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27 Apr
2005
27 Apr
'05
06:18
I am running SuSE 8.1 on a desktop machine. The single internal disk drive has 3G of swap and 77G formatted as EXT3. I have a 120G USB attached hard drive formatted with a single logical partition with an EXT3 sub-partition taking up all but what the file system is using to manage it, meaning most of the 120G.. Is there a way, strictly using Linux commands to copy my working 77G partition to the USB partition? Could a reverse copy also be done if I unmounted the file system on Linux before I did the copy? Assuming it's possible, would my system work afterward just as it worked before? Thanks, Greg Wallace