On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 11:35 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 06:37 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: > > > Hi List; > > > > > > My laptop running Fedora 7 had a 100G SATA drive. I went out yesterday and > > > purchased a 320G drive. > > > > > > First I used dd to transfer my entire existing drive to the new drive, it > > > worked perfectly - I'm typing this on my system via the new drive now. > > > > Maybe I'm missing something here, but I have to ask why did you do > > this? It would presumably have been easier to a) format your new > > drive and then b) copy all your files to it (using cp, tar, cpio, > > rsync or whatever). I can't see how copying via dd makes any sense > > in this context. > > if (and i stress, *if*) dd works, i'm guessing it's going to be *much* > faster since it's working at the raw device level rather than having > to go through the filesystem layer. personally, i'd probably waste > the extra time with a filesystem-level tool but, if it worked for the > OP, i'll bet it took a lot less time. "Premature optimization is the root of all evil". He's only doing it once, so dd being faster is (within reason) irrelevant. And now he has to waste a lot of time asking the list how to expand his partition (useful knowledge I'll admit, but still), *and* wait for some tool to actually do it. > on the downside, since the newer drive was much larger, i'm guessing > he managed to make 220G of new disk space inaccessible (unless he did > something clever he didn't tell us about). Exactly. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". poc
