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On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 02:24:01 +0000, Stroller wrote: |
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> > If the new drive has a greater or equal number of blocks than the old |
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> > you could boot a LiveCD then dd(1) the old device (something like "dd |
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> > if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda" IIRC) onto the new device. You then should |
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> > be able to boot directly off of the new drive. |
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> Presumably this copies the boot sector & the main partition data |
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> correctly, but what about the "whitespace" at the end of the drive? |
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That stays unpartitioned. You can either create a new partition there or |
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resize the final partition, using either qtparted or the command line |
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tools. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Daddy? What's this little red button for? |
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