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On Saturday 27 May 2006 14:38, Duncan wrote: |
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> Second suggestion and something I'm again doing here, consider creating a |
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> second copy of your root partition |
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What tool or command do you use to make your copies? I remember seeing an |
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invocation of tar piped to tar to ensure that all dates, permissions etc |
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are preserved, even on pipes and other esoteric things, but my memory being |
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what it is of course I can't remember it. |
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You may remember that I've been using Partition Magic for this task (version |
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8 can boot from its installation CD), but I keep discovering more ways in |
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which its Windows nature and consequent arrogance make it more difficult |
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than it should be. For instance, I discovered last night on my laptop that, |
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when I copied my root partition to an empty space on the same disk, it |
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changed all my grub.conf entries to point to the copy. Then, when I |
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upgraded to modular X, deleted the copy and copied over the new root |
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partition, guess what? Not knowing of the subterfuge, I destroyed all that |
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work (finding 101 lines to add to package.keywords the most tiring) and had |
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to go for a pint to calm my temper. (Still, it's an ill wind that blows |
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no-one any good.) |
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I've known for a while that PM changes /etc/fstab, and always gets it wrong |
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so that I can't boot until I've corrected it, but this is the first time |
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it's caused real data loss and anger. |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |
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