[Gllug] migrating install to larger hd

[Pete Ryland]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 11:20:14AM +0100, Ben Fitzgerald wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 11:14:33AM +0100, David Goodwin wrote:
> > I think a "dd if=/dev/$olddisk of=/dev/$newdisk" would work...
> > 
> > As long as $newdisk is larger than $olddisk.
> > 
> > Then, any room on the $newdisk not used could to be added to the last 
> > partition, which could then be resized using e.g. resize_reiserfs.
> > 
> > This wouldn't let you change over to using LVM as the raw data is 
> > probably quite different.
> 
> I thought that too, but found out to my irritation(!) that this doesn't
> work if the disk geometry is different (I'm assuming this was the problem).
> I ended up with a partition table that had the first three partitions
> (though only the first was mountable).  The extended partition showed up
> as corrupted. :(

Try doing the dd just on the individual partitions rather than the whole
disk.

Pete
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