On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:25:55AM +1000, Chris Barnes wrote:
> expected to happen, but my question is does anyone know how I can
> stretch that partition to be 60gigs? The partition is formatted as vfat.

There are several partition resizing tools available - some probably came
with your Linux distribution.  They're normally used to shrink a partition
to put Linux onto the disk, but they can normally work the other way, too.

> would is be easier to manually partition the 60gig disk, then use dd to
> copy the boot records from the 6gig to the 60gig, and again use dd to
> copy the contents of the partition from the 6gig disk to the 60gig disk?

Maybe, although I sure as hell wouldn't be using dd to copy the contents of
the partition across.  Use cp, cpio, or tar for that.

- Matt
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