Mogens Kjaer wrote: > Boot in rescue mode, don't mount the partitions automatically. > > When you get a command prompt, do like this: > > cd /mnt > mkdir old new > > Mount your old partitions under old: > > mount /dev/hda1 old > mount /dev/hda2 old/usr > mount /dev/hda3 old/usr/share > mount /dev/hda4 old/usr/local > mount /dev/hda5 old/boot > etc. > > Of course you'll have to replace hda[1-5] with the right > names. > > Create the new file system on the empty partition: > > mke2fs -j -L/ -O dir_index,sparse_super /dev/yournewpartition > > mount it: > > dev /dev/yournewpartition /mnt/new > > cd /mnt/old > tar cf - .|(cd /mnt/new; tar xpf -) That's a very good idea - copy the system when it is not running. I'll try that. (I'll use Knoppix, as the FC-4 rescue CD did not run on this SCSI-only system for some reason.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
