Re: How to kill X?
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 03:49, Pigeon wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:11:53PM +1300, cr wrote:
> > On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 07:04, Pigeon wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:09:29AM +1300, cr wrote:
> > > > I've only had one sieze in recent times, what I've had several of
> > > > recently is sudden complete power cut - possibly a power supply
> > > > fault. Either way, it has the same effect of discombobulating my hard
> > > > drive so I have to do a lot of fscking on startup again.
> > > > Occasionally this completely munges my X setup.
> > >
> > > I think you might find ext3 to be a big help, though it's not a
> > > complete solution - if the power dies in the middle of a write, you
> > > can end up with a bad sector being created, which can confuse things a
> > > bit.
> >
> > Are there any downsides to ext3?
>
> If you have a filesystem with a dirty journal you MUST try and replay
> the journal, ie, fsck it, before doing anything else with it. If you
> forget this you'll probably end up with worse damage than if you made
> the same mistake with ext2. ext3 can be mounted as ext2 in emergency,
> eg. if your rescue kernel hasn't got ext3 support, but don't be
> tempted to mount it read-write.
I think, with my capability for pushing the wrong button at critical
moments, I might be safer to stick with ext2 then.
> There's also a slight speed hit. This will be the case with any
> journalled filesystem as there is more writing involved. I'm a fan of
> SCSI hard drives, and I like to set up ext3 with an external journal,
> ie. on a different physical drive, which speeds things up a bit,
> though at the cost of making your data twice as vulnerable to hard
> drive failures (if the journal drive dies you're likely to end up with
> an unfsckable mess on the data drive).
>
> ext3 vs. reiser is a bit like emacs vs. vi. I haven't tried reiser, so
> I won't comment on it.
>
> > The new PSU idea will get tried out next weekend when I can pick one up.
> > (It's cheaper than the other possibility which is trying out a new
> > motherboard + CPU :)
>
> It's worth noting that O(500MHz) PII/III machines are dumpster items
> nowadays, but are still capable enough to be useful for trying that
> sort of test before committing yourself.
8-)
Quite true.
My motherboard is a 350MHz K6. If I have to upgrade it, I won't be too
upset, but the 350's fast enough for what I need so I there's no point fixing
it if it ain't broke. And I guess one big advantage is, I can afford to
risk breaking it ;)
Btw, I initially set up that DOS/Windoze drive I was talking about on my
spare machine - a 75MHz AMD K5. So what, it still works!
cr
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