Celejar put forth on 3/26/2010 4:20 PM:
Good to know - I guess it's just luck of the draw. I once cringed as I
dropped my WD external about four feet (onto carpet), but so far
(months later) it's still working fine.
Here's what you guys need:
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:16:53AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Celejar put forth on 3/26/2010 4:20 PM:
Good to know - I guess it's just luck of the draw. I once cringed as I
dropped my WD external about four feet (onto carpet), but so far
(months later) it's still working fine.
Here's
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:16:53 -0500
Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote:
Celejar put forth on 3/26/2010 4:20 PM:
Good to know - I guess it's just luck of the draw. I once cringed as I
dropped my WD external about four feet (onto carpet), but so far
(months later) it's still
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:57:17AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Paul E Condon put forth on 3/25/2010 11:32 PM:
Western Digital uses what must be the same software technology, but
they call it Virtual-CD or VCD. They also provide a software fix. But
the WD fix only disables VCD and makes
On 2010-03-26 00:57, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
[snip]
Nowhere does it mention Linux, period. How can you complain about their
Linux support when the product literature doesn't mention Linux? So, you
assume that the lack of mention means it's supported? Even though all the
other OS's supported are
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:52:49 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-03-26 00:57, Stan Hoeppner wrote: [snip]
Nowhere does it mention Linux, period. How can you complain about
their Linux support when the product literature doesn't mention Linux?
So, you assume that the lack of mention means
On 20100326_005717, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Paul E Condon put forth on 3/25/2010 11:32 PM:
Western Digital uses what must be the same software technology, but
they call it Virtual-CD or VCD. They also provide a software fix. But
the WD fix only disables VCD and makes the small partition
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:51:07 -0700
Freeman eve...@worldwidehtml.com wrote:
...
I've had two passports for about 3 and 5 years now. The third and newest,
the only SATA, died from a ridiculously small drop, maybe three feet onto
carpet.
While on or off?
Celejar
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:52:49 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-03-26 00:57, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Nowhere does it mention Linux, period. How can you complain about their
Linux support when the product literature doesn't mention Linux? So, you
assume that the lack of mention means it's
There's probably Windows backup software on it; and who knows what else.
Helpful post from Tom, I've done similar but only on Sandisk products. I
thought U3 was only a Sandisk thing but now WD is using it too?
Some of the Windows software Tom H mentioned and shown here makes me
skeptical
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:18:57AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:51:07 -0700
Freeman eve...@worldwidehtml.com wrote:
...
I've had two passports for about 3 and 5 years now. The third and newest,
the only SATA, died from a ridiculously small drop, maybe three feet onto
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:11:48 -0700
Freeman eve...@worldwidehtml.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:18:57AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:51:07 -0700
Freeman eve...@worldwidehtml.com wrote:
...
I've had two passports for about 3 and 5 years now. The third and
2) echo 1 /sys/block/sr0/device/delete
should have been
echo 1 /sys/block/sr0/device/delete
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I just purchased a new Western Digital 'My Passport'. I've done this
before and thought I knew what to do, but this one has new, modern
features that are causing be problem pain. As delivered, the drive
has format type 07 (HPFS/NTFS). When I plug it in, it mounts as 2
partitions. One is called
On 2010-03-25 19:17, Paul E Condon wrote:
I just purchased a new Western Digital 'My Passport'. I've done this
before and thought I knew what to do, but this one has new, modern
features that are causing be problem pain. As delivered, the drive
has format type 07 (HPFS/NTFS). When I plug it
I just purchased a new Western Digital 'My Passport'. I've done this
before and thought I knew what to do, but this one has new, modern
features that are causing be problem pain. As delivered, the drive
has format type 07 (HPFS/NTFS). When I plug it in, it mounts as 2
partitions. One is
On 20100325_193701, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-03-25 19:17, Paul E Condon wrote:
I just purchased a new Western Digital 'My Passport'. I've done this
before and thought I knew what to do, but this one has new, modern
features that are causing be problem pain. As delivered, the drive
has
I just purchased a new Western Digital 'My Passport'. I've done this
before and thought I knew what to do, but this one has new, modern
features that are causing be problem pain. As delivered, the drive
has format type 07 (HPFS/NTFS). When I plug it in, it mounts as 2
partitions. One is
On 20100325_204032, Tom H wrote:
I just purchased a new Western Digital 'My Passport'. I've done this
before and thought I knew what to do, but this one has new, modern
features that are causing be problem pain. As delivered, the drive
has format type 07 (HPFS/NTFS). When I plug it in,
On 2010-03-25 20:20, Tom H wrote:
I just purchased a new Western Digital 'My Passport'. I've done this
before and thought I knew what to do, but this one has new, modern
features that are causing be problem pain. As delivered, the drive
has format type 07 (HPFS/NTFS). When I plug it in, it
On 2010-03-25 20:49, Paul E Condon wrote:
[snip]
that will be a problem. The comment CD part confirms that I'm not
hallucinating.
