At Sat, 3 Oct 2009 08:54:28 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> > There are *probably* two file systems: /boot on a regular partition
> > (probably the first partition on the hard drive) and / on
> > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00. You'll have to look at /etc/fstab closely.
> > There might be more than two file systems -- eg /home, etc. on its own
> > file system.
> >
> > It should be possible to boot into single user mode. In single user
> > mode it won't even try to bring up the network and won't have DNS
> > issues. When grub starts, hit the 'Any Key' and then edit (e) the
> > boot
> > command and add 'single' to the end of the kernel line and boot that.
> > The advantage of booting the native O/S (in single user mode) is that
> > you will see exactly what the file system layout is, instead of having
> > to poke around and possibly miss something important.
>
> OK, I booted into single user mode and when starting up I see that it
> says /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 has two volumes.
>
> it the checks /boot and I am at sh-3.00#
>
> in /etc/fstab I see:
> /dev/VolGroup00-LogVol00 / ext3 [snip]
> Label=/boot /boot ext3 [snip]
> none /dev/pts
> none /dev/shm
> none /proc
> none /sys
> /dev/VolGroup00-LogVol01 swap
> /dev/hda /media/cdrecorder
> /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdisk
>
> So if I understand this I can just go after / doing rsync -av?
Mostly. What you *really* should do is:
create two directories on the target disk (actually more if you are using
this disk for all of the machines):
mkdir -vp /media/usbdisk/machine1/root /media/usbdisk/machine1/boot
Then copy the two file systems:
rsync -avx /boot/ /media/usbdisk/machine1/boot/
rsync -avx / /media/usbdisk/machine1/root/
One the second machine, use 'machine2' instead of 'machine1', similarly
for third, fourth, and fifth machines.
You don't need to worry about /dev/VolGroup00-LogVol01 -- this is the
swap partition.
>
> Thank you for the help thus far!
>
> -Jason
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