Re: Possible to copy and resize at the same time?

[Andrew Clausen]

David Ranch wrote:
>  >Parted can do this for FAT partitions, but not ext2 partitions.
>  >Use the cp command normally.
> 
> Thanks for getting back to me.  Is there any plans
> to add this functionality to parted?

BTW: cp is a parted command.

Yes, I intend to add this for ext2.

> Do you know how I could fake this with any other tools
> for Linux?  Is a mke2fs and tar the only way to do
> this for now?

I guess so.  You can use parted instead of mke2fs though ;-)

Andrew Clausen