On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 14:07 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> What am I doing wrong here and how do I get around this? > >> > > You have to resize Disk2 to 250Gb with resize2fs or parted. > > > Ok, I used gparted to shrink the size of the partition and grow the > partition again. That did the trick. > > I wonder if it would have been easier to just: > > resize2fs /dev/sdb1
The whole approach is wrong IMHO. Unless the two partitions are the same size there's no particular point in using dd for this. Much better to create (mkfs) a new filesystem on the new partition, then use tar, or rsync, or even "cp -r" to copy the contents. I doubt it's slower than dd +resize, doesn't copy anything except file blocks that are actually in use, and has the potential advantage of leaving you with a better layout at the end. You can also take advantage of the copy to change filesystem types, e.g. from ext3 to ext4. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
