only way I can see is
zip the entire contents of the drive in rescue mode with some linux boot
disks or with knopix
well I'm sorry I'll restate the above to say tar and then gzip my bad,
then repartition that 60 gb drive
and gunzip then untar again with rescue floppies or knopix
and you should be
parted will do it for you.
http://www.gnu.org/manual/parted-1.6.1/html_mono/parted.html#SEC25
Bill
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 09:02:32 +0800
Chris Deigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is said that Chris Barnes wrote:
> >stretch that partition to be 60gigs? The partition is formatted as vfat.
>
> The
It is said that Chris Barnes wrote:
>stretch that partition to be 60gigs? The partition is formatted as vfat.
There are commercial apps like Partition Magic that can do that, and I
know there are also some free apps. (One I remember is DiskDrake, part
of Mandrake, but I beleive that's just a front
> Why wouldn't you use dd?? seemed to work fine for me. no lost files, no
> damage...
dd takes an exact byte-for-byte copy. It's not appropriate for copying files
from one partition to another, particularly when they're not the same size.
It would be better to create the partitions you want on t
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 10:37, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:25:55AM +1000, Chris Barnes wrote:
> > expected to happen, but my question is does anyone know how I can
> > stretch that partition to be 60gigs? The partition is formatted as vfat.
>
> There are several partition resi
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:25:55AM +1000, Chris Barnes wrote:
> expected to happen, but my question is does anyone know how I can
> stretch that partition to be 60gigs? The partition is formatted as vfat.
There are several partition resizing tools available - some probably came
with your Linux dis
Hi people,
I have replaced a 6gig disk with a 60gig disk and used dd to copy the
contents of the old 6gig disk across to the new 60gig disk, but the
60gig disk is only sowing as having a 6gig partition, which is what I
expected to happen, but my question is does anyone know how I can
stretch that p