On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> wrote:
Unless the problem is on your root file system, rebooting is not necessary. Simply going to single-user mode, unmounting the file system in question and running fsck on it (and note, fdisk is for establishing, examining and manipulating partitions, not file systems per se). Once it's been repaired by fsck, you can "init 5" to get your GUI back or "init 3" to get multi-user + networking w/o X.
Whoops. I meant fsck not fdisk. Side effects of being at work and in a hurry :) I tried manually unmounting the home partition the first time, but it hung forever in the process, so I restarted. Even shutting down doesn't unmount it, but at least truncated segments are cleaned up at boot. I do have vmware workstation installed and don't use nfs. Haven't really had a chance yet to poke around to locate the culprit. Nkoli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org