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Re: Defragmentation



Hi

Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> 
> Yedidya Bar-david <didi@math.tau.ac.il> writes:
> 
> > Hi
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > You can do it with the filesystem mounted read-only. In your boot prompt
> > (lilo?) give a parameter '-b' (or better, 'boot=/bin/sh' - I don't know
> > what Mandrake does with '-b'), 
> 
> humm be default the init is launched (like all SystemV system).

Yes, I guess init is launched. I meant I don't know what init does with it.
When I used slackware, 's' (single user runlevel) made init start a shell.
I moved to debian, and it made init start and stop a lot of stuff, so I
moved to using '-b' - which makes it start 'sulogin' (enter root password
or CTRL-D for regular boot). Since I saw distributions that make complex
things even with '-b' (although 'man init' says 'Boot  directly  into a
single user shell without running any other startup scripts'), I said
'boot=/bin/sh' which tells the KERNEL to run sh, skipping init totally
(which is the best in this case, IMHO).

> 
> -- 
> MandrakeSoft          http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
> 			         	 --Chmouel
> 

	didi

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