Well I usually installed linux in a single partition with a swap partition in another hard drive for better performance. I never till lately have used extra partitions for /boot or /usr. However the second hard drive was needed to make a second pc boot so I ended up with no swap on a pc with 256RAM. Well everything worked just fine but after a couple of moster apps where loaded the system started running slower. So I tried to find a place to put the swap partition. I did an fdisk and saw a little partition about 150MB laying around (my /boot) and as I had never before used an extra /boot partition I though it was a forgotten swap drive, so 'mkswap /dev/hda2' and.... OMG! No more booting for my gentoo :-( Another horror story comes from a friend of mine. He managed to get a beta version of win2k back when they where about to be released and decided to give it a try. Well everything went fine during the installation and he wanted to try to run a game to see if it runs. The game run fine but the strange thing was that even when he quited from the game the cpu usage was 100%. So he reboots the machine only to find that win2k wasn't booting any more. Record time of OS destruction: 10mins of usage! Reason: unknown...
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