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- Hi Markus (Markus Wild), in <199309300842.AA01902@chsun.eunet.ch> on Sep 30 you wrote:
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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.
-
- I did use tar, and it copied everything except /dev/log. I haven't had a chance
- to find out why syslogd wouldn't create it so I just commented it out for now.
-
-
- > > 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.
-
- Ok, I'm not familiar with that type of filesystem. (I've worked with xenix, some
- OLD xenix, mostly.)
-
- However, another problem with the filesystem is that it continually gets minor
- corruptions. fsck almost always finds something minor wrong with the system,
- after editing only about four or five files, fsck finds something to complain
- about. only once was it ever actually fatal to a file, though. Is this a
- common happening?
-
- Also, as long as I'm being annoying }-), how can I get getty on /dev/tty00 to
- stay in 8,n,1 after someone enters the name at the login prompt? It invariably
- switches to 7,e,1, and I can't figure out what file to make the change in. ttys
- and gettytab have to do with getty, but once getty has passed control over to
- login, the parity is wrong.
-
- Ron Stanions -- DragonSoft Development sauron@dweyr.wisdom.bubble.org
- The Dragon's Weyr BBS -- Livingston, NJ sauron@wisdom.bubble.org
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