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For the moment, Mindi v0.52 (not released yet) and Mondo v1.35 (not released yet) put everything in /usr/local/mindi and /usr/local/mondo respectively. Opinion is divided on whether the data should go in /usr/local/share, /usr/local or /usr/local/{mindi,mondo}. Personally, I think this whole discussion is extremely silly :) but I'm going to try hard to satisfy the (G-rated) needs and wants of all users. So, for the moment, everything will reside in /usr/local.

Playing devil's advocate for a moment... How does the following layout sound?

/usr/local/sbin/analyze-lvm
/usr/local/sbin/mindi
/usr/local/sbin/mondo-archive
/usr/local/sbin/mondo-checksum
/usr/local/sbin/mondo-filelistchop
/usr/local/sbin/mondo-restore
/usr/local/sbin/mondo-tarme

/usr/local/share/mindi/deplist.txt
/usr/local/share/mindi/rootfs.tgz
/usr/local/share/mindi/....

/usr/local/share/mondo/restore-scripts.tgz
/usr/local/share/mondo/....

So, the executables will be in an existing directory (/usr/local/sbin) wheras the data will be in two directories - one for Mindi, one for Mondo.

Over half of the 'bugs' in Mindi are actually side-effects of the crazy things the developers of the various distributions chose to do. If only they had adhered to _some_ standards, Mindi would have been so much simpler to write. I guess I am expected to lead by example... ;)

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On Friday 28 December 2001 09:01 am, Hugo Rabson wrote:
> VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
>
> Song for 'in progress':-
> [ ] "Just Like Music" - Eric Sermon, ft. Marvin Gaye
> [ ] "Smooth" - Carlos Santana, ft. Rob Thomas
> [ ] "The Boy Who Wouldn't How His Corn" - Union Station w/Alison Kraus
> [ X] Theme from 2001, a Space Odyssey

Write ins: 
Anvil Chorus, Carmen (Although 2001 would be a hanging chad...)
Money for Nothing, Dire Straights
Working on the Coal Mine, Devo version

>
> Song for 'failed':-
> [ ] "I Can't Make You Love Me" - Bonnie Raitt
> [ ] "Break Stuff" - Limp Bizkit
> [ X] "I Might Be Crying" - Tanita Tikaram
> [ ] "Last Resort" - Papa Roach

Adagio for Strings, Barber (Ending Theme of Platoon?)
These boots were made for walking, ?
Two divided by Zero, Pet Shop Boys
Any windows boot sound.

> Song for 'succeeded':-
> [ ] "It's Like That" - Dr Dre & Snoop Dogg
> [ X] the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's 9th Symphony
> [ ] "Nothing Heals Me (Like You Do)" - Heather Nova
> [ ] "Merry Xmas (and a Happy New Year)" - Run DMC
> ...might be called the Xmas Rap.. I forget.. Before my time.. :)
Halleluja Chorus, Handel's Massiah
I Feel Good, James Brown
Nobody Does It Better, (James Bond)
Minimum Wage, They Might Me Giants

and for local flavor / flavour...
 "Rule Britiania"

irc.redhat.com
#mondo

Lots of fun

No sexy women (or men), no sophisticated philosophical debates but you _can_ talk about Mondo with other users & figure out exactly why parameter X won't work on hardware Y.

-Hugo

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On Friday 28 December 2001 11:50 am, Hugo Rabson wrote:
> >Am I the only soul left in the universe that doesn't
> >use modular kernels?
>
> Our time has passed, my friend. It is time for us to join our friends,
> beyond the outer rim of the galaxy. It is the younger races' time now.

Ya know, with kernel module exploits becoming more and more popular and RAM 
becoming cheaper and cheaper, modules' popularity may decrease...

Nah.

-Donald

Hugo Rabson wrote:
> FYI, I've upgraded from a 750MHz Duron to a 1.7GHz Pentium IV.

You _sure_ this was an "upgrade?"  A better (and cheaper) upgrade might
have been to get a full-up Athlon with 4x the L2 cache and higher
clock.  I assume your mainboard was older and only supported the 200MHz
FSB Athlon.  Even so, they *DO* sell 200MHz FSB Athlons upto 1.4GHz as
well as the 266MHz FSB Athlons.

