Ghosting a Linux box.

[Shadow07]

I have just installed RH 7.0 on an i386 machine. I have created a Norton Ghost image of my machine. I wanted to upgrade the HD from a 4.5GB to a 10GB drive. However, the Linux Ext2 partition is 4GB and I want to extend it to 9GB. Ghost will only allow me to do a sector by sector copy of the drive, so I cannot resize the partition using Ghost.

Any ideas out there?

I am in the process of using FIPS 2.0 to see if I can resize the partition. Also, I have already used Partition Magic, and it will not allow me to merge the two partitions. Partition Magic will only merge a FAT or FAT32 partition with another of the same type.

 

[TonyRic]

It is simple... Place the ghost image of 4GB on the same drive and make other partitions to move /etc, /var, /home to and it will feel like a 9GB drive, just won't be a single partition... Anyway Linux is more efficient when it is spread over multiple partitions...

 

[Shadow07]

What do you mean by "make other partitions to move /etc, /var, /home to"?

I am no Linux expert, but I would like to knowwhat you mean.

Thanks