[colug-432] dd a 500G disk to a 1TB disk...

[Brian Miller]

On 04/17/2013 04:55 PM, Joshua Kramer wrote:
> If I have a 500G disk organized into LVM partitions, can I simply dd the
> disk to a 1TB disk and expand the last LVM volume?
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Probably not directly.  If you haven't used up all 4 of your primary 
partitions, you MIGHT be able to dd the disk, then run fdisk and add a 
new primary partition, and then extend the LVM that way.   LVM allow you 
to add new disks/partitions to an existing volume group.

But I would recommend downloading clonezilla.  It will go way faster 
than dd, and it WILL allow you to expand the volume group.