Now I've done it! [root re-partitioning mess]

[Jeff Schreiber <schreiber@process.com>]

    Ok... using my vast intellegence, or lack thereof, I set out to repartition
    my disk to remove the two [usr & var] partitions that I moved over to 
    another disk, and resize my swap from 64 to 128, and resize my root to be
    the remainder of the disk.

    So I dumped the root partition to a dump file on my other disk [which is
    most likely going to end up being my saviour].  I repartitioned the disk,
    but it didn't seem to take.

    So I booted off the rescue floppy and set up the swap partition again. 
    Which seemed to work, but the resized root partition didn't take.  I then
    [this is where the lack of vast intelligence kicks in] re-initialized my
    root partition, thinking I could restore my root dump onto the new
    partition... at this point I figured there was a better way, but I couldn't
    think of it.

    So I <alt><F2>'d, mounted my other disks partitions, and set out to 
    restore onto /target, Only to find that I didn't have the restore 
    command.

    So I searched through my backup [I dumped to a dump file, and I dumped
    to stdout also so I had access to those files], found my restore, and 
    tried to execute it, only to find that I couldn't [it couldn't find
    something... I assumed it was a function in a shareable that wasn't 
    around because of booting off of the rescue].

    So I came up with another idea, I would tar and untar the backup version
    of the root filesystem onto the new root in /target.  Only tar had a 
    similar issue with a function it couldn't find.

    Now... is there _any_ way I can solve this without totally reinstalling
    debian on my new root partition, booting up, whiping it out and restoring
    my old partition from the dump file?

                                        -Jeff

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 |    Jeff Schreiber     | Broken promises don't upset me.  I just think, |
 |    aka - "Spectre"    | why did they believe me?                       |
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