-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Mahmood wrote: | * Joe Dufresne (nqs@tmcom.com) [030430 11:34]: | |>if'n i'd just split a .tar, i could have recovered most of whayt I had |>backed up. | | | That's true for backups in general. Compressing them makes it much | more unlikely that you'll be able to recover a corrupt one. | yep, but i suppose some good came of it, I'm gonna try the olive oil trick, and I now have a /home partition so re-installs won't require backing up ith partition (although i need to continue doing those, of course) in a side note, i never saw my reply, and in fact got a bounce message, but evidenced by your reply I assume it made it to the list. vrery weird Joe - -- SuSE Linux 8.1 (i386) | Kernel 2.4.19-4GB / i686 ~ 2:06pm up 6 days, 5:46, 6 users, load average: 1.03, 0.77, 0.44 Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When your guests see you carry a weapon, you're telling them,'I'll defend you as if you were my own family.' And anyone who objects levels the deadliest insult possible: 'I don't trust you unless you're rendered harmless'! L. Neil Smith, The Probability Broach nqs@cognisurf.com | Blog: http://tigger.tmcom.com/~nqs/blogger.html GPG key can be found at: http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/ | Geek Code: http://tigger.tmcom.com/~nqs/geek_code.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+sEB9ojW9aOH101IRArm9AJ9p6Z3JYgAimkBlJB8JOeDggIgpoACgvbuy 8kR1SvPiiBfUXZNUSfUyPTQ= =INDi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----