Okay. This was the hard bit. Forcing the partitions to be dirty. It just goes against everything I do normally...

I booted cleanly and then

<edited boot>

Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003

Vcb: 0x4086d000

q

Restored terminal settings

Remounting first music partition read-only

Remounting second music partition read-only

Player exited normally: 0

Switching to shell-player loop

Starting bash.

empeg:/empeg/bin# rw

empeg:/empeg/bin# rwm

empeg:/empeg/bin# vi /waste.file

and yanked the power! Ow! But, it did what I wanted it to do...

<edited boot>

Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003

Vcb: 0x4086d000

q

Restored terminal settings

Remounting first music partition read-only

Remounting second music partition read-only

Player exited normally: 0

Switching to shell-player loop

Starting bash.

empeg:/empeg/bin# rw

EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended

empeg:/empeg/bin# rwm

EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended

EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended

empeg:/empeg/bin# rom

empeg:/empeg/bin# ro

empeg:/empeg/bin# exit

Okay. Time for emplode, to see what I get from stdout... Rebooting just to make certain I start from the beginning, and I will touch a playlist to force a change...

Hmmm... That was quicker than expected...

Adding Swap: 16028k swap-space (priority -1)

e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09

VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...

VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...

VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...

VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...

VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...

VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...

VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...

VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...

VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for player...

More to follow. Since it will try to check all of the partitions, this can take a long time... But we can already see it flailing around for memory...

Edit 1:

After about an hour, it finished its check on the /drive0 partition. When you do this a lot, you can actually hear the different stages going by, based on the change in disk activity. No additional errors appeared. Now we are on to /drive1...

e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09

By the way, an interesting note: no sign of a check on the root partition... After the sync completes, I will exit emplode,
reboot the player and then go in manually and see exactly what the status of each partition is...