=== On Sun, 01/17, Neil Bothwick wrote: === > Or you could simply use the -x option with rsync. But copying an in > use filesystem is a bad idea, better to boot from a live CD and do > the job there. If you want to minimise downtime, ===
I recently did something like this. I did use the 10th anniversary live DVD, but copied to USB stick, to perform it. :-) I like that so far, thanks guys. The "cp -a" on the mount points worked well, also. The tricky part for me was that the original (source) disk was once a pair in a RAID 1 array, with LVM. The other member failed. So you also have to start the array on the original in degraded mode and also rename the LVM volume group name. In the end it Gentoo live DVD is a handy tool. If you keep in on USB stick you can also update it and add new files, like Gentoo quick install guide. ;-) -- Keith Dart -- -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Keith Dart <[email protected]> public key: ID: 19017044 <http://www.dartworks.biz/> =====================================================================
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