From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:56:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hek5hd$qa6$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911241739.47548.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
On 11/24/2009 09:39 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday 23 November 2009 20:35:34 Alan E. Davis wrote:
>> Can someone tell me what steps are necessary to move the / filesystem to
>> a new partition?
>
> Just restore your latest backup to the new partition, then edit /etc/fstab
> to specify the proper layout. Easy - I do it often.
Okay, I just can't resist asking this nosy question: Why do you need to
restore from backup "often"?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-25 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-23 20:35 [gentoo-user] Moving root filesystem to a new partition Alan E. Davis
2009-11-23 20:51 ` Alex Schuster
2009-11-23 22:51 ` Dale
2009-11-24 0:54 ` Francisco Ares
2009-11-24 2:31 ` Dale
2009-11-27 0:59 ` Alan E. Davis
2009-11-24 17:39 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-11-25 17:19 ` daid kahl
2009-11-25 20:56 ` walt [this message]
2009-11-27 11:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2009-11-29 8:26 ` daid kahl
2009-11-29 13:02 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-11-29 17:29 ` Marcus Wanner
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