On Sunday 08 Dec 2013 14:41:44 Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2013-12-03 8:19 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org 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
On 2013-12-03 8:19 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org 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
On 2013-12-04 8:07 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk 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
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
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 better
On 2013-12-06 8:13 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com 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
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 11:35:29AM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2013-12-06 8:13 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com 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
On 2013-12-03 8:19 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org 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
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 directory.
On 2013-12-02 8:02 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk 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
On 2013-12-02 5:24 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au 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
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 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 3, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com wrote:
2013/12/2 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au
You are looking far too deep
just rsync -avP to /newusr
+1
I have done this more or less
2013/12/3 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com:
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com wrote:
2013/12/2 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au
You are looking far too deep
just rsync
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com wrote:
2013/12/3 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com:
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com wrote:
2013/12/2 William
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 goes.
On 2013-12-02 11:26 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu 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
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 1:47 PM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org 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
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
On 2013-12-02 2:25 PM, Poison BL. poiso...@gmail.com 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
on 12/02/2013 08:58 PM Tanstaafl wrote the following:
On 2013-12-02 1:47 PM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org 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
On 2013-12-02 2:41 PM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote:
on 12/02/2013 08:58 PM Tanstaafl wrote the following:
On 2013-12-02 1:47 PM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote:
on 12/02/2013 04:02 PM Tanstaafl wrote the following:
So, here's the plan, please check me...
1. Boot off of
On Monday 02 Dec 2013 20:40:28 Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2013-12-02 2:41 PM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org 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
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
On Mon, Dec 02 2013, tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 2013-12-02 11:26 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu 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
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,
just
2013/12/2 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au
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
On 03/12/13 12:34, Jc García wrote:
2013/12/2 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au
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 -
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com wrote:
2013/12/2 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au
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 ...
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