Re: Screen Resolution in Kubuntu

On 28 May 2007, Tony Houghton outgrape:

In <87d50lkawe.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Nix <nix-razor-pit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

max-mount-counts is useful mostly iff mounting/unmounting is likely to
cause extra corruption. I've heard of some ancient Unix systems on which
this was true, but I suspect that parameter is mostly there out of
historical inertia now. (Note that mke2fs will try to a different value
for this parameter in every filesystem to stop thundering herds of
fscks: you can't really avoid those with the age-based check.)

You can set a slightly different number of days for each partition. I've
just thought, this is another good argument in favour of using multiple
partitions.

fsck does that anyway. It'll cease to be a good argument if and when
chunking of filesystems into independently fsckable pieces is
implemented (as it will have to be).

Of course, if you care about your disk contents, you'll use RAID and
back up sometimes (I'll admit that it's been too long since I backed up
because my backup scripts broke and I haven't fixed them, but I've got
the RAID :) )

I back up /etc and most of ~ to CDR about once a month. The stuff that's
most difficult to replace is effectively backed up off site
(sourceforge).

That, too, but it's annoying to replace lots of things if you back them up
like that. It's useful to have a centralized backup as well...

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