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Re: Possible to copy and resize at the same time?


From: Andrew Clausen
Subject: 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



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