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Hi there! |
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There is a PC with a 160 GB SATA drive, and I want to replace it with one of |
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about 1 TB in size. Would this work? |
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- attach 2nd drive via SATA port or USB->SATA convertor |
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- boot from rescue CD |
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- dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb |
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- remove sda, attach sdb to where sda was |
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- reboot |
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- add other partitions or enlarge the last one |
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I do not expect problems, but I'm not entirely sure. Maybe the different |
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drive geometry would have an effect on file system or at least to the Grub |
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boot loader? |
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The system is remote, so I will not do the exchange personally. I will only |
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make the additional space usable once the system is back up and running. The |
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person who does the replacement does not know too much about LVM and file |
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systems, and how to make a Gentoo system work again if the boot partition |
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got corrupted. He will use Norton Ghost to duplicate the drive's contents. I |
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would prefer dd, but the person is a Windows guy, and Ghost will probably do |
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the job as well. |
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Wonko |
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