on Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 07:10:17PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri 04 Mar 05, 3:07 PM, Karsten M. Self <[email protected]> said: > > I'm looking for examples illustrating the flexibility possible with > > GNU/Linux. > > Not sure what you exactly mean by flexibility, but this fits my definition. > > My mom's imac had a hard drive failure. Tried as I might, the drive would > not mount on Apple hardware. I tried every conceivable trick one can scour > from Google. The drive was toast as far as MacOS was concerned. > > Nevertheless, I gave it a try under Linux (not possible under other OS's to > my knowledge). > > The drive mounted cleanly on my x86 system running Linux. Turns out there > was low level format damage, but it wasn't anywhere near user data. I got > 100% of her data back. > > Linux was able to mount and rescue an HFS+ partition even when MacOS > couldn't (this was pre MacOSX).
I've had a number of comments regarding recovery and forensics. I suppose that's worth an entry, though I was looking more for "ongoing operation" type hacks. I've certainly got a lot of leverage out of Tom's Root Boot, LNX-BBC, Knoppix, and similar. Chrooting into my Debian system, whose root FS I'd, um, inadvertantly^W inadvisably fscked while mounted, to grab a package list of all affected packages, reinstall same, whilst running IRC sessions and otherwise pretty much having access to the system, was one relatively recent episode. Contrast with a friend who'se been regaling me with horror stories of attempting to move WinXP partitions around. First time he did this it was in the context of a GNU/Linux dual-boot, now it's just shuffling Win installs. I'd mentioned the first time that he would eventually come to realize that his gripe wasn't with GNU/Linux, it was with Microsoft's poorly documented and fragile boot configuration, further crippled by insufficient diagnostic and recovery tools. He's coming 'round nicely. Still, while a nice beer-drinking story, not quite what I had in mind. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[email protected]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Itanic is practically dead in the water, but this time the icebergs have powerful engines, AMD logos, and good aim. - Andrew Grygus
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