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On 21/07/13 06:42, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:38:59 -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: |
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>>> A known, good kernel is not much help if your root filesystem is |
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>>> damaged, although I do make sure I always have at least one such |
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>>> kernel in /boot. |
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>> Thanks. I assume you must have a separate /boot partition in case "your |
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>> root filesystem is damaged" or this still doesn't help, eh? |
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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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BillK |