On 22:19 Mon 31 Jan , Alex Schuster wrote: > I just wrote: > > > My only fear is that the different drive geometry will be a problem, so > > Grub does not find its stage2 in /boot, or file systems will unreadable > > due to things being specified as head, cylinder and sector, instead of > > absolute blocks. I'm pretty confident that there should be no problem, > > but if I am wrong, I will be in trouble. > > Now I'm really really sure there will be no problem. What I wrote above > about the gemotry is true I think, but all modern drives seem to have > 255 heads and 63 sectors per track, so they will be compatible. > > Wonko
Yep, I would be very surprised if what you're planning to do would result in problems, as I've done several such operations in the past without any issues. I've never had much to do with LVM, but the last time I was doing this sort of thing I dd'd source drive to target drive, resized /home (the last partition I always create) to fill the new, larger disk, and that was that, the machine instantly booted fine. Not exactly the same thing you are doing (especially as LVM is involved in your setup), but I can see no major difference between these two cases that looks like trouble. Greetings, Nils -- Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunsorf-Luthe (Germany) Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998
