On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:01:28PM -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > Here's a simple example why not. If you machine dies and your > backups are "inadequate", you may want to try and recover the disc > by putting it into another system. How? If you didn't back up a > bunch of magic information from the original system's /etc > directory, you're well and truly screwed.
Are you sure about that? I have two offline backups, each is two disks on firewire / USB external disks. Last time I connected one of them, I had the two cables swappped, and LVM still pciked them up correctly. I am not aware of any magic info on the main system. But I don't use LVM much; once set up, I leave it alone. Right now I ought to expand a couple of partitions which are at 93% or so. The docs say I should be able to do this with the partitions mounted, but on eof them is /usr and I am reluctant to either try it or to bring it down to single user mode. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list