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

[Alex Schuster]

I just wrote:

> My only fear is that the different drive geometry will be a problem, so
> Grub does not find its stage2 in /boot, or file systems will unreadable
> due to things being specified as head, cylinder and sector, instead of
> absolute blocks. I'm pretty confident that there should be no problem,
> but if I am wrong, I will be in trouble.

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