Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> 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 -Let me also add that if you have a new disk, partition it using gdisk to get a GPT Partition table. No more extended/logical partitions! Only 128 primary partitions. It also keeps partitions on 1MiB boundaries which I find useful. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
