Jan Stary wrote: ... > See at bottom; looks much simpler now, hmm :-) > I leave the RAID analogy to someone else. > > Anyway, first diff, screwed up,
I'd prefer the term, "learning experience". > thanks for all the comments. > > Jan > > > Index: faq4.html > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/www/faq/faq4.html,v > retrieving revision 1.254 > diff -u -p -r1.254 faq4.html > --- faq4.html 3 Nov 2007 13:51:09 -0000 1.254 > +++ faq4.html 7 Nov 2007 07:31:13 -0000 > @@ -1915,6 +1915,13 @@ Some additional thoughts on partitioning > can use <a href="faq10.html#Quotas">quotas</a> to restrict the space > they use, and if they fill the partition, no other parts of your > system will be impacted. > + <li>If you have a second disk, you might want to create an <tt>/altroot</tt> > + partition on it, as described in > + <a > href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=daily&sektion=8";>daily(8)</a>. > + This can be used for daily backups of your <tt>/</tt> partition, > + giving you a possibility to recover should your 'a' partition go away. > + Obviously, the <tt>/altroot</tt> partition needs to be at least as big > + as <tt>/</tt>. > </ul> and what I just committed: Index: faq4.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/www/faq/faq4.html,v retrieving revision 1.254 diff -u -r1.254 faq4.html --- faq4.html 3 Nov 2007 13:51:09 -0000 1.254 +++ faq4.html 7 Nov 2007 12:01:01 -0000 @@ -1915,6 +1915,20 @@ can use <a href="faq10.html#Quotas">quotas</a> to restrict the space they use, and if they fill the partition, no other parts of your system will be impacted. + <li>If you have a second disk, you might want to create an <tt>/altroot</tt> + partition on it, as described in + <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=daily&sektion=8";>daily(8)</a>. + This can be used for daily backups of your <tt>/</tt> partition, + giving you a possibility to recover should your 'a' partition go away. + Obviously, the <tt>/altroot</tt> partition needs to be at least as big + as <tt>/</tt>. + If you have something else duplicating the rest of your disk, either + software + <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=raid&sektion=4";>raid(4)</a> + or a periodic copy using + <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dump&sektion=8";>dump(8)</a + >/<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=restore&sektion=8";>restore(8)</a>, + this disk can be bootable after the removal of the primary disk. </ul>
