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Hello. I've just bought a 500Gb SATA drive (/dev/sda) for my PC. The old drive is a 120Gb IDE drive (/dev/sdb). The old drive is destined for other uses, so I need to copy all the partitions to the new drive and run my system from there. However, I'm not quite sure how to go about this. If I was to do dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda, what will happen to the extra space on the end of the disk? And will the partition table be OK or will that not work? The other question is, if I was to create partitions in advance on the new disk and copy individual partitions like this: dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sda1 would that work, provided the destination partition is larger than the old one? Or do I have to do something afterwards to make it use all the space? Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html