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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!in2p3.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!fdn.fr!uunet!in1.uu.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!news.cs.utah.edu!news.cc.utah.edu!wasatch.com!wasatch.com!bobh From: bobh@wasatch.com (Bob Hauck) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD and Linux on same machine? Date: 26 Nov 1995 21:10:07 GMT Organization: Wasatch Communications Group Lines: 27 Sender: bobh@olympus.wasatch.com (Bob Hauck) Message-ID: <49al3f$toh@lonepeak.wasatch.com> References: <m2zqdjdegw.fsf@lily.sirius.com> Reply-To: bobh@wasatch.com NNTP-Posting-Host: olympus.wasatch.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:73217 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9672 In article <m2zqdjdegw.fsf@lily.sirius.com>, "Peter Seibel" <seibel@sirius.com> writes: >I suppose, after reading the O'Rielley, Running Linux book that I have >to repartition my hard drive but I have no good way to back it up >first. (That book was unclear on how to repartition a drive without >backing everything up first, though it mentioned DOS utilities that >could do it. Is there such a thing for Linux.) If you are going to be playing with multiple operating systems, you should go out right now and buy a backup device. A ZIP drive, a tape, a second hard drive, something. I can't say that strongly enough. If you are going to repartition, "magic" utility or not, you are crazy if you don't have a backup. At least a backup of the things that are unique about your setup (data files, home directory, configuration files, things like that). You can get the OS and utilities off the CD if things go wrong, but that other stuff would have to be re-created by hand. I have only needed to restore from tape a couple of times, but when it happened I was damn glad to have the tape. Having it turned a major disaster into just a nuisance. --- Bob Hauck Wasatch Communcations Group bobh@wasatch.com Data (24 hrs): 801-272-3792