: File system

2010-05-10 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sunday 09 May 2010 22:51:01 Robert Bonomi wrote: > 2) You could try using a 'journaling' filesystem, *BUT* you'd have to > build/ implement it yourself. Journaling filesystems are deliberately > _not_ provided with FreeBSD, due to security issues/implications with > them. _You_ will have to de

Re: File system

2010-05-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Ansar Mohammed wrote: Hello All, I have a FreeBSD VM running. Whenever I reboot the VM without a clean shutdown it boots into single user mode and I have to run fsck. When I run fsck, the file system clearly has issues. Is there any way to have FreeBSD run on a better file system that wont crap

Re: File system

2010-05-09 Thread Robert Bonomi
P > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat May 8 21:04:45 2010 > Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 21:36:17 -0400 > From: Ansar Mohammed > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: File system > > Hello All, > I have a FreeBSD VM running. Whenever I reboot the VM without a clean > shutdown it boots

Re: File system

2010-05-09 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sunday 09 May 2010 12:54:59 Ansar Mohammed wrote: > Thank you Bruce and Matthew, > for your very informed and insightful comments. > I read online that this may be fixed in FreeBSD 9 with jeff's UFS > Journaling patch. Have you guys tried this yet? > http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/ My test

Re: File system

2010-05-09 Thread Ansar Mohammed
Thank you Bruce and Matthew, for your very informed and insightful comments. I read online that this may be fixed in FreeBSD 9 with jeff's UFS Journaling patch. Have you guys tried this yet? http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/ On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Sunday 09 May

Re: File system

2010-05-09 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sunday 09 May 2010 04:18:12 Ansar Mohammed wrote: > The background to this problem is because the FreeBSD root filesystem (UFS) > is not journaled and for some reason I cannot set my root partition to be > UFS+SoftUpdates. > > At any rate, we are in the year 2010, most modern operating systems

Re: File system

2010-05-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/05/2010 06:16:13, Adam Vande More wrote: >> The background to this problem is because the FreeBSD root filesystem (UFS) >> > is not journaled and for some reason I cannot set my root partition to be >> > UFS+SoftUpdates. >> > > Well I'd say that'

Re: File system

2010-05-08 Thread Ansar Mohammed
You know what, dont worry about it. Thanks for the help all! You have been very helpful. On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Ansar Mohammed wrote: > >> Hello Bobby, >> >> The VM is in my lab environemnt. I have many flavours of Windows, L

Re: File system

2010-05-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Ansar Mohammed wrote: > Hello Bobby, > > The VM is in my lab environemnt. I have many flavours of Windows, Linux and > FreeBSD. FreeBSD is my firewall running PF. > > > I have rebooted my entire environment hundreds of times, and non of my > Windows or Linux VMs

Re: File system

2010-05-08 Thread Bobby Walker
On May 8, 2010, at 10:18 PM, Ansar Mohammed wrote: > Hello Bobby, > > The VM is in my lab environemnt. I have many flavours of Windows, Linux and > FreeBSD. FreeBSD is my firewall running PF. > > I have rebooted my entire environment hundreds of times, and non of my > Windows or Linux VMs will

Re: File system

2010-05-08 Thread Ansar Mohammed
Hello Bobby, The VM is in my lab environemnt. I have many flavours of Windows, Linux and FreeBSD. FreeBSD is my firewall running PF. I have rebooted my entire environment hundreds of times, and non of my Windows or Linux VMs will complain or boot into a repair/single user mode. The background to

Re: File system

2010-05-08 Thread Bobby Walker
On May 8, 2010, at 8:36 PM, Ansar Mohammed wrote: > Hello All, > I have a FreeBSD VM running. Whenever I reboot the VM without a clean > shutdown it boots into single user mode and I have to run fsck. > > When I run fsck, the file system clearly has issues. > > Is there any way to have FreeBSD r

Re: File system corruption upon reboot with gmirror

2008-09-11 Thread Michel Talon
Mike Bristow said: > > What's this stuff? shutdown -r is implemented using reboot. > > Only when you give it -o. Otherwise it sends a signal to init, > and init manages the shutdown.The code you quote is only > run if -o is given But the code is init implementing reboot is the same as in t

Re: File system corruption upon reboot with gmirror

2008-09-11 Thread Mike Bristow
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 04:12:09PM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: > Gunther Mayer wrote: > > > > Don't use "reboot", use shutdown -r now. I also had the same problem > > > once > > > (had to get physical access to the box to fix it) and it was because > > > of > > > the "reboot". > > > > > > > Tha

