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

[Igor V. Rafienko]

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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?


Well, now I have tried that restore option too. I could boot into linux=20
about 1 hour after I started.

The R&R restore did something (not quite sure what, though) to /var, and=20
it had to be fsck'ed (without any adverse consequences, it seems). When I=
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resized the ntfs partition, ntfsresize mentioned moving one inode that=20
clearly was out of the first 25GB that I set aside for windows. So that=20
inode did overwrite something (not sure what though :)). The data on /var=
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seem to be ok. Similar things happened when I recoved from DVDs. The=20
recovery process does overwrite something. I am just not sure what,=20
exactly.

Obviously, there is a definite possibility for screwing things real bad=20
here. But it /seems/ to have worked (in the sense "windows is fine, and my=
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gentoo installation survived").


> have you done so after installing linux, which presumably shoved the=20
> existing partitions and boot records around somewhat?


That would be "yes".





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 =09=09-- Henning Makholm om "undefined behaviour"
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