Thanks for warning!
However, I reorganize my data very often, moving between dirs, renaming,
reorganising tree structure...
How will Venti cope with this?

Fopr now, I plan to put the data onto an ext2 partition for now, until I
feel the dir tree is well-designed.
I just want to mount the fossil partition and copy the data out of there.

Thanks, best,
++pac


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:23 PM, <a@9srv.net> wrote:

> // I have an  IDE HD with fossil (no venti) partition on it.
> // It contains some data precious to me.
>
> David's already provided good instructions on dealing with your
> immediate problem, but allow me to take a step back:
>
> Don't do that!
>
> Fossil, without venti, is not the stablest thing around. I would very
> strongly recommend against putting precious data on it. I've had it
> go wonky personally, and there've been plenty of similar reports
> here. In my experience, it's particularly vulnerable to unclean
> shutdown, but I've seen more difficult-to-explain issues, too.
>
> With venti, it's great: the snapshotting capabilties are very nice,
> venti's very solid, and if your fossil does get out of whack, it's trivial
> to re-initialize it from a known-good state from venti.
>
> Anthony
>
>
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