Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating a system

2007-10-03 Thread Randy Barlow
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: tar --atime-preserve --same-owner --numeric-owner -Spvcjf back.tar.bz2 / Is it really necessary to back up /sys and /proc? What about /dev? Also, to Björn, I didn't find a -a option in man tar, what does it do? Is it different that --atime-preserve? Thanks! -- Randy

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating a system

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Randy Barlow schrieb: Is it really necessary to back up /sys and /proc? What about /dev? I don't think it is necessary but it will consume almost no disk space so I don't worry. Also, to Björn, I didn't find a -a option in man tar, what does it do? Didn't find this option too! Is it

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating a system

2007-10-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Daniel Pielmeier, Is it really necessary to back up /sys and /proc? What about /dev? I don't think it is necessary but it will consume almost no disk space so I don't worry. /proc/kcore can get rather large. You are not only using the disk space when backing up, but when restoring

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating a system

2007-10-03 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Randy Barlow schrieb: Is it really necessary to back up /sys and /proc? What about /dev? I don't think it is necessary but it will consume almost no disk space so I don't worry. Also, to Björn, I didn't find a -a option in man tar,

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating a system

2007-10-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:45:23 -0400 Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I was an idiot when I set up my system and didn't use LVM. Now that I'm out of disk space on one of my drives and kicking myself, I want to do it without doing a reinstall. If I use tar -cvjpf

[gentoo-user] Migrating a system

2007-10-02 Thread Randy Barlow
So I was an idiot when I set up my system and didn't use LVM. Now that I'm out of disk space on one of my drives and kicking myself, I want to do it without doing a reinstall. If I use tar -cvjpf oldSystemThatShouldStillWorkWhenUnTarred.tar.bz2 /, then setup LVM, then tar all that junk back

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating a system

2007-10-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Randy Barlow schrieb: So I was an idiot when I set up my system and didn't use LVM. Now that I'm out of disk space on one of my drives and kicking myself, I want to do it without doing a reinstall. If I use tar -cvjpf oldSystemThatShouldStillWorkWhenUnTarred.tar.bz2 /, then setup LVM, then

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating a system

2007-10-02 Thread Björn Ottervik
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 16:45 -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: So I was an idiot when I set up my system and didn't use LVM. Now that I'm out of disk space on one of my drives and kicking myself, I want to do it without doing a reinstall. If I use tar -cvjpf