[ale] YAY! (or, why I love Linux (tonight :))

[Charles W. Binko]

Ok, this starts out really bad: my main Linux drive just took a header.  It 
won't even be recognized at boot time.  REALLY bad!

However, this is why I love Linux.  I made the unusually brilliant move about 
2 years ago to create separate partitions for /home, /usr/local, /usr/X11R6, 
and /project (my work stuff) on disks /dev/hdb and /dev/hdc.  I don't know 
what came over me!  I also followed a strict habit of installing all new 
software into /usr/local (and removing the originals from /usr when they were 
still there).

About a month ago, I finally decided to upgrade from 1.2.13 to 2.0.31.  Since 
I'm a cheap bastard, and refuse to buy a decent disk (why, when there are all 
these crappy 300-800 MB ones lying around :), I put it on a new 540 Caviar 
(replacing a 340 :), and simply remounted those directories.

I thought I was hot shit... a complete upgrade in under 2 hours, with all of 
my data still there.

Today was much better.  I pulled out the 540, put in the 340, and I'm up and 
running!  Ok, I had to make a new LILO floppy, but who cares!

Tomorrow, I buy the new Maxtor 7GB DMA disk (I finally broke down and upgraded 
my DX 50 to a K6 200 with DMA support :).  However, /home/ and /project are 
staying on the slow 540 they live on now :)

Just thought I'd share in case there are any out there with just one Linux 
partition!  

Binko
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