[Cialug] How to copy 2 drives to 1

[Josh More]

Right.  In order to use resize2fs, the drive needs to be unmounted and
the filesystem has to be clean.
fsck is the best way to clean the filesystem.



-Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC 
 morej at alliancetechnologies.net 
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>>> "Tim Wilson" <tim_linux at wilson-home.com> 06/25/07 8:04 AM >>>
I tried option 1 (using gparted), and for some reason, the resize option
wasn't available.  I think what I'm looking for is resize2fs.  I'm
guessing
I can't have the drive mounted when I run this?

On 6/24/07, Josh More <morej at alliancetechnologies.net> wrote:
>
> You have two options.
>
> 1) Use "parted" to resize both the partition and the filesystem on it.
> 2) Use "fdisk" to resize the partition, "partprobe" to read the new
> partition, and "resize2fs" to resize the partition.
>
> Best is to use option 1, unless it errors on you, at which point you
can
> fall back to option 2.
>
> It is common for option 1 to error on you if you have certain older
> versions of parted (circa RHEL3), or if you have in excess of 2GB of
> RAM, and are *not* running a BIGMEM kernel.  That last one took me far
> too long to figure out.
>
>
>
> -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC
> morej at alliancetechnologies.net
> 515-245-7701
>
> >>> "Tim Wilson" <tim_linux at wilson-home.com> 06/24/07 7:25 PM >>>
> Along these same lines, how do you expand an ext3 partition?  I swear
> I've
> done this before, but I can't remember what I did.
>
> On 6/8/07, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 6/8/07, Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-home.com> wrote:
> > > Would I be able to resize with gparted?  It is on my KUbuntu disc.
> >
> > I shrunk an NTFS partition with parted 1.7.1.  It's supposed to
> > expand, too, though I'm not sure why you'd want more of *that* in
the
> > world.
> >
> > -todd
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