Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 04:40:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: Cary <cary@sdf.org>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: After Seamonkey browser crash, fsck_ffs is taking forever Message-ID: <1396784407.18267.YahooMailNeo@web181002.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20140405202702.GA18249@ypsd.localhost> References: <1396688223.7351.YahooMailNeo@web181004.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <20140405163437.GA17605@ypsd.localhost> <1396717903.82481.YahooMailNeo@web181001.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <20140405202702.GA18249@ypsd.localhost>
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----- Original Message ----- From: Cary <cary@sdf.org> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net>; "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Sent: Saturday, April 5, 2014 8:27 PM Subject: Re: After Seamonkey browser crash, fsck_ffs is taking forever Yes, my bad. :-( Posting to the other list was a silly mix-up, a result of using too many different muttrc files. rsync may not copy fast enough in emergency situations such as when a disk may fail. You have pax(1), tar(1), or cpio(1) to use instead. "cpio -p" with input from find (1) works well. My response, after trimming extra freight: If I keep entire message being responded to, or entire thread history, AT&T YAHOO! webmail interface becomes a mess! Composing email with vi editor is much better! I'm aware of pax and cpio but have never used them, have used tar mainly for extracting a tarball archive. Now I would want to copy all I want and can, skipping unnecessary freight, to a new partition on USB 3.0 hard drive or the same Western Digital Green hard drive that is having so much trouble with one partition. On 3 TB hard drive, I have plenty of extra space now sitting idle. NetBSD fsck_ffs is still at it after 50 hours, I didn't get time yesterday to do any more so let it keep running but intend to do something today. I wonder if it's possible to suspend fsck_ffs, put it in background, and mount the partition read-only to see the condition. But NetBSD can't access USB 3.0 hard drive for lack of USB 3.0 support; OpenBSD has no GPT support. I think NetBSD fsck_ffs likely stuck in a loop. I'm looking for another big hard drive, external or internal SATA, just in case, have not yet decided if I need to buy. I also have the problem on other of computer of Opti-UPS battery reaching end of life, where it can possibly shut off suddenly without warning, once did last week when computer was on but idle. I have ordered replacement battery. Tom
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