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> > But I was thinking: if my old drive is 200 Gb and my new drive is 320 |
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> > Gb, what happens to the partition table? That is, the old partition |
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> > table will refer to a 200 Gb disk, on a 320 Gb disk. What happens to the |
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> > 120 Gb left? Are they recognized as an empty partition? Are they left |
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> > unrecognized? |
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> > Maybe I should just dd the MBR and then repartition the disk and use cp |
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> > for the rest. |
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> You'll need to fdisk it with a LiveCD and delete the old small partition, then |
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> create a new one in its place occupying the rest of the new larger disk. *BE |
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> VERY CAREFUL* to start the new partition *exactly* where the old one starts. |
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> Finally, reboot (to read the new partition table) and resize the fs to fit |
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> the expanded 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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m. |
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