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Two very important things I learned today, which I'm posting here as a reminder to my future self

➠ January 17, 2006

Two very important things I learned today, which I’m posting here as a reminder to my future self

  1. gpart saves your freaking life if you somehow corrupt the partition table on a Very Important server and need to revert it.
  2. If you’re changing the partition table on a USB hard disk connected to a Very Important server, make sure you’re actually editing the table on the USB hard drive, and not the one on the RAID array that boots the Very Important server and hosts your source control, bug tracking, etc.
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Comments

On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, Charlie B commented:

Glad you got it back. There are few things worse than that sinking, stomach-turning "ohhh fuuuuuuck" feeling.

On Sunday, January 22, 2006, Rod Begbie commented:

It was worse than usual, because the partition fcukup in question was done in the middle of December. We just didn't realise it until I rebooted the server last week!

On Tuesday, February 21, 2006, Smacky Mouse commented:

According to a 17-million dollar study commissioned in 2004, and conducted at UCLA, this blog sucks ass.

About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.

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