18 Aug
2007
18 Aug
'07
6:25 p.m.
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 04:06:16PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
Ah well, so it was probably /dev/sda vs /dev/sda1 all along. Silly me.
You could always run badblocks on it with write destructive mode to double check.
[Now beginning to ponder about booting of a USB stick ...]
That can get a bit "interesting" I carry around 2 sticks as some machines won't boot off one but will the other (1 is partitioned to be a pretend usb zip disk) both act as my repair/recovery system.
Adam
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