Moving Gentoo to another partition (same computer)

Mosor · n00b Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 15

I kindofa screwed my partition sizes, and Partition Image, for some strange reason, won't resize my Windows partition. So, all I can do is totaly wipe my HDD and repartition it. Of course, i want to preserve my current Gentoo instalation.

I was thinking of somehow 'tar'-ing my /*, burning it onto a DVD, then decompresing it on another partition and setting Grub properly. Is that all I have to do? Any other tricks I should perform, or black voodoo magic I should do before venuring into this

? Also, what tar flags to use, if I wan't to preserve everything (from owner UID/GID, mod-date, and such...)?

Ofcourse, if someone has a better idea, I'll be glad to hear it.

Thanks a lot guys.

overkll · Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:49 pm Post subject:

Probably easiest, and best in the long run to buy a new disk and transfer the data from old one to the new one. When you are done, you have a second harddrive to use to back up your system. Backups are always a good thing.

Tar and Rsync are both good tools to transfer the files. Search the forums, I've seen a bunch of posts on this subject.

HTH

bkunlimited · l33t Joined: 18 Jun 2004 Posts: 672

boot from live cd, mount all partitions of your gentoo system and then tar them using -p flag. copy the tar file to a safe place

and after repartitioning the drive do the same procedure the other way round.

Mosor · n00b Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 15

Mosor · n00b Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 15

hgerstung · Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:19 pm Post subject:

Maybe you want to check out this:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-312817-highlight-stage4.html

It describes how to create a full backup... Works nice and helps by allowing you to configure a number of directories you want to exclude.

Kind regards,
Heiko