No more /home after botched Fedora install

[Dotan Cohen]

On 30/07/07, D. Michael McIntyre <michael.mcintyre at rosegardenmusic.com> wrote:
> 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

Yes, as soon as you get to Haifa drop an email and first drink on me!
Actually, I read your reply after sending, though, as another
sharp-witted user on the Ubuntu list suggested to check the mount at
the same time that you did. Hats off to both of you!

> 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.

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.

We'll see how the new filesystem that was supposed to be with Vista
(soon to be released as an update) will be. I forgot what it's called,
but it's supposed to be fast, reliable, and secure. Well, then again,
Microsoft made the same promises about Vista itself...

Dotan Cohen

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