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dcPrimary hard drive up and running again. Fortunately the spasm the other night did not seem to be an actual, hard crash, just a complete fucking up of the filesystem.
When I first got that hard drive and described it to a geek friend (he makes me seem ungeeky, which is quite pleasant), he mocked me for partitioning it. (I had set it up with a dedicated partition for / and another each for my home directory and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rhionnach’s.)
He mocked me because, in his view, there was no point in dividing up a huge hard drive (which it isn’t now, but when I bought it it seemed impressively vast). My view was that this setup would permit upgrading the OS or switching to another Linux distro should I wish it, without losing the users’ data. Additonally, should the worst happen and the / filesystem get buggered, then there was at least a chance of restoring it without losing any data (including configuration) for the user accounts. Likewise, if one of the user partitions was corrupted, the other and / might remain unharmed.
I do so love the smell of vindication in the evening.
When I first got that hard drive and described it to a geek friend (he makes me seem ungeeky, which is quite pleasant), he mocked me for partitioning it. (I had set it up with a dedicated partition for / and another each for my home directory and
rhionnach’s.) He mocked me because, in his view, there was no point in dividing up a huge hard drive (which it isn’t now, but when I bought it it seemed impressively vast). My view was that this setup would permit upgrading the OS or switching to another Linux distro should I wish it, without losing the users’ data. Additonally, should the worst happen and the / filesystem get buggered, then there was at least a chance of restoring it without losing any data (including configuration) for the user accounts. Likewise, if one of the user partitions was corrupted, the other and / might remain unharmed.
I do so love the smell of vindication in the evening.
