Backup backup backup!

[Steve Scrimpshire]

Whenever you are doing something to your system and the tool warns you to back up your data, it is definitely a good idea to do it.

 

I saw that my /usr partition was getting close to full, so I decided to create a /usr/bin partition with diskdrake. I created it and formatted it in the wrong order, losing everything in /usr/bin. That's tough to recover from, but probably not as tough as if I would've lost /bin or /sbin doing this. Now I have to go through

 

rpm -qa

 

and do

 

rpm -ivh --replacepkgs

 

for everything to get it all back. The good thing is since rpm still thinks everything is installed, I don't have to install them in any particular order because of dependencies.

 

Lesson 102334261 learned.

[Michel]

:)

[scoopy]

I always try to think about my backup strategy this way:

Don't plan on if your computer will ever crash, but when it will.

[Steve Scrimpshire]

Well, it looks like I'm going to have to reinstall:

 

# df -a

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/hdb1             997M  563M  435M  57% /

none                     0     0     0   -  /proc

none                     0     0     0   -  /dev/pts

/dev/hdb6             1.4G  157M  1.2G  12% /home

/dev/hda9             4.3G  2.3G  2.0G  54% /mnt/81home

/dev/hda7              15G  633M   15G   5% /mnt/81root

/dev/hda8              20G  2.1G   18G  11% /mnt/81usr

/dev/hda1             9.8G  3.3G  6.5G  34% /mnt/win_c

/dev/hda5              12G  3.4G  8.4G  30% /mnt/win_d

/dev/hda6             7.9G  1.9G  6.0G  24% /mnt/win_e

/dev/hdb5             2.2G  2.2G  4.0K 100% /usr

/dev/hdb7             2.1G  129M  1.9G   7% /var

/dev/hda11            5.9G   95M  5.8G   2% /usr/bin

/dev/hdb8             730M   71M  660M  10% /usr/local

/dev/scd0             651M  651M     0 100% /mnt/cdrom

/dev/scd1             650M  650M     0 100% /mnt/cdrom2

 

It won't let me add any more. I thought having a second partition for /usr/bin, it would install everything over there, but it looks like it is still adding it to the /usr partition

 

Edit: So far I haven't had to reinstall. I was able to create a new /usr partition and move the old one. Unfortunately, I lost everything in /usr/local which is not too bad, I guess. Well back to reinstalling everything I need.