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On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 1:11 PM Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:51:26 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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> > If UUID is something you don't want to spend time learning right now, |
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> > try using labels at least. Just make sure YOU use unique labels for |
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> > each one. Hint. home-old, home-new works pretty well at times. At |
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> > least you know it is home and which is old and which is new. Notes may |
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> > help too. ;-) |
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> I agree on labels, they are far more readable. But I'm starting to think |
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> that duplicating partitions like this is asking for trouble. I think it |
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> would be better to create the partitions and filesystems you want on the |
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> new disk, then mount both and copy everything over with rsync. That was |
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> you won't get any conflicting UUIDs and you can set filesystem or |
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> partition labels as you see fit. |
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And correct me if I'm wrong but with rsync if something dies in process |
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you can usually start it back up and complete the job without starting over |
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from scratch. |
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I've avoided this thread until now but my preferred way to accomplish |
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what the OP set out to do was to do a very minimal install by hand, modify |
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any make/system specific options as has been discussed earlier, build a |
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kernel specific to the new machine, and then copy my world file and let |
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portage do the dirty work. Takes a lot of time but the system has always |
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been functional with few problems down the road. |
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After all, if you run Gentoo at all you MUST WANT to build software |
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from scratch. Why deny the fun of a complete machine rebuild? ;-) |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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- Mark |
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