[NMLUG] Linux GHOST?

[Wesley J Landaker]

On Saturday 24 January 2004 2:00 pm, Leila Potts wrote:
> I've successfully used dd (under FreeBSD) to do what you're trying to
> do. I had an incident a few years ago where I ran out of space on
> /usr, which causes big problems as you can imagine.  On a larger HD I
> manually created the partitions, obviously larger than the originals,
> and used dd to move all my data to the new drive.  Worked without a
> hitch.

For resizing paritions, you can use something like parted.

> > But Ghost will not reliably handle ext3 and the more exotic
> > filesystems (my experiments have been inconclusive). Microsoft is
> > trying to forget MS-DOS ever existed, and Symantec is trying to
> > forget it's MS-DOS-based Ghost ever existed - they'd rather sell
> > their GUI bloatware. At some point in the evolution of Linux my
> > Ghost solution will no longer work.

If Ghost supports ext2, it implicitly supports ext2. Just resize the 
ext3 parition as if it's ext2. You'll probably need to rebuild the 
journal afterward with tunefs.

-- 
Wesley J. Landaker - wjl at icecavern.net
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