At Sat, 3 Oct 2009 08:54:28 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/