Ext3 users - Jun 2005 - clone RHEL 4 ext3 partition

Hi,

I'm about to roll out a whole bunch of Redhat
Enterprise 4 workstations and have run into problems
cloning from the original.

Normally I would use ghost (v7.5) because it does a
nice job when cloning to a different sized
disk.Unfortunately it comes up with read error 29004.
Looking around it seems that Symantec don't support
Fedora Core 3 (with Ghost v.8 - don't know if v.9
works ???).

Next option was to use dd.
This worked fine but when I went to resize the
partition I noticed that Redhat have removed resize2fs
from e2fsprogs. 
After installing the Redhat e2fsprogs
source rpm (and the newest from sourceforge - i tried
both) and after compiling the resize2fs binary i got
an error - "Filesystem has unsupported feature(s)"

All other techniques that i know eg. dump cpio all
need    to resize the partition after imaging.

THE QUESTION: How do i clone RHEL 4 ext3 partitions to
a different sized disk ?

Thanks
Matt
    


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On Jun 08, 2005  15:16 +1000, Matt Smith wrote:
> I'm about to roll out a whole bunch of Redhat
> Enterprise 4 workstations and have run into problems
> cloning from the original.
> 
> Normally I would use ghost (v7.5) because it does a
> nice job when cloning to a different sized
> disk.Unfortunately it comes up with read error 29004.
> Looking around it seems that Symantec don't support
> Fedora Core 3 (with Ghost v.8 - don't know if v.9
> works ???).
> 
> Next option was to use dd.
> This worked fine but when I went to resize the
> partition I noticed that Redhat have removed resize2fs
> from e2fsprogs. 
> After installing the Redhat e2fsprogs
> source rpm (and the newest from sourceforge - i tried
> both) and after compiling the resize2fs binary i got
> an error - "Filesystem has unsupported feature(s)"
Both problems are likely from the same root cause - namely
some strange feature enabled in your filesystem.  

What does "dumpe2fs -h {dev} | grep feature" say about
your filesystem?  AFAIK the latest e2fsprogs should
support all the ext3 features in a released kernel.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.