I'm considering experimenting with other file systems, JFS in particular. I 
want to use a spare disk area and install an exact duplicate of my present 
system, which lives in ext3.

The straightforward way seems to be to copy the world file from the current 
system to the new one (after finishing a basic installation using the 
standard methods) and running "emerge -uaDvN world". Is this likely to run 
me into problems? Perhaps I should prefer "emerge -1 `cat old.world.file`?"

Another way would be just to tar up the old partition and untar it onto the 
new one, but I think I'd feel happier installing into place. Seems cleaner, 
somehow.

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Rgds
Peter Humphrey
Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93
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