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RoccoD
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 5:46 pm    Post subject: One month old desktop completely trashed by crash. (what jou Reply with quote

Hi guys,

I think i'm going to cry :(
I just had the first crash since I installed Gentoo. I switched X
on and off while adjusting usb mouse drivers and such.. ok.

I just restarted and did an xfs_repair.
However all my settings are F*(Ed up. no more XF86Config,
kdm screwed up (all user in list), i didn't investigated what more it did
trash. So what is the fun about xfs, apart from being fast.

Sorry for the negative remarks, but i'm not in the mood anymore for doing a complete reinstall after all the tweaking.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 5:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's exactly the moment to think about regular backups in the future.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 5:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anonymous wrote:
That's exactly the moment to think about regular backups in the future.


Yes, I first wanted to have a *working" desktop. First do
the fiddling, than the backupping. This time I didn't even reach the
backup stage.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 6:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anyway, I was quite pleased with Gentoo.
Only XFS is a little bit of a dissappoinment. I tried my previous SuSE installation by pulling the plug and crashing the kernel. Never lost a file. (not that I know anyway ;)
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 6:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm running ext3 and haven't had a problem. Even when my wife gets pissed at me and pulls the plug :wink:
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 7:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've used Reiser on all the systems I've setup, never had a problem.

After installing Gentoo I noticed the script that ran fsck.reiser on boot was actually trying to run /sbin/fsck.reiserfs which didn't exist, so I just fixed the link, kinda wondered how many people had that happen to them. Without this fixed everytime you booted your filesystem wouldn't be checked even after a crash, and that would be very bad.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 7:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i think ext3 is the way to go... i believe it's what the gentoo installation guide suggests so thats what i did (and i know it's rock stable too)

-S
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 7:27 pm    Post subject: Yah, got that too. Reply with quote

I had that problem as well in the first few days of Gentoo (2 weeks ago :wink: ).

I think that I will switch to ext3 this weekend.

I felt sick to my stomach when I saw that I lost files after a crash, when using XFS. Not a good situation even if I do regular backups...
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 8:26 pm    Post subject: Suggested backup method using a CDR/RW Reply with quote

Now that I have my system all setup I want to back up my installation.

Is there a way just to backup /dev/hda to CD? I have two partitions on /dev/hda, /dev/hda1 is /boot and /dev/hda2 is /, with a swap partition existing on /dev/hdb2, and /dev/hdb1 being my /home/mp3.

I really dont care about having my /dev/hdb* backed up since I have all of my mp3s backed up to another computer, but I have no clue how to begin backing up /dev/hda to cd (and having it easily recoverable) does anyone have a good suggestion?

Thanks

Brent
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