sean finney on Fri, 21 Mar 2003 00:56:22 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] /etc on a separate partition


On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:36:52PM -0800, Wayne Dawson wrote:
> Well thanks, but I don't just want to "make more partitions".  The purpose 
> is to minimize the effort and time that would be required in various 
> failure/recovery scenarios.  If my /etc resides on raid, all the specific 
> config stuff for my system is protected by being on the raid.  Also, my 
> raid is in a separate enclosure from the cpu, so if the computer itself 
> dies, I want to be able to take the scsi interface card and raid enclosure 
> over to an arbitrary computer and be up and running again with a minimum of 
> hassle.

well, why don't you just put the whole root filesystem on the raid then?


	sean

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