[H-GEN] [Fwd: scsi card]

[Martin Pool]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 11:59:39PM +1000, Stephen Thorne wrote:

> while `sleep 1`; do sync; done
> ^^ another gem I picked up watching andrae debug a video card -
> even if you can't save the system, you can be sure it was synced.

Or: remount your filesystems in synchronous mode, which doesn't let
you avoid fsck but does make it less likely that there'll be any
damage.

  (for each filesystem)
  $ mount -o sync,remount /

Or: unmount entirely filesystems you're not going to use while sorting
things out (e.g. /home), or mount some filesystems read-only until
experimentation is complete (e.g /usr).

I reinstalled Win98 on a laptop last night.  I think recent Mandrake
and RedHat releases are roughly as hard to install, or perhaps a bit
easier.  Linux is really doing well.

-- 
Martin Pool, Linuxcare, Inc.
+61 2 6262 8990
mbp at linuxcare.com, http://www.linuxcare.com/
Linuxcare. Support for the revolution.
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