Re: [gentoo-user] solved - copying entire partition to new HD
Got it to work. Thanks to everyone who helped me with their valuable advice to understand Linux a little bit more! -- Best regards, Klaus -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] solved - copying entire partition to new HD
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 -- Powered by Gentoo Linux -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] solved - copying entire partition to new HD
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. -- Best regards, Klaus -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] solved - copying entire partition to new HD
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
