Jeffrey Ross wrote: > Now comes the fun part, you need to move your data to the new > partition. Although I've read where you can shrink the partition and > convert to a raid volume, I decided against that. > > I used dump/restore using the command: > > dump -0 -b 1024 -f - /dev/sdaX | restore -rf - I've tried the shrink method in the past without problems (I think you have read my own description of the needed steps). In other cases, I just copied the files (you get a free defrag too). I'd trust cp, "tar c|tar x", rsync (all with powerful "copy everything" options), but I would be a little worried about dump/restore (in any case I usually work on reiserfs, so dump/restore is not an option). Dump is considered a bad choice by Linus himself; read this: http://lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3 (a few years ago, but the words are quite strong) Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
