[TriLUG] need to move to a larger disk with ext4 filesystem & boot sectors (Ubuntu Mate 20.04 on Ryzen)

James Toebes via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Sat Oct 30 12:25:55 EDT 2021


It might be easier to used clonezilla to copy drive to drive.
 Clonezilla will check for extended info.  Then GParted to resize
afterwards. 
On Sat, 2021-10-30 at 11:43 -0400, Pete Soper via TriLUG wrote:
> If I dd /dev/sda to /dev/sdb where sdb is larger than sda, should I
> be 
> able to pull the old small drive out, boot the new big drive and
> somehow 
> expand the partition with the ext4 filesystem in it out to the limit
> of 
> the drive and  make the filesystem bigger that way?
> 
> Outa space with the 100% blues,
> 
> Pete
> 



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