[clug] Recovering disk geometry after whole disk dd

[David Schoen]

On 5 August 2010 17:39, Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> wrote:
> 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).

How do I convince fdisk to swear?

As in are you just doing "fdisk -l /dev/<device>" or something more exotic?


Cheers,
Dave