Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving the system from one disk to another

2010-04-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:01:28 +0100, Mick wrote: > > You can also substantially reduce downtime by first rsyncing while the > > system is running (using either -x or bind mounts). That will give a > > slightly inconsistent root, so you then repeat the process from a > > live CD (using --delete with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving the system from one disk to another

2010-04-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:34:27 -0700, walt wrote: > My instinct is to use dd to duplicate the entire old disk to the new > (unformatted) disk and then use gparted to twiddle it from there. (But > I do love a puzzle ;o) This works but has a some disadvantages. First, it is very slow. Then you copy a

[gentoo-user] Re: Moving the system from one disk to another

2010-04-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 05/04/2010 02:34, walt wrote: On 04/04/2010 01:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:35:11 +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: Whichever way you go about it, ensure that no pseudo-filesystem or bind mounts are present within "/mnt/oldrootfs" at the time. Use the -x option with rsync t

[gentoo-user] Re: Moving the system from one disk to another

2010-04-04 Thread walt
On 04/04/2010 01:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:35:11 +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: Whichever way you go about it, ensure that no pseudo-filesystem or bind mounts are present within "/mnt/oldrootfs" at the time. Use the -x option with rsync to stop it descending into other fi

[gentoo-user] Re: Moving the system from one disk to another

2010-04-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 05/04/2010 00:51, Kacper Kopczyński wrote: Dnia 2010-04-04, o godz. 21:04:03 Neil Bothwick napisał(a): On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:35:11 +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: Whichever way you go about it, ensure that no pseudo-filesystem or bind mounts are present within "/mnt/oldrootfs" at the time.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving the system from one disk to another

2010-04-04 Thread Kacper Kopczyński
Dnia 2010-04-04, o godz. 21:04:03 Neil Bothwick napisał(a): > On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:35:11 +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: > > > Whichever way you go about it, ensure that no pseudo-filesystem or > > bind mounts are present within "/mnt/oldrootfs" at the time. > > Use the -x option with rsync to sto

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving the system from one disk to another

2010-04-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:35:11 +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: > Whichever way you go about it, ensure that no pseudo-filesystem or bind > mounts are present within "/mnt/oldrootfs" at the time. Use the -x option with rsync to stop it descending into other filesystems. -- Neil Bothwick Did you hear

[gentoo-user] Re: Moving the system from one disk to another

2010-04-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/04/2010 20:05, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I have to move my whole system from one disk to another bigger one. I think of doing as follows: Boot a system via CD/DVD (knoppix for example). Mount small disk read-only Mount bigger disk read-write cd into mountpoint of the first one cp -