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David Munn <djmunn at bigpond.com> writes:

[Sorry but this won't really answer your question.]

> I made my Red Hat 8.0 machine crash and so had to reinstall the
> whole thing again.

This is probably one of the larger mistakes that you can make when
you're starting out with Unix at home.  If something goes wrong you'd
be better served by trying to fix it, and waiting for someone
experienced to take a look in person if you can't do it yourself.
This way you'll very likely get all your data back, *and* learn more
about how things work, because you at least watched it get fixed.

If you just wipe everything and reinstall, you lose your data---trust
me, you'll always forget to back up *something*---and you never learn
what really went wrong.

Some mistakes, like deleting /etc (I did that once) aren't really
recoverable.  But most of the common ones (breaking the X window
system, forgetting or erasing the root password, or messing up other
important config files) can be fixed fairly easily and the procedure
used even maps fairly well to other problems.
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