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On 22:19 Mon 31 Jan , Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> I just wrote: |
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> > My only fear is that the different drive geometry will be a problem, so |
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> > Grub does not find its stage2 in /boot, or file systems will unreadable |
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> > due to things being specified as head, cylinder and sector, instead of |
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> > absolute blocks. I'm pretty confident that there should be no problem, |
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> > but if I am wrong, I will be in trouble. |
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> Now I'm really really sure there will be no problem. What I wrote above |
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> about the gemotry is true I think, but all modern drives seem to have |
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> 255 heads and 63 sectors per track, so they will be compatible. |
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> Wonko |
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Yep, I would be very surprised if what you're planning to do would |
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result in problems, as I've done several such operations in the past |
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without any issues. I've never had much to do with LVM, but the last |
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time I was doing this sort of thing I dd'd source drive to target |
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drive, resized /home (the last partition I always create) to fill the |
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new, larger disk, and that was that, the machine instantly booted fine. |
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Not exactly the same thing you are doing (especially as LVM is |
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involved in your setup), but I can see no major difference between |
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these two cases that looks like trouble. |
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Greetings, |
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Nils |
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Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunsorf-Luthe (Germany) |
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