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Went through fast and easy.

This one's closed, solved and gift-wrapped for the annals.

Bruce

BTW, I took it for granted that the ext3 was the preferred file format for folding... why???

I had seen it before, don't remember where, but seemed like a small group consensus.

I'll do another -bigadv and see what happens at the finish.

Bruce H.

Chelsea,

That worked, I had to get the free space first to put the ext3 partition into, that way it didn't complain about the 'root ?' details

Thanks for stopping by, new build in progress.

Bruce

Gparted, looking from the live disc O.S., shows this about the 74 Gb Raptor HDD:

dev/sda1 ext4 45Gb with 3.8 used, and the boot flag
dev/sda2 extended 24Gb
/dev/sda5 linux-swap 24Gb

Converted to the -oneunit config, still took 1h02m to finish whatever it was doing before uploading the finished WU, which went well, and fast, this ISP gives me 6M upload speed so the server never waits. Before you read this and comment, realize I don't understand the "move off of the ext4 bef...

You need to re-install Linux, and don't accept the default install (either one of them). Select "advanced mode", and delete the Linux partitions you are now using for folding. Select make a new partition, and be sure to move off from the default ext4 file system, to ext3, before you selec...

Much better idea. I can change that by pausing it now. Then I can see how the finishing and uploading go. That could be the solution. Not to mention quick upload if I'm on a job somewhere...

Thx!,
Bruce

I'll work on the ext3v.4 thing. I simply put in an extra drive and let it build a single working partition. There is probably a smal sys. partition, but no user sized ones.

Bruce

I had set it to ask, just so that if I wanted to drop down from -bigadv I'd run config again, but apparently giving it permission to upload made it decide it had permission to download, so another 6903 just fired up. Oh well. Progress

FYI, it is my doing that it has to ask, I reply yes to the config question about asking before sending. Why it took so long is a mystery, but it was enough to tempt me to pull the plug on the last one and a 6904 before with [cntrl +c]. So much good work down the drain. At least this one wasn't lost!!!

And so it did, and after 50 min, the work has gone up. Hopefully.

To the other Bruce, I appreciate your advice, however harsh the news was.

I wonder why these steps take so long when the folding just roars on through?

Well OK it must have seen that message; now says 'core shutdown' and FINISHED UNIT. Maybe it will ask to send now.

Bruce

Been sitting here with no change for most of an hour. What now??? This is where I decided to end the "lost one" the other day: Bruce Launch directory: /home/bruce/folding Executable: ./fah6 Arguments: -smp 24 -bigadv -verbosity 9 [00:48:20] - Ask before connecting: Yes [00:48:20] - User na...

The WU is compressed and prepared for uploading until the message "CoreStatus = 64 (100)" is received. During that time, the process cannot be interrupted That explains it all, --and so it is lost.. I had read long ago that using [cntrl +c] would merely pause the WU. When I have done so, ...

I came back to this area because I'm apparently incapable of graduating up the ladder. I have just completed a 6903 in just under 2 days, (I just did the math and changed this from 2-3/4 days), and it won't upload. I'll include the text of the log at the bottom. The only thing I can think of is that...