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A nice script to do that is mkstage4.sh. I've been using it to backup |
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my system for a while now, and it seems to work fine. <grin> Granted I |
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haven't borked things up badly enough to require a re-installation in a |
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while. I'll attach it here, so you can take a look and modify it for |
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your uses. |
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Hope it helps. |
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On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 12:00 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> I'm considering experimenting with other file systems, JFS in particular. I |
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> want to use a spare disk area and install an exact duplicate of my present |
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> system, which lives in ext3. |
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> |
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> The straightforward way seems to be to copy the world file from the current |
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> system to the new one (after finishing a basic installation using the |
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> standard methods) and running "emerge -uaDvN world". Is this likely to run |
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> me into problems? Perhaps I should prefer "emerge -1 `cat old.world.file`?" |
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> |
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> Another way would be just to tar up the old partition and untar it onto the |
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> new one, but I think I'd feel happier installing into place. Seems cleaner, |
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> somehow. |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Rgds |
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> Peter Humphrey |
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> Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 |
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