\begin{Alan Lee}
> I am required to upgrade a clients HDD, under linux.  Currently, he has a
> 2gb HDD.. and its about full.. and he now has a 30gb HDD... whats the best
> way to transfer the data from one drive to the other?  I saw a command,
> about 6-8 weeks ago, in this list, but I lost a few hundred mails just the
> other week.. dang microsoft!

also, "parted" can do a "copy partition and then resize it" on ext2.

it may be a little safer than cp -a (devices, not copying /proc, etc)
and it would even preserve access times on files ;)

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 - Gus

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