“Until recently the extent of my backup efforts was to take the
occasional CD copy of my home directory and keep copies of
important files somewhere else, usually on another disk partition
or a floppy disk. All of this changed with the need to run some
Windows legacy applications. The only machine really suitable for
this work was my main workstation, a 1.2GHz Athlon machine,
multibooted with four distributions. I decided to free up the first
primary partition, which held Mandrake 9.0, and set up a Windows
partition.“I freed up the first primary partition by transferring its
contents to the seventh partition, overwriting an expendable Vector
Linux 3.0 Distribution…”
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