--- Francis mail.francispereira@gmail.com wrote:
Dinesh Joshi wrote:
You can try resizing your partition but it might
just screw up your
system :P
Resizing is not a good idea because I got important data on the other drives. Risk Management , well I don't mind breaking the M$ partition [/dev/hda1] there is nothing there except ten.BV all My Documents are on /dev/hda2. Here are the issues that I foresee -> Would just copying the fs from /dev/hda5 to /dev/hda1 and then changing the kernel parameter work ?? I meen /root , /media, /var as you say are mount points , so do they have to be registered ?? ->/dev/hda5 8498+ 9728 1231- 9887976 8e Linux LVM the partition was created during installation and if I just format /dev/hda1 as ext3 and create the file structure there would it be alrite , how would the OS react to that ?
Fransis, before you do any shifting, please backup your data on cd or else you too will be asking for file recovery softwares.
I was doing the same thing that you are planning to do. I wanted to push my running os from the last partition to the one just after vfat. The method was to use dd if=/dev/hdx of=/mountpoint/distro.img and then its reverse to paste the image on the target partition. Since I wanted to resize all my partitions after vfat, I tried to backup the img on the last vfat partition but ran into file sise limit problems for the vfat partition. Then I booted into the largest linux partition of another distro to carry out the same command. There was an unused folder that I emptied, only to find out later that some months ago, that folder was created to mount my working distro that was on another partition.
Anyway, use a large linux partition to save your working partition as an image. Then transfer the image to the target partition. Please check for file size limits for the fs on the partition you want to save the image. I wonder if dd can be used to directly move a partition's contents to another partition, like dd if=/dev/hdax of=/dev/hday. The experts can give some inputs on that.
Regards,
Rony.
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