On Sunday 21 Jul 2013 00:45:55 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 07:02:35 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > 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. > > This sin't a rescue partition, it's just a GRUB menu entry and a copy f > the ISO in /boot, so far less maintenance even than making sure a USB > stick stays put. Plus it is much faster to boot.
An interesting idea you present, Neil. So far I've been maintaining a small rescue system. My /boot is only 100MB so if I wanted to follow your idea I'd have to move and resize everything else on this MBR setup. I have twin spinning disks with two LVM sets in logical partitions, so I assume I'd have to destroy those and re-create them. What a lot of work! Oh, or I could sacrifice (part of) a swap partition to expand /boot into. -- Regards, Peter
