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| From: | Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition | ||
| Date: | Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:28:17 | ||
| Message-Id: | 87D49472-9101-4DF0-B436-3A874F96CBDF@stellar.eclipse.co.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition by Alex Schuster |
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| 1 | On 20 Nov 2007, at 00:07, Alex Schuster wrote: |
| 2 | > ... |
| 3 | > But I'd reboot the machine first and start with a boot CD. |
| 4 | > Depending on the |
| 5 | > availability of free space, your free time, and importance of the |
| 6 | > data, you |
| 7 | > probably should backup the partition first, just in case things get |
| 8 | > messed |
| 9 | > up. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | To be explicit: I think this backing up should be done using `dd`, |
| 12 | which would copy a bitwise representation of the disk. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Stroller. |
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