From: Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Pre OpenRC update question...
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 08:09:59 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DCC76D7.7060305@wht.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DCC4A66.6000206@libertytrek.org>
On 13/05/2011 5:00 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Probably a dumb one, but...
>
> I have /home, /usr and /var on separate partitions...
>
> If I want to image my system prior to the update 'just in case'
> something goes south, am I correct that all I need to worry about is /,
> since /etc is located there?
>
> In other words, is anything on /usr or /var touched during this update?
>
>
If you want to be reeaallyyy safe, and want an image and not a backup,
grab the latest copy of SystemRescueCd, a couple of TB of usb external
drive space, which is very cheap these days, and use partImage to grab a
true image of your whole system. I started doing this recently and it's
saved me once so far. Things "flew apart big time" for me recently, a
disk failure, I rebooted into the rescue cd and hey presto, 30 minutes
later, everything was good.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-13 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-12 21:00 [gentoo-user] Pre OpenRC update question Tanstaafl
2011-05-12 21:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-12 21:46 ` Dale
2011-05-16 10:47 ` Tanstaafl
2011-05-16 11:38 ` William Hubbs
2011-05-16 12:01 ` Tanstaafl
2011-05-16 12:19 ` Dale
2011-05-16 14:45 ` Stroller
2011-05-13 0:09 ` Andrew Lowe [this message]
2011-05-13 19:11 ` James Wall
2011-05-13 22:35 ` Mick
2011-05-14 2:47 ` Andrey Moshbear
2011-05-14 3:21 ` James Wall
2011-05-14 10:13 ` Neil Bothwick
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