Everything I've seen says a 1.1GHz Athlon = 1.7GHz P4 -- especially for
compile/compression times under Linux.  Just FYI.

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Cafeole has set up #mondo on irc.redhat.com (and other servers which connect to the relevant network). It's really cool. If any Mondo users have questions, I'll be on IRC most of the weekend, editing Mondo & keeping an eye on #mondo just in case.

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Hello,
	After talking it over with Hugo, I thought it might be a neat idea to setup an irc support channel
for developers and users of Mondo Recovery. I choose to host it at OPN (Open Projects Network) because it
seems many open-souce project developement programs setup shop there.  

	To connect point your IRC client to any of the following irc servers:
		irc.redhat.com
		irc.debian.org
		irc.slackware.com
		irc.linux.com
		irc.openprojects.net
		lackey.openprojects.net

	Then once you are logged in, proceed to /join #mondo . The success of this channel depends on 
YOU, the developers off this mailing list, in addition to the users who lurk here for support. The rules
of the channel will be the same as the mailing list. You are welcome to come and idle. A channel doesn't
need to be packed with people to be considered good. Quality over quantity I say. I hope to see you all
there!

Another Happy Mondo User
//cafeole

--- "Jay S. Osborne" <jos...@cs...> wrote:
>Right after LVScan using mondo-archive, mondo dies with a self 
>pronounced "fatal error" when used with a monolithic kernel.  

Wow. Nice catch, Jay. I'll go & grep my scripts for insmods now. I can fix the bug by changing a 'Die' into a 'LogIt', I expect.

>Am I the only soul left in the universe that doesn't 
>use modular kernels?

Our time has passed, my friend. It is time for us to join our friends, beyond the outer rim of the galaxy. It is the younger races' time now.

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Gentlemen and/or ladies...

I installed the latest Mondo (Mondo 1.22 and Mindi 0.50) on a Redhat 7.2 
machine and discovered a bug/oversight/feature that I thought was worth 
mentioning.  Right after LVScan using mondo-archive, mondo dies with a self 
pronounced "fatal error" when used with a monolithic kernel.  It 
fruitlessly searches the non-existent /lib/modules/2.4.16/ directory tree 
before expiring.  After recompiling the very same kernel features except 
with modules active, it appears to work fine.

Am I the only soul left in the universe that doesn't use modular kernels?

Other than one small inconvenience, it looks good!

Jay Osborne

I am seriously thinking of adding a '--music' switch, to add MP3's or WAV files or even MID files to the backup CD. Mondo will play the songs in a loop if you include them. I still have to work out how to handle CD changes (I'm _not_ putting MP3's on the ramdisk. That's just sick. *g*)

How about one MP3 for 'in progress', one for 'alert' and one for 'complete'?

VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE 

Song for 'in progress':-
[ ] "Just Like Music" - Eric Sermon, ft. Marvin Gaye
[ ] "Smooth" - Carlos Santana, ft. Rob Thomas
[ ] "The Boy Who Wouldn't How His Corn" - Union Station w/Alison Kraus
[ ] Theme from 2001, a Space Odyssey

Song for 'failed':-
[ ] "I Can't Make You Love Me" - Bonnie Raitt
[ ] "Break Stuff" - Limp Bizkit
[ ] "I Might Be Crying" - Tanita Tikaram
[ ] "Last Resort" - Papa Roach

Song for 'succeeded':-
[ ] "It's Like That" - Dr Dre & Snoop Dogg
[ ] the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's 9th Symphony
[ ] "Nothing Heals Me (Like You Do)" - Heather Nova
[ ] "Merry Xmas (and a Happy New Year)" - Run DMC
...might be called the Xmas Rap.. I forget.. Before my time.. :)



