It's a Gentoo server (if that helps). I considered maybe just putting a different hard drive in the box as a slave, then partitioning it and chrooting to that drive and run my installs there, then when ready, make the new drive the primary. Is this feasible? Is there a better way? Is there a way I can do this without requiring a second drive? If need be, I am willing to just wipe my current drive and start with a new install, but this will result in approx 2 or 3 days of being down.
I used exactly that "second drive" technique for a Linux From Scratch update on a few occasions. It worked great for that. I can't see any way of using that technique without at least having spare partitions on the drive, though, since you basically need clean file systems for doing this. You might be able to pull it off without a second drive with a bit of really clever futzing around but it's probably not worth the added chance of screwing it up.
Of course, you could always get a dual opteron with a gig of ram and cut that rebuild time down to about 6 hours. :)
William Astle
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