From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 177B91381F3 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:42:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 095EBE0A5C; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:42:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1876E0983 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:42:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.135] (helo=smtp4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1XEX-0002rU-1y for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:42:09 +0200 Received: from 54698b76.cm-12-2c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([84.105.139.118] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1XET-0001xn-QV for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:42:06 +0200 Received: from www.antarean.org (net.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.13]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6919A4B for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:41:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 83.80.30.114 (SquirrelMail authenticated user joost) by www.antarean.org with HTTP; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:41:58 +0200 Message-ID: <727a47de7f78428780f333cdf0ef19b5.squirrel@www.antarean.org> In-Reply-To: <20130721004555.4243f516@digimed.co.uk> References: <20130719200018.474e06af@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <51E9C5D2.1040108@gmail.com> <20130719202308.02520045@acme7.acmenet> <51EA3F5B.6000509@coolmail.se> <20130720085957.5fa06ca8@acme7.acmenet> <51EABA15.5020203@coolmail.se> <51EAECE8.2000805@gmail.com> <20130720224339.2052d82e@digimed.co.uk> <20130720220021.GB3387@server> <20130720232030.1dec73a1@digimed.co.uk> <20130720223859.GC3387@server> <20130720234248.4350e286@digimed.co.uk> <51EB170B.7030606@iinet.net.au> <20130721004555.4243f516@digimed.co.uk> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:41:58 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.22 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Ziggo-spambar: -- X-Ziggo-spamscore: -2.4 X-Ziggo-spamreport: BAYES_00=-1.9,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982,RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-1.451 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: 1628bd92-b9c7-4298-9971-750fd11f1669 X-Archives-Hash: f3f20b58d1bd34c627bf8d07bb6d0aee On Sun, July 21, 2013 01:45, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 07:02:35 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > >> > Yes, and it's mounted ro to minimise the risk of such damage. > >> I used to do this (keeping a rescue partitio) ... but found it was >> useful only some of the time. Nowadays I just leave a sysrescuecd USB >> key on top of the case :) Same features, useful in more circumstances= , >> less maintenance overhead. > > This sin't a rescue partition, it's just a GRUB menu entry and a copy f > the ISO in /boot, so far less maintenance even than making sure a USB > stick stays put. Plus it is much faster to boot. It's a nice idea, but the boot-time of the rescue-partition doesn't reall= y matter to me. It's more important that it boots a recent version. On a desktop it would be useful, but as I have more then 1 machine, creating the USB stick is just as easy :) -- Joost