[Gllug] Recovering disk space

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On 11 Dec 2006, Jason Clifford verbalised:

> For future reference print out a copy of your partition table when you 
> have a stable system.
>
> That way if you have an abortive installation you can usually recover 
> things by simply reinstating the partition table and if you cannot do so 
> you know where to point recovery tools.

This is where LVM shines. I've printed out (and burned to CD, and put
copies on all the other machines on the network) copies of my LVM
superblocks, because they're *plain text* so can be typed in by hand
and restored with vgcfgrestore in extremity :)

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 shows that he neither understands hypocrisy nor can spell.'
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