On Fri 13 Sep 2013 13:23:28 NZST +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > There are myriad pitfalls with a full root partition. That's why > programs like vipw were created, for example. The alternative is > really, really painful.
You are making the assumption that your root partition remains full, which to me is a pretty daft way of running the system. So the first thing you do is make use of rm, and you do that before editing your password file. Which you do with usermod etc. anyway, so no use for vipw (or vi...). Plus you've got a backup, of course. For something as small as /etc it'd make sense to run rsnapshot to the local disk once a day. > My fave backup is really oldschool... snapback2 - similar idea to > rsnapshot. A really simple and space-effective method of keeping > incremental backups without the pain of sticking them all back > together if you need them... Nothing to stick together with rsnapshot. What does snapback2 do that rsnapshot doesn't? Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
