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back-up database in Linux partition from windows partition!!

Hello I am in a very embarrassing situation, I was trying to upgrade to ubuntu 10.04 from ubuntu 9.10 yesterday and while updating I forgot to put my laptop on charger and the battery ran out. Since we know that there is no track back process in linux, all I get now is a blank terminal screen at the start up. Even if I login, I still am ...

can i apply mysql partition on this table ?

Hello all I have this table CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `posts` ( `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, `thread_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, `forum_id` tinyint(5) unsigned NOT NULL, `cat_id` tinyint(3) unsigned NOT NULL, `message` mediumtext collate utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL, `userid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, `...