On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Shaun Oliver wrote: > Hi all, > I just upgraded my /home partition to the ext3 file system last night. > when I tryed to run some commands after leaving my machine up for a few > hours today, I got no end of i/o errors and ext2 and ext3 erors. > I therefore couldn't run anything short of pressing the reset button on my > box. Can anyone tell me why this is so and/or if I did anything wrong? > but firstly, I ran tune2fs -j /dev/hdd1 then tune2fs -c0 /dev/hdd1 > and made an entry on my /etc/fstab to reflect ext3 Shaun, Not directly helpful to your problem, but something I've found when making such alterations, to guard against having to hit the big R and then having to go through all the fsck stuff. When you next build your kernel: say yes to kernel hacking, say yes to sysrq, which is the only option in that section, then, when it's up, put the following somewhere in your start-up scripts: echo 1 >/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq and read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt Very useful, very useful indeed. Only 1 thing: What it doesn't tell you in the docs, is that when you've pressed a key combination, the alt +print screen works like a sticky key, therefore you must hit those keys again to turn it off, otherwise the kernel, and not the shell, will interpret all the keys you press thereafter. HTH -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
