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How to diagnose very bad and slow ext3 behavior?
I'm managing an old admin server running Redhat WS4 update 3, and we have an ext3 volume where I had a large (30GB) sqlite database mounted on /opt.
Everytime I do large queries/inserts into this ...
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Redhat ext3 and/or powerpath issue
We are running Redhat EL 5 update 3 with Powerpath 5.3sp1. We did a FLARE upgrade on clariion and during SP upgrade, one of the emcpower devices which is mounted as ext3(using LVM) mounted as ...
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How to run fsck on startup after a crash without the root password?
when the Red Hat 5.x workstation of a user crashes and leaves its filesystems with errors, on the next boot, it ask for the root password to enter single mode and run fsck manually.
This is annoying ...
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Why does my external USB hard drive refuse to unmount after transferring large tar files to it?
I recently need to transfer large tar files to an external USB hard drive from one Red Hat ES 5 server to another (neither with network connectivity).
Originally I was trying to move ~90gig tar file ...
