[ltp] Copying Files

[Eben King]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

> This used to be a (N+2)-booting system.  It currently is a (N)-booting
> system.  hda2 and hda3 existed in the past.  They were not copied over
> after a partial disk failure.  "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

I do "If it ain't broke, fix it until it is."

> To avoid breaking /etc/fstab in several of the bootable root partitions
> (at least hda6 and hda10, at the moment), the partitions were not
> renumbered

That's why I haven't renumbered my partition table either.  Yeah yeah, you 
can refer to partitions by label, but then if you want to know later 
what's on /dev/hda5, /etc/fstab won't help.  Scrambled partition tables 
work.

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