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June 29, 2004
Painful
Well, I mentioned earlier today that I made a little mistake with an extra /. It looks like I have at least 9 GB of stuff I wish I'd backed up, and not enough space to do it cleanly on any single partition. Maybe I can copy over Ethernet to the laptop, which seems to have plenty of space.
It looks like what went first was /usr/bin, so the system is possibly beyond the point where I can repair it faster manually than reinstalling and reconfiguring. I'm reduced to using the bridled version of JDS that sort of works on this machine.
A full backup of the partition would've been 37 GB, and I'd have had to have a good backup policy even with the equipment to back that up. Perhaps it makes sense to buy a second 80 GB disk and just copy the whole thing every week. Too late now, in any case. Besides, if I had that much space, I'd just fill it up, or do a third rm mistake...
Posted by Mark at June 29, 2004 10:31 PM