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On Sun, July 21, 2013 01:45, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 07:02:35 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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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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> This sin't a rescue partition, it's just a GRUB menu entry and a copy f |
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> the ISO in /boot, so far less maintenance even than making sure a USB |
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> stick stays put. Plus it is much faster to boot. |
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It's a nice idea, but the boot-time of the rescue-partition doesn't really |
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matter to me. It's more important that it boots a recent version. |
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On a desktop it would be useful, but as I have more then 1 machine, |
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creating the USB stick is just as easy :) |
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