Changing the filesystem of my root partition..

[Bill Jonas]

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On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 12:09:00PM +0000, Steven M. Klass wrote:
> 	Anyway the question is how do I go about doing this.  My general
> 	strategy would be..
<snip>

Looks about right; you'd want to run lilo (or re-install grub) after you
restore the root partition's data.

> 	Now what about /proc and /dev?  What do I need to do to these
> 	dirs or will this strategy cover them to?

Just tarring up /dev should be enough.  Don't mess with /proc; just
don't bother backing it up.  Simply re-create it after you restore.

> Am I missing anything - I'm a bit nervous..

Well, there's a similar entry in the ZipSlack FAQ...
http://www.slackware.com/faq/do_faq.php?faq=3Dzipslack#1  (Although it
uses cp instead of tar, which I don't recommend.)

You mentioned:
>       tar -xpvf mybackup.tar.gz | (HELP)

Actually, you can do this one of two ways.  (BTW, you're missing the z
option.)

       cd /mnt/hda1; tar -xzpvf /mnt/some_other_partition/mybackup.tar.gz
or
       tar -C /mnt/hda1 -xzpvf mybackup.tar.gz

Doing this really isn't that big of a deal; you just need to understand
what you're doing and go slowly, making sure that you don't make
(disastrous) mistakes.

HTH.

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