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- > such.) My method was to: create a new partition, newfs it, copy everything
- > off the root fs into the new partition, relabel the new partition as the
-
- How did you do the copy? Something that should work (assume new partition
- on /mnt):
- (cd /; tar clf - . )|(cd /mnt; tar xvpSf -)
-
- > rootfs, and everything's fine, except that the /dev/log device (apparently
- > a socket?) didn't copy, and syslogd keeps complaining about it. I can
-
- Huh? syslogd should recreate this socket.. did you perhaps generate a
- bogous /dev/log when copying over the fs? If so, remove it and retry
- syslogd.
-
- > 2) df always reports wrong information, whether it's on the original rootfs,
- > my new root fs, or any partitions I attach. It invariably ends up giving
- > me negative blocks free, with over 100% usage results. (and if I delete
-
- A filesystem which is completely full will give you about 112% full in df.
- This is normal, not a bug, and is explained by the nature of the used
- filesystem.
-
- > 3) I was told by a friend of one patch to stop the sync check on the drives
- > during bootup, which stopped it from missing the boot about three out of
- > four times quite nicely. Is there any other patches that I should be aware
- > of?
-
- If you use a 2091/GVP controller, and have memory outside the 24bit
- address space, you should disable DMA. In that case, do
- "binpatch -s _scsi_no_dma -r 1 vmunix".
-
- > 4) 'cron' seems to be missing entirely from the distribution. What's the
- > availability (or replacement) for this?
-
- /usr/libexec/crond.
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