On 21/07/13 06:42, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:38:59 -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: > >>> A known, good kernel is not much help if your root filesystem is >>> damaged, although I do make sure I always have at least one such >>> kernel in /boot. > >> Thanks. I assume you must have a separate /boot partition in case "your >> root filesystem is damaged" or this still doesn't help, eh? > > Yes, and it's mounted ro to minimise the risk of such damage. > >
I used to do this (keeping a rescue partitio) ... but found it was useful only some of the time. Nowadays I just leave a sysrescuecd USB key on top of the case :) Same features, useful in more circumstances, less maintenance overhead. BillK
