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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next prev 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
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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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