[plug] Partition sizes

Mike Holland myk at golden.wattle.id.au
Thu Feb 17 10:55:31 WST 2000


On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Oliver White wrote:

> I have no idea how it was done, the folks at the shop copied it over. I
> think they just did a low level copy.

That would explain it then. A low level copy will natuarally result in a
filesystem of the same size. You need to reformat (mke2fs) the new
partiton, and then copy the _files_. e.g. "cp -a".
  Then boot from floppy with the new root, and re-run lilo.

Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
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