[plug] Migrating partitions on Linux

Chris Griffin griffinster at gmail.com
Sat Jul 21 18:00:09 WST 2007


Arie,

when you say "I just had to re-install Grub and all is happy.", what exactly
did you do?
I used to know what to do with LILO but grub it a mystery.

Regards,
Chris G

On 7/11/07, Arie Hol <arie99 at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 11 Jul 2007 at 7:22, Daniel Foote wrote:
>
> > Increasing the block size is one way to make it faster. The other
> > issue I usually run into with Knoppix disks is that it doesn't enable
> > DMA for the hard drives, which means that your transfers go at a
> > little more than 1MB/s.
> >
>
> Thanks to Daniel and Thomasz, the job is now done.
>
> Transfers actually ran at 987 Kb/s.
>
> I increased the block size to 1024 and just let it run while I slept -
> woke up next morning with Linux living on the new drive.
>
> I just had to re-install Grub and all is happy.
>
> Regards Arie
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