On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 08:48:21AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/17/2010 12:40 AM, YoYo siska wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 03:21:32PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> On 01/15/2010 07:33 PM, Jarry wrote: >>> [...] >>> I'll just copy the instructions I have someone else here: >>> >>> You can clone the existing Gentoo installation into the new partition >>> and boot from it. You can do this while the system is actually running. >>> The new partition can be anything you want (different size, different >>> file system). This usually means: >>> >>> >>> rsync your existing / to your target / (except /dev, /sys and /proc and >>> of course mount points that belong to a different filesystem, /boot or >>> /home for example if you're using dedicated partitions for those). If >>> you mounted your target / as /root/newpart, this is done with: >>> >>> rsync -ax / /root/newpart >>> >>> If this copied directories it shouldn't have (like /sys or /proc), >>> simply delete them again. >>> [...] >> >> If you are doing it this way (on a running system with mounted >> dev/proc/sys...), you can just bind-mount your current / to another >> directory. That "copy" will not contain any "sub-mounts" > > rsync -ax / /target shouldn't copy any sub-mounts either, because of the > -x option. See man rsync. I mentioned it just in case ;) > yes, but it will miss any files "hidden" under those mounts, though normally that menas only /dev/, the others are empty... and i like it more, because it makes a more "exact" copy ;)
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