On Saturday 27 May 2006 14:38, Duncan wrote: > Second suggestion and something I'm again doing here, consider creating a > second copy of your root partition
What tool or command do you use to make your copies? I remember seeing an invocation of tar piped to tar to ensure that all dates, permissions etc are preserved, even on pipes and other esoteric things, but my memory being what it is of course I can't remember it. You may remember that I've been using Partition Magic for this task (version 8 can boot from its installation CD), but I keep discovering more ways in which its Windows nature and consequent arrogance make it more difficult than it should be. For instance, I discovered last night on my laptop that, when I copied my root partition to an empty space on the same disk, it changed all my grub.conf entries to point to the copy. Then, when I upgraded to modular X, deleted the copy and copied over the new root partition, guess what? Not knowing of the subterfuge, I destroyed all that work (finding 101 lines to add to package.keywords the most tiring) and had to go for a pint to calm my temper. (Still, it's an ill wind that blows no-one any good.) I've known for a while that PM changes /etc/fstab, and always gets it wrong so that I can't boot until I've corrected it, but this is the first time it's caused real data loss and anger. -- Rgds Peter. -- [email protected] mailing list
