On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 19:12, Lee wrote: > 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 > -- Oh, basically not accepted that the format failed. It didn't make sense to me that I couldn't format the partition at that point, but I put my faith in diskdrake and rebooted anyway. Admittedly I was confident enough to be happy to see what happened and enjoy finding my way out of it.
Certainly though, it would have been simpler and safer to have deleted the partition and started again before rebooting. Simpler, safer, but not nearly as much fun! cheers Brian
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