On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 12:30, Helder Rossa wrote: > hi, > > > I want to clear all partitions of my HDD and then put the data of the > partitions that I have now in those new partitions. I'm wondering if it > is possible. > > basically I want to redefine my HDD partitions without re-installing all > the stuff that I have. > > if i do "dd if=/dev/hda2 of=hda2.iso" and the try to restore that iso in > one partition it replaces with an exact copy of the original partition. > Can I do a backup of the data only and not the partition info?? You could use tar. tar up the dir(s) then move the tar file to a different partition. Resize that partition and then untar the files into that partition.
There maybe some 'special' things you will need to do if you do this to /. Try a google for 'restore from tar'. Hope that helps. Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
