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