From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hx5iG-0006Aj-4I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:31:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l59ITfD8025371; Sat, 9 Jun 2007 18:29:41 GMT Received: from vscan01.westnet.com.au (vscan01.westnet.com.au [203.10.1.131]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l59IPOVx020445 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2007 18:25:26 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 145477626B0 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:25:21 +0800 (WST) Received: from vscan01.westnet.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vscan01.westnet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24573-16 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:25:21 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.1.55] (unknown [124.149.44.124]) by vscan01.westnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6242760983 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:25:20 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition From: Tim Allingham To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20070608205245.c1424675.hilse@web.de> References: <200706081805.00549.alexey.kv@gmail.com> <200706081718.54067.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <200706081748.03919.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <1181321003.6827.3.camel@localhost> <20070608205245.c1424675.hilse@web.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-FUkBkvKjwpBR7QsTb5mY" Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:25:19 +1000 Message-Id: <1181413519.23993.2.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 X-Archives-Salt: f399ad33-03b1-40e1-80bf-70abf3e351b8 X-Archives-Hash: c965fbd1972af7dcb85ffff40e2a69cd --=-FUkBkvKjwpBR7QsTb5mY Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 20:52 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, >=20 > On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:43:23 +1000 > Tim Allingham wrote: >=20 > > I generally prefer to do this with dd, from a remote environment > >=20 > > dd if=3D/dev/ of=3D/dev/ >=20 > "Remote Environment" probably means a) read-only mounted root FS or b) > a boot into another instance, e.g. a live-CD, right? If you're talking > about just SSH'ing into the machine: That will probably cause the copy > to be broken (if the machine has / still mounted r/w), at least an fsck > would be needed. >=20 > Also, this method will also need a bigger or equally sized new > partition. If it's bigger, one also needs to resize the filesystem > afterwards. >=20 > -hwh yeah that probably wasn't the best terminology to use, I was referring to liveCD/alternate OS as opposed to remote access --=-FUkBkvKjwpBR7QsTb5mY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGavCPzDi2M4U3QqIRAsDmAJ4vFHtkbTwfHkq2Q0opwBWT90Ot0wCfZqto I9jq4dvnbIVngsHKXbu7bVs= =wN7/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-FUkBkvKjwpBR7QsTb5mY-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list