Re: Slightly failed Hard-Disk-Upgrade
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 21:57 GMT, Kevin Mark penned:
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> On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:47:18AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 12:48 GMT, Kevin Mark penned:
>> > Personally I use DD to copy but I know others like cp -a ;-)
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>> I tried to use dd to copy a 2GB hard drive onto a 20GB drive, and the
>> system saw the end result as a 2GB, presumably due to filesystem
>> metadata. This was ext2. Has this not been a problem for you?
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> Hi Monque,
> Huh?
> you do not DD a 2 GB ext2 partition to a 20 GB drive and get a 20 GB
> ext2 partition. you get a 2GB ext2 partition and an 18 GB unused partition.
> So you have to either RESIZE 2->20 or you (for example) fdisk and mkfs
> to the 18GB and then move some of the DIR to the new 18gb (for example
> /var/ or /home).
> YMMV.
This was over a year ago, but iirc, even fdisk and friends showed a 2GB
partition with no additional space on the disk.
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monique
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