Howto move a 13GB filesystem on80GB into a 20GB

[Alex Marandon]

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:54:11PM -0400, lfeder wrote:
> I though about hooking up the 20GB, formatting it, with a ext3 and swap and
> then cp'ing it all over.

I had to do that recently and I used rsync with its -a option which
preserve file attributes. I also used --exclude to prevent the recursive
copy of the directory where the target partition was mounted. Then I
just had to run lilo to let it find the new location of my kernel.

Good luck :)
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