On 09/29/2011 10:45 AM, Joe Wulf wrote:
Interesting thread.*
I would like to know a bit more about your process
for booting knoppix (which version/edition, too) and
rsync'ing between the two* partitions.* Thanks.
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Re: I've got an interesting problem (at least to
me).....
On 09/29/2011 10:27 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:57:17 -0500
> Kevin Martin wrote:
>
>> Ooooohhhhh, didn't occur to me that that
information would be dd'd!* Crud!* * Guess I'm off to do
some partition copies!
> No need for anything that drastic. You could just
do something like
> use e2label to give the partitions symbolic labels
(different
> on each disk) and change fstab to use LABEL=
instead of UUID=.
> I think there is even a tool that lets you change
the UUID,
> but I don't remember the name or how to use it :-).
Yea, and I'll end up doing that, but the problem is that
I've done some yum installs and yum updates and, of
course, reading mail,
browsing the internet, etc., and there are now new files
here and there on cross partitions that need to be good
to go on, at least,
one of the two disks.* Then I can do the UUID changes
and make sure that I boot from the disk where all of the
partitions are
current.* I'm thinking I *may* be able to rsync
partitions, copying "newer" files back and forth
(probably after booting into
Knoppix).* That should do it.* I'll have to think about
it some more and decide on how to do this.
Thanks.
Kevin
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ok, so what I ultimately did was boot into Knoppix, grab a program
called "meld", make it, and then "meld" the equivalent partitions
(after mounting them under /media).* This gave me a long diff'd list
of changes on the two filesystems and then I manually picked and
chose which files to move over to my "main" hard drive.* I really
wanted to use kdiff3 but it became a huge PITA trying to get it
compiled under Knoppix.* I then made sure to reset my UUID's on the
secondary drive (tune2fs -U random /dev/sdb[#]) so when I rebooted I
was back on only one drive for all of my mount points.* Then, just
for the sake of doing it, I did an "rpm --rebuilddb" and a "yum
update".** I only now have one problem with nouveau but I'm hoping
the update fixed that.
Kevin
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I've got an interesting problem (at least to me).....
