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Re: getting /bin files for debian unstable x86



Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm <anime@MailAndNews.com> writes:

> >    What is your data worth to you?
> 
> A great deal that is why I can't take 2 weeks off to spend time getting 
> packages and breaking them up and putting them on floppies.

Karsten's point was that if your data is worth something to you, then
paying some amount of money to keep it safe is a wise investment.

Right now, you're telling us that your data isn't worth your money or
your time.

> How pray tell do you expand a system? Suppose I outgrow my partition
> on /home?  or better yet outgrow some vital area that I say need
> more space for programs that I want that debian decides to install
> like /usr/bin or /usr/lib or others.

Partition magic is good.  Buying new drives and placing them in
certain places is good.  Backing everything up, repartitioning, and
restoring is a time-honored technique.

> Non destructive repartitioning is the only cure and last I checked
> there were no utilities that worked for ext2 partitions that allowed
> for nondestructive dynamic repartitioning of any sort. 

AFAIK, partition magic has done that for some time, and parted is
supposed to do it now.

-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors!
Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.



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