I used rsync for that.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:volkerarmin@googlemail.com" target="_blank">volkerarmin@googlemail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>2tb drive  probably different sector size. cp -auv recommended.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">Am 08.11.2012 12:12 schrieb  &lt;<a href="mailto:jdm@jdm.myzen.co.uk" target="_blank">jdm@jdm.myzen.co.uk</a>&gt;:<div><div class="h5"><br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

I am about to change my hard drive on my machine from a 500GB to 2tb.<br>
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To transfer I  intend to dd the partitions across and then resize using lvm as home swap var are located on lvm.<br>
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Is this the right approach or would you recommend another method?<br>
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John D Maunder.<br>
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