On Mon, 16 May 2011 12:16:51 +0100, Mick wrote:

> > If you're going to resize/move partitions afterwards, you may as well
> > just dd the whole drive in one go.  
> 
> But the OP's new drive is larger, so I assume that he will be
> rearranging partitions afterwards - could be wrong.

So if you've got to rearrange the partitions anyway, it is easier to just
dd the whole thing in one go and then do the rearranging.

Alternatively, set up the new partition table manually and them copy each
filesystem. dding the partition table separately from all the partitions
makes no sense.


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Neil Bothwick

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