[Gllug] migrating install to larger hd

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 11:52:23AM +0100, Pete Ryland wrote:
> 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 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,

I asked this earlier in the thread! Can you confirm this approach works?
Will it also work to dd from a standard partition to an lvm lv?

I seek confirmation because of the way you couched your suggestion...
Intonation and ascii mail don't travel too well so I'm making sure. ;)

Thanks,

Ben
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