On 01/17/2010 12:40 AM, YoYo siska wrote:
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 03:21:32PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 01/15/2010 07:33 PM, Jarry wrote:
[...]
I'll just copy the instructions I have someone else here:
You can clone the existing Gentoo installation into the new partition
and boot from it. You can do this while the system is actually running.
The new partition can be anything you want (different size, different
file system). This usually means:
rsync your existing / to your target / (except /dev, /sys and /proc and
of course mount points that belong to a different filesystem, /boot or
/home for example if you're using dedicated partitions for those). If
you mounted your target / as /root/newpart, this is done with:
rsync -ax / /root/newpart
If this copied directories it shouldn't have (like /sys or /proc),
simply delete them again.
[...]
If you are doing it this way (on a running system with mounted
dev/proc/sys...), you can just bind-mount your current / to another
directory. That "copy" will not contain any "sub-mounts"
rsync -ax / /target shouldn't copy any sub-mounts either, because of the
-x option. See man rsync. I mentioned it just in case ;)
