Re: [gentoo-user] Install Migration

[Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>]

On Tuesday 05 June 2007, Randy Barlow wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > No need to reinstall, you just need to shuffle some stuff around.
> > But first, what is your setup?
> >
> > Post the results of 'df -h', {pv,vg,lv}display and fdisk -l so I
> > can see how big etc your partitions and volumes are. Also fstab
>
> I've thought about that too, but I was wondering what would truly be
> easier.  The dump/restore option sounds good, except that I don't
> have another machine with a large enough harddrive to do the job (and
> am a poor grad student with no cash for another HD :( )  I do,
> however, have another machine running a full backup of this machine
> using backuppc with nice compression/pooling, and so that was why my
> original plan was just to reinstall and then try to re-emerge
> everything.

Well, with a *full* backup on another machine, there's really no need to 
remerge everything. That will take around 48 hours, and a full copy 
back will take no more than say 3 hours. Boot off a LiveCD, delete and 
redo as you need to, and copy the backup back. All the files go back in 
their proper dirs, but on the volumes you have now newly created

alan


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Alan McKinnon
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