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On Wednesday 25 November 2009 20:56:23 walt wrote: |
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> Okay, I just can't resist asking this nosy question: Why do you need to |
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> restore from backup "often"? |
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I'm going through a transient at the moment, having more-or-less given up on |
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trying to keep KDE-3 and not being ready for KDE-4 (or vice-versa). I've |
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been trying a few other distros, and even Gnome (shows what a parlous state |
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Gentoo's in; I couldn't imagine ever considering Gnome six months ago). |
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So I've had cause several times to change my disk layout, and although it |
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consumes time the easy way is to make a backup and then restore to the new |
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layout. |
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This is a toy box, after all. If I can't fiddle with it when I feel like it, |
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what's the point of having it? :-) |
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On the other hand, I suspect a hardware problem of causing k3b:4 to be |
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unable to find the CD drives, the BIOS to report 2992MB RAM instead of 4096 |
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and several BIOS settings to have been changed without my knowledge. That's |
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driving me towards considering replacing the whole system. It's six years |
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old now so it doesn't owe me anything. In the end I may revert to something |
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like my original Gentoo layout and stay with it. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |