[SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Eric Sandall (3af8bc174a00c8fdb3bf52bbb46185a710129c8f)

Thomas Orgis thomas-forum at orgis.org
Sat Apr 28 17:04:54 EDT 2007


Am Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:44:47 -0500
schrieb Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl at firinn.org>:

> > Hm, I could make /usr a symlink to / and have a nice, flat directory
> > structure;-)
>
> Have fun with that the first time your real partition holding /usr
explodes
> on itself and ends up taking / too.

OK, system recovery in case /usr explodes, makes kindof sense.
Did a filesystem ever "explode" on me? Hm... cannot remember such a case.
Perhaps I should use more ReiserFS partitions;-)
I've had a hdd dying. That destroyed /, /usr and most notably /home.
No separation helping there (no second disk in a Portege laptop...).

I'm really not used to partitions or filesystems exploding.
Maybe I'm too lucky and use too stable kernels, or have too friendly
usage patterns;-)

But thanks for clearing that up... though for recovery I nowadays think of
(network booted) initramfs with busybox or just a live CD if I'm lucky
enough to have a CD drive in the box.
Anyhow, prepare to move iwconfig to /sbin once we get used to shiny
subnotebooks that only have wireless lan and no optical drives... just
seems fair to me.


Thomas.
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