On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 09:12:59AM -0700, Charlie Bullen wrote:
> Will the above dd command do what I want, namley copy all the contents
> to the larger partiton on the second disk?
Stricly speaking, yes. However, the filesystem will still only be the
same size. Some filesystems have a growfs command and others do not.
For those that don't, parted may help, but it's another layer.
What is wrong with using cp or tar? dd is not the end-all and be-all.
Make your filesystem on the other partition and mount it, we'll assume
at /mnt, and run "cp -a /home /mnt" or (my preferred method) "(cd /home
&& tar -cpf - .) | (cd /mnt && tar -xpvf -)". (I prefer the latter
simply because of a greater trust of tar, most likely irrationally. I
was introduced to that construction by
<
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Tips-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.6>.)
> Also when all this is done, I am only going to be using the second
> disk, currently the /etc/fstab file on the second disk refers to the
> devices as /dev/hda1 , dev/hda2 etc. When I modify this file, should I
> refer to what in the copying process, I refered to as /dev/hdb4 as
> /dev/hda4 as that will then be the only disk that exists.
Yes.
A page that might help is
<
http://www.slackware.com/faq/do_faq.php?faq=zipslack#1>. The boot disk
method it mentions is probably the easiest to do. Otherwise, the method
you use depends on whether you're using lilo or grub.
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