Thank you Les! I'll have a go tomorrow after backups with something similar as: dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=16M
Cheers, Colin On 5 September 2016 at 17:03, Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Colin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I know this question has been asked and answered before but I need help > as > > the past suggestions are not working for me. > > > > I currently have lots of data on a normal parition (no LVM) and when > trying > > to copying to a new disk, it always fail after a while: > > > > # df -h /var/lib/BackupPC > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/sdb1 493G 394G 74G 85% /var/lib/BackupPC > > > > # rsync -aH /var/lib/BackupPC/. /mnt/. > > > > But after a while I OOM just kills it: > > Your best shot would be to use dd to copy the partition to the new > disk, then grow the filesystem to fill the space using the filesystem > tools. You don't need lvm for that since the space is already there, > but the details of the command will depend on the type of filesystem. > > -- > Les Mikesell > [email protected] > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ >
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