Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:17:04 -0800 From: Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning suggestions? Message-ID: <19971118011704.41903@micron.mini.net> In-Reply-To: <199711180507.AAA00959@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Tue, Nov 18, 1997 at 12:07:22AM -0500 References: <19971117210512.32531@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> <199711180507.AAA00959@dyson.iquest.net>
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John S. Dyson <toor@dyson.iquest.net> 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."
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