Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 2 May 1998 23:03:16 -0400 (EDT) | | From | Jon Lewis <> | | Subject | Re: what's this error message? |
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On Sat, 2 May 1998, David Fries wrote:
> I added `sulogin -t 600 /dev/tty8` as one of the first things that runs on > startup. If the system looks like it died before logins are issued I can > hit alt-F8 login and see what is going on. If your case you could login > mount proc and watch top to be sure e2fsck is still running. I also have > 128 megs of ram and a 2 gig partition as the biggest. The last time on > bootup it needed to be checked, I don't remember ever thinking it might be > locked up. At least I don't remember long pauses. But then again my > partition is only 2 gigs.
The partition that got me worried was full of usenet news...so there were lots fo small files and lots of directories...so I guess e2fsck had a lot to look at.
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