[NMLUG] Linux GHOST?

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <3534.192.168.0.31.1074978003.squirrel at 68.35.22.68>
            "Leila Potts" <lpotts at swcp.com> writes:
: 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.

I tend to use dump/restore when I'm upgrading my disks on FreeBSD.
This also lets me repartition things when I do this to better reflect
the new partitions.  I've also gotten lucky with using dd to do the
FATxx partitions, but have also had bad luck (needing careful repair
to the fdisk).

With ext3fs, I'd imagine there has to be some way you can do the same
thing as dump, but since I don't deal with Linux enough to know, I
can't be sure.

Warner