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Hard Drive Crash

• Posted by Ryan Finnie on August 20, 2006, 6:38 pm

Article posted on Aug 20

Over the weekend, humorbot, the main x86 development machine for Finnix, suffered a hard drive crash. Thankfully, the crash wasn’t absolute, and I was able to mount the dev partition read-only and copy/verify the last generated dev ISO snapshot. (All snapshots are GPG-signed, which in times like this helped make sure there was no corruption on that particular file.) This, combined with a full backup made on the 2nd, meant that thankfully no development work was lost.

• Posted in Finnix, Miscellany