Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/04/12 22:49, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> Well, it appears we got the init thingy working. I'm about ready to >> move things around since one of my drives is about full and I need a >> spare to move things around with. I use cp -a to copy things while >> booted from a USB stick do hicky. So far, that has always worked and is >> pretty fast. I do have a question tho. >> >> When I copy this over, do I still need to copy over null, console and >> such to /dev? I know I don't need everything in /dev but do recall >> needing those in the past. Has this changed since I'm using the init >> thingy? Am I forgetting one? I thought there was three. >> >> Anything else that could be a gotcha? I plan to move this twice. Once >> to the spare drive, repartition the OS drive then copy things back over >> again. It's been a while and with LVM about to be used, I hope it is >> the last time. > > Make sure this is really what you want. If *any* of the disks in the > LVM goes bad, you lose everything, not just the data on that single disk. > > >
< dale goes to figure out a way around this one. > Thanks for that. I hadn't thought about that. If I tie two drives together, the file system spans both drives. One dies, the whole thing is broken as you say. Makes sense. < scratches chin > I think I can still make this work tho. Yea, I got a idea. It wasn't my original plan but this should work. Sure glad you mentioned that though. THANKS MUCH !!! Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
