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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: WARNING ! Re: [gentoo-user] Labeling reiserfs partitions
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 15:32:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060804153246.42996408@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060804.154338.71090840.Meino.Cramer@gmx.de>

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On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:43:38 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote:

> > Wouldn't it have been safer to have tried it on a USB stick first?
> 
>   ...I did copy the whole rootfs to a previously total empty SATA
>   disk and used THAT hd for experimenting...
> 
>   I am not /that/ blind...

:-)

I prefer to do such filesystem experimentation on a USB stick, loop
device or spare LVM partition. Any action involving the words "untested"
and "root" is to be rigorously avoided :)


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Make like a tree and leave.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-04 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-04  9:43 [gentoo-user] Labeling reiserfs partitions Meino Christian Cramer
2006-08-04  9:57 ` Janusz Bossy
2006-08-04 12:43   ` WARNING ! " Meino Christian Cramer
2006-08-04 12:59     ` Dirk Heinrichs
2006-08-04 13:05     ` Neil Bothwick
2006-08-04 13:43       ` Meino Christian Cramer
2006-08-04 13:54         ` Dirk Heinrichs
2006-08-04 17:55           ` Richard Fish
2006-08-04 14:32         ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
     [not found]   ` <44D350BA.3030504@mid.message-center.info>
2006-08-04 17:16     ` [gentoo-user] " James
2006-08-04 17:43       ` Meino Christian Cramer
2006-08-04 19:17         ` James
2006-08-04 22:43           ` Neil Bothwick
2006-08-04 17:49   ` [gentoo-user] " Richard Fish

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