Folks, At last night's meeting, I tried helping John get his system from /dev/hda3 to /dev/hda2. I think I should have told him to
cp -arf / /media/hda2 (with some sort of excludes for /proc and /media, or maybe followed by a rm -rf /media/hda2/media/hda2 /dev/hda2 is 60G, /dev/hda3 is 8GB) But instead, I told him to rsync -aHv --exclude /proc --exclude /media / /media/hda2 I think the -H screwed his system a bit, during the boot process, there's some error message related to the lrm-manager and /lib/modules/somekernelversiondir. (John, what was the message?) The exit command from that point leads to a normal boot. Well sort of. Since the -H was added, there's a hard link between some files; what we saw before we left was the same inode in the /etc/fstab in both partitions. At this point, I think the following command should work cp -arf --remove-destination (root on /dev/hda3) (root on /dev/hda2) But since I screwed up, I'd appreciate a couple more eyes checking this out. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ PDXLUG (a Portland Linux user group) mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug & #orlug
