>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:59:27AM -0700, Ian L wrote:
>>> I dont suppose there is a free utility that will let me copy a 10gig
>>> hd  onto a new 120gb hard drive?
>>>
>>> There is only a single partition on the 10gb drive. I would either
>>> like to  copy that into 10gb partition on the new drive, or just make
>>> a 120gb  partition on the new drive and copy that over.
>>
>> I haven't tried it (yet), but I've heard lots of good things about
>> Mondo Rescue - visit http://www.mondorescue.org.
>>
>> Alternatively, mount both drives in your system, boot into single-user
>> mode, and do a dump/restore to the new drive.
>

I've never tried dump/restore before ever since I read this post by
Linus Torvalds, http://lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3.  Try find and
cpio to copy the drive in single user mode...

find /old/drive -xdev | cpio -pmduv /new/drive

Chris




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