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kramer2718
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 Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:42 pm Post subject: Repartitioning drive [solved] |
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Hi, all.
I'm running Gentoo on a drive that's overly partitioned. I was going to dual boot Windows on one partition of that drive, but for some strange reason, Windows refused to be installed there (thw Windows CD won't detect my hardware when that drive is attached).
Anyway, long story short, I have Windows on a different drive now and would like to repartition the drive where Gentoo lives.
My question is, what's the best way to go about doing this?
I was just going to create one directory for each partition in said second drive and copy each partition to its directory, do the repartitioning and then boot the LiveCD to copy the files back. Is there any reason that this won't work? Would it be better to create isos on my other drive? Is there anything that I should be careful of?
Thanks.
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NeddySeagoon
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kramer2718,
Be careful of the pesudo filesystems, /dev/ /proc and /sys - don't copy them
Be sure to preserve permissions. cp -a should do that as will tar with the -p option.
Perhaps you should just distrubute Gentoo around the partitions you have ?
Having /home seperate is useful. All your user data goes there
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | kramer2718,
Perhaps you should just distrubute Gentoo around the partitions you have ?
Having /home seperate is useful. All your user data goes there |
Much easier to do this than repartition and do all the copying
I have
/usr
/home
/media
on separate partitions.
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kramer2718
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| Frodg wrote: | | NeddySeagoon wrote: | kramer2718,
Perhaps you should just distrubute Gentoo around the partitions you have ?
Having /home seperate is useful. All your user data goes there |
Much easier to do this than repartition and do all the copying
I have
/usr
/home
/media
on separate partitions. |
Hmm. Maybe so. I do already have a seperate partition for /home and /boot. The two hard drives where Gentoo doesn't live already house media. I guess that I could use a seperate partition for /var/tmp, and I had two partitions reserved for Windows on the drive where Gentoo lives. I'll think about it. Even if I don't do the repartitioning, my system is working pretty nice now so I think that I'll back up my partitions using tar as suggested.
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kramer2718
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Thanks. Yeah mkstage4 is pretty nice. I modified it so that it tells me what files are going into the backup. I'll not repartition, but I'm going to have to think about my scheme.
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