Data recovery emergency on a downed server... Help please!!

[Tim Writer]

"Madison Kelly" <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> writes:

> Hi Anton,
> 
>     Thanks for the details. Does the destination partition need to be
> exactly the same size?

No, but it can't be smaller.  If it's substantially bigger and you're able to
recover successfully, you can resize the file system (e.g. using resize2fs)
to take advantage of the additional space.

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