Re: File system corruption upon reboot with gmirror

2008-09-11 Thread Michel Talon
Gunther Mayer wrote: > > Don't use "reboot", use shutdown -r now. I also had the same problem > > once > > (had to get physical access to the box to fix it) and it was because > > of > > the "reboot". > > > > Thanks. I guess I'll use shutdown -r now then in future. If it still > happens then

Re: File system corruption upon reboot with gmirror

2008-09-11 Thread Gunther Mayer
Nejc S wrote: Hello, Afaic this only happens on a power loss or otherwise unclean shutdown but I used the "reboot" command from the shell (in a background (sleep Don't use "reboot", use shutdown -r now. I also had the same problem once (had to get physical access to the box to fix it)

Re: File system corruption upon reboot with gmirror

2008-09-08 Thread koberne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello, > Afaic this only happens on a power loss or otherwise unclean shutdown > but I used the "reboot" command from the shell (in a background (sleep Don't use "reboot", use shutdown -r now. I also had the same problem once (had to get physical access to the box to fix it) and it was because of

Re: File System errors

2007-05-16 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Ross Penner wrote: > On 5/15/07, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:15:06PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: >>> I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was >>> worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I >>> looked in

Re: File System errors

2007-05-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:34:42AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > I booted into single-user ("press 4") and got rid of tons of junk > > left in /var/tmp. Then I did a mount -a and and fsck -y. > > But not in t

Re: File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Gary Kline wrote: > I booted into single-user ("press 4") and got rid of tons of junk > left in /var/tmp. Then I did a mount -a and and fsck -y. But not in that order. fsck -y *first*, then mount -a, then start removing files from /va

Re: File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 02:49:59PM -0400, Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: > > El Mar, 15 de Mayo de 2007, 14:15, Ross Penner escribió: > > I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was > > worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I > > looked into the

Re: File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
El Mar, 15 de Mayo de 2007, 14:15, Ross Penner escribió: > I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was > worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I > looked into the matter and discovered the utility fsck. I ran this as > root and I got the follow

Re: File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Ross Penner
On 5/15/07, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:15:06PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: > I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was > worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I > looked into the matter and discovered

Re: File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:15:06PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: > I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was > worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I > looked into the matter and discovered the utility fsck. I ran this as > root and I got the

Re: File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:15:06PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: > I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was > worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I > looked into the matter and discovered the utility fsck. I ran this as > root and I got the fo

Re: File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 15, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Ross Penner wrote: [ ... about fsck... ] It seems to my unexperienced eye that their are problems in some of the filesystems, but they arn't being resolved. I tried running fsck -y and nothing changed. What am I doing wrong? How can I resolve these issues? Thanks fo

Re: file system for FreeBSD, OS X and WinXP?

2007-01-01 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: On 12/31/06, Keith Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all, I recently picked up a big 700G external USB/Firewire Seagate drive with the hopes of using it to store my growing collection of music, photos, etc. currently spread across several different machines (all

Re: file system for FreeBSD, OS X and WinXP?

2006-12-31 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On 12/31/06, Keith Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all, I recently picked up a big 700G external USB/Firewire Seagate drive with the hopes of using it to store my growing collection of music, photos, etc. currently spread across several different machines (all with nearly full discs).

Re: file system for FreeBSD, OS X and WinXP?

2006-12-31 Thread Derek Ragona
I would use the drive under FreeBSD and mount it over the network using samba. Physically moving drives makes little sense when you can share the drive over a network. -Derek At 05:08 PM 12/31/2006, Keith Beattie wrote: Hello all, I recently picked up a big 700G external USB/Firewi

Re: File system full

2006-10-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-10-18 14:34, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > The file `alias.log' is not rotated by `newsyslog.conf', so maybe we > > should add it there? Then we can let `newsyslog' signal `natd' by: > > > > %%% > > diff -r 4474abb9619a etc/newsyslog.conf > > ---

Re: File system full

2006-10-18 Thread Robert Huff
Matthew Seaman writes: > There doesn't seem to be any signal that you can send natd with the > usual 'reread all config files and re-open all file descriptors' > effect that most daemons understand. The next obvious questions are "would that be desirable behavior?" and "how hard would

