From: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:40:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83843fb3-8768-4674-7a75-0bf8377c7664@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6f3083c-08b1-8ae1-0d23-5c1e36d7ba54@gmail.com>
On 17/04/2023 02:14, Dale wrote:
> My current install is over a decade old. My /boot partition is about
> 375MBs. I should have made it larger but at the time, I booted CD/DVD
> media when needed. I didn't have USB sticks at the time. This time, I
> plan to make some changes. If I put Knoppix and/or Gentoo LiveGUI in
> /boot, it will be larger. Much larger. Mark's idea is best tho. If I
> can get Grub to work and boot it.
If you dd your boot partition across, you can copy it into a larger
partition on the new drive, and then just expand the filesystem.
So changing partition sizes isn't a problem if you want to just copy
your system drive onto a new disk.
Cheers,
Wol
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-17 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-15 22:47 [gentoo-user] Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on Dale
2023-04-15 23:24 ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-15 23:44 ` thelma
2023-04-16 1:47 ` William Kenworthy
2023-04-16 7:18 ` Peter Humphrey
2023-04-16 8:43 ` William Kenworthy
2023-04-16 15:08 ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-16 15:29 ` Dale
2023-04-16 16:10 ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-16 16:54 ` Dale
2023-04-16 18:14 ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-16 18:53 ` Dale
2023-04-16 19:30 ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-16 22:26 ` Dale
2023-04-16 23:16 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-04-17 1:14 ` Dale
2023-04-17 9:40 ` Wols Lists [this message]
2023-04-17 17:45 ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-18 0:35 ` Dale
2023-04-18 8:03 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-10-07 7:22 ` Dale
2023-04-16 17:46 ` Jorge Almeida
2023-04-16 18:07 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-04-16 20:22 ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-16 22:17 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-04-17 0:34 ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-18 14:52 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2023-04-18 15:05 ` Dale
2023-04-18 15:36 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2023-04-18 20:01 ` Dale
2023-04-18 20:53 ` Wol
2023-04-18 22:13 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-04-18 23:08 ` Wols Lists
2023-04-19 1:15 ` Dale
2023-04-18 20:57 ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-18 21:15 ` Dale
2023-04-18 21:25 ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-19 1:36 ` Dale
2023-04-18 22:18 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-04-18 22:41 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-04-19 1:45 ` Dale
2023-04-19 8:00 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2023-04-19 9:42 ` Dale
2023-04-19 10:34 ` Peter Humphrey
2023-04-19 17:14 ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-19 17:59 ` Dale
2023-04-19 18:13 ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-19 19:26 ` Dale
2023-04-19 19:38 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2023-04-19 20:00 ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-19 22:13 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-04-19 23:32 ` Dale
2023-04-20 1:09 ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-20 4:23 ` Dale
2023-04-20 4:41 ` eric
2023-04-20 9:48 ` Dale
2023-04-20 23:02 ` Wol
2023-04-20 8:55 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-04-20 8:52 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-04-20 9:29 ` Dale
2023-04-20 10:08 ` Peter Humphrey
2023-04-20 10:59 ` Dale
2023-04-20 13:23 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2023-04-20 12:23 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-04-20 9:46 ` Peter Humphrey
2023-04-20 9:49 ` Dale
2023-04-18 17:52 ` Mark Knecht
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