On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 08:36:32 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > rblythe wrote: >> I have completed the LFS 6.0 book. System boots like a champ. I have >> started putting together things from BLFS. Still working smoothly. >> Before I go too much farther, I would like to know: >> >> Can my current LFS be copied to another hard drive for future build >> considerations. I am only talking about the base LFS (no other packages >> installed). Currently, my LFS is on /dev/hda4. I would like to copy it >> to /dev/sda1 because I have a SCSI drive sitting there doing nothing. >> My host disto is on /dev/hda1 with /home on /dev/hda3. The swap >> partition for LFS and host is /dev/hda2. >> >> What I am hoping to do is copy (not move) the root LFS to /dev/sda1, use >> /dev/sda2 for swap and /dev/sda3 for /home. I know I should have set my >> drive up with /dev/hda4, /dev/hda5, /dev/hda6 but I didn't realize the >> value of that when I started LFS. >> >> Anyway, can it be copied? >> >> > I find tar to be quite effective > > cd /mnt > tar cjf lfs.tar.bz2 lfs > > then unmount the partition that has lfs on it, edit /etc/fstab to mount > the blank partition in it's place and then untar lfs onto the new blank > partition > > cd /mnt > tar xjf lfs.tar.bz2
Don't forget permissions -p --preserve-permissions, or --preserve to preserve permissions and preserve order, and ya really don't need those lost+found if ya using extended filesystems --exclude=lost+found ! Don't forget to preserve your permissions. Helps to do it all verbose, too. William (Ratrophy) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
