On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:42:38 +0000, Mark Farmer <farmorg(a)gmail.com> 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.
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Mark Farmer RHCT
Registered Linux User 353158
farmorg(a)gmail.com