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On Mon, Jan 31 2011, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> Allan Gottlieb writes: |
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>> On Mon, Jan 31 2011, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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>> > There is a PC with a 160 GB SATA drive, and I want to replace it with |
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>> > one of about 1 TB in size. Would this work? |
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>> > |
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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 |
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>> > different drive geometry would have an effect on file system or at |
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>> > least to the Grub boot loader? |
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>> Won't dd'ing the whole disk will make the 1TB disk a 160GB disk. |
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> Not really. Yes, the current partitioning scheme will not make more than the |
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> 160G available. But this can be changed easily later, all I need to do is |
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> call fdisk and add partitions. Or resize the last one. |
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Sure, but the other partitions will stay the same size. If you are |
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using lvm then that is no problem, if not I would think it is |
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constraining. |
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