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--- Nico De Ranter <ni...@so...> wrote:
>Any chance you could find somebody to record this :-)
>(I don't know the author unfortunately):
>
>Yesterday
>   original title - Yesterday
>   original artist - The Beatles
>
>Yesterday,
>All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
>Now my database has gone away.
>Oh I believe in yesterday.
>
>Suddenly,
>There's not half the files there used to be,
>And there's a milestone
>hanging over me
>The system crashed so suddenly.
>
>I pushed something wrong
>What it was I could not say.
>
>Now all my data's gone
>and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.
>
>Yesterday,
>The need for back-ups seemed so far away.
>I knew my data was all here to stay,
>Now I believe in yesterday.
>
>:-)
>
>Nico
>
>On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 04:59:21PM -0800, Hugo Rabson wrote:
>> FYI, I've upgraded from a 750MHz Duron to a 1.7GHz Pentium IV. It makes Mondo's test cycles a bit shorter. Unfortunately, I no longer have an excuse to watch all my old Babylon 5 tapes while Mondo does its thing.
>> 
>> You know, I was thinking about making Mondo play tunes while it restored you data - you know, something simple using the user's MIDI device. How about "Rescue Me" (The Surpemes?)... or maybe "Save Me" (Aimee Mann)... or perhaps "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" (U2)....
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Mondo v1.23 - due Jan 6th, 2002.

This will be the last planned release in the stable branch. I don't doubt some bugs will turn up eventually but I don't _plan_ to release another Mondo v1.2x after 1.23. I'll announce 1.23 on FreshMeat, Yahoo, DaveCentral, LinuxApps, etc. to get people to upgrade from 1.0x and 1.1x.

Mondo v1.22's changelist is substantial but that's because I document the bugs thoroughly, along with the bugfixes. I believe Mondo v1.22 is very stable but I'll feel more comfortable making that claim _after_ it has been exposed to several thousand users for several months. Mondo v1.24 will probably be released in early Feb, to fix the last remaining (significant) bugs in Mondo v1.2x.


Mondo v1.40 - due February 28th.

I refuse to rush this time. :) I'm not releasing v1.40 until v1.3x is as reliable as v1.2x. At the moment, IMO, v1.3x is as stable as v1.2x for most things. I have backed up and restored my system with v1.3x five times in the last 7 days.

I am having trouble with making my NTFS partition bootable but that's probably because I didn't finish installing NT4 before backing it up. Oh, and if you restore Windows 95/98/ME to a 'zeroed' hard disk then Windows thinks it has changed hardware & it starts looking for new drivers (which I don't have but again, that's not Mondo's fault). Other than that, I have suffered no data loss, the partitions were created OK (except for a weird NTFS thingy; run 'fdisk -l' to make sure it has been set to type 7, just in case) and all the data was restored OK.

In other words, the old 1.2x functions are very stable in 1.2x and 1.3x but the newer functions, e.g. --image-devs, should not be regarded as stable yet. However, I am using them on a daily basis (backup at night, start the restoration process in the morning, come home from work & pray my data is intact) and I haven't lost any data yet.

Although there are some rough edges to be sanded down, Mondo has not let me down for a while now. Technical excellence is all very well but a program that doesn't actually _work_ isn't much use. Mondo works well for most users. The battle is to make it work for more & more users.

A code review will be of little use in improving Mondo's broad support of the myriad Linux distributions. It will, however, weed out the peculiar, intermittent, obscure little bugs triggered by only a few distros. That won't benefit the majority of users but it will increase overall confidence in the product.

Mondo itself is very simple. The real fun goes on inside Mindi. Mindi is what makes Mondo work with almost any Linux distribution. Mindi needs a code review much more than Mondo does. Mindi has some really ugly stuff in its ramdisk, especially all those ugly scripts to reassemble the user's tools and libraries. I think I should check out Mindi this weekend, just to clean up some of the scripts. They _work_ but still, I don't like untidy code. Some poor sod will have to debug it one day.

Mindi

I'm not sure. I _think_ I should fork Mindi into 'devel' and 'stable' branches but frankly, it's pretty stable right now & I don't plan to add any major features in the near future, so why bother forking? If anyone has strong feelings on this then let's talk about it.



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Any chance you could find somebody to record this :-)
(I don't know the author unfortunately):

Yesterday
   original title - Yesterday
   original artist - The Beatles

Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away.
Oh I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly,
There's not half the files there used to be,
And there's a milestone
hanging over me
The system crashed so suddenly.

I pushed something wrong
What it was I could not say.

Now all my data's gone
and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.

Yesterday,
The need for back-ups seemed so far away.
I knew my data was all here to stay,
Now I believe in yesterday.

