Hi all,
I successfully clone my hard drive from 250gb to 1Tb using -k1 on expert mode.
but when I explore the folders, why is it still acting like 250 gb
It is still showing that 180gb available as it was showing same when it was 250gb
any idea what I am missing?
Thanks
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I experienced the same thing! What has happened is: 1) The partition table contains the size of the new partition. 2) the NTFS in Windows only knows about the size of the partition that was cloned. What you are seeing is this difference. The way I got around it was to restore the cloned partition to a new partiton that is exactly the same size as the cloned partiton, then I used a partition manager (PQMAGIC, etc) to resize the new partition to the larger size. This way the NTFS in Windows and the Partition table are in synch. Any Partition Magnager that supports NTFS can be used to resize the new partiton.
I hope this helps.
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Being new to this forum I responded to # 3 by E Mail …. That does not work so here isi that resopnse.
Same approach appies to what ever file system being used in the partition you are cloning. Substitute"NTFS" with what ever file system (ex3, ex4 , HPFS, FAT, etc) used in the partition and follow the sequence. In your case, PQMAGIC is not an option.
Now #4
I assume the restore of the partition worked???!!!!
What file system does your OS use? We have to find a partion manager that supports that file system.
My first guess is that GParted will do it. Soooooooo……
The following are CDs that help with recovery. It would be advantageous to have them in your tool box:
You can try the partition managers in:
1) Ultimate Boot CD 5.0.2 (UBCD)
- Parted Magic 4.10 (inboot list)
* Partition Editor (on desktop) launches -> GParted 0.52 (GUI driven)
- UBCD FreeDOS (inboot list)
* From its Menu (crude) there are several text based partition editors. Some harder to use than others!
Most of them dangerous if you are unsure of what you are doing.
If I were you I would stick to the GUI driven ones!
2) Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop (the install CD supports runing Ubuntu off the CD)
-> SYSTEM (upper left) -> (in drop down menu) GParted (GUI driven)
Since this package is designed to 1) boot from Disk, USB, and CD, 2) Allow addtion of other applications,
I am concentrating on this approach to support recovery. Plus it is a good platform for running open source apps.
3) System Rescue CD 1.3.5
- GPart
Try each of them and make you choice. UBCD is the smallest and fastest one to get up to speed on.
Let me know how it goes.
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Hi all,
I successfully clone my hard drive from 250gb to 1Tb using -k1 on expert mode.
but when I explore the folders, why is it still acting like 250 gb
It is still showing that 180gb available as it was showing same when it was 250gb
any idea what I am missing?
Thanks
I experienced the same thing! What has happened is: 1) The partition table contains the size of the new partition. 2) the NTFS in Windows only knows about the size of the partition that was cloned. What you are seeing is this difference. The way I got around it was to restore the cloned partition to a new partiton that is exactly the same size as the cloned partiton, then I used a partition manager (PQMAGIC, etc) to resize the new partition to the larger size. This way the NTFS in Windows and the Partition table are in synch. Any Partition Magnager that supports NTFS can be used to resize the new partiton.
I hope this helps.
Thanks for reply.
Unfortunately I am working in linux platform,OS is CentOS, so file format is not NTFS.
any ideas?
ok I need help to make the size of /dev/mapper/VG0-var bigger
how do I do that
any ideas more than welcome.
thanks
Being new to this forum I responded to # 3 by E Mail …. That does not work so here isi that resopnse.
Same approach appies to what ever file system being used in the partition you are cloning. Substitute"NTFS" with what ever file system (ex3, ex4 , HPFS, FAT, etc) used in the partition and follow the sequence. In your case, PQMAGIC is not an option.
Now #4
I assume the restore of the partition worked???!!!!
What file system does your OS use? We have to find a partion manager that supports that file system.
My first guess is that GParted will do it. Soooooooo……
The following are CDs that help with recovery. It would be advantageous to have them in your tool box:
You can try the partition managers in:
1) Ultimate Boot CD 5.0.2 (UBCD)
- Parted Magic 4.10 (inboot list)
* Partition Editor (on desktop) launches -> GParted 0.52 (GUI driven)
- UBCD FreeDOS (inboot list)
* From its Menu (crude) there are several text based partition editors. Some harder to use than others!
Most of them dangerous if you are unsure of what you are doing.
If I were you I would stick to the GUI driven ones!
2) Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop (the install CD supports runing Ubuntu off the CD)
-> SYSTEM (upper left) -> (in drop down menu) GParted (GUI driven)
Since this package is designed to 1) boot from Disk, USB, and CD, 2) Allow addtion of other applications,
I am concentrating on this approach to support recovery. Plus it is a good platform for running open source apps.
3) System Rescue CD 1.3.5
- GPart
Try each of them and make you choice. UBCD is the smallest and fastest one to get up to speed on.
Let me know how it goes.
Thanks to all guys, Specially user "baumgart"
Gparted is a good partition program but it did not work my case. Since I had to deal with LVM file system
by guidance of 'baumgart' the lifesaver, I managed resizing /dev/VG0/var in 3 steps.
1-pvresize -setphysicalvolumesize 700G /dev/sda1 (resize sda1 to 700Gigabytes)
2-lvextend -L +500G /dev/VG0/var (add 500Gigabytes top on existing)
3-resize2fs /dev/VG0/var
and success
this is done after clonezilla expert mode -k1 is applied. Thanks to all