Hi All,
I am thinking of migrating my system disk (/usr etc..) to a bigger one
Any ways of how to do that withuot doing a fresh install...
May be its similar to how people may want to clone a system
And more important is that my portage state needs to be remembered so
that i can update later
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 08:38 -0700, Kumar Golap wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am thinking of migrating my system disk (/usr etc..) to a bigger one
>
> Any ways of how to do that withuot doing a fresh install...
>
> May be its similar to how people may want to clone a system
>
> And more important is
I'm not sure what you mean by "system disk," but it is fairly easy to
move /usr to a new partition, if that's what you mean. If you want to move
your entire "/" (root directory) to a new partition (or partitions), it's a
bit more complicated but is fairly similar to the steps below.
For my exa
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 15:01, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 08:38 -0700, Kumar Golap wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am thinking of migrating my system disk (/usr etc..) to a bigger one
> >
> > Any ways of how to do that withuot doing a fresh install...
> >
> > May be its similar to how
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 12:10 -0800, Adam Collins wrote:
> 8) Delete the data from the original /usr directory:
> # mount --bind / /mnt
> # cd /mnt
> # rm -rf * <-- careful with this!
> # cd /
> # umount /mnt
>
> From here, you can run "df -h" to show your filesystem usage. That's
> it.
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Kumar Golap wrote:
| Hi All,
|
| I am thinking of migrating my system disk (/usr etc..) to a bigger one
|
| Any ways of how to do that withuot doing a fresh install...
|
| May be its similar to how people may want to clone a system
|
| And more import
On Saturday 05 February 2005 02:01 pm, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 08:38 -0700, Kumar Golap wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am thinking of migrating my system disk (/usr etc..) to a bigger
> > one
For future systems, you might check out LVM/EVMS. Either would allow
Nick Rout wrote:
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 08:38 -0700, Kumar Golap wrote:
Hi All,
I am thinking of migrating my system disk (/usr etc..) to a bigger one
Any ways of how to do that withuot doing a fresh install...
May be its similar to how people may want to clone a system
And more important is that
I knew there was a reason I put that note of caution there! Obviously I
didn't test it out... yes, you are correct that would indeed delete
everything from the old root partition. It should be this instead:
# cd /mnt/usr
On Saturday 05 February 2005 12:25 pm, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-0
Read the follwoing note:
http://sentinelsecurity.net/whitepapers/diskcloning.pdf
I used this to clone all the partitions on one harddrive and copy them to
another, including the boot partition. Easy and it works.
Kevin.
On Saturday 5 February 2005 20:01, Nick Rout wrote:
>On Sat, 2005-02-05
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:25:05 +, Kevin Philp wrote:
> http://sentinelsecurity.net/whitepapers/diskcloning.pdf
>
> I used this to clone all the partitions on one harddrive and copy them
> to another, including the boot partition. Easy and it works.
The main problem with this approach is that
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