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Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition
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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"?