On Friday 08 June 2007 19:52, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:43:23 +1000 > > Tim Allingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I generally prefer to do this with dd, from a remote environment > > > > dd if=/dev/<source partition> of=/dev/<destination partition> > > "Remote Environment" probably means a) read-only mounted root FS or b) > a boot into another instance, e.g. a live-CD, right? If you're talking > about just SSH'ing into the machine: That will probably cause the copy > to be broken (if the machine has / still mounted r/w), at least an fsck > would be needed. > > Also, this method will also need a bigger or equally sized new > partition. If it's bigger, one also needs to resize the filesystem > afterwards.
How do you resize the fs? I was never comfortable trying this at home... but I have a feeling I might need to use it sooner or later. -- Regards, Mick
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