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
Peter Eis said,
You could use partimage (it's on the gentoo live CD).
The only problem is, that the target partition size must be at least the
same size as the original partition.
If not, you could use resize2fs or resize_reiserfs to shrink the
partition before imaging it.
Cheers
Neil
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On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 14:59, Helder Rossa wrote:
hummm...
just tar / untar the partitions?!!
- boot from a cd;
- tar the parttions;
- create / edit parttions;
- untar the stuff to the partition i want;
- install bootloader.
think I'm not forgetting nothing.
- and that's it?!!
i think you don't need to do nothing special cause i remember i used dd
do bak the partition, mounted the image and just copied the data to a
clean partition. I'm not sure but the root (/) partition or another is
just the same... on NOT! :-)
I will test it in another PC... not the same hardware
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 15:43:29 + Helder Rossa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i think you don't need to do nothing special cause i remember i used dd
do bak the partition, mounted the image and just copied the data to a
clean partition. I'm not sure but the root (/) partition or another is
just
hummm...
just tar / untar the partitions?!!
- boot from a cd;
- tar the parttions;
- create / edit parttions;
- untar the stuff to the partition i want;
- install bootloader.
think I'm not forgetting nothing.
- and that's it?!!
I want to clear all partitions of my HDD and then put the
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
