the purefinder - archives - Sun, 2004-08-01
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clean slate phew
I have almost no data.
I formatted my hard drive and reinstalled everything - or at least everything that I could remember needing.
I've been using linux (mandrake 10.0) more or less exclusively for the last couple of months; my eventual final Windows application was Championship Manager 2003-2004 - an unsustainable time-sump.
It seemed as if some recent tinkering with partitions had failed to be welcomed and recognised by all factions and it was sensible to assume that chaos would inevitably result if action wasn't taken.
So... I had a carefully considered rush of blood to the head - this involved having a cup of tea and thinking about *all* the implications for ~five minutes before I pushed the button.
I was very tired, and quite possibly lacking rationality, but I think I've got away with it. I actually ended up wiping everything another few times, just because I could, and because I had nothing to lose - any more.
I do have good recent back-ups of what I routinely considered to be likely to be important and it will be interesting to see whether I need them or not.
I'm hoping that I've made reasonable decisions about partitions sizes and that everything should work well for a while. I haven't tackled audio applications yet, but all the other apllications that I could remember needing have been re-installed without any noticeable difficulty. I've managed to get iptables/shorewall working in a (small) fraction of the time it took for my original installation and configuration. I've really enjoyed putting it all back together and it's been a welcome confirmation that I have learned something(s) in the last couple of months when I've been playing with my penguin.
I'm going to have another cup of tea...
Posted by padraig at August 1, 2004 02:32 PM