On 2013-12-02 5:24 PM, William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
You are looking far too deep ....
just rsync -avP to /newusr
But this would not copy the hardlinks... and there are a bunch on /usr,
so...
reboot to livecd
rsync again with --delete to update ... takes a only few seconds this
time - minimal downtime:)
mv /usr /oldusr
mv /newusr /usr
reboot
The --numeric-ids is a good idea but I've made my systems consistent
with the standard gentoo id's so that's no longer a problem.
Ok, so, last questions...
When mounting /, do I need to specify the fstype and mount option
showing in fstab, ie:
mount -t ext3 -o noatime /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo/
Then when mounting the old /usr, since it is reiserfs:
mount -t reiserfs -o noatime /dev/vg/usr /mnt/gentoo/oldusr
Last - are there any concerns about the fact that /usr is currently on a
reiserfs file system, moving to an ext3 filesystem?
Current command I'll be using:
rsync -avHP --numeric-ids /mnt/gentoo/oldusr/ /mnt/gentoo/usr/
Thanks again,
Charles
