6.2 GNU Parted and the Second Extended Filesystem

Parted doesn't directly support for copying ext2 file systems (yet). There are a few ways of achieving this, however:

• Use Parted's mkfs command (or mkfs.ext2), and then run at the shell: FIXME!!! this doesn't work quite right - but it should be OK for most people...

  # mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /mnt/dst
  # find /mnt/src -depth | cpio -pm /mnt/dst
  

• If the duplicate partition is going to bigger than the original, this can also be done: first, create the new ext2 partition. Then:

  # dd if=/dev/src-device of=/dev/dst-device bs=1024 count=old_size
  # parted /dev/hda resize 2 start end
  

  where old_size is the size of the original partition in kilobytes. start and end are the new start and end for the duplicate partition.

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