From: mindrunner <kernel@ccube.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:23:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <509BCE5C.3030804@ccube.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+tP=ahAgRzS+qHosoGTkOH0yNqtJJH4SSAy-wnwqeFLgF4z4Q@mail.gmail.com>
i always use ddrescue for migrating to another hdd.
it is much more comfortable than dd and does not depent on file
systems, etc.
I always prefer copying on block device level.
On 11/08/2012 03:12 PM, Srdjan Rakic wrote:
> I used rsync for that.
>
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
> <volkerarmin@googlemail.com <mailto:volkerarmin@googlemail.com>>
> wrote:
>
> 2tb drive probably different sector size. cp -auv recommended.
>
> Am 08.11.2012 12:12 schrieb <jdm@jdm.myzen.co.uk
> <mailto:jdm@jdm.myzen.co.uk>>:
>
> I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to
> 2tb.
>
> To transfer I intend to dd the partitions across and then resize
> using lvm as home swap var are located on lvm.
>
> Is this the right approach or would you recommend another method?
>
> John D Maunder.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-08 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-08 11:08 [gentoo-user] Hard drive change jdm
2012-11-08 11:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-11-08 13:03 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-11-08 14:12 ` Srdjan Rakic
2012-11-08 15:23 ` mindrunner [this message]
2012-11-08 15:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-11-08 18:33 ` mindrunner
2012-11-08 20:37 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-11-09 12:00 ` mindrunner
2012-11-09 12:25 ` Bruce Hill
2012-11-09 13:56 ` Mark Knecht
2012-11-09 14:37 ` Bruce Hill
2012-11-13 21:10 ` Lukas Elsner
2012-11-09 14:00 ` Philip Webb
2012-11-09 15:07 ` Bruce Hill
[not found] ` <509C5091.4040903@ccube.de>
2012-11-09 15:14 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-11-09 15:40 ` Bruce Hill
2012-11-09 17:56 ` Chris Walters
2012-11-08 15:10 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-11-08 16:37 ` Paul Hartman
2012-11-08 18:17 ` Florian Philipp
2012-11-08 19:46 ` john
2012-11-12 12:14 ` Mick
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2012-11-08 12:08 jdm
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