[gentoo-user] Re: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-19 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: The bit where you use a LiveCD Well, I'll leave the old disk in place for now and just put ext4 on the new disk as /usr/local2. That way I can move from system to system and it is just going to house video files of all sorts. If ext4 messes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:56 on Friday 19 November 2010, James did opine thusly: Any good recommendations on on the Internet Traffic status? The net looks horrible here: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm Yuck, that sux. Down here at the tip of Africa, we didn't

[gentoo-user] Re: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-19 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:59 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, James did opine thusly: Hello, I have a ~250 gig sata disk I want to migrate to a 2T Sata disk. This is simple, but, I have a few caveats. [...] Now just rsync everything

[gentoo-user] Re: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-19 Thread Nuno J. Silva
nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) writes: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:59 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, James did opine thusly: Hello, I have a ~250 gig sata disk I want to migrate to a 2T Sata disk. This is simple, but, I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:55 on Friday 19 November 2010, Nuno J. Silva did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:59 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, James did opine thusly: Hello, I have a ~250 gig sata disk I want

[gentoo-user] Re: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-19 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: I hear Zac is very receptive to patches Not to worry, he'll become jaded, just like the rest of them..us I mean Problem is I have too many patches that aren't finished, just laying around. Distributed downloads for large gentoo

[gentoo-user] Re: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-18 Thread James
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: LABEL=boot/bootext2noatime1 2 LABEL=root /reiserfsdefaults0 1 LABEL=swapnoneswapsw0 0 LABEL=portage/usr/portageext3defaults0 1 LABEL=home

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-18 Thread Dale
James wrote: Dalerdalek1967at gmail.com writes: LABEL=boot/bootext2noatime1 2 LABEL=root /reiserfsdefaults0 1 LABEL=swapnoneswapsw0 0 LABEL=portage/usr/portageext3defaults0 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:14:05 -0600, Dale wrote: We all know what happens when things ain't getting fixed. They break. ;-) I'd say the opposite is true, no maintenance can be better than provocative maintenance. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 011: Window open - Do not look outside

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-18 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:14:05 -0600, Dale wrote: We all know what happens when things ain't getting fixed. They break. ;-) I'd say the opposite is true, no maintenance can be better than provocative maintenance. My thoughts were that is something breaks