On 16/5/2011, at 11:47am, Tanstaafl wrote:
> ...
> On that note - I think I asked this a few months ago - I'm assuming I
> could continue using the old baselayout for a while, if I wanted,
> emerging updates (skipping the baselayout/OpenRC updates) for a while,
> without any problems, right?
I do
Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2011-05-16 7:38 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:47:59AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
On that note - I think I asked this a few months ago - I'm assuming I
could continue using the old baselayout for a while, if I wanted,
emerging updates (skipping th
On 2011-05-16 7:38 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:47:59AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> On that note - I think I asked this a few months ago - I'm assuming I
>> could continue using the old baselayout for a while, if I wanted,
>> emerging updates (skipping the baselayout/OpenRC
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:47:59AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On last question/confirmation -
>
> There are a few updates other than just the baselayout/OpenRC updates
> pending... can I still emerge those now, prior to the baselayout update,
> like normal?
Yes, as long as they do not have a depen
On 2011-05-12 5:46 PM, Dale wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> Apparently, though unproven, at 23:00 on Thursday 12 May 2011,
>> Tanstaafl did opine thusly:
>>> If I want to image my system prior to the update 'just in case'
>>> something goes south, am I correct that all I need to worry about is /,
On Fri, 13 May 2011 22:47:43 -0400, Andrey Moshbear wrote:
> > Is the bs=2M important? Should one use the block size of the drive?
> Speed improvement.
> If you're doing a backup of a rather large disk, I duggest piping to
> bzip2 or gzip. Unless the free space is random padding, even the
> sli
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Andrey Moshbear wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 18:35, Mick wrote:
>> On Friday 13 May 2011 20:11:01 James Wall wrote:
>>>
>>> Another tool which will work well is dd.
>>> as an example to back up my laptop before experimenting with new
>>> distros, I do dd if=/d
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 18:35, Mick wrote:
> On Friday 13 May 2011 20:11:01 James Wall wrote:
>>
>> Another tool which will work well is dd.
>> as an example to back up my laptop before experimenting with new
>> distros, I do dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/backup/jalopy.img bs=2M to back
>> up the drive f
On Friday 13 May 2011 20:11:01 James Wall wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> > On 13/05/2011 5:00 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> >> Probably a dumb one, but...
> >>
> >> I have /home, /usr and /var on separate partitions...
> >>
> >> If I want to image my system prior to the
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> On 13/05/2011 5:00 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
>>
>> Probably a dumb one, but...
>>
>> I have /home, /usr and /var on separate partitions...
>>
>> If I want to image my system prior to the update 'just in case'
>> something goes south, am I correct th
On 13/05/2011 5:00 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
Probably a dumb one, but...
I have /home, /usr and /var on separate partitions...
If I want to image my system prior to the update 'just in case'
something goes south, am I correct that all I need to worry about is /,
since /etc is located there?
In othe
Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:00 on Thursday 12 May 2011, Tanstaafl did
opine thusly:
Probably a dumb one, but...
I have /home, /usr and /var on separate partitions...
If I want to image my system prior to the update 'just in case'
something goes south, am I corr
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:00 on Thursday 12 May 2011, Tanstaafl did
opine thusly:
> Probably a dumb one, but...
>
> I have /home, /usr and /var on separate partitions...
>
> If I want to image my system prior to the update 'just in case'
> something goes south, am I correct that all I
Probably a dumb one, but...
I have /home, /usr and /var on separate partitions...
If I want to image my system prior to the update 'just in case'
something goes south, am I correct that all I need to worry about is /,
since /etc is located there?
In other words, is anything on /usr or /var touch
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