[CentOS] resize an image file

Wed Nov 21 18:46:37 UTC 2007
Jancio Wodnik <jancio_wodnik at wp.pl>

Jerry Geis pisze:
> 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.
>
> As you can see most of the disk is unused.
> Is there a way to trim the resulting image to only be 10G instead of 
> 100G?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jerry
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Hi. Did you try: partimage ? Very handy tool.

http://www.digitalissues.co.uk/html/os/misc/partimage.html

Irens