[mythtv-users] Harddrive downgrade...

[John Drescher]

On Dec 11, 2007 12:05 PM, Andrew Close <aclose at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 11, 2007 10:58 AM, Bill Omer <bill.omer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Why not enable the option to require XXGB free?  If you make myth
> > leave 100GB free, then the space should shrink by its self.  Then you
> > can install your 200GB drive and use dd.
>
> i wasn't sure that would work.  i thought dd might try to copy the
> empty space at the end of the 300GB drive as well.  i have slimmed
> down the usage of the drive to about 145GB, although it is growing
> quickly again. :)
> thanks Bill, i didn't think i could do that.  i'll give it a try.
>
That should not work as you are almost gauranteed that the drive will
use space in between 200G and 300G and also the filesystem will still
think it is 300G. You will have to resize the partition before the
move with dd. If your filesystem is ext3 or reiserfs you can do a
shrink otherwise its better to copy the data.

John


John