Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving the Pool

Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote on 05/11/2011 04:56:24 PM: > On 5/11/2011 1:44 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote: > > > > That would have been my strong suggestion: do a dd of the JFS partition > > and resize when done. (Does parted understand JFS? Use that if it does: > > it'll be even faster.) > > Partclone claims to handle jfs:http://partclone.org/feature.phpand for > the filesystems it understands it should only have to copy the used > blocks. I've never used it directly and don't use jfs myself, but I've > copied a lot of disks with clonezilla which uses partclone to do the > work on linux systems.
+1

I too use Clonezilla for the same purpose. I mis-remembered the command that Clonezilla uses.

If your filesystem is noticeably empty, partclone makes a noticeable difference.

Timothy J. Massey


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