Resizing partitions and copying data with dd

[Gavin McDonald]

I missed this on the first round, but have you tried any tools
like partition magic?  The latest version is fully capable of moving
and resizing linux partitions, despite being windows based.

In fact, there was a custom BartPE boot CD floating around on the 'net
awhile back that came with a similar tool by Paragon.  Just boot off the CD,
and play with the partitions to your heart's content.  http://911cd.net/ I
believe.

Sure it's not a unix answer, but it may be just the tool you need.

Regards,

Gavin McDonald
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EVI Logistic Enterprises
email: me at gavitron.com
phone: (604) 313-3845


> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of McDougall, Marshall (FSH)
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 5:54 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: RE: Resizing partitions and copying data with dd
> 
> Thanks, Mike, but that didn't work either.  It wanted to take
> everything, including all the data from the other mounts, and put it
> under /newroot, not just the / contents.
> 
> Regards, Marshall
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Wooding
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 6:48 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Resizing partitions and copying data with dd
> 
> 
> 
> --- "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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