On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 01:10:28PM -0400, Jeff Malka wrote:
> Not sure I understand. I can move the partition effortlessly using
> Partition Magic. I just needed to know if this would mess up the path
> structure or something else that linux uses.
>
> Is that what cat is about?
No. Cat will move the data, but won't modify how the partitions are
mounted. What you need to do is move the data around from partition to
partition, then edit /etc/fstab to mount the new partition where the old
one was. That will preserve your paths and other data.
Also, I'm not sure that cat is appropriate here. It would work copying to
a new partition of the smae size. I don't think it will work if the new
partition is smaller, and if the new one is larger, you risk losing the
difference.
I'd look into cpio, dd and tar for this.
>
> Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Registered Linux user 183185
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rivera, Oscar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 12:33 PM
> Subject: RE: [expert] Moving partitions
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> > you can use the cat command to move the partition.
> >
> > cat /dev/hd? > /dev/hd?
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