From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to move ext4 partition
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:03:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230921000320.21a67d04@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uefo5t$tm7$1@ciao.gmane.io>
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On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 21:28:29 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> > you may as well then restore from that backup. I'm sure it will be a
> > lot quicker than GParted's moving all the data around.
>
> That depends on how long it takes me to decide on tar vs. rsync and
> what the appropriate options are. After 40 years using Unix, you'd
> think I'd know that (or have it written down somewhere). :)
If you written everything down, after 40 years you'd have so many bits of
paper you wouldn't be able to find anything ;-)
> That said, I think I will go with the backup, repartition, restore
> method. It's been many, many years since I used GParted, and I can
> probably have the whole job done from the command-line before I can
> figure out how the GParted GUI works.
:)
--
Neil Bothwick
The facts, although interesting, are usually irrelevant.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-20 23:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-20 20:24 [gentoo-user] How to move ext4 partition Grant Edwards
2023-09-20 21:16 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-09-20 21:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2023-09-20 21:57 ` Victor Ivanov
2023-09-20 22:12 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-09-20 23:03 ` Grant Edwards
2023-09-21 9:20 ` Victor Ivanov
2023-09-20 22:58 ` Grant Edwards
2023-09-21 9:32 ` Victor Ivanov
2023-09-21 20:23 ` Grant Edwards
2023-09-21 21:39 ` Jack
2023-09-21 22:17 ` Grant Edwards
2023-09-20 23:03 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2023-09-20 21:37 ` [gentoo-user] " Wol
2023-09-20 22:39 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2023-09-22 6:48 ` Wols Lists
2023-09-23 12:16 ` Håkon Alstadheim
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