Re: Dump & Restore to smaller partition

2005-07-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: Hello, Does anyone know if the dump and restore method for moving a partition to a new disk requires the destination partition to be as big or bigger that the source? It will need to be big enough to contain all the data. It the old file system had a lot of empty

Re: Dump & Restore to smaller partition

2005-07-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hello, > > Does anyone know if the dump and restore method for > moving a partition to a new disk requires the destination > partition to be as big or bigger that the source? It will need to be big enough to contain all the data. It the old file system had a lot of empty (unused) space then

Dump & Restore to smaller partition

2005-07-05 Thread Gareth Bailey
Hello, Does anyone know if the dump and restore method for moving a partition to a new disk requires the destination partition to be as big or bigger that the source? >From my understanding, the whole partition, including blank space will be dumped and restored. If this is the case then the desti