On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 17:10 -0700, JD wrote: > If you dd partition A on drive 1 to partition B from drive 2, and the > size of partition B is > LARGER that partition A, then the size of the FILESYSTEM on partition B > will be identical to size of partition A. In other words, the filesystem > superblock will retain the info about the size that it occupied on > partition A - and thus you will not be able to take advantage of the > full size of partition B. > If B is bigger than A, then you need to do something different: > Boot any Linux System Rescue CD, and DO NOT ALLOW IT TO MOUNT ANY LINUX > SYSTEM IT FINDS. > That is important. > After you have fdisk'ed your partitions on the new drive, > and mkfs'ed the correct filesystems on those partitions: > 1. mkdir -p /disk1/part1 /disk1/part2 ...etc > 2. mount these partitions. i.e. > mount /dev/sda1 /disk1/part1; mount /dev/sda2 /disk1/part2 > 3. mkdir -p /disk2/part1 /disk2/part2 ....etc > 4. mount these partitions. i.e. > mount /dev/sdb1 /disk2/part1; mount /dev/sdb2 /disk2/part2 > 5. cd /disk1/part1 > 6. tar cf - . | tar -C /disk2/part1 -xpf - > > similarly repeat steps 5 and 6 for part2, part3, ...etc; i.e. > cd /disk1/part2 > tar cf - . | tar -C /disk2/part2 > > As far as swap partitions (I asume you created them on disk 2: > mkswap /dev/sdbX where X is the number of the swap partition. > > Good luck Or you could just use gparted ! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
