On Sunday 08 Dec 2013 14:41:44 Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2013-12-03 8:19 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> > Current command I'll be using:
> >
> > rsync -avHP --numeric-ids /mnt/gentoo/oldusr/ /mnt/gentoo/usr/
>
> Well, that was about as uneventful as it gets...
>
> Took all of 6 minutes (and almost all of t
On 2013-12-03 8:19 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
Current command I'll be using:
rsync -avHP --numeric-ids /mnt/gentoo/oldusr/ /mnt/gentoo/usr/
Well, that was about as uneventful as it gets...
Took all of 6 minutes (and almost all of that was rsyncing /usr)...
Made a forum post in case anyone else wa
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 11:35:29AM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2013-12-06 8:13 AM, Bruce Hill wrote:
> > There are reasons why rsync is better than cp. The best one IMO is that
> > rysnc
> > will not copy a corrupt file, while cp will. And rsync will tell you about
> > the
> > corrupt file.
>
On 2013-12-06 8:13 AM, Bruce Hill wrote:
There are reasons why rsync is better than cp. The best one IMO is that rysnc
will not copy a corrupt file, while cp will. And rsync will tell you about the
corrupt file.
Interesting and a good reason to use rsync over cp... if true... are you
certain
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 06:07:01AM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
>
> And for the record (you didn't specifically say so), are you in
> agreement that
>
> cp -a /usr/. /usr.tmp/.
>
> will accomplish the exact same thing as the rsync command I was planning
> on using?
There are reasons why rsync is b
Le 2013-12-06 11:07, Tanstaafl wrote :
And for the record (you didn't specifically say so), are you in
agreement that
cp -a /usr/. /usr.tmp/.
will accomplish the exact same thing as the rsync command I was
planning on using?
For me, it's best to use rsync, because rsync will not copy file i
On 2013-12-04 8:07 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Wednesday 04 Dec 2013 07:28:18 Tanstaafl wrote:
I've never used the -x option with cp... what exactly is meant by 'stay
on same filesystem’?Should
"Stay on same filesystem" is for the case in which you have another partition
mounted somewhere i
On Wednesday 04 Dec 2013 07:28:18 Tanstaafl wrote:
> I've never used the -x option with cp... what exactly is meant by 'stay
> on same filesystem’?Should
"Stay on same filesystem" is for the case in which you have another partition
mounted somewhere in the tree below the current working directo
On 2013-12-03 8:19 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
Current command I'll be using:
rsync -avHP --numeric-ids /mnt/gentoo/oldusr/ /mnt/gentoo/usr/
I had initially been planning on just using cp, trying now to remember
why I decided on using rsync - I think it was someone here who said it
would be better
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Jc García wrote:
> 2013/12/3 Canek Peláez Valdés :
>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés
>> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Jc García wrote:
2013/12/2 William Kenworthy
>
> You are looking far too deep
>
>
2013/12/3 Canek Peláez Valdés :
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Jc García wrote:
>>> 2013/12/2 William Kenworthy
You are looking far too deep
just rsync -avP to /newusr
>>>
>>> +1
>>> I have done this
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Jc García wrote:
>> 2013/12/2 William Kenworthy
>>>
>>> You are looking far too deep
>>>
>>>
>>> just rsync -avP to /newusr
>>
>> +1
>> I have done this more or less the same way
>>>
>>> reboot to
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 11:06:16AM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote:
>
> mingdao@server ~ $ df -hT
>│link/ether a0:88:b4:54:33:04 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 06:47:01AM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
>
> Yeah, when it comes to servers, I'm more of a wimp than not... but being
> careful and conservative on my servers has saved me more times than I
> can count, so I'm ok with it... ;)
I have one server with separate /usr that's in LVM
On 2013-12-02 5:24 PM, William Kenworthy 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
On 2013-12-02 8:02 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 06:24:43 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
You have got the disk space, so if you have a backup its reversible so
don't be a wimp :)
It's reversible even if there is no backup, because data it copied
from /usr to /, not moved. If
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Jc García wrote:
> 2013/12/2 William Kenworthy
>>
>> You are looking far too deep
>>
>>
>> just rsync -avP to /newusr
>
> +1
> I have done this more or less the same way
>>
>> reboot to livecd
>>
>> rsync again with --delete to update ... takes a only few sec
On 03/12/13 12:34, Jc García wrote:
> 2013/12/2 William Kenworthy
>> You are looking far too deep
>>
>>
>> just rsync -avP to /newusr
> +1
> I have done this more or less the same way
>> reboot to livecd
>>
>> rsync again with --delete to update ... takes a only few seconds this
>> time - min
2013/12/2 William Kenworthy
>
> You are looking far too deep
>
>
> just rsync -avP to /newusr
+1
I have done this more or less the same way
>
> reboot to livecd
>
> rsync again with --delete to update ... takes a only few seconds this
> time - minimal downtime :)
> mv /usr /oldusr
> mv /newu
On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 06:24:43 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> You have got the disk space, so if you have a backup its reversible so
> don't be a wimp :)
It's reversible even if there is no backup, because data it copied
from /usr to /, not moved. If the new /usr doesn't work for any reason,
jus
On Mon, Dec 02 2013, tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
> On 2013-12-02 11:26 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 02 2013, tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
>>> So, here's the plan, please check me...
