[GRLUG] 2tb to 4tb drive clone

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 12:49 -0400, Kyle wrote:
> On 06/10/2013 12:34 PM, Patrick Goupell wrote
> > On 06/10/2013 12:13 PM, Joseph McLaughlin wrote: 
> > > Is there a way to clone a 2tb drive to a 4tb drive that is used in the boot?
> > > If I have to do a re install  - is there a check list I should follow?
> > You could also use clonezilla (www.clonezilla.org).
> There are a couple assumptions in that, though: 

Yep.

> partitioning type of the old drive (MBR vs. GPT), and whether your
> computer supports 4TB drives (not always a safe assumption, as I've
> found through experience).

Yep.

> If you're on MBR on the old drive you may not be able to use that
> strategy.

A "clone" might still 'work',  but leave you with unextendable
partitions and 2TB of unusable space.

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