From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 6:49:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 199DB37B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 06:49:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C77143E65 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 06:49:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:49:46 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 62032BA12; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:49:27 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: Steve Wingate , Mark B Subject: Re: /kernel write failed system full Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:49:27 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020722233517.4a562c8b.boxend@swbell.net> <1027401226.836.12.camel@daemon.velosystems.net> In-Reply-To: <1027401226.836.12.camel@daemon.velosystems.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207230949.27140.bts@babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 23 July 2002 01:13 am, Steve Wingate wrote: | On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 21:35, Mark B wrote: | > OK I know I did something wrong, but with little chance to correct the | > system, with error messages spewing out at a blinding rate, I hit the | > reset button then fsck the disks on boot, then edit the fstab to block | > off all but the basic fs needed to run. I see first error was a /kernel | > msg complaining about netscape-linux write error, over 400,000 of | > repetes, then everything got worse, is there a way to span the system | > over 2 ide disks, Of course. If it's brand-new you might want to just re-install; you can set it up like that at install time. But if you don't way to do that, just use "ln -s" to move things to where you have more space on the other drive. For example, you might want to move /usr over there . . . just use fdisk to divide up the other drive and the use newfs to make a file system and them move some of your big stuff over there. For example, you might want to "mv" /usr/local over there and then ln -s /overthere/usr/local /usr/local. | I have a 3gig drive and a 25 gig drive. I think my main | > problem was running netscape as root. 8-( | | You must IMMEDIATELY cure yourself of the desire to run X11 as root for | any reason. You can achieve everything you need to do under a regular | user account by making good use of 'su' and the 'sudo' ports. I recommend the "op" port over the "sudo" port. More flexibility and control, and easier to use. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message