>>>
>>> 1. Boot off of the latest gentoo LiveDVD
>>>
>>> 2. Mount / and create new /usr dire
You are looking far too deep
just rsync -avP to /newusr
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 stand
On Monday 02 Dec 2013 20:40:28 Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2013-12-02 2:41 PM, Thanasis wrote:
> > That is why I recommend using the option --numeric-ids.
> > And using it would not hurt anyway.
>
> Right... poison pointed this out...
>
> This is why I asked for help about the arguments.
>
> I hones
On 2013-12-02 2:41 PM, Thanasis wrote:
on 12/02/2013 08:58 PM Tanstaafl wrote the following:
On 2013-12-02 1:47 PM, Thanasis wrote:
on 12/02/2013 04:02 PM Tanstaafl wrote the following:
So, here's the plan, please check me...
1. Boot off of the latest gentoo LiveDVD
If you boot a differe
on 12/02/2013 08:58 PM Tanstaafl wrote the following:
> On 2013-12-02 1:47 PM, Thanasis wrote:
>> on 12/02/2013 04:02 PM Tanstaafl wrote the following:
>>>
>>> So, here's the plan, please check me...
>>>
>>> 1. Boot off of the latest gentoo LiveDVD
>>
>> If you boot a different system to do the rs
On 2013-12-02 2:25 PM, Poison BL. wrote:
An alternative to booting to external media, etc, would be a bind
mount of / and /usr on separate temporary mount points, then dumping
the data between them, leaving the existing system chugging along. A
re-mount of the current /usr in -o ro mode might no
An alternative to booting to external media, etc, would be a bind
mount of / and /usr on separate temporary mount points, then dumping
the data between them, leaving the existing system chugging along. A
re-mount of the current /usr in -o ro mode might not be a terrible
idea in that case. I had a g
On 2013-12-02 1:47 PM, Thanasis wrote:
on 12/02/2013 04:02 PM Tanstaafl wrote the following:
So, here's the plan, please check me...
1. Boot off of the latest gentoo LiveDVD
If you boot a different system to do the rsync, or, if you do it over
ssh, add the option --numeric-ids
Thanks, but
on 12/02/2013 04:02 PM Tanstaafl wrote the following:
>
> So, here's the plan, please check me...
>
> 1. Boot off of the latest gentoo LiveDVD
If you boot a different system to do the rsync, or, if you do it over
ssh, add the option --numeric-ids
I usually do
rsync -aHvxW --numeric-ids --delete
On 2013-12-02 11:26 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
On Mon, Dec 02 2013, tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
So, here's the plan, please check me...
1. Boot off of the latest gentoo LiveDVD
2. Mount / and create new /usr directory
I am missing something. I would have thought your old / (dev/sda3
On Mon, Dec 02 2013, tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
> Is rsync -a enough for my relatively simple system setup, or would
> using any or all of the other options suggested in those threads be
> safer/better? Specifically:
>
> -a, or -axAHX, or -apogXx, or -PvasHAX
I am not an expert but here goe
Hi all,
This was discussed within a couple of threads in the last few months,
but I wanted to ask for final clarification before I go ahead with this
(yeah, I know, 'paranoia will destroy ya')...
I'm not afraid of an initramfs any more, but I've decided that I still
just really don't want on
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