I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a conventional hard drive to an SSD. Both drives are 160 GB in size. I want to resize the /boot and swap partitions from 200 MB and 2 GB to 500 MB and 8 GB respectively. The first resize is because preupgrade now fails to run unless /boot is 500 MB or larger and the second because the swap file is supposed to be as big as the RAM in the computer and my laptop currently has 4GB and I want to upgrade to 8 GB in the future. So... I partitioned the SSD to the appropriate sizes. I then ran Clonezilla and installed the /boot data seemingly without any problem. I used the expert mode and told it to resize things to fit the new /boot partition size. Unfortunately, Clonezilla won't let me do the same for / because / on the SSD is 6 GB or so smaller than it was on the hard drive because /boot and swap are larger. So how do I move ALL the data from / on the hard drive to / on the sdd ? dd won't work because its for device files, not for partitions. If I use dd between the devices, it won't resize anything. Or should I do an outright dd and then use gparted to resize everything afterward ? Can one make cp copy EVERYTHING on one drive to another and keep the timestamps, etc, all correct ? I think I did this once a few years ago using tar, but I can't remember how and I think it took up a lot of disk space and took forever to run. BTW: if I verify the partition table for the SSD, it tells me Remaining 5165 unallocated 512-byte sectors Yet: Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0001ab7d Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 66 530113+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 67 1111 8393962+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb3 1112 19457 147364245 83 Linux Am I missing something ? Thanks ! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
