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Kernel Space linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org : Currently write(2) to a file is not interruptible by any signal. Sometimes this is desirable, e.g. when you want to quickly kill a process hogging your disk. Also, with commit 499d05ecf990 (“mm: Make task in balance_dirty_pages() killable”), it’s necessary to abort the current write accordingly to avoid it quickly dirtying lots …
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Block I debianlabs:~# badblocks /dev/hda1 ^C Interrupted at block 137600 debianlabs:~# badblocks -b 1 -c 0 /dev/hda1 badblocks: File too large while trying to determine device size debianlabs:~# badblocks -b 1500 -c 0 /dev/hda1 ^C Interrupted at block 0 Block II debianlabs:~# badblocks -b 1500 -c 64 /dev/hda1 Weird value (96000) in do_read Weird value …
A UNIX Command stat -f / $stat -f / File: “/” ID: bc427fdafb7b0541 Namelen: 255 Type: ext2/ext3 Block size: 4096 Fundamental block size: 4096 Blocks: Total: 18864769 Free: 16209639 Available: 15251363 Inodes: Total: 4792320 Free: 4684854 $ UNIX Explanation Display file or file system status. Related Source Code Exposition static bool do_statfs (char const *filename, …
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