And neither am I.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3#U3_disk_mounting:_hardware_emulation
So, I think you're stuck with that little sr0 partition.
Next time, buy an
This thingy mounts as /media/My Passport
Or some such. Its unplugged not so I can't check(note embedded space in
name)
It is an ro U3 partition on the WD usb drive.
That makes vague sense if WD is trying to play some games.
It is a feature! ;)
There's probably Windows backup software on
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote:
It is a feature! ;)
There's probably Windows backup software on it; and who knows what else.
Helpful post from Tom, I've done similar but only on Sandisk products. I
thought U3 was only a Sandisk thing but now WD is using it
On 20100325_204331, Mark wrote:
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote:
It is a feature! ;)
There's probably Windows backup software on it; and who knows what else.
Helpful post from Tom, I've done similar but only on Sandisk products. I
thought U3 was
Paul E Condon put forth on 3/25/2010 11:32 PM:
Western Digital uses what must be the same software technology, but
they call it Virtual-CD or VCD. They also provide a software fix. But
the WD fix only disables VCD and makes the small partition
invisible. It does not release the space on the
Sorry, still not used to that my can't handle mailinglists accordingly
Am 13.03.2007 um 20:33 schrieb David Baron:
LVM comes to mind. Unfortunately, there is no clean way to switch
over to it.
Unionfs seems like a very eligant way of simply overlaying
directories on
multiple partitions.
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:05:52 +0100
Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, still not used to that my can't handle mailinglists accordingly
[snip]
1) you should have used lvm in the first place :)
I wanted to, but since I was leaving Windows on one partition, the installer
wouldn't do
Am 14.03.2007 um 15:36 schrieb Celejar:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:05:52 +0100
Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
## if you wan't to transfer root (/boot can't be on lvm so you later
have to move it somewhere else if it's on the same FS)
Doesn't GRUB understand LVM these days [1]?
hmm
Since some of my linux partitions were getting full up, I had to change things
around. The linux drive is no longer editable with parted, et al, because of
overlapping cylinder boundaries which somehow got in there (this was all
legal-steven when I set it up). I had loads of room on my windows
not be loosing anything I should just attempt
a repartitioning. However that also failed with fdisk and cfdisk.
For example, I get the errors below which I believe are not a good
sign of the drive state. Tomorrow, I am going to bring the drive to
work so I can hook it to Windows machine and call the Maxtor
Hi All,
Suddenly, last Saturday, I could no longer access the main partition
of my year old external Maxtor 5000XT, a 250 GB drive because of some
read errors on some sectors (see at the end of the message). I called
the Maxtor support and the only suggestion beside saying that Linux is
not
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:33:51 -0500, Christophe Broult
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
Suddenly, last Saturday, I could no longer access the main partition
of my year old external Maxtor 5000XT, a 250 GB drive because of some
read errors on some sectors (see at the end of the message). I
Kamaraju Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:39:37 -0500)
writes:
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:33:51 -0500, Christophe Broult
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
Suddenly, last Saturday, I could no longer access the main partition
of my year old external Maxtor 5000XT, a 250 GB
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:09:20 -0500, Christophe Broult [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kamaraju Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:39:37 -0500)
writes:
I am sorry I dont have an answer for your question. I have a maxtor
200 GB usb drive. The drive stops working if I try to copy large
is happy to recieve a
phone call from you talking through how to fix stuff if things dont go to
plan
i feel more like i'd be on the receiving end of such a call. :)
since we're NOT anywhere near the client machine, this seems to
be a reasonable way of repartitioning the thing, remotely
the client machine, this seems to
be a reasonable way of repartitioning the thing, remotely. if
not, other pointers welcome.
so how do we split the raid up without borking the remote
computer into a non-bootable/non-reachable state?
dmesg snippet=in case it helps
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem
someone who is happy to recieve a
phone call from you talking through how to fix stuff if things dont go to
plan
since we're NOT anywhere near the client machine, this seems to
be a reasonable way of repartitioning the thing, remotely. if
not, other pointers welcome.
so how do we split
Under XP you can use Partition Magic 8. I've just done it last night
:)
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Hey ho,
Due to some bad initial partitioning scheme, I'm now stuck with WinXP on
C: (/dev/hda1) and a FAT32-partition on /dev/hda2. Then comes Debian,
installed on some logical partitions.
