I have not followed entire thread... but did anybody check out the mini-howto on disk upgrades?
This is what I used last time I had to change/copy a gentoo disk. -rdg On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 21:03, Klaus Neumann wrote: > On Sunday 07 December 2003 04:27 pm, lodger wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 16:16:37 -0800 > > > > Klaus Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Got it to work. Thanks to everyone who helped me with their valuable > > > advice to understand Linux a little bit more! > > > > Congratulations . Now how about giving us a step-by-step on how you > > did it so others can learn from you. > > lodger > > Sorry, you are right! > > 1) I booted into the old system on hda3 > 2) I mounted hdb3 on /mnt/gentoo > 3) I tarred (with flag -p) everything under /mnt/gentoo into a single file > gentoo.tar, destination: spare partition hda4. > 4) I created a new reiserfs on hdb3 > 5) I untarred everything (again with -p; don't know if this was necessary) > back there. > > The directory structure was not exactly what I expected, everything ended up > under /mnt/gentoo/mnt/gentoo, but from this point I just needed to move > everything two levels up. Reboot into the new system, and that's it. > > What I actually did was, extracting all files from the new system into a tar > file at a save place, kill the new system and reclaiming the entire space on > hdb3 with mkreiserfs, and then put everything back in place. -- It is vital to remember that information is not knowledge; that knowledge is not wisdom; and that wisdom is not foresight. - Arthur C Clarke -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
