[gentoo-user] Migrating a system

[Randy Barlow]

So I was an idiot when I set up my system and didn't use LVM.  Now that 
I'm out of disk space on one of my drives and kicking myself, I want to 
do it without doing a reinstall.  If I use tar -cvjpf 
oldSystemThatShouldStillWorkWhenUnTarred.tar.bz2 /, then setup LVM, then 
tar all that junk back to the new system via tar -xvpf 
oldSystemThatShouldStillWorkWhenUnTarred.tar.bz2 with / as my working 
directory, should that do the trick (with, of course, another go at 
grub-install)?  Is the -p flag to tar enough to store ALL the necessary 
file system information?  I just want to make sure I'm not forgetting 
anything...

P.S.  And I'll have to build LVM support into the kernel too...
R
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