Ian Malone wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
I have this computer on /dev/sda and the new hard drive is
/dev/sdb. This F7 is all in /dev/sda6 and I want to copy /dev/sda6 to
/dev/sdb5. I tried dd but it failed I think because /dev/sdb5 is
smaller 10 GB than /dev/sda6 which is 30 GB. It ended with an error
message.
So back to cp -a but there is a hitch. I redid /sdb5 with another
ext3 file system and I can mount it to /mnt on this computer. So it
is easy to cp all from /dev/sda6 to /dev/sdb5 but, with a simple # cp
-a / /mnt it will do all that fine but then want to copy /mnt to the
new /dev/sdb5.
Does anyone know a secret that will work? I will read man cp again
:-)
I'm not 100% clear what's missing here. If /dev/sdb5 is
mounted as mount then copying the stuff to /mnt has copied
it to the file system on /dev/sdb5. Remount it as / and
you're done surely?
(Aside: I think 10GB might be a bit cramped for a Fedora
install if it's going to hold /home as well.)
All that is true but the problem was the of= was smaller than the
if=. I just checked and dd has my entire F7 copied to the new hard
drive. I just had to make the partition a small bit bigger than this
one. It is there and perfect!
So dd works fine if the partition it is going to (if=) is at least a
bye larger.
Now to have a big scotch :-)
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
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