http://www.advogato.org/person/jasonc/ Advogato blog for jasonc en-us mod_virgule Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:37:26 GMT Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:43:17 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/jasonc/diary.html?start=0 http://www.advogato.org/person/jasonc/diary.html?start=0 <a href="http://www.advogato.org/person/kirby/" >kirby</a>: <p> I once did something similar while installing gentoo. cfdisk orders partitions by their physical on drive layout rather than by their id, so when I did the install I misread and ended up with a 30GB swap partition and a 1GB /home. After using it as swap during the build process, there wasn't much hope for recovery. Never do an install not having slept in more than a day.