Re: replacing boot and only disk drive

[Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>]

Gary Dale a écrit :
> On 22/11/14 06:29 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>
>> And it's not hard to copy the file systems, either.  I can temporarily
>> access the new drive using a USB adaptor.  fdisk and the lvm utilities
>> will create the new partitions and then I copy, using dd or rsync  or tar/
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> Have you considered getting a USB case for your new drive and doing dd 
> from your current drive to the new one? Afterward you can install the 
> new drive then boot from gparted/rescue disk and resize your partitions.

If the original disk already uses LVM, no need to resize partitions.
Just create another PV in the extra space.