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.
Thanks for the clarification. As I said: > you might be able to add new partitions later, or you may not. It seems you can. I was worried that the size of the disk was encoded in the partition table, in which case diskdrake et al would only show a disk the same size as the old one. -- Richard Urwin
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