Custom Partition Fedora 18

[David]

On 2/21/2013 5:28 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
> On 02/18/2013 08:15 AM, jonc wrote:
>> On 02/18/2013 03:34 AM, Tim wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 18:05 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
>>>> Am going to look into this....as I want to "build" a server at home,
>>>> and see what I can do with it.....maybe some form of central
>>>> information repository?......I'll think of something!
>>> Having a central server is very useful.  You can store *your* files on
>>> it, your mail on it, etc, instead of on the computer that you use, and
>>> they'll always be there.  Then, you can try out different distros and
>>> software on a client computer, without losing any of your personal
>>> stuff.
>>>
>>
>> Useful, also, for backups, especially a backup of a separate home
>> partition if you do change distributions often.  You can easily set up
>> a separate home partition and include it, unscathed, in any new setup,
>> but having that backup is a very good thing.
> 
> Well I've learned my lesson when it comes to backups. (Lost an entire 2
> year's worth of data, pictures, movies, files, folders, and music!) I
> was using Windows 2000 at the time, and was constantly under pressure
> from my current job at the time, which left me in a tizzy on a daily
> basis! I had the PC up and running at home, and everything seemed to be
> working, (I mean what could POSSIBLY go wrong!?...right? It was Windows
> 2000 we're talking about..the "latest and greatest"...RIGHT?..LoL!)
> Needless to say I had come home thinking I was going to be able to
> download some files from work, only to find my machine in a "Blue
> Screen" state, and it never recovered after that, I even went so far as
> to  try to access the files taking the HD out and putting it in a
> different machine, but whatever happened? it completely fried my
> drive.....from THAT day forward...I make an incremental backup at the
> end of EVERY week! And then I duplicate THAT to an external USB storage
> drive, which then gets placed in a Folder on my Linux Mint
> box.....(that's right!....I will NEVER lose "My Stuff" EVER again!)


Win2K is kinda' old. As for the blue screen? That is / was a error
report and had you actually read it it would have told what had crashed,
usually a hardware driver which are provided by the hardware
manufacturer, and how to fix it.

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  David