M. Feenstra wrote:

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> What surprices me is that is hangs the whole system. I can not login,

> reboot, access the kernel debugger or anything. I can only unplug the

> power and reboot after issueing this command.

> Is this caused because the system has no enough memory or am I missing

> something obvious here?

> Mark

>

If you read section 14 of the FAQ :
"A rough guideline is the system should have at least 1M of available

memory for every 1G of disk space to successfully fsck the disk."
So yes it is a memory issue, your 500G disk is too big for your  Alix1c.

Now you know ;)