On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:42:38 +0000, Mark Farmer <farmorg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi list > > A bit of an odd one this but I seem to be good at finding the odd ones :-) > > I have a box running FC3 on raid 1 across my 2 hdd's. > The raid is a bit overkill really & I have decided that I would like > to reclaim my 2nd hdd, so..... > I am currently copying my entire filesystem to a backup location on a > server, the plan being to boot something like a knoppix cd, > repartition my hda, copy my filesystem back to it, modify fstab and > reboot it from the single disk. For the record and in case anyone else is crazy enough to want to do this, it actually worked! (with a little bit of tweaking.) I did a minimal install of FC3 before booting the Knoppix cd so that /sys & /dev were in place ready to go (no need to copy them to & fro, although I did back them up). Only problems I had were: 1. Had problems copying /var back, it kept halting & I had to rm -rf /var/spool/postfix/private; rm -f /var/spool/up2date/*.rpm && *.hdr; rm -f /var/something/repackage/*.rpm 2. Had to reinstall postfix. 3. Couldn't log back into Gnome, so I switched to KDE, no big deal & I could probably fix Gnome now that I have kde running but can't be bothered :-) I think that's it. -- Mark Farmer RHCT Registered Linux User 353158 farmorg@xxxxxxxxx
