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Shutdown or Reboot Options
- From: Bill.Stephens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:27:09 -0500
- Message-id: <OF5A10E938.0D2AAB9E-ON85256C70.00487B60@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi -
Being relatively new to SUSE Linux, not sure if these are KDE questions or
general Linux questions.
I'm running Suse 7.3. Background: prior to installing SuSE 7.3, I had
installed RedHat 6.1, but never did much with the system and eventually
removed it. Although I do have some Linux background, it is spotty over
time.
1) When I shut down lately, I notice the "Shutdown or reboot" submenu is
wider than it used to be, and when I click on the down arrow to list the
selections, one of them says "Warning: mapfile created with lba32 option".
This option is selectable, and if you choose it, the system reboots back
into Linux with no changes or problems that I can see. What's up with
this?
Also ---
2) I did a "df" and it's reporting that my file system is 96% full! Only
have /boot, / and /swap partitions defined, so I assume it's talking about
"/", which is 1.8M+ in size . My personal id takes up about 50M, and my
wife and son's are each at about 41M. I tried deleting some huge logs in
/var/log, but subsequent "df"s displayed no change in reported statistics.
Any useful suggestions will be appreciated.
3) What with all the horror stories about upgrading to 8.0 and 8.1 that
I've seen on this list, I am very reticent to upgrade to newer
distributions of KDE. It seems to me that you really have to know how KDE
works under the covers to achieve a good upgrade (I define good as "things
that worked or were there before still work and are still there afterwards"
+and+ "new things work and are not affected by old things"). Anyone care
to comment?
Regards,
Bill Stephens
Sungard Availability Services
Phone: (215) 351-1099 Fax: (215) 451-4436
Being relatively new to SUSE Linux, not sure if these are KDE questions or
general Linux questions.
I'm running Suse 7.3. Background: prior to installing SuSE 7.3, I had
installed RedHat 6.1, but never did much with the system and eventually
removed it. Although I do have some Linux background, it is spotty over
time.
1) When I shut down lately, I notice the "Shutdown or reboot" submenu is
wider than it used to be, and when I click on the down arrow to list the
selections, one of them says "Warning: mapfile created with lba32 option".
This option is selectable, and if you choose it, the system reboots back
into Linux with no changes or problems that I can see. What's up with
this?
Also ---
2) I did a "df" and it's reporting that my file system is 96% full! Only
have /boot, / and /swap partitions defined, so I assume it's talking about
"/", which is 1.8M+ in size . My personal id takes up about 50M, and my
wife and son's are each at about 41M. I tried deleting some huge logs in
/var/log, but subsequent "df"s displayed no change in reported statistics.
Any useful suggestions will be appreciated.
3) What with all the horror stories about upgrading to 8.0 and 8.1 that
I've seen on this list, I am very reticent to upgrade to newer
distributions of KDE. It seems to me that you really have to know how KDE
works under the covers to achieve a good upgrade (I define good as "things
that worked or were there before still work and are still there afterwards"
+and+ "new things work and are not affected by old things"). Anyone care
to comment?
Regards,
Bill Stephens
Sungard Availability Services
Phone: (215) 351-1099 Fax: (215) 451-4436
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