From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N7AAM-0003Lu-Ro for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:58:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 949B8E0921; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:58:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com (mail-yx0-f174.google.com [209.85.210.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12F00E0921 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:58:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe4 with SMTP id 4so2060360yxe.32 for ; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:58:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nwPY5VQsXA24iOY8C36NUYgfZG4j6xpmodTz8uQKdxs=; b=PxgKf3MXnbmbMmyzA+vtlzIUw/c8gi8wzosNiPpzqobnzoAcqPhiGL5Qp4Hp/nhigG 41SSFPBIaxzHBjko9L4BlT0wqA8xUYKdoKrHdVzZnGJJzD/7qgLDYEH7XCpypRMoPzd0 oqHRwGHVhWtgfMFEeUV4vz8o0SC9TirZnK6oI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=d8GuwjoqBcPA+b7U17gsGpU1UhICKuYopEgptNwA27uv5QIovkQcPa8LNr4MoF+ih9 QFjgkHgW8Pn47N36YMK/z61uWZ3FqQsMcdvlfAeQwC+2jhFB2Xevm/HGoUHv0w71UUCG nltuRB/XMo2soFy0RfYW7wmLvUuL6R60O3EhI= Received: by 10.90.45.11 with SMTP id s11mr12137790ags.72.1257695936332; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:58:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-92-136.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.92.136]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 8sm850690yxb.7.2009.11.08.07.58.54 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:58:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4AF6EABD.9010401@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:58:53 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091007 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "deleted inode referenced" [SOLVED] References: <20091107170519.GC4713@ca.inter.net> <1257648410.12847.68.camel@rattus> <20091108151210.GE4719@ca.inter.net> In-Reply-To: <20091108151210.GE4719@ca.inter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7633d858-76eb-47cb-924a-898986b14f89 X-Archives-Hash: 31a046abbd227853c2ec8574b9bd8d58 Philip Webb wrote: > Anyway, I've reformatted my partitions to Reiserfs without re-installing > (clever, aren't I ? -- big grin). Besides / + /home , > I have a big hangar-openspace partition I call /z ( 60 GB ), > which is useful for unpacking stuff & has /z/tmp for Emerge to use. > I created a dir /z/store3 , then did 'cp -a bin /z/store3' etc > for all the dirs in / ; next I used SystemRescue to reformat /dev/hda3 , > which is mounted as / , then 'cp -a' everything back again. > And it worked !! Similarly for /home & for /z itself (using /store6 ). > NB WARNING : if anyone else wants to do this, 'cp -a' is your friend, > but be very careful to proof-read all your commands as you do it > & use 'du' etc to check that the data really is being copied; > some of the copies take a few minutes, but they do get there. > > So far, I'm very impressed with the ASUS 1005HA & even more with Gentoo, > which is perfectly fit for this kind of job. Try a binary distro, > run into any kind of problem & what can you do ? Gentoo makes it work ! > > Now I have to resume getting X to work properly. > > cp -a is your friend. If you want to see the copy, just make it -av instead. I have used cp -av for a long time to move my Gentoo install from one drive to another. It's really simple to do with it. Just don't forget to put the boot manager on the new drive if you are moving a install. Dale :-) :-)