On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 07:04, Pigeon wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:09:29AM +1300, cr wrote: > > I've only had one sieze in recent times, what I've had several of > > recently is sudden complete power cut - possibly a power supply fault. > > Either way, it has the same effect of discombobulating my hard drive so I > > have to do a lot of fscking on startup again. Occasionally this > > completely munges my X setup. > > I think you might find ext3 to be a big help, though it's not a > complete solution - if the power dies in the middle of a write, you > can end up with a bad sector being created, which can confuse things a > bit.
Are there any downsides to ext3? > > I was thinking the best precaution might be to occasionally copy /etc, > > /root and maybe /home/cr (are those the appropriate directories?) to a > > directory on another drive, which is unlikely to have files open at the > > time of a crash, and just copy them back if I need to to restore my > > settings. > > I'd add /var to the list, and copy them onto a partition which can be > mounted read-only except when you're actually doing the copying. Thanks, I'll do that. > Hmmm... you could have two such back-up partitions, and have a cron > job that backs up automatically to each one alternately every so > often. Then, even if it crashes during the backup, you've still got > the other copy. Well, that's a sort of second-order-of-probability, and a risk I'll take. If that happens I'll just do the reinstall thing. ;) > A new PSU is probably a good idea too :-) The new PSU idea will get tried out next weekend when I can pick one up. (It's cheaper than the other possibility which is trying out a new motherboard + CPU :) cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
