Re: [Sheflug] aargh, disk crash

[matt fairtlough <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Barrie Bremner wrote:

Going back a couple of days...

>>>>> "matt" == matt fairtlough <matt [at] fairtlough.net> writes:
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    matt> rsync and ?job what's job though?

Sorry, I think this was more late night typing - I meant rsync and a
cron job.

oh, right.  Yes.  Would have been better than the cp -R method I 
employed.  Mucked up all the file permissions and now lots of things 
don't work.  I've got a list of setuid programs from root's mailbox so 
that might help.

A million thanks to everyone who helped me sort my hdd problems out at 
the sheflug meeting on Saturday and later on well into the night (we had 
a wee party at my house).  We had great fun figuring out why the kernel 
wouldn't load from disk and it wasn't until nearly midnight that we 
realised that setting the HPT disk controller to work in PIO mode wasn't 
a good idea.  Just one of my more wacky experiments that was.

I've only one wee question more :-) is there any hope of splitting an 
existing partition into 2 (or 3) without destroying the data on the 
partitions that follow it on the new hdd?  'Cos that's just where my 
current system resides...

all the best,

Matt.


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