On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Jc García wrote:
> 2013/12/2 William Kenworthy
>>
>> You are looking far too deep
>>
>>
>> just rsync -avP to /newusr
>
> +1
> I have done this more or less the same way
>>
>> reboot to livecd
>>
>> rsync again with --delete to update ... takes a only few sec
On 03/12/13 12:34, Jc García wrote:
> 2013/12/2 William Kenworthy
>> You are looking far too deep
>>
>>
>> just rsync -avP to /newusr
> +1
> I have done this more or less the same way
>> reboot to livecd
>>
>> rsync again with --delete to update ... takes a only few seconds this
>> time - min
2013/12/2 William Kenworthy
>
> You are looking far too deep
>
>
> just rsync -avP to /newusr
+1
I have done this more or less the same way
>
> reboot to livecd
>
> rsync again with --delete to update ... takes a only few seconds this
> time - minimal downtime :)
> mv /usr /oldusr
> mv /newu
On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 06:24:43 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> You have got the disk space, so if you have a backup its reversible so
> don't be a wimp :)
It's reversible even if there is no backup, because data it copied
from /usr to /, not moved. If the new /usr doesn't work for any reason,
jus
On Mon, Dec 02 2013, tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
> On 2013-12-02 11:26 AM, 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 dire
You are looking far too deep
just rsync -avP to /newusr
reboot to livecd
rsync again with --delete to update ... takes a only few seconds this
time - minimal downtime :)
mv /usr /oldusr
mv /newusr /usr
reboot
The --numeric-ids is a good idea but I've made my systems consistent
with the stand
On Monday 02 Dec 2013 20:40:28 Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2013-12-02 2:41 PM, Thanasis wrote:
> > That is why I recommend using the option --numeric-ids.
> > And using it would not hurt anyway.
>
> Right... poison pointed this out...
>
> This is why I asked for help about the arguments.
>
> I hones
On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 22:24:35 +0200
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> emerge -avuND world
/me slaps forehead.
Of course. :(
>
> Why 5.16.1? that is the lowest version that is ~arch; your next sync
> and update is going to want to upgrade it anyway.
Ah, well, I'm not running ~arch anywhere and so not sur
On 2013-12-02 2:41 PM, Thanasis wrote:
on 12/02/2013 08:58 PM Tanstaafl wrote the following:
On 2013-12-02 1:47 PM, Thanasis wrote:
on 12/02/2013 04:02 PM Tanstaafl wrote the following:
So, here's the plan, please check me...
1. Boot off of the latest gentoo LiveDVD
If you boot a differe
On 02/12/2013 19:41, Michael Higgins wrote:
> Hey, all --
>
> I have two systems, one of which got perl 5.16.1, somehow. My other
> system is still at perl 5.12... and I'm having a heck of a time trying
> to upgrade that system to 5.16.1.
>
> Is there some trick that I should recall?
>
> This i
on 12/02/2013 08:58 PM Tanstaafl wrote the following:
> On 2013-12-02 1:47 PM, Thanasis wrote:
>> on 12/02/2013 04:02 PM Tanstaafl wrote the following:
>>>
>>> So, here's the plan, please check me...
>>>
>>> 1. Boot off of the latest gentoo LiveDVD
>>
>> If you boot a different system to do the rs
On 2013-12-02 2:25 PM, Poison BL. wrote:
An alternative to booting to external media, etc, would be a bind
mount of / and /usr on separate temporary mount points, then dumping
the data between them, leaving the existing system chugging along. A
re-mount of the current /usr in -o ro mode might no
An alternative to booting to external media, etc, would be a bind
mount of / and /usr on separate temporary mount points, then dumping
the data between them, leaving the existing system chugging along. A
re-mount of the current /usr in -o ro mode might not be a terrible
idea in that case. I had a g
has anyone maybe already written ebuilds for brickd and brickv for
accessing tinkerforge hardware?
http://www.tinkerforge.com/en/doc/index.html#software
I managed to get brickd running here but so far no success with brickv.
Planning to run that with Nagios ...
Greets, Stefan
On 2013-12-02 1:47 PM, Thanasis wrote:
on 12/02/2013 04:02 PM Tanstaafl wrote the following:
So, here's the plan, please check me...
1. Boot off of the latest gentoo LiveDVD
If you boot a different system to do the rsync, or, if you do it over
ssh, add the option --numeric-ids
Thanks, but
on 12/02/2013 04:02 PM Tanstaafl wrote the following:
>
> So, here's the plan, please check me...
>
> 1. Boot off of the latest gentoo LiveDVD
If you boot a different system to do the rsync, or, if you do it over
ssh, add the option --numeric-ids
I usually do
rsync -aHvxW --numeric-ids --delete
Hey, all --
I have two systems, one of which got perl 5.16.1, somehow. My other
system is still at perl 5.12... and I'm having a heck of a time trying
to upgrade that system to 5.16.1.
Is there some trick that I should recall?
This is what I tried:
USE="-build" emerge -v =dev-lang/perl-5.16.1
On 2013-12-02 11:26 AM, 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
On Mon, Dec 02 2013, tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
> Is rsync -a enough for my relatively simple system setup, or would
> using any or all of the other options suggested in those threads be
> safer/better? Specifically:
>
> -a, or -axAHX, or -apogXx, or -PvasHAX
I am not an expert but here goe
Hi all,
This was discussed within a couple of threads in the last few months,
but I wanted to ask for final clarification before I go ahead with this
(yeah, I know, 'paranoia will destroy ya')...
I'm not afraid of an initramfs any more, but I've decided that I still
just really don't want on
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