On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Net Llama! wrote: > On 02/10/03 19:04, Gerry Doris wrote: > > This is on a dual boot system and I was going to use Partition Magic's > > DriveCopy to copy the entire drive all at once to a new drive. Problem is > > that my copy of DriveCopy doesn't understand ext3. > > that's what dd is for. its free, and works as advertised.
I'm going from a 40GB drive to an 80GB drive. I thought that dd would end up making my 80GB drive look like a 40GB. If I was moving to the same size drive dd would work....right? > > > Perhaps I can just change the partitions to ext2, let DriveCopy copy the > > entire disk to the new one, and then change them back to ext3 so > > everything will work again? > > if you trust this DriveCopy thing. quite frankly i'd be very concerned > about using a commerical product that can't even understand your filesystem. This is a test system and there isn't anything critical on it. This is more in the line of "inquiring minds want to know". -- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
