On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:59:57 +0200, Johan Lindquist wrote:

> 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.


Thanks, that's freed about 10 Gig!
As I may migrate anyway, I need to do a backup. Can you recommend an easy
(i.e GUI) backup tool? I want to backup to another ext3 disk but I'm
worried that using tar files in a terminal may be beyond me!
Ideally I want a package that will easily backup my system through a GUI
and if my x-server fails can be restored via a terminal.
By the way, is there a way of making tar files corruption proof, I've
used par tools with windows in the past in case the tar file becomes
corrupted. Also is there a file size limit to ext3, I backed up to a
fat32 file system once and as the tar file was over 4Gig I lost the
entire backup!