Thanks to all who responded. Jack's method is the closest to what I finally ended up doing. The next time I do undertake this exercise, I will pursue the Live CD method. I'm sure it will simplify things. Thanks again everybody. Regards, Marshall -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jack Challen Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 3:25 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Resizing partitions and copying data with dd McDougall, Marshall (FSH) wrote: > 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. You can try using cp -dpR /* /newroot however, considering you're doing this from a live system, I think the expected results qualify as "undefined" :) It'll also complain about attempting to copy /newroot inside itself, but you can ignore that. If you want to do this the Right Way, boot from a LiveCD and copy between the two partitions. cheers jack -- 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
