Re: How to Clone a Drive with 512 byte Sectors to a Drive with 4096 bytes/sector (AF)?

[mark <mark@neidorff.com>]

On Thursday 21 July 2011 10:26:08 pm Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have a 320 GB drive which dual boots Windows and Debian:
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448
> sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x81d6785f
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1              63       80324       40131   de  Dell
> Utility /dev/sda2   *       81920    30801919    15360000    7 
> HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3        30801920   112728104    40963092+   7 
> HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda4       112728105   625137344   256204620    5 
> Extended /dev/sda5   *   112728168   604284974   245778403+  83 
> Linux /dev/sda6       604285038   625137344    10426153+  82  Linux
> swap / Solaris Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512)
>
> and a new 750 GB drive with 4096 byte sectors:
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 11400 cylinders, total 183143646
> sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x000d83bf
>
> I want to clone the smaller drive to the larger drive so I can
> replace the smaller drive with the larger drive, so I need to
> preserve the dual boot capability. I have tried the latest
> testing-amd64 Clonezilla, but it fails. I tried the proportional
> setting and it still failed.
>
> How can I clone the smaller drive to the larger drive?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark

mondoarchive

Simple, easy, elegant solution.

Mark