Use rysnc -a or cp -a dd just brings in issues you don't need to deal with.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 02:00:49PM +1100, Mike Andy wrote: > I've been thus far unable to do to - maybe you can explain how. > > for example, if i do a dd from a 120Gb to a 150Gb and then enter into > something like gparted or fdisk there seems to be no way i can simply > expand the disk beyond the original 120Gb boundaries. If there was > unformatted/unpartitioned space within that 120Gb then things can be > moved around there but not outside the original disk boundaries. > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Jake Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mike Andy wrote: > >> > >> from my experience when you use dd you cannot resize after that > >> because it's made an exact bit by bit clone of that hard drive > >> > > > > which you then can resize with the numerous partition resizing tools out > > there. > > > >> if you're concerned about how much you're downloading use parted > >> magic, much smaller than ubuntu and includes both gparted and > >> clonezilla all in one > >> > > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
