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On Friday 08 June 2007 19:52, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:43:23 +1000 |
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> Tim Allingham <deserted@×××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> > I generally prefer to do this with dd, from a remote environment |
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> > |
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> > dd if=/dev/<source partition> of=/dev/<destination partition> |
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> "Remote Environment" probably means a) read-only mounted root FS or b) |
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> a boot into another instance, e.g. a live-CD, right? If you're talking |
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> about just SSH'ing into the machine: That will probably cause the copy |
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> to be broken (if the machine has / still mounted r/w), at least an fsck |
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> would be needed. |
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> Also, this method will also need a bigger or equally sized new |
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> partition. If it's bigger, one also needs to resize the filesystem |
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> afterwards. |
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How do you resize the fs? I was never comfortable trying this at home... but I |
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have a feeling I might need to use it sooner or later. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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