Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

[Neil Bothwick]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:41:58 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:

> > This isn't a rescue partition, it's just a GRUB menu entry and a copy
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> > f the ISO in /boot, so far less maintenance even than making sure a
> > USB stick stays put. Plus it is much faster to boot.
>
> It's a nice idea, but the boot-time of the rescue-partition doesn't
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> really matter to me. It's more important that it boots a recent version.
> On a desktop it would be useful, but as I have more then 1 machine,
> creating the USB stick is just as easy :)

I agree that creating a sysrescd USB stick from the ISO is easy with the
provided script, almost as easy as scping the file to a few machines.
About the only thing easier is losing the USB stick hen I need it, which
is probably the main reason I do it this way.

I believe it's also possible to do this with PXE, meanng you don't even
need multiple copies of the file... unless your PXE server needs rescuing.

I always have it on a USB stick too, but that's for fixing other people's
computers :)


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Neil Bothwick

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