--- Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dinesh Joshi wrote:
> > You can try resizing your partition but it might
> just screw up your
> > system :P
> Resizing is not a good idea because I got important
> data on the other
> drives.
> Risk Management , well I don't mind breaking the M$
> partition
> [/dev/hda1] there is nothing there except ten.BV all
> My Documents are on
> /dev/hda2. Here are the issues that I foresee
> -> Would just copying the fs from /dev/hda5 to
> /dev/hda1 and then
> changing the kernel parameter work ?? I meen /root ,
> /media, /var as you
> say are mount points , so do they have to be
> registered ??
> ->/dev/hda5 8498+ 9728 1231- 9887976
> 8e Linux LVM the
> partition was created during installation and if I
> just format /dev/hda1
> as ext3 and create the file structure there would it
> be alrite , how
> would the OS react to that ?
>
Fransis, before you do any shifting, please backup
your data on cd or else you too will be asking for
file recovery softwares.
I was doing the same thing that you are planning to
do. I wanted to push my running os from the last
partition to the one just after vfat. The method was
to use dd if=/dev/hdx of=/mountpoint/distro.img and
then its reverse to paste the image on the target
partition. Since I wanted to resize all my partitions
after vfat, I tried to backup the img on the last vfat
partition but ran into file sise limit problems for
the vfat partition. Then I booted into the largest
linux partition of another distro to carry out the
same command. There was an unused folder that I
emptied, only to find out later that some months ago,
that folder was created to mount my working distro
that was on another partition.
Anyway, use a large linux partition to save your
working partition as an image. Then transfer the image
to the target partition. Please check for file size
limits for the fs on the partition you want to save
the image. I wonder if dd can be used to directly move
a partition's contents to another partition, like dd
if=/dev/hdax of=/dev/hday. The experts can give some
inputs on that.
Regards,
Rony.
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