I would like to shrink the FAT-partition (which is way too big), and -
of course - regain the freed
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 23:43:10 +0200, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned:
Hey ho,
Due to some bad initial partitioning scheme, I'm now stuck with WinXP
on C: (/dev/hda1) and a FAT32-partition on /dev/hda2. Then comes
Debian, installed on some logical partitions.
I would like to shrink the
Tom wrote:
Hey ho,
Due to some bad initial partitioning scheme, I'm now stuck with WinXP on
C: (/dev/hda1) and a FAT32-partition on /dev/hda2. Then comes Debian,
installed on some logical partitions.
I would like to shrink the FAT-partition (which is way too big), and -
of course - regain
Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you want 5 or more (usable partitions), you'll have to
create at least one extended partition. Each extended partition can
hold up to 4 more partitions.
An extended partition is not limited to 4 logical partitions.
From
* Bob Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030326 09:58 PST]:
From /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/Partition.gz:
The primary partition used to house the logical partitions is
called an extended partition and it has its own file system type
(0x05). Unlike primary partitions, logical
Hello,
Derrick, you're reply is very helpfull - but I've got
a new question based on the adjacency of partitions.
This is the partition table as it is:
hda: hda1
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 hdb5 hdb6
the hda disk is where windows lives (for my dad)
the /tmp is on hdb3, /home is on /hdb5
the
* Joris Huizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030325 13:59 PST]:
Hello,
Derrick, you're reply is very helpfull - but I've got
a new question based on the adjacency of partitions.
This is the partition table as it is:
hda: hda1
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 hdb5 hdb6
the hda disk is where windows
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:16:23PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
| * Joris Huizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030325 13:59 PST]:
| Derrick, you're reply is very helpfull - but I've got
| a new question based on the adjacency of partitions.
[...]
| Well, actually, LVM will work for non-adjacent
Hello everybody,
I have the following question:
I have four partitions:
/, /tmp, /usr, /home
Is it possible to change the situation so that the
/tmp partition space becomes part of the /home (so the
/tmp is a normal folder in / ) ? It's usually hardly
used and I could use some space for my
Joris Huizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello everybody,
I have the following question:
I have four partitions:
/, /tmp, /usr, /home
Is it possible to change the situation so that the
/tmp partition space becomes part of the /home (so the
/tmp is a normal folder in / ) ? It's usually
hi ya
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Joris Huizer wrote:
Hello everybody,
I have the following question:
I have four partitions:
/, /tmp, /usr, /home
Is it possible to change the situation so that the
/tmp partition space becomes part of the /home (so the
/tmp is a normal folder in / ) ? It's
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:37:59AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote:
| Hello everybody,
|
| I have the following question:
| I have four partitions:
| /, /tmp, /usr, /home
|
| Is it possible to change the situation so that the
| /tmp partition space becomes part of the /home (so the
| /tmp is a normal
In any case, I am done with my rants. If you want to repartition without
reinstalling post a message here. By the way, don't ever forget the
backups, and experiment with doing a selective restore, if not a full
one, before you embark on making major changes to your system.
Good luck!
Well,
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 08:12:59AM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote:
In any case, I am done with my rants. If you want to repartition without
reinstalling post a message here. By the way, don't ever forget the
backups, and experiment with doing a selective restore, if not a full
one, before you
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 03:48:41PM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote:
Folks--
Its time to repartition my disks. The plan is to:
1. Put all the user data I want to keep onto tape
2. Install debian from scratch (including repartition)
3. Restore .deb package database
4. Re-fetch current .debs
Folks--
Its time to repartition my disks. The plan is to:
1. Put all the user data I want to keep onto tape
2. Install debian from scratch (including repartition)
3. Restore .deb package database
4. Re-fetch current .debs
5. Restore user data and configuration data.
My questions are:
Is
Hi,
I'm trying to repartition disks in a RAID array on potato, and have
largely succeeded except for making a new RAID array to use the space I
freed up on each disk.
