At 7:39 PM -0700 4/13/06, Kenneth Porter wrote: >On Friday, April 07, 2006 11:12 PM +0100 Timothy Murphy ><tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> So my query is: how exactly should one copy a Fedora system >> to another partition? > >Assuming ext2 or ext3, use dump and restore in a pipeline. cd to the >restore point, dump the raw source device, and pipe that to restore which >will drop it into the current directory (ie. the destination disk). > >Something like this (untested): > >cd /mnt/newdisk >dump 0f /dev/sda1 | restore xf - Is there anything that needs to be fixed up after? In my case (posted a couple of weeks ago), I also edited /boot/grub/grub.conf to have a stanza for the new partition, and /etc/fstab to refer to the new partition. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
