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Re: Possible to copy and resize at the same time?
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David Ranch |
Subject: |
Re: Possible to copy and resize at the same time? |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Mar 2001 22:00:50 -0800 |
Hello Keith,
Wow.. this is NOT conveyed in the docs! You should
really get that updated.
Anyway, is there a way to do this from a command
line (not interactive)? What I need to do
is do this command once a night as a offline
backup from a 10GB disks to a 9GB disk.
--David
>This is exactly how it works!
>
>see http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/USER
>
>make new partition (big enough to hold the files on original);
>
>(parted) select DEVICE
>(parted) print
>(parted) mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END
>
>copy original partition to new partition.
>
>(parted) cp [FROM-DEVICE] FROM-MINOR TO-MINOR
>
>copies and resizes at once.
>
>Keith
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