Thanks, Mike, but that didn't work either. It wanted to take everything, including all the data from the other mounts, and put it under /newroot, not just the / contents. Regards, Marshall -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Wooding Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 6:48 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Resizing partitions and copying data with dd --- "McDougall, Marshall (FSH)" <MarMcDouga@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am trying to move my root mount to a bigger partition without > tearing > down the whole machine. I created a new ext3 partition of 10G. I > then > tried to copy my existing root partition to the new partition using: > > dd if=/dev/oldroot of=/dev/newroot > > It worked great except my newroot is 2G, not 10. I tried using > ext2online but there are some incompatibilities, or so it thinks. > Anyone have a suggestion on how I can move my root mount to a new 10G > partition without any catastrophe? Thanks. The "dd" command didn't copy files, it copied the filesystem, superblock and all. Make a new FS on /dev/newroot mount it and use something like cpio (find / | cpio -pmduv /newroot) to copy the files. He who laughs last thinks slowest. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
