moving to a larger hard drive...

[Christopher Browne]

On 12/2/06, Aaron Vegh <aaronvegh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi TLUGers,
> I've got a mythtv system that had a 30GB drive. Predictably, I have
> now purchased a 320GB drive to replace it. Now, given the hassle
> involved in getting the system working (and it's just right!), you can
> imagine I'd much rather just duplicate the drive onto the larger one.
> However, the dd command proved less than useful! It created a
> duplicate but seemed to have made my drive 30GB in size. Plus, the
> resulting drive wouldn't boot the computer (a problem with Grub,
> perhaps? It stalls at a flashing cursor on boot, suggesting it doesn't
> see a boot drive).
>
> Further complicating factors include the fact that the old drive is
> IDE, the new drive is SATA2. We're moving from /dev/hda to /dev/sda.
>
> I've read online that dd will simply replicate the partition, but
> there must be a way to move files across such that it'll boot?
>
> Any advice you can give would be tremendously helpful.

Frankly, my inclination would be to "leave well enough alone."  I'd
leave both drives in, boot from the IDE, and store data on the SATA.
That ought to be the easiest option.
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