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| From | Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: painted into a corner |
| Date | 2018-08-20 07:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <woKBX-2bk-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <woBS1-5eS-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 03:40:55PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > I just installed stretch to a fresh 2T HD. letting it autopartition and > format for separate /, swap, /var and /home partitions. But I didn't let > it overwrite the grub on the 1st drive it was/is booting wheezy from. > > I figured I'd mount it to wheezy and copy over my personal stuff, like an > email corpus well over 15GB reaching back to 2002. > > But I can't mount much of the drive, / is all that will actually mount, > because the 2 versions of ext4 are incompatible, nearly all the mount > and e2tools can't touch the installers ext4 file systems. > > For instance, its not mounted: > gene@coyote:~$ e2fsck /dev/sdb8 > e2fsck 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012) > /dev/sdb8 has unsupported feature(s): metadata_csum > e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck! > > And of course whats installed to wheezy is the latest available wheezy > version of e2fsck. > > Whats the recommended way to do these mounts so I can maintain as much > continuity as possible? I have a few versions of /etc/ backed up - most of what I ever need in a new install (physical or VM) is in there. The rest is somewhere in /home - but when installing clean after skipping a version of Debian, I prefer to move ~/.config/ to a backup location, before logging in the first time, then just customize till I get things reasonably the way I like - and I can always grep through my old .config just in case... So apart from a little command line mounting of old stuff occasionally, but in the new system, I always boot into my new system. SO, re your grub setup - and since you're now in your old install - you might configure old grub to know about the new install, and update grub to the HDD accordingly. In fact, I would also install a grub that recognizes all my installs, to BOTH HDDs! That way you can always boot into something. Other than that, as soon as I can start working in my new install, the better as far as I'm concerned. As a mountpoint, perhaps /media/wheezy for mounting your old root, or vice versa? Good luck,
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painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-19 21:50 +0200
Re: painted into a corner john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-08-19 22:40 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2018-08-19 23:20 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 00:00 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2018-08-20 14:30 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 16:30 +0200
Re: painted into a corner David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-19 23:40 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 03:10 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-20 20:00 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-08-20 20:10 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-08-20 20:00 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 22:50 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-21 01:50 +0200
Re: painted into a corner David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-21 02:20 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-21 03:20 +0200
Re: painted into a corner David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-08-20 06:20 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-20 07:10 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-20 15:40 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 16:40 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-20 17:20 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 22:30 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-20 23:10 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-21 02:00 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-21 03:20 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-21 03:30 +0200
Re: painted into a corner David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-21 02:10 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-21 03:30 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2018-08-21 03:40 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-08-21 14:40 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2018-08-20 17:30 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 22:30 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-21 03:20 +0200
Re: painted into a corner David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-21 19:40 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-22 00:40 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-22 00:40 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-22 02:30 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-22 03:10 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-22 04:00 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-22 04:30 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-08-22 04:10 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-22 04:30 +0200
Re: painted into a corner David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-08-22 05:10 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-22 05:30 +0200
Re: painted into a corner David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-08-23 03:20 +0200
Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-23 06:10 +0200
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