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Old 02-21-2008, 09:38 AM
Johan Lindquist
 
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Default Re: Moving to larger disk

So anyway, it was like, 15:54 CEST Apr 01 2005, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
Andrew Walker was all like, "Dude,

> I started playing with Gentoo on a 20 Gig hard disk and,
> unsurprisingly,


Actually it is rather surprising.

> it's run out of space! Is there any easy way of migrating my system
> over to another disk without installing from scratch?


Before you do that, make sure to clean out /usr/portage/distfiles and
/var/tmp/portage. I can't really see how you'd manage to run out of
disk unless you're stockpiling distfiles or keeping workdirs around.

If that doesn't do it, post some more info about your choice of
partitioning and the output of 'du -sk /*' and maybe someone can help
you figure out exactly where you've accumulated all that bloat.

That being said, tar, cpio and even cp -a might do for a migration.

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