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

[Joshua Kramer]

Thanks for the recommendation, Brian - I think CloneZilla helped.  Having
said that... when I boot the system off the newly minted 1TB drive and run
fdisk, I get the error: "Partition 2 does not start on physical sector
boundary".  This will cause a major performance hit, from what I've read.
Maybe I should re-do the CloneZilla operation and have it just copy
partiton to partition, and this time make sure the second partition starts
on a 4k boundary.


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Brian Miller <bnmille at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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