Re: [flalug] backup drive

From: perrin (perrin@apotheon.com)
Date: Wed Dec 10 2003 - 02:42:39 EST


> I had created the emulated hard drive too small, and it was filling up.
> Just for the record, 4 GB seems large enough for Windows 2000, if you
> install your applications elsewhere. It's the kind of hard drive
> emulation that doesn't actually write a chunk of file until that piece of
> emulated hard drive is written to, so the files total 2.8 GB and growing.
> Odd, Windows thinks there are 3.7 GB on that disk. Time to cull the
> disk...

That was instructive.

> Yes it is, but it's moot anyhow, because when operating locally, Ghost
> only works when you reboot from a special floppy. Can't reboot or go
> single-user (renooting is a scripting nightmare, and cron doesn't run in
> runlevel 1).

Good point. Other imaging software might not require a reboot, though.
Just a thought.

> Two atoms are walking along. Suddenly, one stops. The other says,
> "What's wrong?" "I've lost an electron." "Are you sure?" "I'm positive!"

Hah! That's great.

I love your signature quotes.

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