I'm trying to copy a partition from one drive to another, with partimage (partimage.org). Source Disk (20Gb) /dev/hda1 /boot 150Mb /dev/hda2 linux swap 384Mb /dev/hda3 / 19 Gb Using Partimage I was able to clone the MBR and /dev/hda1, however there is a problem when trying to restore the image image of "/", since the source partition was 19Gb - and the destination disk was only 7Gb. I though this would be easy, use parted to resize the 19Gb partition to a few Gb (The / partition only has a 1.45Gb used). I tried 1.6.5 (over 1.6.3), but it simply produces an error of "not implemented ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout". Any pointers, better software, or other way of thinking about the problem? I see the problem, as: i) parted won't resize the source partition, and ii) partimage won't resize the image as it writes it out from the image file. UPDATE: Since I sent this first of all to shirke-list, I think I've figured it- but need someone else to convince me that I'm doing the right thing (scapegoat would be better ;-). - Use resize2fs to ensure that the file-system is shrunk. - Delete the big partition with fdisk - recreate the big partition (smaller), MAKING SURE it starts at the same place - write out fdisk changes reboot. I did this on a test partition, but feeling sleepy bailed out (used fdisk to just remove the partition). During reboot the "root password for maintenance" was required- I can't quite remember what was needed there. -- Regards, Adam Allen. adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx pgp http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=adam%40dynamicinteraction.co.uk
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