Hard Drive Reshuffle

[Brian Kelsay]

Ghost does allow the resizing of partitions and it works with Windows and
Linux.  As always if you are doing this to a Windows partition, defrag it
first.  Even just Ghosting it defrag it first.  Also, you might want to make
your partitions ahead of time on the destination drive and if you change the
partition location you will have to change /etc/fstab.  e.g. / moves from
hda9 to hda1.

----- Original Message -----

> I am running out of space on my /usr partition and want to expand that
> partition, if possible.
>
> Here is how the drive is laid out:
>
> hda1 700 MB Windows 98
> hda5 700 MB Windows NT
> hda6 1500 MB /usr
> hda7 100 MB /boot
> hda8 260 MB swap
> hda9 1500 MB /
> hda9 32000 MB /data
>
> I want to reconfigure the drive like so:
>
> hda1 500 MB /boot
> hda5 2000 MB /
> hda6 3000 MB /usr
> hda7 500 MB swap
> hda8 30000 MB /data
>
> I want to back up all of the data on the existing partitions.  I was
> thinking about using the following command to save the data on another
> drive:
>
> dd if=/dev/hda6 of=usr.iso
>
> Is that a valid way to save the data on the drive?  If so, do I get that
> data back onto the drive like so:
>
> dd if=usr.iso of=/dev/hda6
>
> Also, are there any tools (i.e. Ghost )that I can use to help make the
> process easier?
>
> Thanks,
> Gene
>
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