From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D1DFE138334 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 00:00:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 144E0E0864; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 00:00:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.15.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 65618E075F for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 00:00:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([173.239.221.130]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx002 [212.227.17.184]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Ma1pn-1gCvdz0TaZ-00LnPe for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 01:59:56 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update circle To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20180822182443.18693b55@linux-0ft9> From: "Taiidan@gmx.com" Message-ID: <79e2724e-a878-f0ad-528e-3a8e81a8dfd3@gmx.com> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:01:30 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 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 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:lkJP9j+PB+1tMsYJOuQA82L4fXW3Pd1D2wDWd1o55yz0oqzjlti Zmcil1oRjCKSe1LEpTPSvh3G8+YncziARvfVVCypYx/sTptHUvlLbyQh6VUdsNtKkcntaCw iG1Z0ftCsPpz/JL8ax6YeyBGbLHGn8BpvbVOIeRYaJuJLsTafzSZkNZ+MRcibOTFdO9lJu2 LyONEfgjKXKbMd9i+XNKg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:exgjKUaQh4Y=:2NOwDdYWc/b323WVZgBWhE Fc5nuVU+cJuUthDPuGXniB7efZOJAilHOTpZhI6cQUtuGMZfjfjChA7qwLKK+/NrAsFJT45qP dVwYGuEgPPOYnRoGTadHeHTmq2WQuFYJSD5yrknFZQzHoME12HI/zefc9/gV1MGUvAzlFnacd vbHUqnttIiqCDNi74QIl+pEM7WVYOKZD0Fk4Tb13tdTDwayDGbSdv31p8YXk7BW0n1zLk3vfJ kLQ0BIp7t9pgGcIkzazU5/CEt7KCiShxRJidADjxg8AkFL5VDDze+RebWW4JgJe8IarAyzLUb v5Yk+4gV///iHK5P71nW3xQiGNSrhJ2RkDQ5gSGNRndeBKyr4NKkMbgrrywGIkYhyWHA4fPw7 sIRgu9AjyM1jYF1MJY4OXG+uwSy1YCf8HRYCZo1aNkpr94wyc1N7IJcZ+8Kg6EcuZ7OjzQJ2T 7rrO1rswTxLXXZo9c7vFK55LWlaK01jCX937Gv88VYNqfUroQ8okvq7KPmx3arZxdA6YgR0yR z0uLkWbWn4Hms8WBUCwWSVeMV+FpsdgtLTq4YJ4Gar29YxP1T9ujGEoJQVLotPpgYyzkNdxYi QhEHxPgDg2cSV5tNj6nN6vcntmB8wKw4mM4OB1ZzN0oQHocieeIZwyWo6+6hCCZONA93X96L2 RtQjRwrqR9P8UJ2X8M+Cwcdw+wdp+D1e/ZbkdJcbQ+mJdxjqhZk24HuGLKmDxf9yhhjSUBVlg huH1oQpnxI4KQDdTitLnvw/6PRpW/53g01sHGHmE471K+sOkmUeisMjDchuwcbFwG+vvGaMaS VBvWGRO X-Archives-Salt: 37533faa-b7e4-40e1-9d2c-36fba09eb934 X-Archives-Hash: 3d56a579b7e7c9a8ac98118c50bd6103 On 08/23/2018 10:27 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-08-22, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: >> I have a Gentoo machine, which has not been updated for a while. Quite >> a long while, actually. > >> It seems that I'm kind of stuck. Wiping the disk and rebuilding the >> system from scratch is absolutely not an option, the existing (and >> running) system must be updated somehow. > > Doing a reinstall will probably be far less work and less disruption > for the machines user's. You don't have to "wipe the disk" to do a > re-install. Yeah. I would suggest after the back up then you simply clone the disk and perform the re-install on another computer or in a VM so that you can fiddle with things and then just swap out the drives vs having down-time for your users potentially for days if something goes wrong on the actual server. It is what I do for situations like this and it works great.