image partition of 30G to 20G ?
Hello,
Have a question,
I currently HDA that I am using
Unusable 8.23
hda1 Primary Linux ReiserFS 98.71
hda2 Boot Primary NTFS [] 41940.71
Unusable 31881.19
hda3 Primary Linux ReiserFS [/] 44326.04
hda5 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 1776.67
and HDB I am going to use as backup
hdb1 Boot Primary Linux ReiserFS 98.71
hdb2 Primary NTFS [] 20003.89
hdb3 Primary Linux ReiserFS 39999.54
hdb5 Logical Linux ReiserFS 39999.54
hdb6 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 19929.86
I want to do a couple of things:
1) Exact copy of hda1, hda2, hda3 onto hdb1, hdb2, hdb3
the problem here is that I am shinking the partition sizes
beacuse 1) I don't need all the space and 2) I trying to make
room to create a test AMD64 system setup.
I only use WinXP for games and don't need all that space/
Will a simple dd if=/dev/dha2 of=/dev/hdb2 work even if
the partition sizes are different? All info on /dev/hda2
will fit onto the shunken /dev/hdb2 (hda2 is only using about 10G).
I haven't had much luck efficiently resizing the partitions
on HDA (as is evident) so first I just want to make sure I
have a good image of HDA1. HDA2, and HDA3 and then I want
to install a Debian AMD64 system on hdb5.
2) I want to use hdb5 to test a AMD64 system. If I do
a net install onto /dev/hdb5 will I be prompted to
use GRUB and the MBR already on /dev/hda? I just want
to make sure I don't make my production system on /dev/hda3
unbootable.
Lance
Lance Hoffmeyer
lance@augustmail.com
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