From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 10:37:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2NQFQHLtonhATpZBfNf6evWWeLtGSiOf0AcFa82BQNYMQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGK8UzAodWaXB-Zggrfa627KM3KpC=iPGrmUTmE7xP+_HtqxQQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
<volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 08.11.2012 12:12 schrieb <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.
>
> 2tb drive probably different sector size. cp -auv recommended.
>
I agree, best approach is to partition and format the new drive as
new, and then copy the files. This will also help you start your new
disk with a lack of fragmentation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-08 16:38 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
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 [this message]
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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