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From: Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: /usr almost full
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:03:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32362975.ztYRAsPhKO@work.message-center.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200611241135.24430.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com

Dirk Heinrichs <ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com>:

> Am Freitag, 24. November 2006 11:08 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick:
>> On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:43:22 +0000, Mick wrote:
>> > In the event that the OS get borked, is it possible to boot using a
>> > LiveCD (e.g. Knoppix) to recover the fs and data, like one can with the
>> > good ol' primary & logical partitions?
>>
>> Not with Knoppix, you need a live CD with LVM support. The Gentoo Live
>> CDs should have it.
> 
> Knoppix has LVM, but not EVMS. Gentoo has both.

For recovery stuff, I prefer grml, though. Text based, loads faster
and has more recovery things.

Alexander Skwar
-- 
Some days you wake and immediately start worrying.  Nothing in
particular is wrong, it's just the suspicion that forces are aligning
quietly and there will be trouble.
                -- "Survival Series", Jenny Holzer


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-24 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-23 15:36 [gentoo-user] /usr almost full Allan Spagnol Comar
2006-11-23 16:52 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-11-23 17:34   ` Allan Spagnol Comar
2006-11-23 18:07   ` Bira
2006-11-23 18:42     ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2006-11-23 22:02 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2006-11-24  1:21   ` Allan Spagnol Comar
2006-11-24  4:02 ` reader
2006-11-24  6:43 ` [gentoo-user] " Dirk Heinrichs
2006-11-24  9:43   ` Mick
2006-11-24  9:48     ` Alan McKinnon
2006-11-24 10:00     ` Dirk Heinrichs
2006-11-24 10:08     ` Neil Bothwick
2006-11-24 10:35       ` Dirk Heinrichs
2006-11-24 10:48         ` Neil Bothwick
2006-11-24 12:54           ` Dirk Heinrichs
2006-11-24 13:03         ` Alexander Skwar [this message]

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