Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 04 May 2007 19:20:54 +0100:
> With better knowledge of Linux in general, I've decided to re-install, > from scratch. I've invested in an external HD to save /home to, so I > can re-instate all required prefs files (I *don't* want to have to > recreate a few dozen email & news filters, killfiles, score files, etc. I've done that a couple times. =8^) Last time, it was to upgrade to a 4- way SATA RAID system, RAID-1/mirror for /boot, partitioned RAID-6/double- parity for my main system, and RAID-0/striped for stuff like /tmp and the local kernel and package tree. All using the kernel's md/mdp drivers. =8^) That was after losing two drives after barely a year each. Of course, the last one was heat related (AC died, not a good thing in a Phoenix summer, and it was almost certainly > 50C, likely > 55C, ambient air temp, so who /knows/ what the drive temp was), but I decided I /had/ to get some redundancy in there, so I did. (Since then, the kernel swsusp has started working for me, and I've been using suspend-to-disk when I'm away, so another AC dieing shouldn't kill anything on the computer now, as it should be shut down.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
