That's what I wanted to do, but since I'm working in a laptop, I can only have one drive in at a time, which is making things really labour intensive. 1 question I do have is if I dd the entire disk (parition table and all) then reapply to a larger disk, would that keep everything intact or am I gonna run into the same problem? On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Dan McGee<dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Will Siddall<will.siddall@gmail.com> wrote:
I know this isn't particularly an arch question, but I know Arch people are better off to ask then most.
I'm in the process of upgrading my hard drive in my laptop but with the amounts of customizations I've done to my setup, I don't want to have to set it all up again.
I know about running dd to copy the partition information, but the problem with that is that it also copies that partition information over. So, if I copy my root partition that started as a 40G partition with 90% used and now I have a 60G parition, the used portion will be kept at 90% so, it'll show something like 50G of data... which doesn't make sense.
What about a dd followed by using parted/gparted or whatever to resize things as necessary? They have a good LiveCD too that you should be able to use to get things copied and then resized.
I think gparted even has built in support for copying partitions; not sure if it can do it across drives.
-Dan