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On 12/04/12 22:49, Dale wrote: |
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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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> 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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Make sure this is really what you want. If *any* of the disks in the |
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LVM goes bad, you lose everything, not just the data on that single disk. |
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