Re: [SLUG] hard disk copy

2003-10-01 Thread Shaun Oliver
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

Re: [SLUG] hard disk copy

2003-09-30 Thread Billy Kwong
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

Re: [SLUG] hard disk copy

2003-09-30 Thread Chris Deigan
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

Re: [SLUG] hard disk copy

2003-09-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
> 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

Re: [SLUG] hard disk copy

2003-09-30 Thread Chris Barnes
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

Re: [SLUG] hard disk copy

2003-09-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
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

[SLUG] hard disk copy

2003-09-30 Thread Chris Barnes
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