Adam Monsen wrote: > Let me try again, assuming the original poster didn't want to change the > partition layout, they could: > > * use dd to clone the whole disk onto a larger disk > * use parted to grow the partition > * use resize2fs to grow the filesystem > > ...yes? I've not tried this myself, but it sounds like it should work. > It's a heck of a lot easier to just start out with the partition layout you want (I'm assuming no LVM), block copy, then grow into those partitions. It works like a charm - I've done it a few times. The trick is that your partition size doesn't matter to the FS if it's larger than the FS. There's also some implications to cloning a whole disk (including partition table) onto another that would probably require you to blow the partitions away and recreate them anyway. If you have: 100M /boot as sda1 (look in fdisk at how many blocks it is) 10G / as sda2 you can create: 100M /boot as sdb1 (make sure blocks is at least as much as above) 50G / as sdb2 then: dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 resize2fs /dev/sdb1 dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/sdb2 resize2fs /dev/sdb2 fix grub, and you're good to go. -Dave