Disk size after copying a disk with dd

willy9 · 2011-02-06 15:13:38

Hi all,

I recently bought a new hard drive, larger than my old one. I thought I'd be smart, and copied partitions using dd:

dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1

I noticed today that there is something wrong with the size remaining on the new drive, and after reading a bit, it looks like I should have used some specific option to prevent it from truncating my new disk.

Does anyone know how I can recover the remaining space on my hard drive ?

Thanks !

Ashren · 2011-02-06 15:22:56

Using (g)parted from a livecd?

graysky · 2011-02-06 16:01:44

Can you nuke the new disk, manually partition, then rsync -avxhP /path/to/old/ /path/to/new/

willy9 · 2011-02-06 16:23:03

Ashren wrote:

Using (g)parted from a livecd?

I have tried KDE's partitionmanager before, but could not find something that would do it. Will try with gparted if there is something in there.

graysky wrote:

Can you nuke the new disk, manually partition, then rsync -avxhP /path/to/old/ /path/to/new/

Will try after gparted if it doesn't work

Thanks to both of you

Arch Linux

#1 2011-02-06 15:13:38

Disk size after copying a disk with dd

#2 2011-02-06 15:22:56

Re: Disk size after copying a disk with dd

#3 2011-02-06 16:01:44

Re: Disk size after copying a disk with dd

#4 2011-02-06 16:23:03

Re: Disk size after copying a disk with dd

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