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
> >>
> >
> >
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