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]]>those are valid suggestions, tomk. i think you forgot that you can mount a drive image though
I did indeed - thanks.
]]>i think you can change the partition size using cfdisk and then resizing your ext3-partition with
resize2fs
.
Have look at the manpage for the options.
For the next backup you should use tar.
Greets
Sunnemer
]]>first, reformat your /home directory as desired, then do the following:
mount -t ext3 home.img /mnt -o loop
cp -a /mnt /home
dd if=/dev/hda6 of=home.img
Then a backed the file on an external hdd.
When I had installed new hdd and arch, I copied the file to new home partition (also ext3fs, approx. 40 GB).
dd if=home.img of=/dev/hda6
And here comes the problem. The home partition reports havimg just 17GB (as the old one).
Can I fix it somehow? Is there any other way to copy content of whole partition without this problem?