[clug] Recovering disk geometry after whole disk dd

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Thu Aug 5 01:39:59 MDT 2010


On 8/5/10 5:37 PM, Ben Coughlan wrote:
> I think parted or one of it's graphical/curses versions can resize
> the partitions on the new disk.  Then you can use resizefs (or
> similar) to resize the actual filesystem.  Just don't make anything
> smaller, otherwise you'll loose data.

Is it really that simple though? fdisk swears blind that the 1 TB disk 
is actually 80 GB (the size of the old disk).

Mikal


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