On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:34:46 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
And shouldn't dd be a little faster for a full drive because there is no
file system overhead, no seeking operations?
Only is the drive is really full, and if it's that full the filesystem
will be fragmented horribly and a cloned copy is
Hi there!
There is a PC with a 160 GB SATA drive, and I want to replace it with one of
about 1 TB in size. Would this work?
- attach 2nd drive via SATA port or USB-SATA convertor
- boot from rescue CD
- dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
- remove sda, attach sdb to where sda was
- reboot
- add other
On Mon, Jan 31 2011, Alex Schuster wrote:
Hi there!
There is a PC with a 160 GB SATA drive, and I want to replace it with one of
about 1 TB in size. Would this work?
- attach 2nd drive via SATA port or USB-SATA convertor
- boot from rescue CD
- dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
- remove sda,
Allan Gottlieb writes:
On Mon, Jan 31 2011, Alex Schuster wrote:
There is a PC with a 160 GB SATA drive, and I want to replace it with
one of about 1 TB in size. Would this work?
- attach 2nd drive via SATA port or USB-SATA convertor
- boot from rescue CD
- dd if=/dev/sda
On Mon, Jan 31 2011, Alex Schuster wrote:
Allan Gottlieb writes:
On Mon, Jan 31 2011, Alex Schuster wrote:
There is a PC with a 160 GB SATA drive, and I want to replace it with
one of about 1 TB in size. Would this work?
- attach 2nd drive via SATA port or USB-SATA convertor
- boot
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:16 on Monday 31 January 2011, Allan
Gottlieb did opine thusly:
On Mon, Jan 31 2011, Alex Schuster wrote:
Allan Gottlieb writes:
On Mon, Jan 31 2011, Alex Schuster wrote:
There is a PC with a 160 GB SATA drive, and I want to replace it with
one of
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
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
On Monday 31 January 2011 21:19:44 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
Hi,
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 22:19 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
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
The only
Mick writes:
On Monday 31 January 2011 21:19:44 Alex Schuster wrote:
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.
Does this also
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