I've got an interesting problem (at least to me).....

[Joe Wulf]

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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>From: Kevin Martin <kevintm at ameritech.net>
>To: Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:36 AM
>Subject: Re: I've got an interesting problem (at least to me).....
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>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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