Resizing partitions and copying data with dd

[Serge Dubrouski]

Or rsync -av /old_root/* /new_root


On 3/1/06, Mike Wooding <timmywooding at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>
> --- "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.
>
>
>
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