On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 1:11 PM Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:51:26 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > If UUID is something you don't want to spend time learning right now, > > try using labels at least. Just make sure YOU use unique labels for > > each one. Hint. home-old, home-new works pretty well at times. At > > least you know it is home and which is old and which is new. Notes may > > help too. ;-) > > I agree on labels, they are far more readable. But I'm starting to think > that duplicating partitions like this is asking for trouble. I think it > would be better to create the partitions and filesystems you want on the > new disk, then mount both and copy everything over with rsync. That was > you won't get any conflicting UUIDs and you can set filesystem or > partition labels as you see fit. >
And correct me if I'm wrong but with rsync if something dies in process you can usually start it back up and complete the job without starting over from scratch. I've avoided this thread until now but my preferred way to accomplish what the OP set out to do was to do a very minimal install by hand, modify any make/system specific options as has been discussed earlier, build a kernel specific to the new machine, and then copy my world file and let portage do the dirty work. Takes a lot of time but the system has always been functional with few problems down the road. After all, if you run Gentoo at all you MUST WANT to build software from scratch. Why deny the fun of a complete machine rebuild? ;-) Cheers, Mark - Mark
