Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 May 1998 14:27:38 -0500 | From | David Fries <> | Subject | Re: what's this error message? |
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On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 01:26:52AM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote: > The system in question has 128mb...so at bootup, it has quite a bit of > free memory to use for disk buffers. It is a little disconcerting though > to see a server sit apparently idle for several minutes while e2fsck > thinks things over. Perhaps e2fsck could print a "." every X seconds just > so you know stuff is happening and don't reach for the reset button > thinking it locked up.
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.
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