Jason, If you use a command like `dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb` to clone a smaller drive to a larger drive, you will not be able to use the extra space available on the larger drive. You will not be able to add another partition. The large drive will appear to be a smaller drive. If that's not acceptable, you can use the slightly more difficult tar or cp method, but then you'll have to run lilo to make your system boot.
Ralph On 09/15/04 09pm, Jason Van Cleve wrote: > Quoth Bob Miller, on Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:09:37 -0700: > > > No. dd only works if the new filesystem is exactly the same size as > > the old. > > Hmmm, the following link suggests dd will copy a smaller drive to a > larger one: > > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-knopx.html > > See "Cloning an entire drive". So, is there a dd solution for me, or > not? If I can avoid my aforementioned chroot/lilo trick, that would be > cool. It rather looks like I could copy my entire drive, MBR, Windows > partitions and all, in one swell foop. > > Would I then end up with extra drive space that I could repartition, or > what? Yet, you're speaking of filesystems, not drives. Evidently dd > does both? O master, help me to grok dd! > > --Jason > > -- > My new years resolution is 1280x1024. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
