On Wednesday 01 May 2002 03:13 am, you wrote: > OK, this is not a question, but a VERY recent experience that might be > worth relating. > > Last night I added a second hard drive to my main machine (LM 8.2 ). > Diskdrake makes things nice and easy, so I used it. Clicked on the hdb > tab, created a new partition. Where would you like to mount it asks > diskdrake and suggests /var. Good idea thinks Brian. That makes the > machine a little more bullet proof. Diskdrake tells me that the > existing /var files will need to be moved to the new partition, or > hidden, so I elect to move them. It also says that this can't be done > until after a reboot, which is entirely reasonable as of course all the > logs in /var are now open. > > It leaves the question of what to do next a little ambiguous, but I > reason that it would be a good move to format the partition at this > point. The format fails. Hmmm. Must be some sort of clever mechanism > diskdrake is using. i.e. It's somehow scheduled the /var files to be > moved during the next boot and will format the partition as part of that > process. WRONG! > > Reboot and oops - can't mount /var - something wrong bigtime with this > file system (well I knew that). It drops me into a "repair file system > dialog" meaning a prompt. i.e. "You're the human - you work it out!" > > OK, no biggie. mkfs and continue, then straighten things out when the > boot completes. > > But what if I didn't know how to do it from the CLI? The GUI has just > made things very gooey indeed! > > cheers > Brian
Brian You just saved my rear end, but I can't stand the suspense. What should you have done? Lee -- Registered Linux abuser #223705 The best indication that there is intelligent life elsewhere is that they haven't contacted us.
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