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 1QKfzL-0006Rp-0l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 May 2011 00:12:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C5F31C005; Fri, 13 May 2011 00:10:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oysternut.exetel.com.au (oysternut-mail.exetel.com.au [58.96.1.228]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E672D1C005 for ; Fri, 13 May 2011 00:10:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 65.112.96.58.static.exetel.com.au ([58.96.112.65] helo=[192.168.14.2]) by oysternut.exetel.com.au with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QKfxA-0005UV-R4 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 May 2011 10:10:01 +1000 Message-ID: <4DCC76D7.7060305@wht.com.au> Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 08:09:59 +0800 From: Andrew Lowe Organization: Wombat High Tech User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 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] Pre OpenRC update question... References: <4DCC4A66.6000206@libertytrek.org> In-Reply-To: <4DCC4A66.6000206@libertytrek.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 095675e06f92af7651cd1efae3cd992e On 13/05/2011 5:00 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > Probably a dumb one, but... > > I have /home, /usr and /var on separate partitions... > > If I want to image my system prior to the update 'just in case' > something goes south, am I correct that all I need to worry about is /, > since /etc is located there? > > In other words, is anything on /usr or /var touched during this update? > > If you want to be reeaallyyy safe, and want an image and not a backup, grab the latest copy of SystemRescueCd, a couple of TB of usb external drive space, which is very cheap these days, and use partImage to grab a true image of your whole system. I started doing this recently and it's saved me once so far. Things "flew apart big time" for me recently, a disk failure, I rebooted into the rescue cd and hey presto, 30 minutes later, everything was good. Andrew