Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

[gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-01-31 Thread Alex Schuster
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-01-31 Thread Allan Gottlieb
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,

Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-01-31 Thread Alex Schuster
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-01-31 Thread Allan Gottlieb
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-01-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-01-31 Thread Alex Schuster
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-01-31 Thread Nils Holland
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-01-31 Thread Mick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
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

Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-01-31 Thread Alex Schuster
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