From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IcorG-0003wy-Df for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:00:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l92KoMAR027595; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:50:22 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l92KjsWG022470 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:45:54 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD8264F3D for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:45:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.561 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.561 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.039, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id atPTMnb+y0bZ for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:45:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from uni12mr.unity.ncsu.edu (uni12mr.unity.ncsu.edu [152.1.1.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 537B5650BC for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:45:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [152.14.96.9] (mho.ece.ncsu.edu [152.14.96.9]) by uni12mr.unity.ncsu.edu (8.13.7/8.13.8/Nv5.2006.1109) with ESMTP id l92KjNJU015832 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:45:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4702ADE3.5040105@electronsweatshop.com> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:45:23 -0400 From: Randy Barlow User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070718) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Migrating a system Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.3.310218, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.2.313940, Antispam-Data: 2007.10.2.132229 X-Archives-Salt: 6231333c-d215-4687-a8e2-2368f74675f3 X-Archives-Hash: b27bc6e4a52c04647fc7c32f2dae4f1b 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list