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ciembor

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Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 57

Moving system partitions to another disk

Hi. I bought SSD few days ago. I decided to copy my current partitions with Arch and Win7 to this new disk. I followed this article: http://www.nilbus.com/linux/disk-copy.php. And I have two problems.

First of all - I have now more space for system, so I set in cfdisk 40GB for each Arch and Win7. I copied partitions with ntfsclone and ddrescue. What see df?

rootfs           33G   28G  2,9G  91% /

This is size of my old partition. And what see gparted?

size: 37.34GiB      used: 32.82GiB      free: 4.53GiB

How can I resize this partition to take all this place?

The other problem is much more frustrating - Windows doesn't boot after I choose it in Grub .

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satanselbow

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Registered: 2011-06-15

Posts: 538

Re: Moving system partitions to another disk

Have you reconfigured grub since your move? UUID or /dev/sdX may have changed since the move...

Did you have 2 windows partitions? If windows was installed with a small 100MB partition in front of the "main" windows partition you will need both.

hiciu

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Registered: 2010-08-11

Posts: 89

Re: Moving system partitions to another disk

How can I resize this partition to take all this place?

Resize partition with gparted (or sfdisk or other tool) and resize filesystem with resize2fs (for ext2/3/4). Make sure you have backup.

stqn

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Registered: 2010-03-19

Posts: 1,191

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Re: Moving system partitions to another disk

You can also use "cp -a" instead of ddrescue.