On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:29:10 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:

> > You should also note that dd is by far the slowest way of doing this,
> > partimage is a much better tool for cloning partitions.
 
> But one thing about partimage, I tried it once and going from a 10GB
> partition in partimage to 20GB partition in the new drive, the new drive
> only still saw itself as 10GB. I had to use partimage to resize and
> extend it to make it recognise itself as 20GB again.

partimage actually copies the filesystem. Put a 10GB filesystem on a 20GB
partition and it will still be a 10GB filesystem. you just need to resize
it.


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