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From: Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:58:49
Message-Id: 20070608205245.c1424675.hilse@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition by Tim Allingham
1 Hi,
2
3 On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:43:23 +1000
4 Tim Allingham <deserted@×××××××××××.au> wrote:
5
6 > I generally prefer to do this with dd, from a remote environment
7 >
8 > dd if=/dev/<source partition> of=/dev/<destination partition>
9
10 "Remote Environment" probably means a) read-only mounted root FS or b)
11 a boot into another instance, e.g. a live-CD, right? If you're talking
12 about just SSH'ing into the machine: That will probably cause the copy
13 to be broken (if the machine has / still mounted r/w), at least an fsck
14 would be needed.
15
16 Also, this method will also need a bigger or equally sized new
17 partition. If it's bigger, one also needs to resize the filesystem
18 afterwards.
19
20 -hwh
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Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition Tim Allingham <deserted@×××××××××××.au>
Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>