[Wylug-discuss] Up rating my filling system

[Darren Menachem Drapkin]

Thank you all for warning me about the possibility of loosing data and 
the need to backup data when you are modifying a filling system. I am 
especially grateful for your doubts about its advisability. GPT/LVM/LUKS 
is something that I may consider on my next PC a few years down the line.


On 04/26/2017 10:52 AM, John Robert Hudson wrote:
> HI Darren
>
> Back up /home plus mysql if you use it; save any personal settings you 
> have made in /etc.; reinstall; copy back your existing filing system 
> and data (you will mostly have to do this selectively, not forgetting 
> relevant hidden files but it is not too tedious).
>
> John
>
> On 26/04/17 10:04, Darren Menachem Drapkin via Wylug-discuss wrote:
>> I posted this on Disqus a few days ago to no effect. I am asking this 
>> here, where it is more likely to receive an answer
>>
>>> I have a computer that I use for most of my work. It runs Slackware. 
>>> To make it simple, years ago, when I first installed it, I used MBR 
>>> and reiserfs for the filling system. Since then, I have descovered 
>>> that LUKS provides encripted partitions, and LVM provides re-sizable 
>>> ones. I have also found that they also are more in-tune with the 
>>> linux electric than MBR.
>>> What I want to know is, whether there is a way to go from MBR to GPT 
>>> with LUKS and LVM and keep my exsisting filling system and data intact?
>>
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Darren Menachem Drapkin