No more /home after botched Fedora install

D. Michael McIntyre michael.mcintyre at rosegardenmusic.com
Mon Jul 30 01:04:25 UTC 2007


On Sunday 29 July 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> The disk simply wasn't mounted! A silly mistake, but I've learned a
> rather valuable lesson from this. I'm burning a backup now, and I'll
> be manning rsync tonight...

Points for me.  I nailed it.  Where's my cigar?  :D

On the subject of disk surprises and rsync, I did an opposite dumb-dumb.  I 
didn't have my backup partitions mounted, and then I made my backup.  Some 
weeks later, I finally realized that / was completely full.  Oops.

I guess that's the one bad thing about the Unix style of managing volumes.  
It's easy to do things like this by mistake.  OTOH, I still think it's much 
more sensible than the stupid X: scheme of DOS/Windows.
-- 
D. Michael McIntyre 




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