On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Richard Troth wrote: > You want to use 'resize2fs'. But you've got some footwork > to do before you jump into that. Is the new disk pre-blocked? > If it is blocked with 4K blocks (as CMS FORMAT will give you) > then you can 'dd' the old disk to the new disk, and then > 'resize2fs' to enlarge the filesystem found there. > > I was amazed to learn that TAR-to-TAR is faster than a 'dd' copy.
Depends. On a machine with real disks and not those funny pseudo-disks like Sharks and such, I'd back tar for filesystems without much data, dd for full ones. dd's timing I expect is pretty constant regardless of filesystem contents. There are also dump/restore. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.
