On May 29, 2014 10:50 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" wrote:
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> On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 22:05 +0300, Catalin Soare wrote:
> > dd was running like so: dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda
> echo "dd exit status: $?" >> dd.log
> exit
>
> Assumed the exit status isn't 0, there was
On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 22:05 +0300, Catalin Soare wrote:
> dd was running like so: dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda.
#!/bin/sh
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda
echo "dd exit status: $?" >> dd.log
exit
Assumed the exit status isn't 0, there was an error.
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On May 29, 2014 7:50 PM, "Steve Litt" wrote:
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> On Wed, 28 May 2014 21:34:12 +0100
> Philip Ashmore wrote:
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> > On 28/05/14 21:02, Steve Litt wrote:
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> > > If you want to expand a partition to include the unallocated space,
> > > I think you have to use whatever partition butts up against the
On Wed, 28 May 2014 21:34:12 +0100
Philip Ashmore wrote:
> On 28/05/14 21:02, Steve Litt wrote:
> > If you want to expand a partition to include the unallocated space,
> > I think you have to use whatever partition butts up against the
> > unallocated space to make bigger. If there's a tool to e
On Tue, 27 May 2014 21:15:45 -0700
Patrick Bartek wrote:
> 8. Create a new grub.cfg: Use grub-mkconfig.
>
> 9. Install to MBR of the 300GB drive: Use install-grub.
I use LILO, but make sure you install GRUB on your new (300GB) drive,
use fdisk -l /dev/sd[a-z] to find what is what.
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Hi there.
I've commented in-line below.
On 28/05/14 21:02, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2014 02:03:48 +0300
> Catalin Soare wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In one of my computers I have 2 HDDs. One of them is a 250 GB drive
>> (debian) and the other is a 300 GB (data).
>>
>> I've decided to giv
On Wed, 28 May 2014 02:03:48 +0300
Catalin Soare wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In one of my computers I have 2 HDDs. One of them is a 250 GB drive
> (debian) and the other is a 300 GB (data).
>
> I've decided to give one of them to my parents because the one they
> have right now makes some strange noise
Gah no seriously got has nothing to do with your disk size it is just Far
far more flexible with partition layouts. Extended partition slices are
IMHO a horrible hack. Got hasn't got the 4 primary partitions limits of
msdos labels and is just more flexible.
I wasn't suggesting uefi which is a slig
On Wed, 28 May 2014, Catalin Soare wrote:
> In one of my computers I have 2 HDDs. One of them is a 250 GB drive
> (debian) and the other is a 300 GB (data).
>
> I've decided to give one of them to my parents because the one they
> have right now makes some strange noises. So I've backed up and
>
When I say - will only work with an msdos disklabel, I meant will only
work for msdos disklabels IF you have free primary parition slots. GPT
doesn't have this issue and if you can boot GPT labeled disks you
should go with this.
On 28 May 2014 12:22, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote:
> You can do this s
You can do this several ways.
Way 1)
Filesystem level copy + grub install.
a)Use a rescue or minimal live boot environment, partition your new
disk as you like; complete the minimal install.
b)Drop to a shell in the live environment, and mount the new root and
fstab layout under a tmp target mou
Hello,
In one of my computers I have 2 HDDs. One of them is a 250 GB drive
(debian) and the other is a 300 GB (data).
I've decided to give one of them to my parents because the one they have
right now makes some strange noises. So I've backed up and cleaned up the
drive, and as we speak I am clon
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