From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:19:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yu939o9rl4h.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201101311834.24854.wonko@wonkology.org> (Alex Schuster's message of "Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:34:23 +0100")
On Mon, Jan 31 2011, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> There is a PC with a 160 GB SATA drive, and I want to replace it with one of
> about 1 TB in size. Would this work?
>
> - attach 2nd drive via SATA port or USB->SATA convertor
> - boot from rescue CD
> - dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
> - remove sda, attach sdb to where sda was
> - reboot
> - add other partitions or enlarge the last one
>
> I do not expect problems, but I'm not entirely sure. Maybe the different
> drive geometry would have an effect on file system or at least to the Grub
> boot loader?
Won't dd'ing the whole disk will make the 1TB disk a 160GB disk.
I would partition the TB disk as you like and
do a tar or rsync on each partition of the original.
Some care would be needed for /dev and I don't think things like /proc
should be copied.
allan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-31 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-31 17:34 [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one Alex Schuster
2011-01-31 18:19 ` Allan Gottlieb [this message]
2011-01-31 18:36 ` Alex Schuster
2011-01-31 19:16 ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-01-31 20:34 ` Alan McKinnon
[not found] ` <4D472323.6050007@wonkology.org>
2011-01-31 21:19 ` Alex Schuster
2011-01-31 22:37 ` Nils Holland
2011-01-31 22:39 ` Mick
2011-02-01 0:34 ` Alex Schuster
2011-02-01 8:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-01-31 22:57 ` Iain Buchanan
2011-02-02 13:41 ` Alex Schuster
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