[NMLUG] Linux GHOST?

[Leila Potts]

> 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.


Yes, of course, assuming there's enough space elsewhere on the disk.  I
had the whole thing pretty much filled up so moving to another drive was
the best option.