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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:24:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706110824.35214.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070608205245.c1424675.hilse@web.de>

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On Friday 08 June 2007 19:52, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:43:23 +1000
>
> Tim Allingham <deserted@westnet.com.au> wrote:
> > I generally prefer to do this with dd, from a remote environment
> >
> > dd if=/dev/<source partition> of=/dev/<destination partition>
>
> "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.
>
> 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.

How do you resize the fs? I was never comfortable trying this at home... but I 
have a feeling I might need to use it sooner or later.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-11  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-08 15:05 [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition Aleksey Kunitskiy
2007-06-08 15:18 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-06-08 15:48   ` Alan McKinnon
2007-06-08 15:59     ` Albert Hopkins
2007-06-08 16:21       ` Aleksey Kunitskiy
2007-06-08 16:43     ` Tim Allingham
2007-06-08 18:52       ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-06-09 18:25         ` Tim Allingham
2007-06-11  7:24         ` Mick [this message]
2007-06-11  8:58           ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-06-11 15:18             ` Randy Barlow
2007-06-11 14:54               ` Alan McKinnon
2007-06-11 15:00               ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-06-08 22:38     ` Dale
     [not found]   ` <200706081839.07324.alexey.kv@gmail.com>
2007-06-08 15:59     ` Mauro Faccenda
2007-06-08 15:54 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-06-08 16:01   ` Mauro Faccenda
2007-06-08 18:09     ` Benno Schulenberg
2007-06-08 16:25 ` [gentoo-user] " Remy Blank
2007-06-09  8:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Vladimir Rusinov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-08 16:40 burlingk
2007-06-08 16:52 burlingk
2007-06-09  0:01 jamesc
2007-06-09  0:25 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-06-09  8:14   ` Florian Philipp
2007-06-09  0:18 jamesc
2007-06-09  0:43 jamesc

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