-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2008-10-29 at 19:08 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: ..
LVM is a way to accumulate/join disk space on a few drives and then
Or a single drive. And you can use LVM on top of raid, I think.
How can I boot a linux system when the /boot partition has gone south? Will starting from the 11.0 CD work and choosing 'Boot installed system'?
Maybe not.
Oh WHEN will openSUSE ship a partitioning tool with their DVD that will allow non-destructive partition resizing? Does anyone have a Bugzilla report I can vote on to request this?
I think that what you are thinking of, and what I would love too, is a tool like "partition magic". Am I correct?
Now whilst RAID is not a backup mechanism it certainly enables fewer backups to be taken as the fs is looked after better.
Well... I a program goes berserk and damages the filesystem, both copies will be bad. If you have a power failure, both copies will be bad. If you accidentally delete everything, bot copies will be bad. No, what raid is for is to ensure that if one disk (not the filesystem on it) goes bad, you can continue nonstop; with some setups you can actually change the disk live, with some (homes) you have to power off first. But if something writes bad data to the filesystem, or deletes data or structures, only a backup can save your day. So... in some situations a periodical backup is better. Like having two disks, one mounted and in use, the other umounted, and getting a copy via cron, say every hour. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkIs/8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WomACghCgHgeIOEnBS+3nxY+6vQlHN hxoAn3J+cz1vBMH3dN6cZc42f9MGewC5 =gjb2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org