[PLUG] this time "copying partitions"

[MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net>]

hey all,
thanks for the replies to yesterdays thread about copying harddrives
by dd'ing hdb to hdc. what actually happened now is that the
destination drive is about 3 times bigger than the source, so i would
like to expand partitions while copying.

i was thinking about it for a while and had to toss initial thoughts
of creating a new partition table and then dd'ing hdb{1..9} to
hdc{1..9} respectively because of the inode tables and superblocks - i
think that the ext2 filesystem, initially formatted for say 2Gb, would
not be able to use the extra 3Gb if i were to grow the partition to
5Gb. correct me if i am wrong.

but this is linux and so it should be rather trivial to mount the
respective partitions in two trees such as /hdb and /hdc, then to do
a cp -a /hdb /hdc and then to rerun lilo on the new harddrive. that's
bound to work, isn't it?

thanks for any info,
martin

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