[CentOS] resize an image file
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Wed Nov 21 18:44:49 UTC 2007
Jerry Geis wrote:
> I have a 100G disk on an old redhat 7.3 system.
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 9.6G 2.4G 6.7G 27% /
> /dev/hda3 99G 6.1G 88G 7% /home
> hda2 is 2G swap
>
> I am trying to back that complete image up on my centos 5 system.
> I can do the dd if=/dev/hda bs=1M | ssh root at machine 'cat > disk.img'
> which gets me the whole 100G.
tar czlf - / /home | ssh root at machine 'cat > disk.tar.gz'
(-l so tar doesn't cross file systems and try to backup /proc)
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