Re: File system full

2006-10-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-10-18 07:13, Paul Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>> On 2006-10-18 07:53, "Office of CEO- rithy4u.NET" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear All, My firewall server was running out of space on / partition I have try to reboo

Re: File system full

2006-10-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-10-18 07:13, Paul Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On 2006-10-18 07:53, "Office of CEO- rithy4u.NET" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Dear All, >>> My firewall server was running out of space on / partition I >>> have try to reboot/fsck and delete all unneccessary

Re: File system full

2006-10-18 Thread Robert Huff
Paul Murphy writes: >I have been trying to track down a similar problem! Using the > above method I think I have found 'natd' to be the culprit. > Should 'natd' receive a signal when 'alias.log' rolls over? > Restarting 'natd' seems to have releases some megabytes. That's not ac

Re: File system full

2006-10-18 Thread Paul Murphy
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-10-18 07:53, "Office of CEO- rithy4u.NET" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear All, My firewall server was running out of space on / partition I have try to reboot/fsck and delete all unneccessary files inside / but I still get 12 MB of free space with total 495 MB wo

Re: File system full

2006-10-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-10-18 07:53, "Office of CEO- rithy4u.NET" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > My firewall server was running out of space on / partition I > have try to reboot/fsck and delete all unneccessary files > inside / but I still get 12 MB of free space with total 495 MB > worth of that partit

Re: File System for attached storage?

2006-07-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
Atom Powers wrote: All the modern storage cabinets have two data ports (mine has two SCSI320 ports) so they can be attached to two servers. But what kind of file system can you use that would make that data available to both servers? Splitting the storage in half isn't an option, as that doesn't

Re: File System for attached storage?

2006-07-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 19), Atom Powers said: > All the modern storage cabinets have two data ports (mine has two > SCSI320 ports) so they can be attached to two servers. But what kind > of file system can you use that would make that data available to > both servers? > > Splitting the storage i

Re: File System for attached storage?

2006-07-19 Thread Atom Powers
On 7/19/06, Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 19 July 2006 18:55, Atom Powers wrote: > All the modern storage cabinets have two data ports (mine has two > SCSI320 ports) so they can be attached to two servers. But what kind > of file system can you use that would make that da

Re: File System for attached storage?

2006-07-19 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 18:55, Atom Powers wrote: > All the modern storage cabinets have two data ports (mine has two > SCSI320 ports) so they can be attached to two servers. But what kind > of file system can you use that would make that data available to both > servers? > > Splitting the storag

Re: file system full

2006-05-04 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all, My "/var" is fully 99%, because I create one tar.gz of the squid logs. I was move for smbfs, then network die!!! I try: rm -rf file.tar.gz and don't have more free space oon the file system. Somebody help me? Also, be sure that no process (ie. squid, syslog, etc.) still has

Re: file system full

2006-05-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rodrigo Mufalani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > My "/var" is fully 99%, because I create one tar.gz of the squid logs. > > I was move for smbfs, then network die!!! > > I try: > > rm -rf file.tar.gz > > and don't have more free space oon the file system. > > >

Re: file system full

2006-05-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi all, > > My "/var" is fully 99%, because I create one tar.gz of the squid logs. > > I was move for smbfs, then network die!!! > > I try: > > rm -rf file.tar.gz > > and don't have more free space oon the file system. > > > Somebody help me? Do you have any other d

Re: file system full

2006-05-04 Thread Atom Powers
`du -h / | grep "...M" ' will show you all files that are more than 1.0MB in size. `find /var -type d | sed 's/.*/"&"/' | xargs du -sm | sort -g` will do the same thing, but list them with the largest files last. 'df -h' should show you free space, but does not always update immediatly. If that

Re: file system full help

2006-04-22 Thread Noah
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:23:41 +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 06:46:14AM -0800, Noah wrote: > > I sometimes get reports of "file system full" but not accurately because > > when > > viewing the drive with "df -k" I find there is adequate space on the drive. > > Usually this

Re: file system full help

2006-04-20 Thread Noah
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:23:41 +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 06:46:14AM -0800, Noah wrote: > > I sometimes get reports of "file system full" but not accurately because > > when > > viewing the drive with "df -k" I find there is adequate space on the drive. > > Usually this

Re: file system full help

2006-04-20 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 06:46:14AM -0800, Noah wrote: > I sometimes get reports of "file system full" but not accurately because when > viewing the drive with "df -k" I find there is adequate space on the drive. > Usually this is casused by log files considered larger than the available > space on

