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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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>> 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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>> 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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>> rsync -ax / /root/newpart |
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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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> 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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