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deltaecho

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From: Georgia (USA)

Registered: 2008-08-06

Posts: 193

Bad ideas that made since at the time ...

The other day, I reinstalled Arch on my laptop because I didn't like the way I had the partitions organized and wanted to learn how to set up an encrypted LVM.  I was largely successful, however, made one little mistake that cost me several aggravated hours ... I installed my /etc dir on a separate partition.  I read somewhere that the EXT3 FS holds up best when many files are being accessed simultaneously -- having been mounted with the data=journal option -- thus it made since to locate /etc on an EXT3 partition separate from my Reiser-formatted /(root) dir.  After rebooting, my laptop gave me a not-so-nice message stating it couldn't find my inittab file.  I figured the error was somehow related to /etc being located on a separate partition, and was reaffirmed after a little research; now, /etc resides within my not-as-but-still-very-exciting, Reiser-formatted, /(root) containing, cRaZiLy not but residing alongside an encrypted partition, partition and I am having no more errors -- W00T!

Out of curiosity, what things have y'all ( ) done that seemed smart at the time, but ended up being somewhat of a disaster?

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fukawi2

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From: .vic.au

Registered: 2007-09-28

Posts: 6,233

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Re: Bad ideas that made since at the time ...

Agreeing to help family and friends with computers. In fact, working with computers in general

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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Bad ideas that made since at the time ...

There's already a fairly lengthy discussion on computing mistakes here. Let's try to keep it to that one:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=11728