XFS recovery resumes...

[Dave Chinner]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:16:18AM +0200, Stefan Ring wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> > (and I apologize that I can't copy that in; I was running under screen, and
> > it doesn't cooperate with scrollback well).
> 
> Running inside screen is perfect for conserving scrollback, although
> actually getting it out is a bit tedious:
> 
> - Enter copy mode: Ctrl-a Ctrl-[ (moving around: Pg-Up/Pg-Down via
> Ctrl-B/Ctrl-F)
> - Mark a selection: SPC + moving up or down
> - Yank: Y
> - Write to file: Ctrl-a :writebuf /tmp/scrlog
> 
> I also tend to have this in my ~/.screenrc:
> 
> defscrollback 20000

Add this to your ~/.screenrc:

termcapinfo xterm|xterms|xs|rxvt ti@:te@

And screen will write to the terminal's scrollback buffer rather
than it's own internal buffer.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com