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The newly copied drive (sdc) will then be moved back to the machine to replace the source drive (sdb in this case). bad! bad!) on it's own hard drive (sda) and the drives I am copying from/to (sdb/sdc) will be removed when the process has been completed. That machine has it's own Ubuntu environment (yes, I know. The tutorial instructions after the copy refer to editing files on the copy (that's my take, anyway) but I want to make sure that I will not affect the machine that I am using to do the work. That may be a question for a different forum somewhere else but I thought that with all the smart people here that I could get all my answers here! I wanted to verify that is a correct assumption as I would rather not have to resize after making the copy. Gparted appears to allow the opportunity to resize the partition when I make the copy. The original drive has msdos partitioning which I believe does not support drives larger than 2TB but hopefully that does not matter as far as copying the partition to a drive that has been set up as GPT (per the tutorial)? Also, my original partition appears to have the boot flag but the tutorial sets up a new unformatted partition with the boot flag and after a copy it appears there is still a boot flag on the copied partition. There are some holes in my understanding of things, however, such as the fact that I am trying move from a 2TB to 3TB drive and I am concerned there may be issues with drives larger than 2TB that may affect my goal. I am making an assumption that the tutorial provided by austin.texas can be used in my circumstances with a few changes. That will have to come later for me, however, to ensure that I don't flub up the move as I need time to study and prepare.Īnyway, back to my current need. That is where Mint provides a very enticing reason to make the jump. While Canonical seems, in my opinion, to follow some questionable tactics I understand that they have a business view of Ubuntu (their business, obviously).
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I acknowledge this is a Mint forum and I am actually very seriously considering moving to Mint because of what I can only term as the Micky Mousery that has been the history behind Ubuntu. The new drive is destined to replace the drive I'm trying to clone. Let me first explain that I'm working with an Ubuntu hard drive pulled from one machine and installed temporarily into another Ubuntu machine trying to clone to a larger drive temporarily installed in that machine as well. I chose to follow a tutorial posted on this forum at viewtopic.php?f=42&t=228540 by austin.texas but am running into a few difficulties. I have seen numerous methods of cloning to a larger hard drive on the web and everyone has their reasons for using "their" method.