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On Tuesday 05 June 2007, Randy Barlow wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > No need to reinstall, you just need to shuffle some stuff around. |
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> > But first, what is your setup? |
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> > Post the results of 'df -h', {pv,vg,lv}display and fdisk -l so I |
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> > can see how big etc your partitions and volumes are. Also fstab |
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> I've thought about that too, but I was wondering what would truly be |
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> easier. The dump/restore option sounds good, except that I don't |
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> have another machine with a large enough harddrive to do the job (and |
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> am a poor grad student with no cash for another HD :( ) I do, |
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> however, have another machine running a full backup of this machine |
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> using backuppc with nice compression/pooling, and so that was why my |
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> original plan was just to reinstall and then try to re-emerge |
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> everything. |
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Well, with a *full* backup on another machine, there's really no need to |
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remerge everything. That will take around 48 hours, and a full copy |
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back will take no more than say 3 hours. Boot off a LiveCD, delete and |
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redo as you need to, and copy the backup back. All the files go back in |
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their proper dirs, but on the volumes you have now newly created |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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