On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Will Siddall<will.siddall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I know this isn't particularly an arch question, but I know Arch > people are better off to ask then most. > > I'm in the process of upgrading my hard drive in my laptop but with > the amounts of customizations I've done to my setup, I don't want to > have to set it all up again. > > I know about running dd to copy the partition information, but the > problem with that is that it also copies that partition information > over. So, if I copy my root partition that started as a 40G partition > with 90% used and now I have a 60G parition, the used portion will be > kept at 90% so, it'll show something like 50G of data... which doesn't > make sense. What about a dd followed by using parted/gparted or whatever to resize things as necessary? They have a good LiveCD too that you should be able to use to get things copied and then resized. I think gparted even has built in support for copying partitions; not sure if it can do it across drives. -Dan
