Resizing partitions and copying data with dd
Mike Wooding
timmywooding at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 2 00:47:37 UTC 2006
--- "McDougall, Marshall (FSH)" <MarMcDouga at gov.mb.ca> wrote:
> I am trying to move my root mount to a bigger partition without
> tearing
> down the whole machine. I created a new ext3 partition of 10G. I
> then
> tried to copy my existing root partition to the new partition using:
>
> dd if=/dev/oldroot of=/dev/newroot
>
> It worked great except my newroot is 2G, not 10. I tried using
> ext2online but there are some incompatibilities, or so it thinks.
> Anyone have a suggestion on how I can move my root mount to a new 10G
> partition without any catastrophe? Thanks.
The "dd" command didn't copy files, it copied the filesystem,
superblock and all.
Make a new FS on /dev/newroot mount it and use something like
cpio (find / | cpio -pmduv /newroot) to copy the files.
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
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