Hello,
1) Exact copy of hda1, hda2, hda3 onto hdb1, hdb2, hdb3
the problem here is that I am shinking the partition sizes
beacuse 1) I don't need all the space and 2) I trying to make
room to create a test AMD64 system setup.
I only use WinXP for games and don't need all that space/
Will a simple dd if=/dev/dha2 of=/dev/hdb2 work even if
the partition sizes are different? All info on /dev/hda2
will fit onto the shunken /dev/hdb2 (hda2 is only using about 10G).
No. That would involve resizing. (While copying I might add).
The best you can do is repartition hdb3 to allow the partitions to fit.
The partitons should be the same size if at all posible. If the new ones are
larger the filesystems will stay the same size, but dd will complain if you
ever try to copy them back.
As for resizing the ntfs partition, The latest ntfsresize will resize
partions even if they are fragmented. Thus you can shrink the partition down
to just a little bit more than the the space in use on it.
Please explain exactly why you are doing this.It will help me assist you in
this. From what I can see you wanted to play around with amd64. you tried
resizing partitons on hda and eventually gave up. So now you want to put the
partitions onto the second disk which you have sized to the desired sizes.
Your end goal is to use hdb as your main disk, eventually being used as the
first harddrive. Is that correct?
If so, I know how to make this *VERY* painless, without any risk at all to
hda. In fact no changes will be needed on hda.
If not, please email me in private explaining exactly what you have already
done, and what you are trying to do. I should be able to help.
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