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

[Charles Fischer via TriLUG]

I did this many years ago, ext3 and NTFS and it worked.  I say just try
it.  If it does not work all you have lost is some time. sda will be
unchanged by dd, so nothing lost.  Just don't reverse in and out.

Good luck,
Charles




On Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 11:43 AM Pete Soper via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
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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