Re: Synching disk on logout -- switched to EXT3

2004-01-04 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Andy Firman wrote: > To test it, I had a bunch of files open and services running > and killed the power on the machine. > > The system came right back up no problem. I like it. :-) > > Now, why not do this on all systems? > > (I manage 7 Debian boxes very far away so I

Re: Synching disk on logout -- switched to EXT3

2004-01-04 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 03:20:09PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Thanks to all the good advice here, I made the switch to ext3. It was quite > >painless, was neither doable nor necessitating a CD-boot. > > > >Jus

Re: Synching disk on logout -- switched to EXT3

2004-01-02 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 11:55:04 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 at 17:45 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: >> On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 09:47:04 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 at 15:20 GMT, Miquel van Smoorenburg penned: Add in /etc/lilo.conf append="roo

Re: Synching disk on logout -- switched to EXT3

2004-01-02 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 at 17:45 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 09:47:04 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 at 15:20 GMT, Miquel van Smoorenburg penned: >>> >>> Add in /etc/lilo.conf append="rootfstype=ext3" at the appropriate >>> kernel image, then run lilo and

Re: Synching disk on logout -- switched to EXT3

2004-01-02 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 09:47:04 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 at 15:20 GMT, Miquel van Smoorenburg penned: >> >> Add in /etc/lilo.conf append="rootfstype=ext3" at the appropriate >> kernel image, then run lilo and reboot. >> > > I've never heard of this being necessary ...

Re: Synching disk on logout -- switched to EXT3

2004-01-02 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 at 15:20 GMT, Miquel van Smoorenburg penned: > > Add in /etc/lilo.conf append="rootfstype=ext3" at the appropriate > kernel image, then run lilo and reboot. > I've never heard of this being necessary ... ? -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Synching disk on logout -- switched to EXT3

2004-01-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks to all the good advice here, I made the switch to ext3. It was quite >painless, was neither doable nor necessitating a CD-boot. > >Just did the tune2fs -j and edited the fstab and rebooted. > >Note that on boot now, I

RE: Synching disk on logout -- switched to EXT3

2003-12-31 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 22:55:12 +0100, David Baron wrote: > Thanks to all the good advice here, I made the switch to ext3. It was quite > painless, was neither doable nor necessitating a CD-boot. > > Just did the tune2fs -j and edited the fstab and rebooted. > > Note that on boot now, I get a warn

RE: Synching disk on logout -- switched to EXT3

2003-12-31 Thread David Baron
Thanks to all the good advice here, I made the switch to ext3. It was quite painless, was neither doable nor necessitating a CD-boot. Just did the tune2fs -j and edited the fstab and rebooted. Note that on boot now, I get a warning something like: ext2 loader warning, ext3 superblock . mount