As a learning experience and in preparation for upgrading to FC5, I just
copied my FC3 / partition to another partition. It appears to work. I'd
like to know if I've done it right, in case it just "appears" to work.
I read up on cpio and practiced with find until I had what I wanted.
I made a new LVM partition of the same size as my old one (actually, I just
resized the FC5t3 partition and filesystem, and removed all the files with
rm -rf.
I booted from the FC5 Rescue CD, and, after a couple of false starts did
this (or something very like it):
mkdir /mnt/new
mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 /mnt/new
cd /mnt/sysimage
find . -depth -noleaf -xdev -size -102400K -print0 | cpio -dumpa0 --sparse /mnt/new
# here would have been a good time to: touch /mnt/new/.autorelabel
umount /mnt/new
exit
I edited /boot/grub/grub.conf to have a stanza for my new partition
I then had trouble during booting, which I decided was from selinux, and
horsed around for a while trying to get that fixed. What was needed was to
boot from something (I used my original FC3) and touch the new
/.autorelabel, and then to boot with the kernel param enforcing=0.
The copy seems to work now.
Someone may say that I should have used dump and restore. I don't know of
any clear advantage over using cpio?
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