On Mon, Dec 02 2013, tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: > On 2013-12-02 11:26 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 02 2013, tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: >>> So, here's the plan, please check me... >>> >>> 1. Boot off of the latest gentoo LiveDVD >>> >>> 2. Mount / and create new /usr directory > >> I am missing something. I would have thought your old / (dev/sda3) >> already has an empty /usr directory where you previously mounted >> /dev/vg/usr > > Hmmm... I guess you're right, although I guess I'd have realized that > as soon as I mounted / to /mnt/gentoo and did an ls... > >>> 4. Copy /oldusr to /usr > >> This suggests that your current root (dev/sda3) is big enough to >> include the previous /usr (dev/vg/usr). > > Yep, plenty of room... > > Are you saying you went through this too?
Yes I did, but did not have the room to simply stick /usr into /. Like you I had lvm. > Hopefully a few others will chime in with more on the exact rsync > arguments I should use... > > Thanks Allan... :) My pleasure. allan
