Can I "lift" my install and put on a clean drive?
Over the past few years, my system (specifically my sda) has become cluttered and sda has been broken into more partitions than I need or want. When I installed Arch, it was more an experiment than anything else. I had 2 other distros on sda then. I used 2 partitions that were currently unused, even though they are not the size I'd prefer.
Is there a simple way I can "lift" my current install from sda7 (/) and sda9 (/home), wipe the drive and reinstall to sda? I'd really prefer not to have to install again from scratch and then apply all the changes I've made. I have an empty USB drive (sdc, 500 GB) and can clear my data drive over there so I could use sdb (320 GB) if necessary.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions or links to information. I searched here on "remaster" and "mklivecd" but the info I found was all old enough it may be suspect now.
Tim
trobins wrote:I'll need to pick up the install (from sda7 and sda9), copy them over to another physical drive, then, using another distro's live CD, repartition sda, and finally copy / and /home from where I stored them back to sda1 and sda5. Does that make sense?
Yes indeed it does!
trobins wrote:In your example, are "/mnt/source/" and "/mnt/target/" intended as examples, or must I first mount each partition (sda7 and sda9) inside /mnt?
Yes, they were just examples; just mount your source and target directories wherever convenient from within the system you've booted up from a live CD or flash drive, etc. So you might have something like:
# mkdir /mnt/sda7
# mkdir /mnt/sda9
# mount -t ext3 /dev/sda7 /mnt/sda7
# mount -t ext3 /dev/sda9 /mnt/sda9
# mkdir /mnt/sdc1
# mount -t ext3 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1
# mkdir /mnt/sdc1/rootdir
# mkdir /mnt/sdc1/homedir
# rsync -av --delete /mnt/sda7/ /mnt/sdc1/rootdir/
# rsync -av --delete /mnt/sda9/ /mnt/sdc1/homedir/
sort out sda partitions, reboot from live CD, create appropriate mountpoints, remount partitions, etc and finally ...
# rsync -av --delete /mnt/sdc1/rootdir/ /mnt/sda1/
# rsync -av --delete /mnt/sdc1/homedir/ /mnt/sda5/
Hope this makes sense.
Last edited by ninian (2009-07-15 22:47:50)
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