From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 4 4: 2:14 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 04:02:12 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oxmail.ox.ac.uk (oxmail3.ox.ac.uk [129.67.1.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 493B837B400 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 04:02:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from ratbert.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.14.71]) by oxmail.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 142uJo-00035Y-00; Mon, 04 Dec 2000 12:02:04 +0000 Received: from neil by ratbert.oucs.ox.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.14 #1) id 142uJo-0003pV-00; Mon, 04 Dec 2000 12:02:04 +0000 From: "Neil Long" Message-Id: <1001204120204.ZM14723@ratbert.oucs.ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:02:04 +0000 In-Reply-To: Spades "top: nlist failed" (Dec 2, 9:40am) References: <3.0.32.20001202094038.01d0a420@smtp.magix.com.sg> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: Spades , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: top: nlist failed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Dec 2, 9:40am, Spades wrote: > Subject: top: nlist failed > I installed a 30G hard drive and cvsup'd to 4.2-Stable > When i do top , i get this below > > $ top > top: nlist failed > > > My partitions are: > / 9G > /home 6G > /home1 5G > /usr 2G > /var 1G > swap 512M > > > Do i need to reformat to make / smaller or is there other options? > Hi I had a similar problem - is '/' mounted using the wd or ad device? If you hard boot you should have all ad disk devices mounted but I found a soft boot left me with '/' still using a wd slice. Not a problem anymore but after using disklabel and general futzing about the box no longer has the problem. Neil -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Neil J Long, Computing Services, University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN, UK Tel:+44 1865 273232 Fax:+44 1865 273275 EMail: Neil.Long@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk PGP: ID 0xE88EF71F OxCERT: oxcert@ox.ac.uk PGP: ID 0x4B11561D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message