Resize/create partition; what to backup? filesystem?

nabla² · Apprentice Joined: 17 May 2005 Posts: 280

Hi,

I want to change my partitions a bit. Therefore, I want to backup some of my files which I want to copy back after changing the partitions and then I want to do a emerge --emptytree world and everything should be as now. Any idea what I have to backup or what is the best way to do it? I suppose /etc would be a good idea, /boot as well. Where is the portage stuff?

My partitons at the end (hopefully

):
swap
/
/boot
/var
/tmp
/usr/portage
/home

any recommondation for the file systems? So far I have them all reiserfs except /boot, which is ext2. How to tweak them to get better performance? I tried to search but there where too many threads about file systems which where not what I wanted.

Thx
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balarsen · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:10 pm Post subject:

Hello, I read your post and remembered a wiki howto that I ran across that I think will answer the question as you are basicly doing a reinstall.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/Reinstall_Gentoo_keeping_your_old_configuration

nabla² · Apprentice Joined: 17 May 2005 Posts: 280

Thank you, now I know what is important. The installation sub-forum is probably the place to ask for the file systems...
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