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On Friday 24 November 2006 11:43, Mick wrote: |
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> On Friday 24 November 2006 06:43, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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> > Other's have already told you what you can delete. I'd like to make |
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> > a different proposal. |
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> > If you could create another partition, you could install EVMS and |
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> > link the new partition to your /usr partition, using EVMS's |
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> > drive-link plugin, then grow the filesystem to occupy the new |
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> > space. |
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> > For future installations you should consider using some kind of |
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> > logical volume manager like LVM or EVMS from the beginning, |
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> > together with an online-resizable filesystem. |
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> In the event that the OS get borked, is it possible to boot using a |
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> LiveCD (e.g. Knoppix) to recover the fs and data, like one can with |
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> the good ol' primary & logical partitions? |
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> Or, is there a need for access to software exotica and configuration |
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> files on the borked OS? |
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For LVM you only need an initrd on the LiveCD with LVM support. It then |
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looks at the various disks, finds the pvs and then lvs then become |
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available. |
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Dunno about EVMS as I have no experience with that |
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alan |
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