The machine runs kernel 2.2.19 with the new RAID patch compiled from
the Debian packages of both kernel 2.2.19 and the raid
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002, George Karaolides wrote:
Trying to do this, I got the following error:
# mkraid /dev/md11
handling MD device /dev/md11
analyzing super-block
couldn't open device /dev/sda11 -- Device not configured
mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
hi george
when things like mkraid /dev/mdxx and mdadd and raidstart fails...
mdctl works wonders ...
download...
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdctl/mdctl-0.5.tgz
build it up manually ...
mdctl --assemble --force /dev/mdx /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1...
and be
Hi guys,
In the end my RAID-5 repartitioning problem was quite simple...
From the cfdisk manpage:
W Write partition table to disk (must enter an upper
case W). Since this might destroy data on the
disk, you must either confirm or deny the write
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 03:47:26AM +0200, Petre Daniel wrote:
Well,i have a pc without a floppy disk,with only cdrom and a 3 gb hard
drive.
I've put a first 1,8 gb windows partition and a 1,2 gb debian
partition.Now,since i'm not using any X thingie,i'd like to know
an easy way to repartition
don't want to reinstall windows,i can reinstall debian.
What tool should i use? debians or windows?
I'd appreciate any help.
Dani,
Repartitioning support.
_
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on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:10:00AM -0400, Marc Shapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Let me explain what I have done, so far. Then I will explain my
problems.
I want to set up separate partitions on my box for tracking Woody
(Testing). So far, I have created a new partition for /
Let me explain what I have done, so far. Then I will explain my
problems.
I want to set up separate partitions on my box for tracking Woody
(Testing). So far, I have created a new partition for / (/dev/hda11)
and cp'd everything from my current / partition to it. At the moment, I
am still
OK, I threw LILO in there to avoid being *completely* off topic, but it is
related...
I had Windows refuse to load for an unexplainable reason the other day, and
even my floppy drive INSISTS that the HD be set to LBA before anything
works. The problem is that I've been running CHS for over a
so from what i see..
linux works
win32 (i can't bring myself to say the full word it gives me the chills)
does not.
what does win32 say when you try to boot it ?
sounds like you may just have to reinstall that .. or try fdisk /mbr ?
or get a boot disk and do sys c: ?
nate
Jonathan Markevich
stefan goeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello,
I want to install linux on my PC at home. Now, I run Win98 2nd Ed. on a
FAT32 filesystem.
I only have one big partion (i.e. the C drive). I want to create more
partitions in a safe manner and
I am not sure how to do this.
I also don't
Hello,
I want to install linux on my PC at home. Now, I run Win98 2nd Ed. on a
FAT32 filesystem.
I only have one big partion (i.e. the C drive). I want to create more
partitions in a safe manner and
I am not sure how to do this.
I also don't want to buy Partition Magic so I was thinking of
Le jeu, 31 aoû 2000 21:05:39 stefan goemana écrit :
Hello,
Hi !
2) I plan to cut the drive in 2 parts with fips. The filesystem on the
second partition is also FAT32 or will
it be FAT16?
You will create unused disk space with fips, then you'll have to use
fdisk or similar to create a
Hai Chris,
info on large disc problem snipped
I'm no HD-guru, actually no guru at all, but I think I've dealt with a
similar problem here, so...
I think you hit the 8Gig limit. Older BIOSses can't cope with large disks
(they won't pass the correct info onto the OS or something to that
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 11:41:55PM -0400, Christopher Lee wrote
*cc me on any replys, since I am not subscribed to debian-user*
Please read this if you know something about hard-disk partitioning,
and think you can tell us where the mystery 2 Gigs went. My wife is
a little stressed-out
to shrink the DOS partition to 6 Gigs, and booted off the
Slink CD to install Debian. When we got to the disk repartitioning
step of the install, cfdisk complained that the hard drive had
inconsistent partition information and wouldn't run. Undaunted (maybe
stupidly), I shelled-out from
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, John Pearson wrote:
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 11:41:55PM -0400, Christopher Lee wrote
*cc me on any replys, since I am not subscribed to debian-user*
Please read this if you know something about hard-disk partitioning,
and think you can tell us where the mystery 2
Debian. When we got to the disk repartitioning
step of the install, cfdisk complained that the hard drive had
inconsistent partition information and wouldn't run. Undaunted (maybe
stupidly), I shelled-out from the install program and ran ordinary
fdisk, and removed the new partition that fips had
Hello,
I have a question about partitioning.
I recently bought a computer with a 6.4gb
harddisk. At the moment it has 4 partitions:
3 x 2gb and one 0.4gb.
