Re: Need a live CD recommendation.
- From: Mark Healey <die@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:09:48 GMT
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:03:23 -0500, George Ellison wrote:
> Mark Healey <die@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 01:20:55 +0100, Michael Heiming wrote:
>>
>> > In comp.os.linux.misc Mark Healey <die@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> >> I'm running a Fedora Core 3 system with two drives. The second is for big
>> >> media files. I filled it up.
>> >
>> >> I figure that the easiest way to move the data is to replace old data
>> >> drive with the new data drive, replace the boot drive with the old data
>> >> drive, boot from a live CD, copy the files, and finally replace the old
>> >> data drive with the boot drive.
>> >
>> >> I need a live CD that supports ext3.
>> >
>> > Any should do, ext2/3 is the Linux native filesystem.
>>
>> That's what I thought but for some reason Knoppix couldn't mount the ext3
>> drives.
>
> IIRC, there was a bug in some earlier versions of the program pertaining to
> ext3 partitions. Try 'mount -t ext3 /dev/hd? /mnt/???'
I just downloaded the latest and it worked. Boy it sure took a long time
to copy 80G of files.
Now I'm going to post a real toughie in another thread.
--
Mark Healey
marknews(at)healeyonline(dot)com
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