Miroslav Skoric wrote:
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:You could try this: Boot up into your Linux install and run as root. dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb As far as I know that will make a bit for bit copy of the first drive to the second. *Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.*Few questions: Will that make the new drive bootable? Will that copy the exact content of both Windows and Linux partitions?Will that occupy only the 'source-disk' space on the new disk or more/less?Disconnect the old drive. Boot up on the new one. Then use diskdrake to create a /home partition on the free space left on the 80GB drive.I would also like to enlarge Windows partitions from that free space left, as well as to have more space for existing Linux partitions.It should give you the option to copy over the existing information in your current /home to the new /home partition. Sound good?Sounds good. What I should also look for, is how to change (enlarge) the size of the partitions copied with dd, *before* using diskdrake. I mean, I would like to be sure that everythings is copied without losing the data at first, than to enlarge the existing partitions (if possible) and finally to use the free space for making /home etc.Misko
Please see the rest of this thread before you follow my first post. I don't want to steer you wrong. :-\
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