Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 12.04.2012 21:49, schrieb Dale: >> 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. >> > > So, you are not just moving /usr /var and /home but also the rest of > root? In that case it is best to do something like > mount --bind / /mnt/real_root > cp -a /mnt/real_root/* /mnt/new_root > > mount --bind binds only the root file system, not any other or temporary > file systems mounted on top of it (like udev, /dev/pts, etc.). That > allows you to copy your static /dev file system (as created by untaring > the stage3). > >> 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. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> > >
Right now I have this: / /boot /home /usr/portage /var I'm going to make a backup of /home before I do anything. Just in case. I also plan to unmount my drive with the videos too. Good idea. May give this a try. See what all I can break here in a bit. lol 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"
