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On Sunday 21 Jul 2013 00:45:55 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 07:02:35 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> > > Yes, and it's mounted ro to minimise the risk of such damage. |
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> > I used to do this (keeping a rescue partitio) ... but found it was |
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> > useful only some of the time. Nowadays I just leave a sysrescuecd USB |
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> > key on top of the case :) Same features, useful in more circumstances, |
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> > less maintenance overhead. |
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> This sin't a rescue partition, it's just a GRUB menu entry and a copy f |
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> the ISO in /boot, so far less maintenance even than making sure a USB |
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> stick stays put. Plus it is much faster to boot. |
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An interesting idea you present, Neil. So far I've been maintaining a small |
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rescue system. My /boot is only 100MB so if I wanted to follow your idea I'd |
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have to move and resize everything else on this MBR setup. I have twin |
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spinning disks with two LVM sets in logical partitions, so I assume I'd have |
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to destroy those and re-create them. What a lot of work! |
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Oh, or I could sacrifice (part of) a swap partition to expand /boot into. |
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Regards, |
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Peter |
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