Restoring disk with difficult resize problem
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Hi,
I need to restore a disk image of a 80GB disk on several (hundreds) PCs with bigger disks (250/320/500/ecc).
The problem is that this disk is a linux disk, with 2 partitions: swap and root. So, if I use the -r option and I try to restore the 80GB image on a 500GB disk, I end up having 2 resized partition, whose size will be 50GB (for swap) and 450GB (for root) - and I do not really want a 50GB swap partition ;)
So, my problem is that I need to find an automagic way so that I can restore the small image in bigger disks, but having only the root partition to be resized.
Is this possible? Any clues or ideas?
Thank you very much!
Daniele
Daniele,
I think you have two options:
1. Prepare the partition table on the target disk first, then turn on "-r" and "-k".
2. Write a script to create the partition table on target disk, put it in /opt/drbl/share/ocs/prerun/, and check option "-o1".
Some examples you can refer:
/opt/drbl/samples/create-*pt-sf
Steven.
BTW, maybe you can modify /opt/drbl/sbin/ocs-expand-mbr-pt to make it. It's a bash script, so it's not too difficult to modify it.
If you make it, please share that.
Thanks.
Steven.