Karl Larsen wrote:
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!
Sorry, I meant in reference to 'cp -a'. Bob Chiodini has pointed
out the -x option would be useful too.
So dd works fine if the partition it is going to (if=) is at least a
bye larger.
Typo for 'of='? It should work if they're the same size (since the
same partition information will be appropriate). That's the case in
which it will work best. As others have said dd can move the fs to a
larger partition but you'll have to adjust the fs to match if you want
to make use of the full size.
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imalone
