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The Partition Manager One of the quickest ways for the novice Linux user to get into trouble is to attempt to run Linux FDISK. FDISK has poor if
nonexistent boundary checking, is hard to understand, and allows the user to create configurations which are quite useless.
RecoverEDGE
has its own partition manager which makes it quite easy to make partition changes, fully understands extended partition concepts, and does sanity checking to prevent all but the very determined from creating unusable partition tables. If you administer systems with multiple Linux flavors, having a standard partition interface during recovery can greatly simplify matters.
Simply placing The Filesystem Manager
RecoverEDGE automatically detects all filesystems and swap partitions. It fully supports the ext2 filesystem type, and handles other filesystem types gracefully. RecoverEDGE
allows filesystems parameters to be modified. Instead of just running "mke2fs" to re-create a filesystem with the default parameters, RecoverEDGE
uses the same ones that existed on the original system unless you change them from its built-in popup menu. This way, if you have a filesystem that is optimized for many small files (e.g., a news server), you won't find yourself with lots of wasted space.
Error checking is also included in the Filesystem Manager. For example, if you attempt to locate the /boot filesystem on a partition that extends beyond the 1024-cylinder BIOS limit, RecoverEDGE
will produce a warning message, and allow you to remedy the situation. RecoverEDGE also understands swap partitions, and is capable of initializing them during recovery automatically. The Drive Mapper RecoverEDGE remembers how your system was configured when it was working properly. During recovery, it re-examines your system hardware because you don't always want to restore to the same drive configuration), and "maps" the old hardware configuration onto the new one. Normally, this is a simple and automatic process. However, if you would like to add or remove drives during recovery, RecoverEDGE makes it simple. In addition to using the menu interface to partition and
add filesystems, you may also copy the configuration of a pre-existing drive, with automatic adjustments for size differences. For example, if you would like to switch from an IDE drive to a SCSI one, you could
instruct RecoverEDGE to restore all filesystems that used to exist on the IDE drive onto the SCSI drive during recovery. Further, your |
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