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[Dave Howorth <dhoworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Knott wrote:
> I also plan to increase the size of the NTFS partition.  If I copy over
> the entire drive, then there won't be any room to expand it.  Or am I
> missing something here?

Ah, so you don't want to duplicate the disk :)  What I said in my PS
then, as amplified by Anton.

> So far, I can create a larger NTFS partition, but only the original
> amount of space is usable when I use dd to copy from the saved file. 
> Parted doesn't seem to want to work with NTFS.

If you use dd to copy into the partition then you copy the original
filesystem. You'd need an ntfsextend or ntfs-resize program and I've no
idea whether it exists. The technique I do know is to create the new
larger partition then copy the files across from the original partion -
cp, rsync etc etc

Cheers, Dave
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