Solved: Can I use dd to copy a drive to a bigger drive?

[mister_v]

Hi,

Can I use dd,
to copy a drive to a bigger drive?
And most importantly will it still run?


Thanks

[Chris]

The short answer is: Yes.

But, the size of you partitions won't change.
You copy a everything from a 40GB drive to a 60GB drive.

There will be a partition of 40GB and 20GB of free unused space.

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sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc

You'll probably want to change the partition size with Parted Magic, or some other partition manager.

It might be easier to first create a new bigger partition and then copy everything.

[mister_v]

Ok thanks.