Re: problem in copying FS on redhat 9.0

[Julio C. Vergara-Heinrroth]

Dear Ruggero,

You cannot do that, cause redhat's Disk Druids or mkfs/mke2fs are NOT
compatible with parted!!!!

- Boot in Rescue mode from the CD without mounting anything!!

- Create a new partition using "mkpartfs" parted in /dev/hdb1. Why? So
you can later use parted to resize it if you need it ;-)

- Make a dir /mnt/old

- Mount hda in old

- Make a dir /mnt/new

- Mount hdb in new

- `cp -p -r -v old/* new` (-p preserves file attrib.; -r recursive copying)

Hope this will help you!!

CIAO
    JULIO V.
> Hi,
> I have installed redhat linux 9.0 and i need to copy partitions to a 
> secondary hard disk.
> The filesystem of the partitions seems to be ext3
> I have create the partitions with fdisk disk A and disk B have identical 
> partitions.
> When I execute parted /dev/hdb
> end then "cp /dev/hda/ 1 1" for copy hda1 in hdb1
> the error is " No implementation: This ext2 filesystem has a rather
strange 
> layout! Parted can't resize this (yet)"
> 
> This operation work fine with retdhat 8.0
> 
> why?
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Cordiali saluti,
> 
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