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I was thinking, can I use dd to copy partition(ext 3) over to another partition in another drive?...
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I was thinking, can I use dd to copy partition(ext 3) over to another partition in another drive?
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Indeed you can, but only to an equal-sized or larger partition. If the new partition is larger, you will also need to enlarge the filesystem afterwards with the resize2fs program. Other than that, there's no problems with it.
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How can I use the resize2fs program? Do I run that after using dd?
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dd is a program that takes input in blocks and outputs it in blocks. It's not _really_ necessary anymore (you could use cat instead), but it can speed up transfer performance a bit if you use a good block size.
Basically, just run it like this:
resize2fs without any size argument resizes the filesystem to fit the partition on which it resides.Code:dd if=/dev/hdxx of=/dev/hdyy bs=4096 resize2fs -p /dev/hdyy
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