Re: Reconstructing Var?
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 09:52:27PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:07:58PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:52:17PM +0000, Matthew Sackman wrote:
> > >
> > > When /var went down, I was able to tar and bzip2 up /home /etc /root
> > > and drop them into a windows partition which meant that I lost no real
> >
> > why did you do that? if you have seperate partitions there is no need
> > to back them up, just don't initialize them in the debian installer.
> > mount them instead.
>
> what ethan means, is, altho there's probably a good reason to
> back up just about anything, you don't have to reset your
> partitions when you reinstall debian, even from a cd-boot. like
> he said, just MOUNT already-initialized (and filled with booty)
> partitions and you're off to the races...
Yes - I was aware of that, but I wanted to resize some of the partitions
already, and as this computer has to be used by some on linux people
and previously partitioning in cfdisk had caused some problems, I decided
to start things off afresh and set things up under FDISK in DOS to keep
that side of things happy. I did spend some time thinking out the best
way of getting this done...
>
> backup whatever you want to back up. early. and often. take it
> from the department of redundancy department. backups are a Good
> Thing.
>
Yes. I do hear you. ;-)
Matthew
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Matthew Sackman
Nottingham,
ENGLAND
Using Debian/GNU Linux
Enjoying computing
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