On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Stroller
wrote:
>
> On 16/5/2011, at 12:56pm, Adam Carter wrote:
> > ...
> > Yes the new drive is bigger, going from 66G to 500G. Single partition
> only, ...
> >
> > So how do i proceed? Is it;
> > 1. dd the mbr without partition table, to get the boot code (so b
On Monday 16 May 2011 20:54:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2011 16:35:07 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > Only to add that the new larger drive will appear as small as the
> > original because the fs size is after all that of the smaller drive.
> > After your dd the data over to the new disk you wi
On Mon, 16 May 2011 16:35:07 +0100, Mick wrote:
> Only to add that the new larger drive will appear as small as the
> original because the fs size is after all that of the smaller drive.
> After your dd the data over to the new disk you will need to run
> gparted as suggested by Stroller, or use n
On Monday 16 May 2011 17:03:36 Stroller wrote:
> On 16/5/2011, at 4:35pm, Mick wrote:
> >> GParted is the next choice, then - I understand it to be more than "just
> >> a graphical front-end", and I don't think you'll have such good results
> >> trying to use command-line tools to expand NTFS parti
On 16/5/2011, at 4:35pm, Mick wrote:
>> GParted is the next choice, then - I understand it to be more than "just a
>> graphical front-end", and I don't think you'll have such good results trying
>> to use command-line tools to expand NTFS partitions.
> ...
> After your dd the data over to the ne
On 16 May 2011 15:21, Stroller wrote:
>
> On 16/5/2011, at 12:56pm, Adam Carter wrote:
>> ...
>> Yes the new drive is bigger, going from 66G to 500G. Single partition only,
>> ...
>>
>> So how do i proceed? Is it;
>> 1. dd the mbr without partition table, to get the boot code (so bs=446
>> count
On 16/5/2011, at 12:56pm, Adam Carter wrote:
> ...
> Yes the new drive is bigger, going from 66G to 500G. Single partition only,
> ...
>
> So how do i proceed? Is it;
> 1. dd the mbr without partition table, to get the boot code (so bs=446
> count=1)
> 2. use fdisk to set one big primary partit
> > 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 parti
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
On 16 May 2011 11:45, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2011 11:37:10 +0100, Mick wrote:
>
>> Then you can use gparted and resize partitions, add new ones, etc.
>> BTW do not resize ntfs partitions unless you have booted into them
>> defragged them first.
>
> If you're going to resize/move par
On Mon, 16 May 2011 11:37:10 +0100, Mick wrote:
> Then you can use gparted and resize partitions, add new ones, etc.
> BTW do not resize ntfs partitions unless you have booted into them
> defragged them first.
If you're going to resize/move partitions afterwards, you may as well
just dd the whole
On 16 May 2011 07:31, Adam Carter wrote:
>
>> > To check my understanding - would it be correct to say that;
>> > 1. Using dd to copy the first 512 bytes (MBR) is ALL that is needed to
>> > setup the partitions - that is i wont need to run fdisk etc afterward.
>>
>> This is correct if you only hav
> > To check my understanding - would it be correct to say that;
> > 1. Using dd to copy the first 512 bytes (MBR) is ALL that is needed to
> > setup the partitions - that is i wont need to run fdisk etc afterward.
>
> This is correct if you only have primary partitions. It will not copy the
> ext
On Monday 16 May 2011 02:01:13 Adam Carter wrote:
> WRT why it stopped after 10MB, if i specified a smaller size it would just
> stop after whatever was specified, so its just doing a single chunk equal
> to whatever bs has been specified as.
I recall zeroing drives/partitions and getting this mes
WRT why it stopped after 10MB, if i specified a smaller size it would just
stop after whatever was specified, so its just doing a single chunk equal to
whatever bs has been specified as.
I think the re-read of the partition table is probably the problem - so
thanks for that suggestion.
To check m
On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:40:30 Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:15:16 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Sunday 15 May 2011 18:52:21 Mick wrote:
> > > On Sunday 15 May 2011 08:45:05 Adam Carter wrote:
> > > > I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo;
> > > >
> > > > On the old 66GB disk;
> >
On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:15:16 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Sunday 15 May 2011 18:52:21 Mick wrote:
> > On Sunday 15 May 2011 08:45:05 Adam Carter wrote:
> > > I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo;
> > >
> > > On the old 66GB disk;
> > > # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/root/winmbr.bin bs=512 count=1
>
On Sunday 15 May 2011 18:52:21 Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 15 May 2011 08:45:05 Adam Carter wrote:
> > I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo;
> >
> > On the old 66GB disk;
> > # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/root/winmbr.bin bs=512 count=1
> > # dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M | gzip -v > winpartition.gz
> >
> > Then a
On Sunday 15 May 2011 08:45:05 Adam Carter wrote:
> I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo;
>
> On the old 66GB disk;
> # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/root/winmbr.bin bs=512 count=1
> # dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M | gzip -v > winpartition.gz
>
> Then after swapping in the new 500GB disk;
> dd if=/root/winmbr.b
Joost Roeleveld writes:
> On Sunday 15 May 2011 17:45:05 Adam Carter wrote:
>> Why is dd saying no space left after copying 10MB when sdb1 is 65GB?
>
> Did you reboot after the first "dd"?
Probably, undless he is using som external drive.
> Or at least, force a re-read of the partition tables?
On Sunday 15 May 2011 17:45:05 Adam Carter wrote:
> I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo;
>
> On the old 66GB disk;
> # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/root/winmbr.bin bs=512 count=1
> # dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M | gzip -v > winpartition.gz
>
> Then after swapping in the new 500GB disk;
> dd if=/root/winmbr.b
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