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- From: philip@ziggy.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick)
- Subject: Re: swapfile death - help
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.170802.8446@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
- Reply-To: philip@ziggy.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick)
- Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
- References: <1992Jul29.175604.16623@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:08:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.175604.16623@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:
- > The NeXT I was using filled up its local disk (swap file grew while
- > running Mathematica). Eventually the machine totally wedged and I
- > had to power cycle it. Now when it boots it gets stuck trying to
- > handle a page fault.
-
- I had lots of replies on this - the best summary is:
- --
- From: matthews@ectds.com
- To: philip@pescadero.stanford.edu
- Subject: Re: swapfile death - help
-
- from the ROM monitor,
-
- bsd -sb
-
- (-s single user, -b don't read /etc/rc.boot)
-
- mount -o remount / # so you can write to it
-
- dig out where the problem really is. If it's only the swapfile, rm
- /private/vm/swapfile; touch /private/vm/swapfile; chmod 1600
- /private/vm/swapfile
-
- # removing it now won't do any harm, it isn't being used
-
- might wanna
-
- fsck /dev/rsd0a
-
- while you're there
-
- halt
-
- reboot.
- --
- Thanks to everyone else who responded.
- --
- Philip Machanick
- philip@pescadero.stanford.edu
-