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Hi, |
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:44:31 +0000 Sathish Vasudevaiah |
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<svholla@××××.net> wrote: |
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> On the mythtv machine there is a spare partition |
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> created for testing. I am thinking of the following |
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> approach |
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> - create all the binary packages |
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> - NFS mount the spare partition |
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> - install the binary packages and boot up with |
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> the spare partition for testing. |
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> |
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> This should leave the mythtv system with a working |
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> setup all the time. In this case, how do I bootstrap |
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> the spare partition ? Should I start with the gentoo |
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> livecd or do a 'dd' from the working partition to the |
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> spare one ? |
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Hm, if you can afford to switch to single user and remount root ro (or |
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have dm-snapshot), dd would work. If you have write activity on the |
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partition to be copied, you'll rather get an inconsistent FS. |
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Personally, I prefer to just create a filesystem and copy everything |
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using "cp -vax / /targetmount". |
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-hwh |
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