Yeah, or a system restore area where you periodically snapshot the entire system.
After all with 300GB drives commonplace, and your OS being only what 20GB it won't hurt to have an extra 20GB hidden somewhere to snapshot the OS. On 5/8/07, JM Ibanez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Orlando Andico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some people take this to an extreme. Silicon Graphics IRIX boxes for > example have a hidden partition called the "miniroot" on every drive. > You can boot off this miniroot in case your OS install gets hosed. > Kind of like having tomsbrt on every drive. I used to do something similar. Since I usually hosed my setup quite a lot, way back when I was constantly compiling the latest and greatest kernels, I would have a tiny Slackware install that I'd boot off from whenever I did hose the kernel compile. Hmm... maybe later-day systems *should* have something similar, eh? A "rescue" partition, similar to the ones newer laptops have for Windows.
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