From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:19:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D472770.1050307@wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D472323.6050007@wonkology.org>
I just wrote:
> My only fear is that the different drive geometry will be a problem, so
> Grub does not find its stage2 in /boot, or file systems will unreadable
> due to things being specified as head, cylinder and sector, instead of
> absolute blocks. I'm pretty confident that there should be no problem,
> but if I am wrong, I will be in trouble.
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-31 22:08 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 [this message]
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
2011-02-02 13:41 ` Alex Schuster
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