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On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:14:57 +0100 |
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"brullo nulla" <brullonulla@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > But I was thinking: if my old drive is 200 Gb and my new drive is |
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> > > 320 Gb, what happens to the partition table? That is, the old |
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> > > partition table will refer to a 200 Gb disk, on a 320 Gb disk. |
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> > > What happens to the 120 Gb left? Are they recognized as an empty |
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> > > partition? Are they left unrecognized? |
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> > > Maybe I should just dd the MBR and then repartition the disk and |
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> > > use cp for the rest. |
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> > You'll need to fdisk it with a LiveCD and delete the old small |
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> > partition, then create a new one in its place occupying the rest of |
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> > the new larger disk. *BE VERY CAREFUL* to start the new partition |
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> > *exactly* where the old one starts. Finally, reboot (to read the |
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> > new partition table) and resize the fs to fit the expanded |
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> > available physical space. |
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> Hmm. Guess I'll just dd the 512-mb grub bootloader and then proceed by |
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> copying everything in new partitions, all from a livecd. |
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512 _bytes_, not MB! and that includes the (first) partition table and |
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boot signature. So really, you only want to copy 446 bytes. |
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http://www.geocities.com/rlcomp_1999/procedures/mbr.html |
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> m. |
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