Re: REQ: approaches to stability

[Collette McNeill <collette@mlwebworks.com>]

I'm forwarding this message to the linux-biz list; they will have some
suggestions!
Chiao,
collette



"Pete St. Onge" wrote:

> Hi all,
>      The discussion about maintaining linux and the expertise required
> has started me thinking about my own problem. Recently, one of the
> drives on a linux box I run went wacko; errors started cropping up like
> mad and I lost the bootable partition. To prevent this happening in the
> future, I've been thinking about ways in which I could set up the
> machine to 'dual-boot' such that if the bootable partition were hosed
> that I could set up the machine so that I could boot off of another one
> and do damage control.
>      I would greatly appreciate any hints, tips or suggestions anyone
> might have, any experiences folks would care to share.
>      In passing, on the subject of managing a linux box, I've found that
> webmin (www.webmin.com) is pretty useful for a lot of daily tasks
> (mounting and unmounting, user management, permissions, etc...). It took
> me a few times to get it set up because I wanted to compile in support
> for SSLeay, but after a couple of tries I got it right. It was working
> quite nicely on said box - mostly for mounting and unmounting a
> removable disk - until the drive freaked out on me. :(
>
>      Cheers,
>
>      Pete
>
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> Pete St. Onge - McGill U.  Limnology - Fun with Ropes & Buckets
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