I am using an 8G CF card. (I was using dd to duplicate the card with different size cards I was advised not to).

So I wrote the script below which basically: 1) runs fdisk to setup the device 2) makes the ext3 file system and the swap 3) mounts my old image "/" filesystem and the new partition 4) tar and untar the directories 5) run grub on it 6) set label for "/"

After I run all the above I get:

EXT3-fs error ext3_find_entry reading directory #129586 offset 0

then a couple lines later it remounts the root file system read only.

What have I missed in successfully make the CF card based on the old image?

Jerry ---------

DEVICE=/dev/sde PARTITION_1=/dev/sde1 PARTITION_2=/dev/sde2

fdisk $DEVICE << EOF o n p 1

+7000M n p 2

t 2 82 a 1 w EOF

echo "" fdisk -l $DEVICE

echo "" mke2fs -j $PARTITION_1 mkswap $PARTITION_2

# mount the first partition in the image file mount -t ext3 -o loop,offset=32256 ebox4300.centos.5.5.cf.img /mnt/from_image mount -t ext3 $PARTITION_1 /mnt/to_image

PUSH_PWD=`pwd`

# Directories to copy cd /mnt/from_image for DIRECTORY in bin boot dev etc home install lib misc net opt root sbin selinux srv tftpboot tmp usr var do tar -cf - $DIRECTORY | (cd /mnt/to_image; tar -xpvf - ) done

# Skip these directories above and just make them for mounting mkdir /mnt/to_image/proc mkdir /mnt/to_image/sys

cd $PUSH_PWD

umount /mnt/from_image umount /mnt/to_image

grub << EOF device (hd0) $DEVICE root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) quit EOF

e2label $PARTITION_1 "/" mkswap -L "SWAP-hda2" $PARTITION_2