On Monday 10 Nov 2003 9:24 pm, Felix Miata wrote: > Richard Urwin wrote: > > The big problem with dd is that when it's finished the > > destination drive will be identical to the source drive. > > No it won't. Everything from the first sector through the last > sector # on the old disk will be identical, which is not the same > thing. > > > If, like most people, you've bought a > > bigger disk, then that's hard luck. The partition table will show > > it as the same size as the old disk. > > No, it will show identical use, which is not the same thing. The > new will have unallocated space beyond the last sector # used on > the old disk. You can make one or more new partitions out of that > space without any impact on the contents of any previous > partitions.
Which sounds just what I was doing with this disk. Thanks Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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