DiskDump to a smaller USB

stacksofplates

@johnhooks hero of the thread - thank you, I'm saving that to try at home!

Ha don't call me a hero until we are sure it works

And like I said, there might be an easier way to do this but that's the first I thought of.

stacksofplates

All of that is also assuming you have space left to make a logical volume. I always leave extra room for LVM snapshots and one off scenarios like this.

stacksofplates

One other thing to watch for. Resize2fs only works with ext file systems. Last I heard you can't shrink an XFS file system, only grow it.

stacksofplates

I thought of one other way that could possibly work also. You can just copy the MBR on the big USB to the small one to make it bootable with dd if=/dev/bigusb of=/dev/smallusb bs=512 count=1 then you can just copy the actual files from the big USB to a new partition on the small one.

JaredBusch

BUy a 32gb USB. They are < $20. How much time are you wasting on this?

DustinB3403

@JaredBusch Thank you Jared, always so wise.

JaredBusch

@DustinB3403 said:

@JaredBusch Thank you Jared, always so wise.

It is a serious statement man. How much have you cost your company in the pursuit of of this?

DustinB3403

@JaredBusch None because I've been off for the past few days.

JaredBusch

@DustinB3403 said:

@JaredBusch None because I've been off for the past few days.

Then why are you giving away your time for free to your company?

My personal time is more valuable than that.

scottalanmiller

I think that it is his person XenServer installation.

DustinB3403

For me this is a learning experience to even learn if its doable.

I'm doing other stuff as well, not just dicking around with this.

IRJ

$10 and the 3 closest stores to me have them in stock so I bet your closest store would, too.

http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/124999/PNY-Attach-3-32GB-USB-Flash/?cm_mmc=PLA--Google--Data_Storage_Media-_-124999-VQ6-47886868556-VQ16-c-VQ17-pla-VQ18-online-VQ19-124999-VQ20-76860675716-VQ21--VQ22-177839036-VQ27-9203161436&gclid=CjwKEAiA3Ou1BRDso5XyhduuwFASJABP3PEDg3I-OGVYSxiU_IvvxBXhdqt36evzEUS1qj91jvgFHRoCNr3w_wcB

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said:

I think that it is his person XenServer installation.

Even if this is true, that does not mean that time is free. Trying to shoehorn a larger disk into a smaller disk is never a good idea. Yes people try and do it all the time. Still does not make it a good idea.

DustinB3403

@JaredBusch Honestly Jared what the f[moderated] do you care what I do with my personal time?

Mind your own business.

JaredBusch

@DustinB3403 said:

@JaredBusch Honestly Jared what the f[moderated] do you care what I do with my personal time?

Mind your own business.

Because bad IT at home leads to bad IT at work.

DustinB3403

@JaredBusch Pissy attitudes online leads to pissy attitudes at work.

JaredBusch

@DustinB3403 said:

@JaredBusch Pissy attitudes online leads to pissy attitudes at work.

I never said anything more than it is bad decision making and a waste of time. Personal insults are uncalled for.

Dashrender

@JaredBusch said:

@DustinB3403 said:

@JaredBusch Honestly Jared what the f[moderated] do you care what I do with my personal time?

Mind your own business.

Because bad IT at home leads to bad IT at work.

I don't consider the exercise of learning how to restore a larger partition to a smaller device, assuming data is smaller than the new smaller drive.