Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1581 mails)

[Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

James Knott said the following on 02/28/2010 05:29 PM:

I have an interest here; my laptop disk is approaching EOL and I'll be
doing this change in a few months ...

> > What is the overall objective here?
> >
> > If we knew, we might be able to come up with a more effective strategy
> > than just answering your question about DD.
> >
> >    
> As I mentioned in my first note, I'm putting in a larger drive.  My 
> original plan was to put the old drive in an external USB case, the new 
> drive in the computer and then just copy stuff over.  However, I then 
> remembered that USB drives don't support multiple partitions.  

Eh?
http://freewaretest.15.forumer.com/a/howto-gt-multiple-partition-usb-stick_post452.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_5856009_create-multiple-partitions-usb-drive.html

http://forums.techarena.in/operating-systems/1208027.htm

Have you tried using tools like 'gparted'?

> Since
> this is a notebook computer, it is not possible to have both drives 
> connected at the same time using the IDE connections.  

Ah, a 'tiny' machine.  No firewire, no 'extender' port.
I have both on my HP laptop.

> This means I have 
> to copy the partitions to files on the USB drive and then restore them 
> to the new drive.

I still don't see why you can't format the USB drive as a LVM.



Late breaking news:

I've just used gparted to partition not only a spare usb STICK but also
a USB micro-drive.

So there!


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