On Saturday 08 March 2003 04:39 am, Paul wrote: > Hello all, > > I thought to be smart, but bit myself in the nose. > > I intend to go for Mdk 9.1 when it comes available. I remembered that the > best thing to do is format / and /usr at least, to make the setup as clean > as possible. Of course, one would leave /home alone. > > I have separate partitions for > > / /var /usr /home > > But I think that in /etc there are a lot of settings and such (like > /etc/postfix), so I stuck that in a separate partition. Which is where > things went sour after a reboot. The new /etc (/dev/hdf2) could not be > unmounted, and after reboot it could not be found when the system went > looking for /etc/inittab. Luckily CD1 and rescue mode were nice enough to > help me get things up and running again. > > Is there no easy way to preserve all kinds of settings and configs from > /etc other than selecting and backing up files by hand? > (Damn, I am getting more lazy with Linux than winblows ever had me!) > > Thanks, > Paul > > -- > If thou thinkest twice, before thou speakest once, > thou wilt speak twice the better for it. > -William Penn > > http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro
Well, of course many files in /etc are needed when / is mounted read-only before any other partitions are mounted... If you want to preserve /etc and perhaps other files, make a home directory as a repository for CVS and do a checkout daily or so then the files should be available to put into a new install. Civileme
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