:-)

Nico

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 04:59:21PM -0800, Hugo Rabson wrote:
> FYI, I've upgraded from a 750MHz Duron to a 1.7GHz Pentium IV. It makes Mondo's test cycles a bit shorter. Unfortunately, I no longer have an excuse to watch all my old Babylon 5 tapes while Mondo does its thing.
> 
> You know, I was thinking about making Mondo play tunes while it restored you data - you know, something simple using the user's MIDI device. How about "Rescue Me" (The Surpemes?)... or maybe "Save Me" (Aimee Mann)... or perhaps "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" (U2)....
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FYI, I've upgraded from a 750MHz Duron to a 1.7GHz Pentium IV. It makes Mondo's test cycles a bit shorter. Unfortunately, I no longer have an excuse to watch all my old Babylon 5 tapes while Mondo does its thing.

You know, I was thinking about making Mondo play tunes while it restored you data - you know, something simple using the user's MIDI device. How about "Rescue Me" (The Surpemes?)... or maybe "Save Me" (Aimee Mann)... or perhaps "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" (U2)....

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well, anyway, it worked.. so thanks for the tip.. ;)

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On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote:

> Hugo Rabson wrote:
> > Groovy. :) I didn't think of that.
>
> I do it all the time to deal with wicked disk translations and whatnot.
> Just Linux's fdisk itself is a powerful tool, along with gparted as
> well.
>
> Hence why I really, really, really need to "get-on-the-ball" in creating
> a Linux-based "diagnostic partition".
>
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Hugo Rabson wrote:
> Groovy. :) I didn't think of that.

I do it all the time to deal with wicked disk translations and whatnot. 
Just Linux's fdisk itself is a powerful tool, along with gparted as
well.

Hence why I really, really, really need to "get-on-the-ball" in creating
a Linux-based "diagnostic partition".

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OK, let's try it the other way round. If I _do_ move Mondo from /usr/share to /usr/local, does anyone mind? :-)

I've had a grand total of 2 votes. One person wanted Mondo to go in /usr/local; the other wanted Mondo's executables to go in /usr/local and the data files to go in /usr/share.

Currently, Mondo goes in /usr/share. I moved it from /usr/local a year ago because Mondo users were giving me earache. I'm quite happy to move it back for the same reason. :) However, only two users - one Debian, one Red Hat (IIRC) - have complained in the last 12 months that /usr/share is not the right place either.

The FSSTND says /usr/share is the place for Mondo's data files and /usr/local/sbin is the place for its executables. At least, that is how I interpret the document.

On the one hand, I understand the need for standards and for our adherence to said standards. On the other, I have had a grand total of two votes, which makes me suspect no regular users care where Mondo lives.

So, as I said earlier, let's try it the other way round. If I _do_ move Mondo from /usr/share to /usr/local, does anyone mind?

-Hugo

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--- Bryan-TheBS-Smith <b.j...@ie...> wrote:
>Boot your SGI XFS Installer (or Mandrake if you used it) and format the
>partitions manually.

Groovy. :) I didn't think of that.




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Boot into Interactive Mode. Change /dev/hda5 from xfs format to ext2 format. Restore as usual. When asked if you have changed the mountlist, say yes. If Mondo cannot re-jig your fstab automatically then it will let you edit fstab in vi.

If you are really, really desperate to have hda5 in xfs right now, today :) then do the following, after the above and before you reboot:-

- type:-
# mount-me
# cd /mnt/RESTORING
# cp --parents -Rdf `find . | grep mk | grep xfs` /
# cd /
# unmount-me
# mkfs -t xfs /dev/hda5 ; # as a test
# cp -f /tmp/mountlist.original /tmp/mountlist.txt
# mondo-restore --nuke

For some reason, mkfs.xfs didn't make it onto the Mondo CD. Sorry about that.

