On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 00:45:38 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Gary Dale a écrit : >> On 22/11/14 06:29 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> >>> And it's not hard to copy the file systems, either. I can temporarily >>> access the new drive using a USB adaptor. fdisk and the lvm utilities >>> will create the new partitions and then I copy, using dd or rsync or >>> tar/ > [...] >> Have you considered getting a USB case for your new drive and doing dd >> from your current drive to the new one? Afterward you can install the >> new drive then boot from gparted/rescue disk and resize your >> partitions. > > If the original disk already uses LVM, no need to resize partitions. > Just create another PV in the extra space.
dd-ing the whole drive would lead to the extra space being after all four partitions. Unfortunately, it's the second partition that contains the LVM stuff. I'd end up having to move partitions 3 and 4 to the end of the disk to get the space int partition 2 where it's needed. I have no idea whether Windows cares about whether the hidden and the EFI partitions re actually partitions 3 and 4. But dding the start of the disk, enough to copy the entire windows partition and the stuff before the first one might be a good idea. Unless the MBR or something related to it contains information about the size of the entire disk, which will now be wrong. And it;s the space before the first partition which is likely to contain the crucial boot information that Windows might want. That ans the EFI partition, of course. It's possible that this might not work well if the hard drive has significantly different fake geometry. It's just possible that some things still have to start on cylinder boundaries, however undefined those are nowadays. It will contain information about partitions 2, 3, and 4, which I can delete and change with fdisk. And then still copy partitions 3 and 4 with dd some some such. I think those partitions are FAT partitions of some flavour. The EFI has to be if it conforms to standards. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/m4rmc2$6pf$2...@ger.gmane.org
