Digby Tarvin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:41:26PM +0100, George Borisov wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> dd? Only if the restore-partition is the *exact* same size, right? >> Same, or larger. If it is larger then you resize the partition after dd >> to the actual maximum size. We do this with NTFS disk images all the >> time, I assume ext2/3 will work just as well. > > What utility do you propose using to do that? The ones I know of would > still require that you dd to a partition of the exact same size, and > then resize the partition and filesystem together.
For NTFS we used ntfsresize. We would then reboot into Windows which would force a disk check, reboot again and it would work just fine. YMMV, of course, but it has been working just fine for a long time (we do lots of re-imaging of network clients.) The images we use are taken from small (5-10GB) partitions (deliberately shrunk, swap file removed etc.) which are deployed onto larger partitions. As I said, I have not tried it with EXT2/3 but there is a similar program (resize2fs) and I would be surprised if it did not work (as NTFS is a less open format.) I may be wrong though, on this point. Hope this helps, -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd
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