On 04/26/2009 07:17 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Saturday, 2009-04-25 at 19:04 -0400, James Knott wrote:
David, that way Bob will end up with an exact copy of his old 8Gb drive, which is (probably) good/useful, but he'll also have no use for the remaining gigabytes - the new drive is likely to be 160G or bigger.
I thought partitions could be enlarged. So, set up as an 8GB and then go from there.
No, partitions can not be enlarged, unless there is free space directly after that partition, or you are using LVM. If you clone a HD as is, you get a new disk with the same contiguous partitions as in the original. You can add new partitions, or you can use a tool like Partition Magic to enlarge them (and that tool moves sectors out of the way to get it done, a procedure that takes many long hours).
That procedure is full of problems in the road.
Actually gparted does the job quite well and quickly. I have even moved partitions to make a lower partition bigger. IMO, gparted has become one of the best partitioning tools. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 11.1 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org