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On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 13:39 +0000, Stroller wrote: |
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> On 20 Feb 2010, at 04:31, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:44 +0000, Stroller wrote: |
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> >> On 19 Feb 2010, at 12:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> >>> ... |
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> >>> Can I randomly mount partitions read-only or will this screw |
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> >>> things up |
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> >>> further? |
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> >> If this is unsafe I will have ketchup & mustard on my baseball cap. |
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> > er... could you translate that? How about "dead horse on my baggy |
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> > green"? |
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> http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/I'll+eat+my+hat |
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yeah, I got that, I was just picking on your use of ketchup & baseball. |
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Over here it's tomatoe sauce (dead horse) and cricket (baggy greens) :) |
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Most of my jokes need explaining %-) |
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> I just don't see how you can break anything *as long as* you don't let |
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> the system write anything to the disks. How can read-only be unsafe? |
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Perhaps something to do with the superblock or "last mount time" or |
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something? I don't know! I know that mounting a drive while a system |
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is hibernated, even ro, will kill kittens. |
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> One might be paranoid enough to clone images of the drive before |
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> proceeding, however. |
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I don't have enough spare... |
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> My one concern is over how you know this system uses software RAID. |
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> You know that EIDE hardware RAID was available, right? I'm sure this |
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> would rarely be available built-in to the motherboard. |
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well there appears to be no RAID controller, unless it's onboard, but as |
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I mentioned to Francessco the BIOS can see all drives, so can gentoo |
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minimal... |
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I've since found that the OS is in flash RAM, and only the help files |
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are on disk, so maybe I have bigger problems if I can't boot :( I hope |
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to get a copy of Guardian OS somehow... |
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thanks, |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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"Go ahead, bake my quiche" |
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-- Magrat instructs the castle cook |
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(Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies) |
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