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Re: duplicating a partition



Amardeep Singh <amardeep@tct.hut.fi> writes:

> i have ext2 but now i want to switch to reiserfs
> i have an empty partition, which is not being used
> now, i would like to copy the contents of /dev/hda5 (existing ext2
> partition) to /dev/hda8 (new empty reiserfs partition). but i donot know
> what is the best way to do it.

Assuming that the /dev/hda partition you want to copy is mounted on /data:

 mount /dev/hda8 /mnt
 cd /data
 find . -xdev -print0 | cpio -pvdm0 /mnt

If you want to move the / partition, do the same thing as above, then cd
to /mnt/etc, and change fstab and lilo.conf to represent the new root
disk. Then, do

 chroot /mnt lilo 

to install a new version of lilo. Alter instructions accordingly if you
use a different boot loader.

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