From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 18 01:19:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA06447 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:19:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from d198-232.uoregon.edu (d198-232.uoregon.edu [128.223.198.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA06441 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:19:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mini@d198-232.uoregon.edu) Received: (from mini@localhost) by d198-232.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA24569; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:17:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19971118011704.41903@micron.mini.net> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:17:04 -0800 From: Jonathan Mini To: "John S. Dyson" Cc: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning suggestions? Reply-To: Jonathan Mini References: <19971117210512.32531@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> <199711180507.AAA00959@dyson.iquest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199711180507.AAA00959@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Tue, Nov 18, 1997 at 12:07:22AM -0500 X-files: The Truth is Out There Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John S. Dyson stands accused of saying: > [ ... snip ... ] > > why not dedicate 32megs of another hard drive to a backup root? I've > > now decided to put a 32meg root on all hard drives even if they aren't > > going to normally boot from... (what's 32megs from 2gigs? :) ) > > > That works well also. It would be kind of nice to come up with an automatic > mini-root setup. In /etc/rc.local, or daily, or weekly, or manually : dump 1af - / | restore f - /dev/other_root_partition -- Jonathan Mini Ingenious Productions Software Development P.O. Box 5693, Eugene, Or. 97405 "A child of five could understand this! Quick -- Fetch me a child of five."