[NBLUG/talk] dd for different size partitions?

[Bob Blick]

Hi Kyle,
Thanks that is just what I needed!

And as I recall, / is /dev/hda2 and the sacrificial partition is /dev/hda1
so Qtparted can't resize it because the starting point will change.

So your method is super (and well documented).

-Bob

> There are a few different ways to go about this. Since you are using
> Knoppix, you could potentially just use the qtparted program it includes
> (it's under the system menu) to resize the partition on the fly (if
> there's
> enough free space of course).
>
> Otherwise find piped to cpio is your best bet. I use this method all the
> time to migrate to newer or other hard drives, and ended up explaining it
> so often I just wrote it down in my tips section:
>
> http://greenfly.org/tips/filesystem_migration.html