Re: Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only?

2018-07-19 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 12:47 PM Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 18:14:19 +0200 > deloptes wrote: > > >why not use something more decent like ext3 or ext4? we are in 2018 ;-) > > (your smiley noted) > Ken gave no indication of time-frame, other than in the past. Could've > been last we

Re: Power Failure

2018-07-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 06:45:16PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Cheap is a relative term. It's only "cheap" if it's cheap enough for a particular context to enjoy. Even if a HD was only a dollar a TB, it wouldn't be cheap to someone with 0 dollars. Well, you can't buy any storage with zero dollars

Re: Power Failure

2018-07-19 Thread Felix Miata
deloptes composed on 2018-07-20 00:00 (UTC+0200): > Felix Miata wrote: >> 1: /boot is functionally readonly except during kernel installation and >> removal > not really an argument - the system did not boot for this reason >> 2: journals consume disk space > not really an argument - the syste

Re: Power Failure

2018-07-19 Thread deloptes
Felix Miata wrote: > 1: /boot is functionally readonly except during kernel installation and > removal > not really an argument - the system did not boot for this reason > 2: journals consume disk space not really an argument - the system did not boot for this reason and space in MBs is cheap

Re: Power Failure

2018-07-19 Thread Felix Miata
deloptes composed on 2018-07-19 18:14 (UTC+0200): > why not use something more decent like ext3 or ext4? we are in 2018 ;-) 1: /boot is functionally readonly except during kernel installation and removal 2: journals consume disk space I would be spending an enormous amount of time rescuing file

Re: Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only?

2018-07-19 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 18:14:19 +0200 deloptes wrote: Hello deloptes, >why not use something more decent like ext3 or ext4? we are in 2018 ;-) (your smiley noted) Ken gave no indication of time-frame, other than in the past. Could've been last week, could've been twenty years ago. -- Regards

Re: Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only?

2018-07-19 Thread deloptes
Kenneth Parker wrote: > My worst, was kind of "mild", though scary:  I had to rebuild /boot (on > ext2), because the last action was placing a copy of the Linux Kernel on > /boot. why not use something more decent like ext3 or ext4? we are in 2018 ;-) regards

Re: Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only?

2018-07-19 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 8:09 AM Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 07:56:34 -0400 > Kenneth Parker wrote: > > Hello Kenneth, > > >My worst, was kind of "mild", though scary: I had to rebuild /boot (on > >ext2), because the last action was placing a copy of the Linux Kernel on > >/boot. > >

Re: Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only?

2018-07-19 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 07:56:34 -0400 Kenneth Parker wrote: Hello Kenneth, >My worst, was kind of "mild", though scary: I had to rebuild /boot (on >ext2), because the last action was placing a copy of the Linux Kernel on >/boot. It was the fear of such an issue (an inability to boot) that finally

Re: Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only?

2018-07-19 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 2:20 AM Brad Rogers wrote: > > Worst I had happen as a result of power failure was that disk the > journal couldn't recover everything required, such that sector errors > were reported on every boot. A reformat got around that. Tiresome, but > not fatal. > My worst, was

Re: POWER FAILURE(SOLVED)

2008-12-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:01:08PM +0800, rjubio wrote: > I found a file in the /etc partition called nologin. I just removed it. > Voila! I got connected. The root problem really isn't solved. Who put the nologin file that said powerfail (or whatever) there in the first place? What was its tim

Re: POWER FAILURE

2008-12-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:55:25PM +0800, Rod James Bio wrote: > Well that's a problem. I am using a Mac X server that doesnt have a VGA > behind it. What I tried though was to unmount the harddisk manually and > mount it on another X server that I have. I know that a lock file of some > sort has t

Re: POWER FAILURE(SOLVED)

2008-12-11 Thread rjubio
I found a file in the /etc partition called nologin. I just removed it. Voila! I got connected. Thanks for the help Jeff D wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, rjubio wrote: I am experiencing some kind of error regarding a recent power failure in our campus. When I try sshing to on of our server

Re: POWER FAILURE

2008-12-11 Thread Rod James Bio
Well that's a problem. I am using a Mac X server that doesnt have a VGA behind it. What I tried though was to unmount the harddisk manually and mount it on another X server that I have. I know that a lock file of some sort has to be deleted to fix the problem. On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Jef

Re: POWER FAILURE

2008-12-11 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, rjubio wrote: > I am experiencing some kind of error regarding a recent power failure in our > campus. > > When I try sshing to on of our server I get an error message: > > POWER FAILURE > then I get thrown back to the login prompt. > > Any suggestions how to go on this. > Tha

Re: power failure during upgrade

2005-06-11 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Guillaume TESSIER wrote: "power failure during upgrade" Damn... Actually, it was faulty hardware. My fault entirely. Maybe while being disapointed and sending all damnation on the power plant, you forgot to modify your sources.lists No. I shouldn't have to touch these. They still point

Re: power failure during upgrade

2005-06-10 Thread Guillaume TESSIER
Joe Mc Cool wrote: in order to upgrade from woody to sarge I did: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade off it went, but unfortunately I had a power failure during the upgrade and my system got hosed. (I repeated the above steps, but my system would then boot only with a ro root filesys

RE: Power failure

1999-07-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
nal Message- > From: Didi Damian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 10 July 1999 4:51 > To: Patrick Kirk > Cc: Debian User > Subject: Re: Power failure > > > Patrick Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > A fuse blew last night taking

Re: Power failure

1999-07-10 Thread Didi Damian
Patrick Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > A fuse blew last night taking out the power supply to the server with my new > debian linux installation.:-( > > On reboot this morning, the second NIC wasn't present so I had to modprobe > /lib/...tulip.o, then ifconfig eth1, then route add, th