From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HvbW4-00020Y-Tz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:04:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l55G2p0H001592; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 16:02:51 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l55Fv6Ta024649 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:57:07 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52CE983448 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 18:08:02 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OgC9JhcfCC4K for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 18:07:56 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id E009F83445 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 18:07:56 +0200 (SAST) Received: from nazgul.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.68]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:58:52 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Install Migration Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 18:00:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <4664899A.1080803@electronsweatshop.com> <200706050933.28819.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <46654F0F.2060801@electronsweatshop.com> In-Reply-To: <46654F0F.2060801@electronsweatshop.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706051800.07424.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Jun 2007 15:58:52.0624 (UTC) FILETIME=[69D4FD00:01C7A78A] X-Archives-Salt: 4defbca8-9010-43f0-bc7b-e09a8e45d3da X-Archives-Hash: 9bec33a6b73a9371d8b2b21cbe14a024 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 -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list