[plug] Partition sizes
Oliver White
ojw at iinet.net.au
Thu Feb 17 11:10:16 WST 2000
Mike Holland wrote:
>
> 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.
Bugger.
I think I'll just reinstall...
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Oliver White
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