On Sunday 07 December 2003 04:27 pm, lodger wrote: > On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 16:16:37 -0800 > > Klaus Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Got it to work. Thanks to everyone who helped me with their valuable > > advice to understand Linux a little bit more! > > Congratulations . Now how about giving us a step-by-step on how you > did it so others can learn from you. > lodger
Sorry, you are right! 1) I booted into the old system on hda3 2) I mounted hdb3 on /mnt/gentoo 3) I tarred (with flag -p) everything under /mnt/gentoo into a single file gentoo.tar, destination: spare partition hda4. 4) I created a new reiserfs on hdb3 5) I untarred everything (again with -p; don't know if this was necessary) back there. The directory structure was not exactly what I expected, everything ended up under /mnt/gentoo/mnt/gentoo, but from this point I just needed to move everything two levels up. Reboot into the new system, and that's it. What I actually did was, extracting all files from the new system into a tar file at a save place, kill the new system and reclaiming the entire space on hdb3 with mkreiserfs, and then put everything back in place. -- Best regards, Klaus -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
