Hi All,

I'd like to pass on to you something that just recently bit me pretty good.

After just recently converting my ext2 partitions to ext3, and installing kernel 2.4.17, I figured I was pretty fat dumb and sassy.

Well, one morning, towards the end of last week, I was rebooting my box and the system gave me a VFS kernel panic. The very idea. Well, to make a long story short, in short order, I made my / partition completely unusable. So, since I wanted to relayout my disks, I just did a new install.

I did find out, though, during my troubleshooting, that I could have had, at my disposal, a rescue disk, similiar to that used in MS Windows, that provides the tools to correct just this type of problem.

So, I'm suggesting to you all, to make sure that you not only have a current boot disk at the ready, but also a rescue disk too. Now your milage may vary with model, but the commands to make these floppies in Debian are 'mkboot' and 'mkrescue'. So you'll have to find out what these command functions are called in your distro. Good luck. -mk

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