On Tuesday 06 January 2004 02:28, mjt wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:17:02 -0500, "Paul W. Abrahams"
wrote: To add to the unpleasantness of my situation: the drive in question is an 80GB-er about 65% full, so backing it up completely and rebuilding it isn't an option.
... i'd go buy another drive and back it up!!!!
Yeah, they're not that expensive these days ... especially the IDE ones. I've run into one problem with partition tables, and learned this. To be on the safe side, make sure to keep all your "valuable" data in one partition. Like /home, this simplifies the backup procedure, because you really only need to backup this part, not the whole system. When partitions are concerned, I've once encountered that one version of a partition tool (can't recall which) skewed the partition table, by one cylinder. Made only the first partition usable, not the rest. I was able to overcome this, as I had a copy of the partition table and their starting points. Just a pointer to keep in mind, if you intend to keep a lot of partitions.