On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney <m...@daubers.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:35 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote: > > The livecd offers no benefits to the process, in fact using an up to > > date system, rather than an out-of-date livecd may be a better idea, > > if purely for any bugfixes that may be present in the up to date > > system. > This is an incredibly dangerous idea. When you're mucking around with > partitions it is very, _very_, UNsafe to have the _device_ mounted. > Having been building storage systems for the past 8 months, I've dealt > with things in terrible states, one of the causes being people > believing that repartitioning with a volume mounted is a good idea. > Save yourself some grief, for the sake of downloading and creating a > live CD, you'll probably save yourself having to reinstall the whole > system. When I do this on customers machines the process is > 1. Boot Live CD (or in my case USB as it's a touch quicker) > 2. Make backup of entire drive (overnight usually due to this being on > xxTB systems) onto some external storage > 3. Use gparted to sort out partition > 4. Check everything is fine, system boots, data is intact > 5. Return system to customer > 6. After a couple of weeks of no problems, remove the image. > This would obviously need to be modified for your needs. > _DO_ backup your important data. > _DO NOT_ repartition a mounted device. > Using a liveCD provides you with a clean environment. There is far > less that can go wrong. Just my 2p worth of course. But taking time to > do things properly is usually far quicker than having to undo things > done badly. Matt Daubney Thank you Matt for telling me that you have actually seen drives messed up in this way. I still wonder why it should be so incredibly dangerous but you have convinced me that it is.
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