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

[Brian Miller]

Sounds like a good plan.






On 04/17/2013 11:32 PM, Joshua Kramer wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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.
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>     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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