or cd /<place where /dev/hda1 mounted> dumpe2fs /dev/hda9 | dumpe2fs -r
THIS NOT EXACT!! basically you dump one fs and then restore to the other fs. Maybe someone knows the exact commands off the top of their head, but I have to go so this is a quick reply. Good luck, Greg. > On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 06:36:06PM +1000, Russell Davie wrote: >> Hi >> I want to move the Linux partition in hda9 to hda1. >> Yes, after too much procrastination, Linux is been promoted from ext. >> partiton to replace the other OS! >> how can this be done with out trashing the system? >> I plan to copy on to another hdisk as well, though not yet installed. >> regards >> Russell > > There are two ways to do it that have worked for me. One way is to > turn hda1 into an ext2 (or ext3) partition with cfdisk and mke2fs > (and perhaps tunefs -j to make it ext3), then copy in the whole > filesystem from hda9 (not including /proc, or better yet do it when > it's not running, like from knoppix or a rescue disk) with > cp -a /mnt-hda1/* /mnt-hda2/ or similar. > > The other way is to dd if=/dev/hda9 of=/dev/hda1 (from a rescue disk), > to make a bit for bit copy of the partition. Another way to do this > would be to image /dev/hda1 with partimage or similar and restore to > /dev/hda9. (dd can be really slow, but IIRC you can find out how it's > going by sending kill -1 `pidof dd` or something like that). > > But whatever you do you have to modify /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab > on the new partition. Modifying the files is easy, you just mount the > new filesystem. Then you have to run lilo on the new partition. > You can do this with chroot from the existing installation. > It's something like chroot /mnt-hda1 /sbin/lilo > or you can boot from a rescue disk. > > I'm no expert, so expect some corrections :-) Depending on your > boot manager setup it might be different for example. > > Patrick Lesslie > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