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--- Jason W <ja...@mo...> wrote:
>lucky me I backed up my system with mondo, my drive crashed just before
>Christmas.. Good ole wife bought me a new one.. I whipped out my restore
>cd, booted it, it created my partitions, but barfed on the formatting..
>heres what it said
>formatting /dev/hda5 as xfs... failed
>and so on for the rest of the partitions..
>I tried to do a manual
>mkfs -t xfs /dev/hda5
>and I got "mkfs.xfs: no such file or directory"
>I cant seem to find it on the cd.. what do I do?!?! ;)
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Jason W wrote:
> lucky me I backed up my system with mondo, my drive crashed just before
> Christmas.. Good ole wife bought me a new one.. I whipped out my restore
> cd, booted it, it created my partitions, but barfed on the formatting..
> heres what it said
> formatting /dev/hda5 as xfs... failed
> and so on for the rest of the partitions..
> I tried to do a manual
> mkfs -t xfs /dev/hda5
> and I got "mkfs.xfs: no such file or directory"
> I cant seem to find it on the cd.. what do I do?!?! ;)

Boot your SGI XFS Installer (or Mandrake if you used it) and format the
partitions manually.

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lucky me I backed up my system with mondo, my drive crashed just before
Christmas.. Good ole wife bought me a new one.. I whipped out my restore
cd, booted it, it created my partitions, but barfed on the formatting..
heres what it said
formatting /dev/hda5 as xfs... failed
and so on for the rest of the partitions..
I tried to do a manual
mkfs -t xfs /dev/hda5
and I got "mkfs.xfs: no such file or directory"
I cant seem to find it on the cd.. what do I do?!?! ;)

Jason


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Hugo Rabson wrote:

> --- li...@de... wrote:
> >Prior to restore, my /boot partition was 30M in size and only
> >7.2M was used. After the restore df -h reports my /boot partition
> >to be 17M in use. du -sh reports it to be 6.2M in use.
>
> Were all the files restored correctly?
>
> Were all the files _archived_?
>
> Take a look at your filelist & see if all the files were archived. Then, take a look at your current /boot partition & see if all the files were restored.
>
> Is the partition the same size as it was before you erased and restored?
>
> Work with me here. :)
>
> >The other thing I noticed was when I booted into RH 7.2 during
> >the boot checks, it [FAILED] when it tried to turn on Process
> >Accounting (saying that accton: no such file or directory)
> >but /sbin/accton exists. Any ideas?
>
> Yes. /var/log/pacct (I think that is its name but I could be wrong) is not archived. The reason is simple: it keeps changing! :) When Mondo would try to archive it, it would keep growing and growing. At present, Mondo excludes it from the filelist by default.
>
> I suspect your Process Accounting feature wants there to be a /var/log/pacct present. Maybe '> /var/log/pacct' will solve the problem. I don't know anything abour Process Accounting. If you can find someone who does, I'll work with them to overcome the ever-growing /var/log/pacct problem.
>
> -Hugo

Well, taking your advice from the issue with drive space on the windows partition. I decided to go ahead and force an e2fsck (e2fsck -p -f -v /dev/hda2) on /boot in rescue mode (while it was unmounted of course) and it seemed to have worked. Though e2fsck for some reason removed the
journaling inode from /dev/hda2, which reverted it to ext2, a quick tune2fs -j /dev/hda2 fixed that and now df -h reports 7.2M for /boot as it did prior to the restoration.

And your right about process accounting, I realized it after I sent the email.

In short, all I had to do after blindly running mondo/mindi for the first time were disk checks on both OS's. Everything checks out and I'm glad I caught your article in linux journal (dec 2001) which was the first time I heard of your project. Keep up the great work, you have another
success story right here with me.

--- li...@de... wrote:
>Prior to restore, my /boot partition was 30M in size and only 
>7.2M was used. After the restore df -h reports my /boot partition 
>to be 17M in use. du -sh reports it to be 6.2M in use. 

Were all the files restored correctly?

Were all the files _archived_?

Take a look at your filelist & see if all the files were archived. Then, take a look at your current /boot partition & see if all the files were restored.

Is the partition the same size as it was before you erased and restored?

Work with me here. :)

>The other thing I noticed was when I booted into RH 7.2 during 
>the boot checks, it [FAILED] when it tried to turn on Process 
>Accounting (saying that accton: no such file or directory) 
>but /sbin/accton exists. Any ideas?

Yes. /var/log/pacct (I think that is its name but I could be wrong) is not archived. The reason is simple: it keeps changing! :) When Mondo would try to archive it, it would keep growing and growing. At present, Mondo excludes it from the filelist by default.

