-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-02-28 at 02:35 -0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
I have twenty. I do it for many reasons; one is damage containment.
Yes, But! Hardware will always get you. Every disaster I have had has been down to IDE controllers (twice) or something else on the motherboards (once) trashing ALL the disk, at least on 3 occasions so far. Even Sun got rid of the practice. I've seen symlinks like they were going out of style when a partition ran out of space, on both Solaris and Linux. IBM did something clever on RS6000, with smit, you could extend a partition on the fly if it needed more space.
I had very recently a hard disk crash, caused, I think, by a damaged ide (80 pin) cable. I lost the "/home" partition, and two weeks later I lost the "/" partition (repaired with lots of files lost, unbootable), and had some other partition damaged which repaired fully, after working at it for two days. Most of my problems with filesystems have damaged a partition at most. And, except on this occasion, all were caused by software. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF5idNtTMYHG2NR9URApIvAJ9IlEYQkhnC/PVpZN2NAbMxRf3iTQCdGNqN OTnvq2U1uHTUrI3Ez9Ivuf8= =1Mp1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org