On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 21:57 GMT, Kevin Mark penned: > > --QTprm0S8XgL7H0Dt > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:47:18AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 12:48 GMT, Kevin Mark penned: >> > Personally I use DD to copy but I know others like cp -a ;-) >> >> I tried to use dd to copy a 2GB hard drive onto a 20GB drive, and the >> system saw the end result as a 2GB, presumably due to filesystem >> metadata. This was ext2. Has this not been a problem for you? >> > Hi Monque, > Huh? > you do not DD a 2 GB ext2 partition to a 20 GB drive and get a 20 GB > ext2 partition. you get a 2GB ext2 partition and an 18 GB unused partition. > So you have to either RESIZE 2->20 or you (for example) fdisk and mkfs > to the 18GB and then move some of the DIR to the new 18gb (for example > /var/ or /home). > YMMV.
This was over a year ago, but iirc, even fdisk and friends showed a 2GB partition with no additional space on the disk. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