I suspect your Process Accounting feature wants there to be a /var/log/pacct present. Maybe '> /var/log/pacct' will solve the problem. I don't know anything abour Process Accounting. If you can find someone who does, I'll work with them to overcome the ever-growing /var/log/pacct problem.

-Hugo

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Hugo Rabson wrote:

> Boot into Windows. Run Scandisk. :-) That will fix the problem.
>
> -Hugo

Thanks Hugo,
    The inconsistence is freespace reported by df (and also by windows) was
resolved after I ran scandisk (which prompted me to fix some errors in
regards
to FAT. So the windows side of my system checks out fine now. However I
noticed 2 inconsistencies on the linux side of things. First off prior to
restore,
my /boot partition was 30M in size and only 7.2M was used. After the restore

df -h reports my /boot partition to be 17M in use. du -sh reports it to be
6.2M
in use. The other thing I noticed was when I booted into RH 7.2 during the
boot
checks, it [FAILED] when it tried to turn on Process Accounting (saying that

accton: no such file or directory) but /sbin/accton exists. Any ideas?

Boot into Windows. Run Scandisk. :-) That will fix the problem.

-Hugo


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--- li...@de... wrote:
>Hello,
>    I have a dual boot laptop with Windows 98 and Red Hat Linux 7.2.
>Lilo on the MBR. Mondo 1.22 / Mindi-0.50 installed.
>I followed the instruction manual to the letter. First installed the
>extra packages like afio. Then created a test cd by running ./mindi.
>Tested cd booted fine. Then created a full mondo archive. Booted and ran
>in compare mode, compared fine other than a few *.pid
>and log files. Then the ultimate test. I zapped the entire /dev/hda.
>Including its partition map and tried to restore using mondo. It
>restored fine. But I noticed a problem that I was hoping this mailing
>list can help me with.
>
>Before the system restoration:
>$ df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hda5             5.1G    3.5G   1.4G  72% /
>/dev/hda2             30M    7.2M   21M  25% /boot
>none                       30M           0   30M     0% /dev/shm
>/dev/hda1             3.9G  988M   2.9G  25% /mnt/win
>
>After the system restoration:
>$ df -h
>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hda5              5.1G  2.7G    2.2G  55% /
>/dev/hda2              30M   17M    12M  57% /boot
>none                        30M        0     30M     0% /dev/shm
>/dev/hda1              3.9G  3.6G  314M  93% /mnt/win
>
>But when I run du on them, it shows the proper values.
>$ du -sh /boot /mnt/win
>    6.2M    /boot
>1001M   /mnt/win
>
>Even if I boot into windows, it will tell me that C: is 93% full when it
>truely isn't. Has anyone noticed this sort
>of behavior before when performing a full system restore? Also if i have
>left out any other information, please
>let me know and i'll submit it.
>
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Hello,
    I have a dual boot laptop with Windows 98 and Red Hat Linux 7.2.
Lilo on the MBR. Mondo 1.22 / Mindi-0.50 installed.
I followed the instruction manual to the letter. First installed the
extra packages like afio. Then created a test cd by running ./mindi.
Tested cd booted fine. Then created a full mondo archive. Booted and ran
in compare mode, compared fine other than a few *.pid
and log files. Then the ultimate test. I zapped the entire /dev/hda.
Including its partition map and tried to restore using mondo. It
restored fine. But I noticed a problem that I was hoping this mailing
list can help me with.

Before the system restoration:
$ df -h
 Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5             5.1G    3.5G   1.4G  72% /
/dev/hda2             30M    7.2M   21M  25% /boot
none                       30M           0   30M     0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1             3.9G  988M   2.9G  25% /mnt/win

After the system restoration:
$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5              5.1G  2.7G    2.2G  55% /
/dev/hda2              30M   17M    12M  57% /boot
none                        30M        0     30M     0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1              3.9G  3.6G  314M  93% /mnt/win

But when I run du on them, it shows the proper values.
$ du -sh /boot /mnt/win
    6.2M    /boot
1001M   /mnt/win

Even if I boot into windows, it will tell me that C: is 93% full when it
truely isn't. Has anyone noticed this sort
of behavior before when performing a full system restore? Also if i have
left out any other information, please
let me know and i'll submit it.