Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

[Iain Buchanan]

Hi,

On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 22:19 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:

> Now I'm really really sure there will be no problem. What I wrote above
> about the gemotry is true I think, but all modern drives seem to have
> 255 heads and 63 sectors per track, so they will be compatible.
>
> 	Wonko
>


The only problem I see with dd is that it won't do any error checking,
afaik.  Will you have the old drive in as #2 later to double check?

The other option is clonezilla.  It will be a bit more work for you, but
you can script it to clone the partitions / drives / copy boot loaders
and so on.  Then the remote assistant can just boot it (from usb key
even) and press go!
-- 
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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