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On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 08:48:21AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 01/17/2010 12:40 AM, YoYo siska wrote: |
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>> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 03:21:32PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>> On 01/15/2010 07:33 PM, Jarry wrote: |
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>>> [...] |
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>>> I'll just copy the instructions I have someone else here: |
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>>> |
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>>> You can clone the existing Gentoo installation into the new partition |
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>>> and boot from it. You can do this while the system is actually running. |
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>>> The new partition can be anything you want (different size, different |
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>>> file system). This usually means: |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>>> rsync your existing / to your target / (except /dev, /sys and /proc and |
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>>> of course mount points that belong to a different filesystem, /boot or |
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>>> /home for example if you're using dedicated partitions for those). If |
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>>> you mounted your target / as /root/newpart, this is done with: |
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>>> |
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>>> rsync -ax / /root/newpart |
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>>> |
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>>> If this copied directories it shouldn't have (like /sys or /proc), |
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>>> simply delete them again. |
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>>> [...] |
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>> |
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>> If you are doing it this way (on a running system with mounted |
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>> dev/proc/sys...), you can just bind-mount your current / to another |
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>> directory. That "copy" will not contain any "sub-mounts" |
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> rsync -ax / /target shouldn't copy any sub-mounts either, because of the |
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> -x option. See man rsync. I mentioned it just in case ;) |
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yes, but it will miss any files "hidden" under those mounts, though |
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normally that menas only /dev/, the others are empty... |
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and i like it more, because it makes a more "exact" copy ;) |
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yoyo |
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