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Re: Possible to copy and resize at the same time?
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Andrew Clausen |
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Re: Possible to copy and resize at the same time? |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Mar 2001 15:17:22 +1000 |
"David A. Ranch" wrote:
> - I'd like to be able to basically "dd" a 60% full
> 10GB disk (one partition) to a 9GB disk once a
> night. I could use tar but that's slow and doesn't
> get me the boot loader, etc. Obvisouly, your
> wonderful parted tool resize the original 10GB
> partition and then copy it over but I don't want
> to change the original. I know this functionality is
> available in tools like Norton Ghost, etc but
> I don't want to reboot into DOS.
Parted can do this for FAT partitions, but not ext2 partitions.
Use the cp command normally.
Andrew Clausen