That's what I wanted to do, but since I'm working in a laptop, I can only have one drive in at a time, which is making things really labour intensive. 1 question I do have is if I dd the entire disk (parition table and all) then reapply to a larger disk, would that keep everything intact or am I gonna run into the same problem? On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Dan McGee<dpmcgee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 >
