On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 09:52:27PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:07:58PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:52:17PM +0000, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > > > > When /var went down, I was able to tar and bzip2 up /home /etc /root > > > and drop them into a windows partition which meant that I lost no real > > > > why did you do that? if you have seperate partitions there is no need > > to back them up, just don't initialize them in the debian installer. > > mount them instead. > > what ethan means, is, altho there's probably a good reason to > back up just about anything, you don't have to reset your > partitions when you reinstall debian, even from a cd-boot. like > he said, just MOUNT already-initialized (and filled with booty) > partitions and you're off to the races...
Yes - I was aware of that, but I wanted to resize some of the partitions already, and as this computer has to be used by some on linux people and previously partitioning in cfdisk had caused some problems, I decided to start things off afresh and set things up under FDISK in DOS to keep that side of things happy. I did spend some time thinking out the best way of getting this done... > > backup whatever you want to back up. early. and often. take it > from the department of redundancy department. backups are a Good > Thing. > Yes. I do hear you. ;-) Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing
