Interesting problem.
I have approached this by taking a backup of /home and
/etc and any packages installed that are in apt's
cache.
And do the normal reinstall, reinstall packages from
apt's cache and replace new /home and /etc with backed
up one.
There should be some other more efficient way.
-J
On 9/10/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hello All,
>
> I'm having a laptop with 30GB HDD. Below is the
partition structure on my
> HDD.
>
> /dev/hda8 / ext3
errors=remount-ro 0 1
> /dev/hda6 none swap sw
0 0
> /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults
0 2
> /dev/hda5 /home ext3 defaults
0 2
> /dev/hda7 /usr/local ext3 defaults
0 2
>
> Since I'm cursed with a small hard drive my wish is
to switch to LVM.
> With that I'll be flexible to increase and decrease
my partitions as per my
> requirement.
> I have a 160 GB USB HDD. What are the
recommendations for doing something
> like replicating or imaging the present data of the
whole hard drive to the
> USB HDD (excluding /boot), create the new partition
structure on the HDD
> using LVM, and restore things back.
>
> dpkg get/set selections were in my mind. But I've
done a lot of
> configurations on my machine to my taste which I
don't want to repeat
> again.
>
> Is it doable what I'm thinking (mentioned above).
I'm a little nervous
> because its the / partition.
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> Regards,
>
> rrs
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