Armin K. wrote:
> I am for tar approach, but in that case no need
> for "dd" ... If you use "dd" you'll get a copy of your partition which
> will be the same size as your partition - not cool if you want to resize
> it. Just extract the tarball on the new partition - worked for me always.
Yes, you can also use a livecd to do something like this:
mkdir -p /mnt/{oldroot,newroot}
mount /dev/sd<old> /mnt/oldroot
mount /dev/sd<new> /mnt/newroot
cd /mnt/oldroot
tar -cf - . | tar -xf -C /mnt/newroot -
-- Bruce
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