Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:22:14 -0700, Mike McClain wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 08:51:50AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>> Bryan Irvine wrote:
>> >Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst
>> >administration mistake and how did you recover? -Bryan
>>
> <snip>
>
> I've never administered anyone elses system but my own but for several
> years was running different versions of Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris x86
> on the same machine (different partitions) to get a feel for things were
> handled by the different OSs. I was dismayed to find when I installed
> Redhat that it used my Solaris partition as swap durring the install.
> Ouch,
It is perhaps unfortunate that type 82 is used for both Solaris and Linux
Swap. However, *you* get to decide during installation which partition is
used for swap.
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