At Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:12:16 +0100 Rodolphe Rocca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Turcotte wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I would like to move a partition from one disk to the other, so I >> can make use of more space. What I have done is create a new >> partition on the other disk, and just copied all files >> over. >> > > Copiyng files is not good when you move a partition: you get bad > files ownership/permissions. You could have used the tar command > with the -p option (especially if you have different file systems on > each partition), but the best in this case would have been dd: > > dd if=<input_file> of=<output_file> > > for instance: > > dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 Would copying the partition like that work if they are different sizes? I would suggest the double tar solution you mentioned, or perhaps cp -a. allan -- [email protected] mailing list
