Howto move a 13GB filesystem on80GB into a 20GB

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:54:11PM -0400, lfeder wrote:
> I have a RHEL4 server that takes up 13GB diskspace of a 80GB drive.
> 
> It was 73GB, I deleted 60GB of data, so now it uses only 13GB of diskspace
> 
> I used to use Ranish Partition Manager on the Ultimate Boot CD to copy the
> disk to disk.
> 
> But now if I do that, it is copying 60GB of empty data.
> 
> .
> 
> I would like to move this RHEL4 into a 20GB drive.
> 
> I though about hooking up the 20GB, formatting it, with a ext3 and swap and
> then cp'ing it all over.
> 
> Or maybe use dump?
> 
> What are the best options?

cp -ax / /newroot

Worked many times for me before.

Or maybe parted will resize the current drive down to 20GB so you can
copy it (cp -ax is faster and safer I think).

Len Sorensen
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