I want to use the last 2 partitions to (2gb + 0.4gb)
to install Linux.
Since buying this computer I have not installed
Partition E:
Recycled
ffastun.ffa
ffastun.ffl
ffastun.ffo
ffastun0.ffx
Partition F:
Recycled
ffastun.ffa
ffastun.ffl
ffastun.ffo
ffastun0.ffx
Hey There,
Get rid of those files. They are MS Find fast files - findfast is suppose
to make your MS Office files open faster.
If you insist on
per_adua32 wrote:
Partition E:
Recycled
ffastun.ffa
ffastun.ffl
ffastun.ffo
ffastun0.ffx
Partition F:
Recycled
ffastun.ffa
ffastun.ffl
ffastun.ffo
ffastun0.ffx
I suppose my question is this:
How important are these files?
Can I safely delete them (whilst using fdisk -
Hello,
I have a 504MB DOS partition at the begining of the disk, and some more
Linux partitions after it. The max. number of primary partitions is used.
I want to use fips to move some more space to Linux :)
I have two quoestion, though,
1. fips cuts the primary DOS part. into two primary DOS
accidentally
be left out)
c) using a backupprogram that allows compressed backups to the Jaz, then
repartitioning, then restoring.
Any ideas ?
BTW, does Debian incorporate the FAT32 (are there any ?) and NTFS
filesystems yet, as a package ?
Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL
, things may accidentally
be left out)
c) using a backupprogram that allows compressed backups to the Jaz, then
repartitioning, then restoring.
Any ideas ?
This is a good question indeed. Actually, I just did this type
of thing myself 2 days ago.. and it actually went quite
permissions)
b) reinstalling (drawback: needs reconfiguring too, things may accidentally
be left out)
c) using a backupprogram that allows compressed backups to the Jaz, then
repartitioning, then restoring.
Any ideas ?
This is a good question indeed. Actually, I just did this type
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
Of course you will have to edit /etc/fstab and probably /etc/lilo.conf
plus run lilo before rebooting.
Thanks to those who've replied. One last question: at the moment I've
got three partitions on my drive :
hda1 Win95 (hanging head in shame)
hda5
Ok. I've been running linux since about march, and when I installed, I
installed entirely to one partition. Having since realized the error of
my ways, and having filled up the first (400 mb) partition I originally
installed it on, I've decided to repartition and make seperate partitions
for
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
installed it on, I've decided to repartition and make seperate partitions
for /, /usr, /tmp, /usr/local, and /var (are there any others it might
be usefull to make seperate partitions out of?).
The FAQ addresses this pretty well. I'd also
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
Ok. I've been running linux since about march, and when I installed, I
installed entirely to one partition. Having since realized the error of
my ways, and having filled up the first (400 mb) partition I originally
installed it on, I've decided to
Randy Edwards wrote:
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
a) partition this empty space into a bunch of new partitions and move my
current system onto it, without completely reinstalling?
As I remember (read: get someone else's opinion to be sure:-) all I did
was to create the
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, David Morris wrote:
This is a variation on the theme of moving parts of the directory tree to
another hard drive that was on this list a while ago.
As I contemplate the move I think it could get very sticky. As I see it this
is what might happen...
Current
This is a variation on the theme of moving parts of the directory tree to
another hard drive that was on this list a while ago.
I have a 800M hard drive that is currectly split roughly in half between a DOS
partition (411M) and a Debian + swap set of petitions. The Debian partition is
almost
Thanks, David, I took the plunge and everything worked like a charm. I
thought I'd drop this on the larger debian-user list as well so others in
the same boat can benefit. Now I have some more playi... working (yeah,
that's what it is) room in my Debian section.
On Fri, 06 Dec 1996 20:15:41 MST.
Pedro I. Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I have two hard disks, /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. The latter has only two
: primary partitions assigned to swap and /home. I want to create a third
: partition in /dev/hdb and asign it to /var, which currently lives in
: /dev/hda in the same partition of
1. tar cvf var.tar /var/* to have a backup of the current contents of
/var.
2. tar cvf home.tar /home/* to have a backup of home.
Just make sure that there are no files or directories in /var or /home
that start with '.'. I made this mistake when I tried to backup a user
and lost all his
Hello,
I have two hard disks, /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. The latter has only two
primary partitions assigned to swap and /home. I want to create a third
partition in /dev/hdb and asign it to /var, which currently lives in
/dev/hda in the same partition of / (no separate partition for /var).
I am
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