On 26.04.05,22:18, Greg Wallace wrote:
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
If you format the USB drive same as the disk drive you can use dd_rescue
to copy all data to the new disk.
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
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