Neither dd nor cat will do any resizing. Instead of moving the partition around that way expect to move data between hda1/hdb1 at the filesystem level. This is true for two reasons. The boot block in the partition is coded for a specific size and your file system meta data is all sized for the other drive. You would need to adjust each for the new drive during the transfer. Stuff like ghost and partition magic does the FS mangling automagically. You can get away with dding a partition to another *if* they are of approximately the same size. Any extra space will just be unused. You're probably much better off mounting each and just moving files around that way. (not that I read the original question, I'm just responding to the suggestion) Josh __SIG__ On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Brian wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Jason Hataye wrote: > > > > > Here's what I want to DO: > > 128 MB RAM > > One 3 gig hard drive (in second IDE slot) > > One 30 gig hard drive (in first IDE slot) > > Red Hat Linux 7.1, give the partition about 2/3 of my HD space > > Windoze 98, give the partition about 1/3 of my HD space > > Use LILO to boot > > Anyway, you had a REAL question in there :-) > > What *I* would do is grab yourself a copy of a Windoze boot disk with > fdisk on it and a copy of Tom's root boot. Make the drive changes and > change all the info in the BIOS as you had described. Boot with the 'doze > floppy, fdisk the drive. Make yourself a 10 GB FAT32 partition and set it > active. Reboot the machine with Tom's root boot and 'dd if=/dev/hdb1 > of=/dev/hda1' to move your existing Windoze partition (I'm assuming you > want to keep Windoze running as is) to your new drive. Reboot once again > using the Windoze boot disk and do a 'sys c:' to make it bootable. Then, > boot to the hard disk and make sure Windoze starts. Once you know Windoze > has been copied correctly, pop in the RH7.1 disc and do the install, > carving up the other 20 gigs as you like. Make no changes to the 3 > gig. Once you have your system booting OK and all your imporatnt stuff > moved off the 3 GB onto your new drive, wipe the 3 gig, partition it to > your liking, and mount it somewhere nice. > > The ONLY question I have is whether or not dd will just accept the new > partition or whether it will resize to the old one. You may have to use > 'cat /dev/hdb1 > /dev/hda1' instead. Anyone have an idea? > > Anyway, I'm doing something similar when I upgrade and that's how I was > planning to do it. > > -Brian > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >