From: waltdnes@waltdnes.org
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 20:47:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160908004743.GA31302@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57D090B7.1070501@googlemail.com>
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 12:12:07AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote
> You can disagree as much as you like, but with the size of drives and
> the current error rate of consumer hard drives it is not a question of
> 'if' but just a matter of 'when'.
It's not just the drive; it's the entire PC. My main desktop at home
has had a few panics recently. It's several years old, and I'll be
getting rid of it, because I can't really trust it. I've switched to my
"hot backup", and am currently setting up a new machine as the new "hot
backup". After doing the initial Gentoo install, I copied over the
config files, with appropriate changes. I copied /var/lib/portage/world
and launched "emerge --changed-use --deep --update @world". A few
minutes ago, emerge was on package 228 of 337.
I have 3 USB backup drives and I use them all. This does not include
the monthly copying over of /home/waltdnes and /home/misc from the main
desktop to the "hot backup".
BTW, this is probably the first email sent out from this machine to
the Gentoo list.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
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Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-01 6:04 [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive? gevisz
2016-09-01 6:13 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-09-01 7:18 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 8:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-09-01 8:59 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 9:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-09-01 9:11 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 9:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-09-01 21:06 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2016-09-01 22:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-09-01 9:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2016-09-01 11:03 ` gevisz
2016-09-06 23:57 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2016-09-07 6:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-09-07 22:12 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2016-09-07 22:47 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-09-08 21:41 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2016-09-08 0:47 ` waltdnes [this message]
2016-09-09 15:25 ` Andrew Lowe
2016-09-10 15:27 ` Peter Humphrey
2016-09-01 12:23 ` Dale
2016-09-01 7:23 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2016-09-01 8:44 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 8:55 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2016-09-01 9:05 ` gevisz
2016-09-02 4:23 ` gevisz
2016-09-02 4:50 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 9:43 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-09-01 7:30 ` Matthias Hanft
2016-09-01 8:49 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 8:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-09-01 9:09 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 12:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-09-01 19:04 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 21:50 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-09-01 12:51 ` Michael Mol
2016-09-01 13:27 ` Rich Freeman
2016-09-01 17:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-09-01 17:54 ` Rich Freeman
2016-09-02 10:59 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-09-02 11:48 ` Rich Freeman
2016-09-02 12:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-09-01 19:17 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 21:26 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2016-09-01 23:53 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2016-09-02 0:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2016-09-01 11:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Rich Freeman
2016-09-01 18:58 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 19:12 ` Rich Freeman
2016-09-01 19:56 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 20:26 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2016-09-01 20:57 ` Kai Krakow
2016-09-02 22:03 ` Mick
2016-09-02 22:42 ` Dale
2016-09-03 8:12 ` J. Roeleveld
2016-09-03 15:50 ` Dale
2016-09-03 9:58 ` Kai Krakow
2016-09-03 15:58 ` Dale
2016-09-03 15:39 ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2016-09-03 16:50 ` Mick
2016-09-04 16:48 ` Stroller
2016-09-04 18:42 ` Mick
2016-09-05 0:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Hans
2016-09-05 5:31 ` Mick
2016-09-05 12:56 ` Hans
2016-09-05 18:42 ` Mick
2016-09-05 7:22 ` gevisz
2016-09-05 12:51 ` Hans
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