Re: [LUG] transferring a disk structure to another, bigger one

[Mark Evans <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:20:18PM +0000, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> Having used dd to copy all the contents of /dev/hda to a new /dev/hdb
> 
> how do I persuade the new drive that it is much bigger?

With quite a bit of messing around, especially if the two drives have
different CHS geometries.

> This is part of a large upgrade, and if driven to it I'll just start from 
> scratch, but then I have to transfer ownership of files and IDs and so on.

A far better command would be "cp -a". After first making the
appropriate filesystem(s) on the new HDD.

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