On Apr 5, 2005 6:29 PM, Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 5, 2005 7:19 AM, stephane matis <s.matis@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Apr 5, 2005 9:10 AM, Carsten Pache <newsabo@gmx.info> wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I want to replace the (boot) hard drive in my Qube by a more quiet
> > > (and also bigger) one. What is the fastest way to copy the old drive
> > > to the new one? I am thinking of "dd", but can I use it if the new
> > > drive is bigger than the old one? Do I lose the remaining space of the
> > > new drive?
> >
> > It all comes down to cylinder mapping.  If the original drive is 8GB
> > IDE or bigger, you can easilly copyt up to 128GB.
> >
> > Since I used to this regurally, you can dd over the drive and once you
> > reboot with the new drive, you can then create another slice to take
> > advantage of the additional space.
> >
> > The advantage of using say NetBSD on i386 booted of the CD is that you
> > can mount both devices, configure you new drive to your hearts-content
> > and then copy over filesystem level.
> >
> > But dd works and its fast.
> 
> I'd prefer to set up the new disk in some advantageous manner, then do
> this as possible:
> 
> dump | restore
> star cf | star xf
> 
> If you decide to make more filesystems, then you can't do dump |
> restore. If you make 1 root partition, then dump | restore will work
> fine.

This is assuming, of course, that you have 1 root partition as the
restore cd does it.

Andy