At 9:02 PM -0500 3/30/06, Tony Nelson wrote:
>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
Bah.
edit (with vi) /mnt/new/fstab to refer to LogVol02
> # 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
(using cream, a version of vim with menus. gedit couldn't save it.)
>
>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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