Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Scary Paritioning - Need Help

[Lord Sauron]

On 10/21/06, Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name> wrote:
> · Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreat@×××××.com>:
> > I'm just scared to
> > use it because I don't know how.
>
> Read the man page. The easiest usage (and I assume most common) is:

I did read the man page.  The whole thing.  If counfused the heck out
of me.  I just got so scared I'd start writing over blocks belonging
to another partition or something...

What I ended up doing was backing up all my data to DVD (something I
should do periodically anyways) and then reinstalling the whole OS.
Works just fine, and I got rid of a whole mess of junk I installed and
then found out that I don't want installed.

> BTW: One of the most valuable tips already given in this thread
> was to use EVMS or LVM. With EVMS or LVM, you just don't have
> problems like this.

Next time I'm installing a system I'll look for that.  I know LVM is a
very powerful tool, but I haven't used it yet.

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