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Subject: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change
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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.