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On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:24:44PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tuesday 16 October 2001 9:28 pm, kam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote about Re: > [LUG] Linux partitions: > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:15:43PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > (Someone please tell me I'm reading this right before I trash this system > > > AGAIN!) > > > > > Well, discretion can be the better part of valour. Do you really need > > to do this? > > Keith > > No, I don't really need to do it - it's more of a nuisance than anything > else. I'm beginning to think now that when I next upgrade Linux on that > machine, I'll make tarballs of /home and certain parts of /etc and go for a > clean install. That way Mandrake will use the entire disk, create the swap > space again, leave one partition for the rest and I'll restore functionality > from the tarballs (temporarily stored on another machine on the LAN). Mandrake will probably try to set up multiple partitions if you look away at the wrong moment :) > I did try moving parts around, but that's how I last trashed the system. I > moved /etc > > Yes, I know (NOW!) - moving /etc to a different partition from /boot means > that the kernel cannot work out the init level as there seems to be no init > scripts! Result: It hangs on reboot. (And I lose lot of sleep.) > Could easily have been me, merrily sawing off the branch I'm sitting on, as it were, and it's so obvious after the event ... Surely there's one HOW-TO still to be written ... 100 Easy Ways To Trash Your System Without Really Trying! When I moved part of my file system I initially left everything in place and just renamed the directory before making a stub directory with the old name to mount the new disk on. That way if I'd broken the system I could have put things back by booting from a rescue floppy and renaming a couple of directories and commenting out a line in /etc/fstab. As it happened it all worked fine, but I still kept my fingers crossed for a week or so before I began to remove the original files from the old disk. Keith -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.