On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 02:24:01 +0000, Stroller wrote: > > If the new drive has a greater or equal number of blocks than the old > > you could boot a LiveCD then dd(1) the old device (something like "dd > > if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda" IIRC) onto the new device. You then should > > be able to boot directly off of the new drive. > > Presumably this copies the boot sector & the main partition data > correctly, but what about the "whitespace" at the end of the drive?
That stays unpartitioned. You can either create a new partition there or resize the final partition, using either qtparted or the command line tools. -- Neil Bothwick Daddy? What's this little red button for?
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