On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Colin Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:10:49PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: >> I'm sorry, but I really see very limited usefulness in this. It's only >> potentially useful to expert users, but those should know how to backup >> sectors in their disk already. > > Of course, like many restore facilities, it's only useful if you > remembered or realised that you needed to do the backup before the data > was overwritten ...
As a user of grub, I think that automatically making a backup is nice, as long as: (1) I can specify not to make the backup (2) It doesn't overwrite any existing file unless I explicitly specify the filename > > It would be nice to have a straightforward answer to the sort of bug > report that goes "argh, I installed Debian/Ubuntu and it ate the special > magic boot loader I carefully installed there five years ago", I must > admin. > > -- > Colin Watson [[email protected]] > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
