Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition

2009-11-29 Thread daid kahl
I'm going through a transient at the moment, having more-or-less given up on trying to keep KDE-3 and not being ready for KDE-4 (or vice-versa). I've been trying a few other distros, and even Gnome (shows what a parlous state Gentoo's in; I couldn't imagine ever considering Gnome six months

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition

2009-11-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 29 November 2009 08:26:36 daid kahl wrote: I went for Xfce and have been quite happy. Things run even faster now! Yes, I'm just installing it on my home server to replace KDE. Looks quite usable now, though it wasn't a few years ago when I last tried it. This desktop might even

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition

2009-11-29 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/29/2009 8:02 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 29 November 2009 08:26:36 daid kahl wrote: I went for Xfce and have been quite happy. Things run even faster now! Yes, I'm just installing it on my home server to replace KDE. Looks quite usable now, though it wasn't a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition

2009-11-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 25 November 2009 20:56:23 walt wrote: Okay, I just can't resist asking this nosy question: Why do you need to restore from backup often? I'm going through a transient at the moment, having more-or-less given up on trying to keep KDE-3 and not being ready for KDE-4 (or

[gentoo-user] Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition

2009-11-25 Thread walt
On 11/24/2009 09:39 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 23 November 2009 20:35:34 Alan E. Davis wrote: Can someone tell me what steps are necessary to move the / filesystem to a new partition? Just restore your latest backup to the new partition, then edit /etc/fstab to specify the proper

[gentoo-user] Re: Moving root filesystem to a new partition [SOLVED]

2009-11-23 Thread Alan E. Davis
I found the email from some years ago, advising to bind mount / and copy /dev to the new partition from the bind mounted / partition. It worked again this time. Thank you again. Alan On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone tell me what steps are