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Peter Gordon wrote:
W.Kenworthy wrote:
2. move to reiserfs to minimise it happening again (I got sick of losing data to ext3) - YMMV
Woah. My experience has been the opposite. Ext3 has never given me problems
since I started using it with RedHat 9/Fedora Core 1 almost two years ago. On
the other hand, trying to install a ReiserFS-based Gentoo system continually
gave me problems (failed attempts to mount it initially, sometimes would
hardlock during disk-intensive things like `emerge --sync` or compiling
something, etc).
*shrug* Oh well...
Also, on systems with a large harddisk (or better, add a small harddisk especially for this to minimise exposure) I keep a second, small recovery partition with a minimal gentoo system, tools and critical services for occasions like this.
That's a *great* idea! :-D
Agreed about the alternate partition; I have a 5.5G partition for this, but it can probably be reduced to maybe 2G; this NEEDS to be a primary part, so it can have it own full boot sequence -- do NOT rely on sharing a /boot partition with the main install, not even the grub in the MBR for the whole disk; this has to be markable as bootable, which is also a reason to keep the m$do$-style MBR. Alternate drive is better, if your bios can boot from more than one drive; again, NOT using a grub-mbr from the main drive to find the alternate drive (but can allow one-or-both drives to use grub/lilo MBR's). LiveCD is a very good alternate, and cheap.
rgh.
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