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Re: Possible to copy and resize at the same time?
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sandy pond |
Subject: |
Re: Possible to copy and resize at the same time? |
Date: |
25 Mar 2001 08:45:15 -0800 |
Hi David,
Only works for FAT filesystems though (I assumed FAT
because you mentioned Norton Ghost). See Andrew
Clausen's post concerning ext2. This is documented.
I use parted to backup partitions all the time (even on
computers without Linux installed by using the boot
disk). Saves a lot of trouble if someone hoses a
partition. You can even backup the partition on the
same disk and then hide the partition from users.
Keith
> Hello Keith,
>
> Wow.. this is NOT conveyed in the docs! You should
> really get that updated.
>
> Anyway, is there a way to do this from a command
> line (not interactive)? What I need to do
> is do this command once a night as a offline
> backup from a 10GB disks to a 9GB disk.
>
> --David
>
>
>
> >This is exactly how it works!
> >
> >see http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/USER
> >
> >make new partition (big enough to hold the files on original);
> >
> >(parted) select DEVICE
> >(parted) print
> >(parted) mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END
> >
> >copy original partition to new partition.
> >
> >(parted) cp [FROM-DEVICE] FROM-MINOR TO-MINOR
> >
> >copies and resizes at once.
> >
> >Keith
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