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Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Am 12.04.2012 21:49, schrieb Dale: |
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>> Howdy, |
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>> Well, it appears we got the init thingy working. I'm about ready to |
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>> move things around since one of my drives is about full and I need a |
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>> spare to move things around with. I use cp -a to copy things while |
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>> booted from a USB stick do hicky. So far, that has always worked and is |
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>> pretty fast. I do have a question tho. |
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>> When I copy this over, do I still need to copy over null, console and |
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>> such to /dev? I know I don't need everything in /dev but do recall |
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>> needing those in the past. Has this changed since I'm using the init |
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>> thingy? Am I forgetting one? I thought there was three. |
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> So, you are not just moving /usr /var and /home but also the rest of |
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> root? In that case it is best to do something like |
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> mount --bind / /mnt/real_root |
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> cp -a /mnt/real_root/* /mnt/new_root |
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> mount --bind binds only the root file system, not any other or temporary |
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> file systems mounted on top of it (like udev, /dev/pts, etc.). That |
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> allows you to copy your static /dev file system (as created by untaring |
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> the stage3). |
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>> Anything else that could be a gotcha? I plan to move this twice. Once |
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>> to the spare drive, repartition the OS drive then copy things back over |
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>> again. It's been a while and with LVM about to be used, I hope it is |
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>> the last time. |
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>> Thanks. |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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Right now I have this: |
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/ |
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/boot |
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/home |
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/usr/portage |
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/var |
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I'm going to make a backup of /home before I do anything. Just in case. |
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I also plan to unmount my drive with the videos too. |
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Good idea. May give this a try. See what all I can break here in a |
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bit. lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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-- |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or |
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how you interpreted my words! |
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Miss the compile output? Hint: |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |
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