On 09/29/2011 10:45 AM, Joe Wulf wrote: > Interesting thread. :) > > I would like to know a bit more about your process for booting knoppix (which > version/edition, too) and rsync'ing between the two > partitions. Thanks. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Kevin Martin <kevi...@ameritech.net> > *To:* Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > *Sent:* Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:36 AM > *Subject:* Re: I've got an interesting problem (at least to me)..... > > > > On 09/29/2011 10:27 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:57:17 -0500 > > Kevin Martin wrote: > > > >> Ooooohhhhh, didn't occur to me that that information would be dd'd! > Crud! Guess I'm off to do some partition copies! > > No need for anything that drastic. You could just do something like > > use e2label to give the partitions symbolic labels (different > > on each disk) and change fstab to use LABEL= instead of UUID=. > > I think there is even a tool that lets you change the UUID, > > but I don't remember the name or how to use it :-). > Yea, and I'll end up doing that, but the problem is that I've done some > yum installs and yum updates and, of course, reading mail, > browsing the internet, etc., and there are now new files here and there > on cross partitions that need to be good to go on, at > least, > one of the two disks. Then I can do the UUID changes and make sure that > I boot from the disk where all of the partitions are > current. I'm thinking I *may* be able to rsync partitions, copying > "newer" files back and forth (probably after booting into > Knoppix). That should do it. I'll have to think about it some more and > decide on how to do this. > > Thanks. > > Kevin > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org <mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > >
ok, so what I ultimately did was boot into Knoppix, grab a program called "meld", make it, and then "meld" the equivalent partitions (after mounting them under /media). This gave me a long diff'd list of changes on the two filesystems and then I manually picked and chose which files to move over to my "main" hard drive. I really wanted to use kdiff3 but it became a huge PITA trying to get it compiled under Knoppix. I then made sure to reset my UUID's on the secondary drive (tune2fs -U random /dev/sdb[#]) so when I rebooted I was back on only one drive for all of my mount points. Then, just for the sake of doing it, I did an "rpm --rebuilddb" and a "yum update". I only now have one problem with nouveau but I'm hoping the update fixed that. Kevin
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