On Wednesday, November 06, 2013 12:11:33 PM Beco wrote: > On 6 November 2013 13:43, Neal Murphy <neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu> wrote: > > Assuming the problem is /var/log is part of the root filesystem and is > > crammed with millions of files. Assume other drive is /dev/sdb. The > > general process is as follows. > > > > 1. Reboot to single-user > > 2. Add partition #1 to /dev/sdb > > 3. 'mkreiserfs /dev/sdb1' # to avoid the whole issue of inodes > > 4. 'mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt' > > 5. 'cd /var/log; find . -depth | cpio -pdv /mnt' > > 6. 'if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then cd ..; mv log log-; rm -rf log-; fi&' > > 7. 'mkdir log; chmod 755 log' > > 8. 'echo "/dev/sdb1 /var/log reiserfs defaults,notail 0 1" >> /etc/fstab' > > 9. 'wait' > > 10. 'umount /mnt; init 6' > > Hi Neal, > > I think I'm going to ask about the easier part: > > What is "9. wait" for?
You want the background delete to complete before rebooting. If it already finished, wait returns immediately. N -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201311061246.43209.neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu
