Re: disk drake

[Szakacsits Szabolcs]

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 07:25:40AM +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> >
> > Or just use LVM, no such problem. Also "move the start of an ext partition"
> > can be done by shrink + dd + partition edition. No risk, everybody has
> > backup ;)
>
> Backup is very slow.

Depends on what, how, data value, etc.

> No-one has backup.

It was a sarkastic comment.

> If you really want backup, use RAID, or a database with logging, etc.

Didn't I say everybody has backup? ;)

> If you really did do backups, then there would be no need for Parted.
> (Other than the need for a maintainable fdisk)

Ideally you save the restoration time and usually that's the majority of
the time if you consider your data valuable and have backup, whatever way.

        Szaka