[Gllug] migrating install to larger hd

[David Goodwin]

Ben Fitzgerald wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a hd that's filling up.
> 
> I have a larger disk I'd like to move my install to.
> 
> What's the quickest way to get it across and working?
> 
> Here are my initial thoughts:
> 
> A basic dd is out due to the disks being diferrent.

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.


thanks,

David.
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