From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:06:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101123040642.GA11300@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201011191104.26326.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:04:26AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
> Seriously dude, this looks like a dumb scheme that gives you warm
> and fuzzies but doesn't actually accomplish anything except increased
> complexity.
I came up with this way back when I was using another distro that
didn't do "rolling upgrades" like Gentoo. As a matter of fact, on
occasion, it wouldn't do *ANY* type of upgrade, except nuke and
re-pave :(
This disk setup allowed me to...
* boot from an install CD
* manually wipe the contents of /boot, /tmp, /var. /usr, opt, /etc, etc.
* and then install the latest version from CD
...*WITHOUT* having to move my data and home directory to another disk
and repartion+reformat+restore.
It also avoided having to re-size partitions whenever my space needs
would change.
All the advantages of lvm without the "increased complexity" of lvm.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-23 4:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-17 21:59 [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels James
2010-11-17 22:24 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-18 23:47 ` Mick
2010-11-19 13:56 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2010-11-19 15:03 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-20 2:34 ` James
2010-11-19 15:55 ` Nuno J. Silva
2010-11-19 16:39 ` Nuno J. Silva
2010-11-19 17:48 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-17 22:31 ` [gentoo-user] " Florian Philipp
2010-11-18 8:48 ` Andrea Conti
2010-11-18 11:42 ` Andrea Conti
2010-11-18 4:20 ` Dale
2010-11-18 17:23 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2010-11-18 20:14 ` Dale
2010-11-18 22:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-11-18 23:20 ` Dale
2010-11-19 1:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2010-11-19 9:04 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-19 10:49 ` Marius Vaitiekunas
2010-11-19 12:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-19 14:41 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-11-19 15:04 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-19 23:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-11-19 23:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-19 10:52 ` Mick
2010-11-19 14:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-11-19 15:55 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-11-23 4:06 ` Walter Dnes [this message]
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2010-11-19 19:19 ` David W Noon
2010-11-19 22:13 ` Mick
2010-11-19 22:45 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-19 23:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-11-20 0:22 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-20 16:59 ` Mick
2010-11-20 20:46 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-21 8:44 ` Mick
2010-11-20 2:17 ` Peter Humphrey
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2010-11-20 13:26 ` David W Noon
2010-11-20 14:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-11-20 16:58 ` Arttu V.
2010-11-20 17:24 ` Mick
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