Linux stops working

[Karl Larsen]

Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
>   
>> Uh, "dd" won't give you a functional system.  It will perform a byte-
>>     
>
> That's not my understanding... AIUI dd will work fine if he is going to
> a larger drive.  The problem he will be left with is that the
> partitioning will reflect his smaller drive.
>
> If he was going from a 160GB drive to 500GB as I recall, then he should
> have a fully functional set of partitions extending over the first 160GB
> of the drive and the remaining 340GB going begging.  He could go on and
> fix that by adding a new partition and assigning the 340GB to it, then
> formatting the new partition ext3 or whatever.  So dd is not something
> that should not be considered.
>
> -Andy
>
>   
    Well my plan when this is done will have a sudo LVN that has a 
partition for /boot and /home and perhaps /usr. This will come together 
when I do it. With the larger hard drive I may partition for two or 
three Linux versions out in the future.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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