[ltp] recovery partition useful? (was Re: Installed Grub...)

[Paul Fox]

igor v. rafienko wrote:
 > on Jan 19, 2007, 11:20, Paul Fox wrote:
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 > > so, show of hands -- has anyone successfully restored their machine
 > > using the ibm recovery partition on (any) thinkpad?
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 > Well, now I have tried that restore option too. I could boot into linux=
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 > about 1 hour after I started.

excellent -- thanks!  whether or not linux continues to run after
the restore isn't much of an issue for me -- i would only do the
restore in order to really take the machine back to its pristine
state, e.g., before selling it.  it also means that i could probably
reclaim the current XP partition entirely, and still be able to get
it back if need be.

thanks very much for trying that...

paul

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 > The R&R restore did something (not quite sure what, though) to /var, an=
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 > it had to be fsck'ed (without any adverse consequences, it seems). When=
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 > resized the ntfs partition, ntfsresize mentioned moving one inode that =

 > clearly was out of the first 25GB that I set aside for windows. So that=
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 > inode did overwrite something (not sure what though :)). The data on /v=
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 > seem to be ok. Similar things happened when I recoved from DVDs. The =

 > recovery process does overwrite something. I am just not sure what, =

 > exactly.
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 > Obviously, there is a definite possibility for screwing things real bad=
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 > here. But it /seems/ to have worked (in the sense "windows is fine, and=
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 > gentoo installation survived").
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 > > have you done so after installing linux, which presumably shoved the =

 > > existing partitions and boot records around somewhat?
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 > That would be "yes".
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 > ivr
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