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GNU/Linux is MAGICAL

Saturday, December 8, 2012 by Lazeez SMS Collection

I'm not saying this as mere words but I am saying this on the basis of my personal experiences with it.
One day while working on my RedHat 8.0 I decided to repartition my harddisk in order to utilise every available bit on my harddisk much more efficiently. But as I was having only a single HDD(Hard Disk Drive) from Samsung of 40GB I decided to leave my /home partition intact in order to preserve my data. I also decided to make a separate partition for my /home/rishi/General folder. After partitioning when the installation program started formatting my partitions I got shocked on seeing that it's also formatting my /home/rishi/General partition. After performing the whole installation when I viewed my /home/rishi/General folder which was a partition at that moment, lightening striked me. It was empty with only trash & lost+found folders. I had lost all my data in a couple of minutes. As Murphy has defined that you loose your data when you are not having any Backup for it. I didn't tried any utility software & managed to survive without the data that I had lost.

After about two months I decided again to repartition my HDD & this time I deleted my /home/rishi/General partition & also left my /home partition intact to preserve the data in my /home partition. After performing the whole installation procedure when I logged onto my machine & viewed my /home/rishi folder there was still a folder named General in it. When I clicked it I was surprised to see all my data back, YA all my data that I had lost in the previous partitioning is now back as it was earlier before & without a single bit changed. First I was unable to believe my eyes but finally realised that it's all true.

So what you will call this? You can call whatever you like but for me right now it's GNULinux's MAGIC & it will remain a magic for me even after when I will understand the basic concept behind whole this. Ask yourself honestly that how many OSs you know that can perform a magic like this, without any utility software.

Now let us ponder a while to see that how & why actually this all happened.
Partitioning first time I didn't deleted the /home/rishi/General folder.
Also I instructed the partitioning program to preserve my data on the /home partition.
Moreover, I created a new partition from free area of the hard disk that was not a part of the /home area.
So after installing the whole system when I viewed my /home/rishi/General folder I was actually seeeing a newly created partition that is mounted as /home/rishi/General.
The partitioning program should have told me that I was not going to get the contents of my /home/rishi/General folder after the whole process although I have selected to preserve the contents of my /home partition, but unfortunately it didn't.
So when I repartitioned my hard disk & removed my /home/rishi/General partition the system saw intelligently that I am having some data in the form of a folder named General in /home/rishi as I have again choosed to preserve data and what it did is that it recreated a folder named /home/rishi/General & removed the mountpoint /home/rishi/General.
Although it may seem to be a simple thing but getting your lost data after about 2 months in a form it was there before is rightly to be called a MAGIC.

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