Re: file system

2006-04-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > what is the freebsd's file system Starting I think in FreeBSD 6.xxx FreeBSD uses UFS2 file systems. > how manage freebsd the hardware and i/o devices That is too much to explain in a simeple Email list. You need to study the FreeBSD handbook which is available online at www.freebsd.org /

Re: file system

2006-04-04 Thread usleepless
Hi Hossein, > what is the freebsd's file system > how manage freebsd the hardware and i/o devices here is all you need to know for the time being: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ regards, usleep ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: File system check fails on boot

2005-10-31 Thread Edward Lichtner
> On 10/31/05, Edward Lichtner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> There's fire in the house... I recently inserted a USB memory stick and my >> 5.4 Stable machine rebooted suddenly. I now get the following on boot : >> >> Starting file system checks : >> /dev/ad0s3a: UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=2900

Re: File system check fails on boot

2005-10-31 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:06 AM 10/31/2005, Edward Lichtner wrote: Hi all, There's fire in the house... I recently inserted a USB memory stick and my 5.4 Stable machine rebooted suddenly. I now get the following on boot : Starting file system checks : /dev/ad0s3a: UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=2900154 /dev/ad0s3a: UNEXPECTED

Re: File system check fails on boot

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, Edward Lichtner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > There's fire in the house... I recently inserted a USB memory stick and my > 5.4 Stable machine rebooted suddenly. I now get the following on boot : > > Starting file system checks : > /dev/ad0s3a: UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=2900154 > /de

Re: file system type

2005-03-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Robert Munn wrote: Is there any way of detecting the type of file system on a disk, specifically UFS2 or UFS1? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "

Re: file system type

2005-03-19 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 09:27:57AM -0500, Robert Munn wrote: > Is there any way of detecting the type of file system on a disk, > specifically UFS2 or UFS1? If all you need to know is wether a UFS file system is UFS1 or UFS2, you could use /sbin/dumpfs -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.c

Re: File System mounting prob

2005-01-12 Thread Kris Maglione
I can't find kppp(the dial up connecter that used to come with KDE) anymore!?? If KDE is not providing it any more, then is there any other (GUI) substitute for it? kppp is part of the kdenetwork port. It should automagically appear on the kde menu under Internet (maybe Network, don't remember

Re: File System mounting prob

2005-01-12 Thread Rod Person
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 6:20 pm, Emon wrote: > Is there any way to mount a filesystem, as a generel user? so > that everytime I put a cd in the CD player I dont have to su to > root just to mount it! > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html > > I can't find kppp(the

Re: File System Descriptions

2004-12-10 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:48:37 +0300, Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear people, > > Does anyone know of a place where they describe the differences between > the commonly known filesystem types - UFS, UFS2, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, > REISERFS, FAT32 (spit!) .. well, mostly the ones rela

Re: File system replication between servers

2004-09-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 04), Marc G. Fournier said: > On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Dan Nelson wrote: > > How about a shared SCSI drive, filesystems only mounted on the > > master. When the master fails, the slave fscks the filesystems, > > mounts them, and becomes the master. Tried and true. You could >

Re: File system replication between servers

2004-09-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 04), Marc G. Fournier said: > On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Dan Nelson wrote: > > You could even do it without shared storage if you use geom_gate > > and geom_{mirror,vinum,ccd} to keep two identical disks on each > > machine in sync. When the master crashes and comes back up as a >

Re: File system replication between servers

2004-09-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 04), Marc G. Fournier said: Does anyone know of any software that will run on FreeBSD that would allow you to keep two servers in sync? All writes to /dir1 on server1 would go to /dir1 on server2, and all writes to /dir2 on server2 wou

Re: File system replication between servers

2004-09-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 04), Marc G. Fournier said: > Does anyone know of any software that will run on FreeBSD that would > allow you to keep two servers in sync? All writes to /dir1 on > server1 would go to /dir1 on server2, and all writes to /dir2 on > server2 would go to /dir2 on server1? >

Re: file system setup for new system - recommendations?

2004-08-09 Thread Gary Mulder
Just my $0.02NZ on this question: First off partitions - The first thing I do in single user mode in FreeBSD is mount /usr to access basic commands such as more, etc., so what is the point of having / and /usr on separate partitions? Thus I usually allocate 4 to 8GB to / and don't have a separat

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