Roberto Ragusa wrote:
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.
I've read the arguments here's the rebuttal to the 2001 message:
http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html
