On Sun, July 21, 2013 01:45, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 07:02:35 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > >> > Yes, and it's mounted ro to minimise the risk of such damage. > >> I used to do this (keeping a rescue partitio) ... but found it was >> useful only some of the time. Nowadays I just leave a sysrescuecd USB >> key on top of the case :) Same features, useful in more circumstances, >> less maintenance overhead. > > This sin't a rescue partition, it's just a GRUB menu entry and a copy 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 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 :) -- Joost
