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Re: [LUG] Copying partitions to new (larger) HDD

 

Simon Williams wrote:
> 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
> 

mount it all up and use cp... "cp -a" for example..

I like making life easy..

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