Re: New with PPC soon...

[Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu>]

Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch> writes:

> I am using: rsync -arHpogDtxz -e ssh ... This preserves hardlinks,
> ownerships, permissions and timestamps and doesn't cross filesystem
> boundaries. The latter may not work with separate partitions for
> /usr and whatnot.

The -a option in rsync is the same as -rlptgoD.  So you've added -Htx.
The -Ht options definitely look good, I'll have to remember them.  But
why -x?

> This probably doesn't matter too much after a fresh install, but my
> filesystem is 8 gigs...

Well, -H will make things go more slowly.  Perhaps not a big deal
though.

> I've had to edit /etc/mtab to make mkfs.xfs believe that it can
> actually safely create the filesystem.

??  That's bizarre, /etc/mtab should have been overwritten on reboot.
Ah, I think I know why this happened.  I forgot to list two important
steps.

4½) Before you reboot using the NFS root, you need to change your
fstab on the remote computer's image to look like:

  192.168.5.76:/ / nfs defaults 0 0
  /dev/hdX /boot ext2 rw 0 2  # change X to your /boot partition
  proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
  # plus any swap partitions

7½) Change the filesystem type of / from ext2 to xfs in your new
    /mnt/etc/fstab.  Also, be sure the "options" field is just
    "defaults".  This means you need to remove errors=remount-ro or
    whatever.

Good luck!