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_p... 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! -- All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. -- Galileo Galilei. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org