[olug] Imaging a 20GB to a larger hard drive

[Trent Melcher]

That should work, "dd" does a block for block copy, so the only issue is
that it writes your hard drives label to the new drive, so its going to
look as if it's a 20GB drive.  Gparted or even qtparted should be able
to resize this for you, without destroying data.

Trent

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> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On 
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> Subject: Re: [olug] Imaging a 20GB to a larger hard drive
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> Possibly not helpful, but could you dd the drive, then if the 
> dd works as bootable, use the gparted live cd to resize??
> 
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> Eric Lusk wrote:
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> >Adding to my last statement, I have been able to copy
> >a drive, then format the remaining space and rearrange
> >it.  It's been a while since I've had to do that one,
> >but I made myself a much larger /home partition that
> >way at one point...
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