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Article #237Re: swapfile death - help
From: Philip Machanick
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:08
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:08
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In article <1992Jul29.175604.16623@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes: > The NeXT I was using filled up its local disk (swap file grew while > running Mathematica). Eventually the machine totally wedged and I > had to power cycle it. Now when it boots it gets stuck trying to > handle a page fault. I had lots of replies on this - the best summary is: -- From: matthews@ectds.com To: philip@pescadero.stanford.edu Subject: Re: swapfile death - help from the ROM monitor, bsd -sb (-s single user, -b don't read /etc/rc.boot) mount -o remount / # so you can write to it dig out where the problem really is. If it's only the swapfile, rm /private/vm/swapfile; touch /private/vm/swapfile; chmod 1600 /private/vm/swapfile # removing it now won't do any harm, it isn't being used might wanna fsck /dev/rsd0a while you're there halt reboot. -- Thanks to everyone else who responded. -- Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!news From: philip@ziggy.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick) Subject: Re: swapfile death - help Message-ID: <1992Jul30.170802.8446@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU Reply-To: philip@ziggy.stanford.edu (Philip Machanick) Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA References: <1992Jul29.175604.16623@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:08:02 GMT Lines: 41