I was thinking of putting a slightly bigger HD on my Linux server and would like to know the easiest way. I know that ghost works well on FAT32 partitions, but does it work on Ext3 partitions too? Id rather not reinstall if I don't have to, so any and all suggestions are appreciated. TIA Kev
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Kevin Smith wrote:> I was thinking of putting a slightly bigger HD on my Linux server and > would like to know the easiest way. I know that ghost works well on > FAT32 partitions, but does it work on Ext3 partitions too? Id rather > not reinstall if I don't have to, so any and all suggestions are > appreciated.Ghost 2003 will image ext2/3 partitions - I do it here. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org -------------- next part -------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 09:17:24AM -0500, Kevin Smith wrote:> I was thinking of putting a slightly bigger HD on my Linux server and would > like to know the easiest way. > I know that ghost works well on FAT32 partitions, but does it work on Ext3 > partitions too? > Id rather not reinstall if I don't have to, so any and all suggestions are > appreciated.This is a bit OT, but I have used Ghost with ext2 partitions with no problems whatsoever. I'm not sure if ext3 is supported or not. However, if you run Lilo, you must boot back into the system with some sort of Lilo bootdisk and run lilo to pick up the changes. Grub, on the other hand, works without having to do anything. -- :wq! Matthew Daubenspeck http://www.oddprocess.org
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Niehof [mailto:jniehof@paladigm.com]> Same diff; any ext2-based tools work just fine with a clean > ext3 partition. So just make sure to shut down cleanly > before using ghost.Not always true. Partition Magic 4.0 works great for resizing ext2 partitions, but won't work on ext3 partitions. For some reason even if you convert them to ext2 by removing the journal they don't work.
>> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jon Niehof [mailto:jniehof@paladigm.com]>> Same diff; any ext2-based tools work just fine with a clean >> ext3 partition. So just make sure to shut down cleanly >> before using ghost.>Not always true.>Partition Magic 4.0 works great for resizing ext2 partitions, but won'twork>on ext3 partitions. For some reason even if you convert them to ext2 by >removing the journal they don't work. >-- >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/sambaIts the same with Powerquest's Drive Image Pro, and Image Centre. Ext2 works, reiserfs works but ext3 doesn't :(
The word I got from Symantec is that Ghost 2002 does not support ext2, 2003 will. I've seen ghost 2002 screw up ext2 and when we went out and got 2003 and it worked fine, bit of stuffing around with the boot loader but nothing too exciting. Finn. On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:17:24 -0500 "Kevin Smith" <ksmith@perfht.com> wrote:> I was thinking of putting a slightly bigger HD on my Linux server and would > like to know the easiest way. > I know that ghost works well on FAT32 partitions, but does it work on Ext3 > partitions too? > Id rather not reinstall if I don't have to, so any and all suggestions are > appreciated. > > TIA > Kev >
Ghosting ????
Why, you are useing linux.
Boot your system from cd.
Make the filesystem on the new hd
mke2fs .....
Mount the old and the new hd, eg.:
mkdir /OLD
mkdir /NEW
mount /dev/hda5 /OLD
mount /dev/sda1 /NEW
Change to the old hd
cd /OLD
use tar to archive the old partionion im memory and untar it on the new hd
with keeping all the flags:
tar -cSp --numeric-owner -f - . | ( cd /NEW && tar xSpvf - )
Write the boot manager to the new hd.
That's all.
Taken from http://sdb.suse.de/de/sdb/html/maddin_kopieren.html
But this is a german source.
resize2fs will not work on ext3
Regards
Joerg Junge
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I can't tell you exactly.
But when I migrated to softraid I had to copy
the root partition to the raidset and had problems with cp.
I think the important issues about tar are:
- Prerserving the numeric own
Besause you booting with a rescue system
- Preserving soft and hardlinks exactly in the way the are
(your root partition is now in /old/ )
ATTENTION:
It is absolutly right what Sebasti?n Abate said. Tar will not preserve
ACL's.
So refere to the star man page.
Cheers
Joerg Junge
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J?rg Junge
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Parit?tischer Wohlfahrtsverband
Landesverband Th?ringen e.V.
Bergstr. 11
99192 Neudietendorf
Deutschland
Tel : +49 36202 26 204
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Question: why would one tar and not simply cp -a?
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Be carefull if you use ACL, tar don't save your acl's configuration. Use
star.