Re: [PLUG] How best to replace old drive with new drive

["Brent Saner" <brent.saner@gmail.com>]

as brian mentioned, DD gets my vote becase then you don't even have to mess with grub at all.
just make sure you stretch the new partition- when dd copies the partition/drive, it'll think the new, bigger drive is the same size as the older one. to remedy this, boot up trusty ol' knoppix (or even the GPartEd LiveCD- google for it), and stretch the partition using gparted or qtpart.

it can get messy if you have any virtual/extended partitions though, so...

On 10/19/07, Greg Lopp <lopp@pobox.com > wrote:

You are correct, but then he has an exact duplicate of the old drive and a whole bunch of empty space because the new drive is larger....but making use of that unused space might be an easier problem to solve than getting grub to work that first time

On 10/19/07, Brian Stempin < brian.stempin@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't know about Ghost, but IIRC, dd copies bit-for-bit, so GRUB should "just work" if you dd.

Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.  I'm just hypothesizing based on what I know about dd.

On 10/19/07, Mike Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com > wrote:

So I've got a mail server that has an old HD. And I wanna replace it with a
larger one, which I happen to have lying about. I know there's any number of
ways to clone the HD (me, I like Ghost, but I also have DriveImageXML, and I
suppose I could even do a dd). Anyways, if I were to Ghost to the new drive,
what would I need to do to make grub run on it? I seem to remember doing
this before, and getting a new drive with larger partitions, but grub
wouldn't run.

A pointer or clue, anyone? Something about booting a Knoppix LiveCD, and
running "grub-install", I believe?

Thanks
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