From: Randy Barlow <randy@electronsweatshop.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Migrating a system
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:45:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4702ADE3.5040105@electronsweatshop.com> (raw)
So I was an idiot when I set up my system and didn't use LVM. Now that
I'm out of disk space on one of my drives and kicking myself, I want to
do it without doing a reinstall. If I use tar -cvjpf
oldSystemThatShouldStillWorkWhenUnTarred.tar.bz2 /, then setup LVM, then
tar all that junk back to the new system via tar -xvpf
oldSystemThatShouldStillWorkWhenUnTarred.tar.bz2 with / as my working
directory, should that do the trick (with, of course, another go at
grub-install)? Is the -p flag to tar enough to store ALL the necessary
file system information? I just want to make sure I'm not forgetting
anything...
P.S. And I'll have to build LVM support into the kernel too...
R
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-02 20:45 Randy Barlow [this message]
2007-10-02 21:39 ` [gentoo-user] Migrating a system Daniel Pielmeier
2007-10-03 5:59 ` Randy Barlow
2007-10-03 6:14 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2007-10-03 7:27 ` Mick
2007-10-03 7:41 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-10-02 23:03 ` Björn Ottervik
2007-10-03 17:47 ` Dan Farrell
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