From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:27:42 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1296514662.10996.44.camel@orpheus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D472770.1050307@wonkology.org>
Hi,
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 22:19 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Now I'm really really sure there will be no problem. What I wrote above
> about the gemotry is true I think, but all modern drives seem to have
> 255 heads and 63 sectors per track, so they will be compatible.
>
> Wonko
>
The only problem I see with dd is that it won't do any error checking,
afaik. Will you have the old drive in as #2 later to double check?
The other option is clonezilla. It will be a bit more work for you, but
you can script it to clone the partitions / drives / copy boot loaders
and so on. Then the remote assistant can just boot it (from usb key
even) and press go!
--
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
I bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house.
-- Steven Wright
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-31 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-31 17:34 [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one Alex Schuster
2011-01-31 18:19 ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-01-31 18:36 ` Alex Schuster
2011-01-31 19:16 ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-01-31 20:34 ` Alan McKinnon
[not found] ` <4D472323.6050007@wonkology.org>
2011-01-31 21:19 ` Alex Schuster
2011-01-31 22:37 ` Nils Holland
2011-01-31 22:39 ` Mick
2011-02-01 0:34 ` Alex Schuster
2011-02-01 8:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-01-31 22:57 ` Iain Buchanan [this message]
2011-02-02 13:41 ` Alex Schuster
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