Hi, On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 03:17:58PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> It is also advisable to have a separate partition for $HOME/ etc. Most importantly, I have a separate partition for /src, where I do all big compilations... (My /home is also separate, as it's NFS-mounted from another box.) I must be excessively lucky, as I haven't had fatal FS corruption on either the "/" or the "/src" partitions since I set this system up in 2004 or so. > And do backups, of course. I do now and then, and I actually needed them once or twice IIRC... Not because of FS corruption, but because of broken system state after unlucky upgrades. > Which is especially easy if you're using QEMU (or similar), as you can > just copy the whole disk image (when the system is not running). Let me remind you that you can do just the same with real partitions on real hardware... :-) Only difference is that you have to boot a different system instance explicitly for this, while with a VM you always have to host system running. -antrik- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
